Physiology Seminars

Location: On-Campus
Seminar 3:30 – 5:00 pm

Fall 2024

Date	Room	Speaker	Title	Host
August 19	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Sathish Venkatachalem, Associate Professor, North Dakota State University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences	"Cellular Underpinnings of Sex Differences in Asthma."
August 22	CRB Auditorium	Christopher Pitzer, Graduate Student, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	“Plasma Derived Exosomes as Novel Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Metabolism”
August 29	CRB Auditorium	Hector Paez, Graduate Student, UTHSC. Department of Physiology	"Exploring the influence of obesity and the therapeutic potential of NOR-1 in aging skeletal muscle"
September 5	CRB Auditorium	Dr. David Stepp, Professor, Medical College of Georgia Augusta University, Vascular Biology Center and Department of Physiology	"Vascular Disease in Obesity: An Oral History."
September 12	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Helena Parfenova, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	"Hydrogen sulfide: from a poisonous gas to neuroprotection"
September 19	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Santosh Kumar, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences	"Novel drug delivery modality to suppress HIV neuropathogenesis"
September 26	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Aman Bajwa, Associate Professor, UTHSC, Department of Surgery.	"Mitoprotective Therapies and RenalFluo: Navigating Kidney Health with Rapid and Sensitive Fluorescence Urine Test"
October 3	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Wei Li, Distinguished Professor and Director of UTCoP DDC, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.	"Discovery of Selective TRPC3 inhibitors as potential therapy for CNS disease indications."
October 15, 2 PM	Freeman Auditorium , 930 Madison	Dr. S M Raquibul Hasan, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University.	"Novel Mechanism of Blood Pressure Regulation by Statins."
October 17	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Suresh Govatati, Research Instructor, UTHSC, Department of Physiology.	"A Novel Role for 12/15-lipoxigenase in the Myristoylation of Protease-activated Receptors in Platelets."
October 24	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Deqiang Li, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University	"Implications of Nonmyocyte Epigenetics on Myocardial Development."
October 31	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jiang Chang, Professor, Deputy Director and Chancellor EDGE Fellow Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center	"Integrative Insights in Heart Failure: From Classic Rho Signaling to Epigenomics."
November 7	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jolieke Oosterwijk, Chief Scientific Officer, US Biologic, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Medicine, UTHSC.	"Oral Vaccine Design & Delivery."
November 14	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Lijun Xia, Professor and Program Chair, The Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.	"Sialylated O0glycoproteins and their lectin receptors in vascular integrity, thrombosis and beyond."
November 20, 2 PM	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Alexis "Stocko" Stamatikos, Assistant Professor, Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging, Clemson University.	“Developing Atheroprotective Approaches that Target Endothelial Cells.”
December 19	CRB Auditorium	Zhen Xie, Graduate Student, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	"Uncovering Novel Von Hippel Lindaus Synthetic Lethal Genes in ccRCC."