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Physiology Seminar Series occurs each Tuesday morning during the academic year in HKRB 150 at 9:30 a.m. The series brings prominent scientists and educators to campus to share their work with our faculty, staff, and trainees.

Fall Semester 2024

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
09/10/2024 "Decoding Genetic and Sporadic Forms of Alzheimer's Disease: A Multi-Layered Transcriptomic Odyssey" Vivek Swarup, PhD University of California, Irvine Lance Johnson, PhD
09/17/2024 Navigating Asprosin: Discovery, Mechanisms and Future Therapies Ila Mishra, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
09/24/2024 "Systemic Metabolism and Muscle Physiology in Children with Cerebral Palsy" Sudarshan Dayanidhi, PT, PhD Northwestern University Ahmed Ismaeel, PhD
10/01/2024 Fayette County Public Schools Fall Break
10/08/2024 "Understanding the Role of Skeletal Myopathy in Peripheral Artery Disease Pathobiology" Terence Ryan, PhD University of Florida Ahmed Ismaeel, PhD
10/15/2024 "The Great Divorce: Separating Graft-vs-Host Disease (GvHD) from Graft-vs-Leukemia (GvL) by Targeting Very-Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor (VLDLR)" Jaebok Choi, PhD Washington University Xiangan Li, PhD
10/22/2024 "Modified mRNA Therapeutics for Cardiovascular Diseases- The Next Frontier Beyond COVID-19 Vaccines" Lior Zangi, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Jonathan Satin, PhD
10/29/2024 Physiology Education Day
11/05/2024 Election Day
11/12/2024 "Unveiling the Molecular Diversity of Human Brain Lipoproteins" John Melchior, PhD Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ryan Temel, PhD
11/19/2024 Over-Activation of Hepatic E4BP4 in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Xin (Tony) Tong, MD, PhD University of Michigan Ryan Temel, PhD
11/26/2024 Thanksgiving Week
12/03/2024 A Multimodal Understanding of Mechanisms Underlying the Input-Output Properties In Distinct Neocortical Excitatory Neuron Types Nikolai Dembrow, PhD University of Washington John Gensel, PhD
12/10/2024 From a Pin Drop to a Fireworks Display: Molecules and Mechanisms Regulating Hearing Sensitivity and Preventing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Catalina Velez-Ortega, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc

Spring 2025

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
01/14/2025 Dan Richardson Lecture: Teaching Students to Reflect: Collaborative Testing, Reflective Writing and Metacognition Lisa Carney Anderson, PhD University of Minnesota Medical School Thad Wilson, PhD
01/21/2025 Dr. Johnson's lab is focused on discovering new therapeutic targets for individuals at-risk for Alzheimer's disease. Lance Johnson, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
01/28/2025 Precision Phenotyping of Heart Failure Using AI-Guided Predictive Modeling Daniel Beard, PhD University of Michigan Austin Wellette-Hunsucker
02/04/2025 Trainee Talks
02/11/2025 Trainee Talks
02/18/2025 Wandering Through Physiology: Central Circuit Regulation of Cardiac Parasympathetic System Carie Boychuk, PhD University of Missouri Brian Delisle, PhD
02/25/2025 Trainee Talks
03/04/2025 Dr. Kekenes-Huskey's lab determines how molecules and proteins shape the functions of immune and heart cells by blending computational science and traditional wet-lab experiments. Peter Hekenes-Huskey, PhD Loyola University Cheavar Blair, PhD
03/11/2025 Dr. Kirk studies cardiovascular disease from the perspective of the sarcomere, the force-generating unit in heart muscle cells. Jonathan Kirk, PhD Loyola University Cheavar Blair, PhD
03/18/2025 UK Spring Break
03/25/2025 Trainee Talks
04/01/2025 Trainee Talks
04/08/2025 FCPS Spring Break
04/15/2025 Dr. Bergles's lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms by which neurons and glial cells interact to support normal communication in the nervous system. Dwight Bergles, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Cata Velez-Ortega, PhD
04/22/2025 Adding Sleep and Circadian Rhythms to Medicine Elizabeth Klerman, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School Cheavar Blair, PhD
05/06/2025 Trainee Talks
05/13/2025 Trainee Talks
05/20/2025 Temporal Dynamics of Oligodendroglial Lineage Cells in Health and Disease Erin Gibson, PhD Stanford University Shannon Macauley, PhD

Fall 2025 

Date Event Title
09/09/2025 Available

Previous Seminars

Seminars from 2013 – 2024