Seminar Series

AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO
TRAINING TOMORROW’S SCIENTISTS
Fall 2023

Thursdays, 1:00 pm
W-233 Vet Med Bldg.

SEPT 7Zhen Yan, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Exercise Medicine Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, “New Insights of AMPK Function in Skeletal Muscle by Integrative Omics”
SEPT 14Ruwaida Ben Musa, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Cummings), “Orexin Facilitates the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response Via the Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons that Project to the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract”
SEPT 21Charles Norton , Ph.D. , Assistant ResearchProfessor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Effects of Age, Diet and Sex on Resilience to Oxidative Stress in Cerebral Arteries”
SEPT 28Aaron Ericsson, DVM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Fetal Programming of Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Response to the Maternal Microbiome”
OCT 5Teresa Pitts, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, “The Ever-Expanding Swallow Pattern Generator”
OCT 12Jaapna Dhillon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology , “How Diet and Exercise Influence Cardiometabolic Health and Microbiome Interactions”
OCT 19Jasenka Zubcevic, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo , “New Interoceptive Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Control”
OCT 26E. Fiona Bailey, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , To Be Determined
NOV 2Ilker Ozden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia , “Neural Correlates of Reward-Driven Behavioral Switching in the Striatum”
NOV 9Brant Isakson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, “Alpha-Hemoglobin in the Cardiovascular System”
NOV 16Michael Petris, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia , “Therapeutic Targeting of Copper Metabolism Using New and Repurposed Drugs”
NOV 23NO SEMINAR – THANKSGIVING BREAK