Seminars & Events
The weekly colloquium is generally held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in K-207 Auditorium (2-6408). Unless otherwise noted, our departmental colloquia program is supported by the Alejandro Zaffaroni Endowment Fund and the John R. Murlin Fund. For outside guests, contact Dr. Cesare Orlandi. For graduate student colloquia, contact Dr. John Onukwufor.
Thesis Proposal: "The Role of Prefrontal μ-Opioid Receptors in the Rapid Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine
Gavin Magill - Advisor: Manoela Fogaca, Ph.D.
Dec 12, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 K-307 Auditorium
https://urmc.zoom.us/j/94950479554?from=addon"Systems Approaches to Mitochondrial Biology and Disease"
Vamsi K. Mootha, M.D. - Professor of Systems Biology and of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dec 11, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Class of ’62 Aud G-9425
"Systems Approaches to Mitochondrial Biology and Disease"
Vamsi K. Mootha, M.D. - Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Systems Biology and of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Dec 11, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Class of '62 Aud G-9425
Host: Paul S. Brookes, Ph.D. & Andrew P. Wojtovich, Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Ph.D. Thesis Defense “Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Maturation of Striatal Myelination in Primates and Rodents Using a Machine-learning Approach”
Halima O. Aweis - Co-Advisors: Kuan Hong Wang, Ph.D. & Suzanne N. Haber, Ph.D.
Dec 10, 2025 @ 1:30 p.m.
"Primary Airway Models Reflect Diversity in Therapeutic Efficacy Amongst People with Cystic Fibrosis and Potentially-Novel Therapeutic Targets"
Christine Bear, Ph.D. - Senior Scientist in the Program of Molecular Medicine at SickKids, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto
Dec 04, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Host: John Lueck, Ph.D., and the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
Second-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Reviews: "“MBNL Overexpression Rescues Cardiac Phenotypes in a Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Heart Mouse Model"
Stefania Poli - Laboratory of Drs. John Lueck/ Robert Dirksen
Dec 02, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Second-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Reviews: "Insights into Stress Hormone Effects on Dopaminergic Reward Signaling"
Erik Ingebretsen - Laboratory of Dr. Manoela Fogaca
Dec 02, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Ph.D. Research Talk: "“Functional Studies of ATP Binging Sites in Inositol (1,4,5)-Trisphosphate Receptors (IP3Rs)"
Xiaoxuan Lin - Laboratory of Dr. David Yule)
Nov 21, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
"G Protein Signaling Mechanisms Controlling Beta-Cell Compensation and Failure in Diabetes"
Michelle Kimple, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Nov 20, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Second-Year Ph.D. 25-minute Research Talk "Characterizing the role of Pentose Phosphate Pathway (PPP) in Osteogenic Lineage"
Xingya Jing - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Roman Eliseev
Nov 18, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph, 1-7619
Second-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Reviews “Novel Zebrafish HSC Macrophage Interactions Provide Insight into Regulatory Mechanisms of HSC Division”
Ryan Adapathya - Laboratory of Dr. Shu-Chi (Allison) Yeh, Graduate Student
Nov 18, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph, 1-7619
Guest Seminar: "Molecules and the Brain: Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity"
Susumu Tomita, Ph.D. - Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine
Nov 13, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Host: Hugh Xia, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
Guest Seminar: “Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) stabilize synapses against drug-induced maladaptive plasticity”
John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor in Psychiatry, Molecular Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Medical Center University
Nov 06, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Host: CMPP Students
Second-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Reviews: "C-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Post-Translational Regulation of Pain-Related Acid-Sensing Ion channels 1b and 3"
Morgan Clay - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David MacLean
Oct 30, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Second-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Reviews: "Quantitative Proteomics Reveals CLR Interactome in Primary Human Cells"
Alex Pfeffer - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
Oct 30, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Investigating the Cellular and Network Substrates of Chemosensation- Mediated Social Learning"
Kazi Samanta Jerin - Laboratory of Dr. Julian Meeks
Oct 27, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Graduates Working in Science (GWIS): "Unexpected Paths: Luck, Opportunity and Discovery"
Roshanak Irannejad, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Oct 24, 2025 @ 11:30 a.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Aud, 1-7619
Host: Cesare Orlandi, Ph.D.
Guest Seminar: "Decoding the Spatial Dimensions of GPCR Signaling"
Roshanak Irannejad, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Oct 23, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Host: Cesare Orlandi, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Regulation of Mks Differentiation, Migration and Tissue Maintenance"
Ei Thanda Tun - Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
Oct 17, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Guest Seminar: “Sugar Rush: How Pannexin 1 Channels Orchestrate Arterial Dysfunction in Diabetic Hyperglycemia”
Manuel F. Navedo, Ph.D. - FAHA, FCVS, Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis
Oct 16, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Host: David Yule, Ph.D. & Scott Earley, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Optogenetics Reveals Network-Wide Mitochondrial Communication"
Nada Ahmed Selim - Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Wojtovich
Oct 02, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Orphan GPCR GPR156 Functional Interactome Studies"
Brianna L. Vonderhaar - Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
Sep 23, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Applying Classical and Modern Receptor Theories to Model Mu Opioid Agonism and Allosteric Modulation: Implications for Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling"
Grant Grieble - Laboratory of Dr. Jean Bidlack
Sep 18, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Neuronal Subtype-specific Effects of α5-GABAAR NAMs in the Ventral Hippocampus-medial Prefrontal Cortex Circuit"
Caio Tabata Fukushima - Laboratory of Dr. Manoela Fogaça
Sep 11, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Ribosomal Protein L17 Regulates Endothelial Mediated Intima Media Thickening and Angiogenesis"
Michal Shaposhnikov - Advisor: Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.
Sep 10, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Local Bone Remodeling Shapes Heterogeneity in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche and the HSC Response to Inflammatory Stress"
Amy Hong - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Shu-Chi (Allison) Yeh
Sep 04, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
CMPP Faculty Research Presentations: "Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Iron Dysregulation and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis"
John Onukwufor, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology; and of Environmental Medicine
Sep 02, 2025 @ 1:15 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentations: "The Bioenergetics of Cardiac Development"
George Porter Jr., M.D., Ph.D. - Professor and Chief of Pediatrics-Cardiology; of Medicine, and of Pharmacology & Physiology; Rhea and Raymond White Professorship in Pediatric Cardiology
Sep 02, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentations: "Intravital Imaging of the Blood Stem Cell Niche"
Shu-Chi (Allison) Yeh, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics-Center for Musculoskeletal Research; of Biomedical Engineering, and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Sep 02, 2025 @ 12:45 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentations: "Mechanobiology, Piezo1 Channels, and Joint Pain"
Whasil Lee, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Sep 02, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Investigating the Interplay Between Lysosomal and ER Ca2+ Channels"
Siddhi M. Shetty - Laboratory of Dr. David I. Yule
Sep 02, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Capillaries to Cognition: Cation Channels and The Brain’s Blood Flow Circuitry"
Scott Earley, Ph.D. - Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 28, 2025 @ 2:45 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Translational Control in Cardiac Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Development: When mRNA Meets the Heart"
Peng Yao, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; and of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute; and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 28, 2025 @ 2:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Opioid Receptor Signaling and Medications Development"
Jean Bidlack, Ph.D. - Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology; Associate Chair of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 28, 2025 @ 2:15 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Calcium Signaling in Health and Disease"
David Yule, Ph.D. - (Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology; of Medicine-Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and of the Center for Oral Biology; Louis C. Lasagna Professorship in Experimental Therapeutics
Aug 28, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Genitopelvis in Women is Not Normal: Innovative Research Approaches for Women’s Health"
Megan Falsetta, Ph.D. - (Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 26, 2025 @ 1:15 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Determinant of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate"
Roman Eliseev, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Orthopedics-Center for Musculoskeletal Research of Pharmacology & Physiology, and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Aug 26, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Neural Mechanisms Regulating Blood Pressure, Glucose, and Metabolic Disorders"
Yumei Feng-Earley, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor of Medicine-Nephrology; and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 26, 2025 @ 12:45 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Cellular Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Disease"
Robert Dirksen, Ph.D. - (Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology; Lewis Pratt Ross Professorship of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 26, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Approaches to Studying Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Function and Pharmacology"
Paul Kammermeier, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 21, 2025 @ 2:45 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Spatiotemporal Aspects of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling"
Makaía Papasergi-Scott, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 21, 2025 @ 2:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Significance of Inter-Organellar Communication in Health and Disease"
Fabeha Fazal, Ph.D. - (Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Neonatology; and of Pharmacology & Physiology
Aug 21, 2025 @ 2:15 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Phosphorylation in Learning/Memory, Intellectual Disability, Neuropsychiatric Disorders"
Houhui Xia, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology; And Neuroscience
Aug 21, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Functional Role of Orphan G Protein-coupled Receptor GPRC5B in Retinoic Acid Induced Depressive-like Behaviors and Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis"
Wenqi Fu - Advisor: Cesare Orlandi, Ph.D.
Aug 19, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Case Method Room, 1-9576
M.S. Thesis Defense: "Histidine in the pH Modulatory Activity of the Principal Enamel Protein Amelogenin"
Jing Luan - Laboratory of Dr. Thomas Diekwisch
Jun 18, 2025 @ 10:30 a.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Literature Review: "“Mitochondrial Fusion and Cristae Reorganization Facilitate Acquisition of Cardiomyocyte Identity during Reprogramming of Murine Fibroblasts"
Xingyu Jing - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Roman Eliseev
Jun 12, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph, 1-7619
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Rotation Talk: "GPR156 Interactome and Functional Studies"
Alex Pfeffer - Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
May 29, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Rotation Talk: "The Effects of Fast Acting Antidepressants in a Modified Sucrose Conditioned Place Preference Test"
Erik Ingebretsen - Laboratory of Dr. Manoela Fogaça
May 29, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Rotation Talk: "Characterizing Inflammatory Response in Primary and Secondary Localized Provoked Vulvodynia"
Ankita Pohnerkar - Laboratory of Dr. Megan Falsetta
May 22, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Rotation Talk: "The Impact of ROS on Fibroblast Activation and Scar Formation"
Stefania Poli - Laboratory of Dr. Eric Small
May 22, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Research Talk: "The Value of Bioinformatic Models to Predict Translational Control: A Crash Course in Predictive Algorithms"
Michal Shaposhnikov - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Bradford Berk
May 20, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, (3-6408)
Guest Seminar: "Social Stress Promotes Cardiometabolic Disease: Insights from Exploring Neuroendocrine-Autonomic Interactions"
Annette de Kloet, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Petit Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia
May 15, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
2025 John R. Murlin Lecture: "GPCR Conformational Dynamics"
Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D. - Professor and Evan Rauch Chair in Neuroscience Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology, and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley
May 13, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium, 1-7619
Reception to follow the lecture in LeChase G-9576, 11:00-12:30 p.m.Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Development of ACE-tRNAa as a Platform Therapeutic for Cystic Fibrosis"
Emily Sorensen - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. John Lueck
May 08, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
"Alteration of Muscle Contractility, Mitochondrial Function, and Calcium Handling in a Novel Orai1 Tubular Aggregate Myopathy Mouse Model and the Restorative Impact of Endurance Exercise"
Nan Zhao - Laboratory of Robert T. Dirksen
May 06, 2025 @ 1:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alteration of Muscle Contractility, Mitochondrial Function & Calcium Handling in novel Orai1 Tubular Aggregate Myopathy Mouse Model & the Restorative Impact of Endurance Exercise
Nan Zhao - Laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Dirksen
May 06, 2025 @ 1:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
M.S. Thesis Defense: "Platelet Regulation of Monocyte and Macrophage Activation Status"
Yunzhi Lin - Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
May 02, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
M.S. Thesis Defense: "Platelet Regulation of Monocyte and Macrophage Activation Status"
Yunzhi Lin - Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
May 02, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Small Proline Rich Protein 2B Regulates Cardiac Fibroblasts via Interaction with Cell Cycle Regulates"
Xiaoyi Liu - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Eric Small
May 01, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
First-Year MS 20-minute Literature Review: "Copper Induces Cell Death by Targeting Lipoylated TCA Cycle Proteins"
Xinyi Qian - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. George Porter
Apr 24, 2025 @ 2:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
First-Year Ph.D. 20-minute Rotation Talk: "Non-Ionotropic Signaling Mechanisms of Kainate Receptors"
Morgan Clay - Non-Ionotropic Signaling Mechanisms of Kainate Receptors
Apr 24, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Seminar: "A Conserved Intra-Bundle Salt Bridge in the OATP1B Subfamily Controls Uptake Kinetics and Transporter Conformation"
Aviv Paz, PhD - University at Buffalo Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Biology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo; Adjunct Associate Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
Apr 23, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Host: Dr. Mark Dumont
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Mapping Myelination in the Developing Striatum"
Halima Aweis - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Kuan Wong Wang & Suzzane Haber
Apr 17, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
M.S. Thesis Defense: "Attraction and Efferocytosis of aPMN by Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells"
Brooke Wise - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Roman Eliseev
Apr 11, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, 3-7619
"KCNQ/Kv7 Channels and Brain-Specific Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP in Hippocampal Excitability and Epilepsy"
Hee Jung Chung, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Associate Director & Diversity Committee Chair, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Apr 10, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Room 3-7619, Upper Auditorium
"Finding Friends: Protein-Protein Interactions between Ion Channels and Endogenous or De Novo Designed Proteins"
Stephan Pless, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Drug Design, Pharmacology, & Biopharmaceuticals, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 08, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Aud, 1-7619
"Finding Friends: Protein-Protein Interactions between Ion Channels and Endogenous or De Novo Designed Proteins"
Stephan Pless, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Drug Design, Pharmacology, & Biopharmaceuticals, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 08, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Aud, 1-7619
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Immune Regulatory Role of Platelets: Platelets Maintain Monocyte Immune Homeostasis"
Chen Li - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
Apr 03, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Aud, 1-7619
"Inclusive Learning in Classroom and Laboratory Settings"
Alice Hunt, Ph.D. - Assistant Director, Instructional Development, Teaching Center, University of Rochester
Mar 27, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud, MC 3-7619
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Investigating the Role of the a5-GABAa Receptor in Murine Pyramidal Neurons"
Ciao Tabata Fukushima - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Manoela Fogaça
Mar 20, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Second-Year Ph.D. 25-minute Research Talks: "From Neural Plasticity to Social Behavior: Exploring Arc-Expressing Interneurons in the Accessory Olfactory Bulb (AOB)"
Samanta Jerin - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Julian Meeks
Mar 13, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Second-Year Ph.D. 25-minute Research Talks: "Functional Coupling between TPC2 and RyR1 augments intracellular 𝐶𝑎 2+ Signals"
Siddhi Shetty - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David Yule
Mar 13, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Second-Year Ph.D. 25-minute Research Talks: "Development of Cystic Fibrosis Platform Therapeutics: Does Nonsense to Missense Make Sense?"
Emily Sorensen - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. John Lueck
Mar 06, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Second-Year Ph.D. 25-minute Research Talks: "Orphan G Protein Coupled Receptor GPR156 Functional Interactome Studies"
Brianna Vonderhaar - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
Mar 06, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud., 3-7619
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Distal Mitochondria Responding to Stress via Proton-Motive Force Changes"
Nada Ahmed Selim - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Wojtovich
Feb 27, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud (3-7619)
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Local Bone Remodeling Shapes Heterogeneity in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche and the HSC Response to Inflammatory Stress"
Amy Hong - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Shu-Chi Yeh
Feb 20, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Large Aud, 2-6424
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Suppression of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation(CCM) Nonsense Mutations using Anticodon-Edited tRNAs(ACE-tRNAs)"
Rhodalyn Essien - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Drs. Angela Glading/John Lueck
Feb 13, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Large Aud., 2-6424
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Impact of Oxidative Stress on Inflammation and Pain Hypersensitivity in Localized Provoked Vulvodynia"
Zahra Mahamed - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Megan Falsetta
Feb 13, 2025 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307, 3-6408
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Humidity is an Independent Variable that Impacts Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptibility"
Miao He - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Robert Dirksen
Feb 06, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Upper Aud (3-7619)
Ph.D. Research Talk: "Stoichiometry of Desensitization and Recovery of Acid-sensing Ion Channels"
Alireza Mousaei - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David MacLean
Feb 04, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph (1-7619)
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Molecular Mechanisms for Calcium Dysregulation in Myotonic Dystrophy Skeletal Muscle"
Lily A. Cisco - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. John D. Lueck
Jan 27, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Electroporation-mediated Gene Delivery of CFTR Plasmids as a Novel Approach to Treat Cystic Fibrosis in vivo"
David Delemos - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David Dean
Jan 09, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Aud, 1-7619