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2018 Seminar Series

Seminars are held from noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays in CW308, and all students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. For more information, contact Courtney Graham in the Department of Physiology at (601) 984-1820.

Date	Speaker	Department	Title
1/10/2018	Dr. Lique Coolen	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Social Reward Experience Influences Vulnerability for Substance Abuse in Rats
1/17/2018	Dr. Jan Williams	UMMC- Pharmacology & Toxicology	Using Animal Models to Explore Mechanisms Involved in the Development of Renal Disease Associated with Prepubertal Obesity
1/24/2018	Dr. Erin Taylor	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	The Role of T Lymphocytes in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension
1/31/2018	Dr. Frank Spradley	UMMC - Surgery/Transplant	Programming of Chronic Liver Disease
2/7/2018	Dr. Romain Harmancey	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Consequences of UCP3 Deficiency for Cardiac and Systemic Metabolism
2/14/2018	Dr. Jan Williams	UMMC- Pharmacology & Toxicology	Using Animal Models to Explore Mechanisms Involved in the Development of Renal Disease Associated with Prepubertal Obesity
2/21/2018	Dr. Jussara do Carmo	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Regulation of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function by the Brain Leptin-Melanocortin Pathway:What is New?
2/28/2018	Dr. Edward Lesnefsky	VA	Modulation of Electron Transport During Ischemia-Reperfusion: Protection of Mitochondria, Interacting Organelles and the Heart
3/7/2018	Dr. David Stec	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Bilirubin and Biliverdin Reductase in Metabolic Disease
3/14/2018	Dr. Steven Smith	Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	Epigenetic Regulation of Adipose Tissue
3/21/2018	Dr. Ji Li	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	A Novel Age-related Stress Inducible Protein Sestrin 2
3/28/2018	Dr. Paula Warrington	UMMC- Neurology & Anatomical Sciences	Neuroinflammation Following Placental Ischemia
4/4/2018	Dr. Eric Belin de Chantamele	Augusta University	Novel Roles of Leptin in the Control of Vascular Function
4/11/2018	Dr. James Wilson	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Aptamer Proteomics and Chronic Kidney Disease in the Jackson Heart Study
4/18/2018	EB Practice Seminars	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Presenters: John Clemmer, Gwen Davis, Jeremy Duncan, and Adrian Eddy
4/25/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar	Experimental Biology Meeting
5/2/2018	Dr. James Petell	UMMC- Translational Research Center	Protecting Your Ideas and Inventions
5/9/2018	Dr. Merry Lindsey	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Cardiac Wound Healing after Myocardial Infarction
5/16/2018	Dr. Bernadette Grayson	UMMC- Neurobiology & Anatomical Sciences	Uncovering the Propensity Towards Metabolic Dysfunction After SCI: Using a Rodent Model of Thoracic Spinal Contusion
5/23/2018	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
5/30/2018	Dr. Xuan Li	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	The Metabolic Regulation is a Strategy to Limit Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
6/6/2018	Dr. Barbara Alexander	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Low Birth Weight, the Kidney and Hypertension: Does Sex Matter?
6/13/2018	Dr. Michael Ryan	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Hypertension and Autoimmunity
6/20/2018	Dr. Heather Drummond	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Degenerin Signaling in VSMCs
6/27/2018	Dr. Megan Rhoads	University of Kentucky	Spontaneous Hypertension in the African Green Monkey
7/4/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar	Independence Day Holiday
7/11/2018	Dr. Eric George	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Preeclampsia: Unanswered Questions and New Opportunities
7/18/2018	Dr. Kristin Edwards	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Role of UCP3 in Cardiac Adaptation Following Ischemia Reperfusion
7/25/2018	Dr. Alan Mouton	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Using Transcriptomics to Map Post-Myocardial Infarction Cellular Remodeling Phenotypes
8/1/2018	Dr. Robert Hester	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	JustPhysiology, An Interactive Environment for Learning Physiology
8/8/2018	Dr. Michael Hall	UMMC - Cardiology	Obesity-induced Cardiorenal Disease: Mechanistic Insights Using Advanced Imaging in Humans
8/15/2018	Dr. Yonggang Ma	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	CXCL4 Regulates Macrophage Phagocytosis Post-Myocardial Infarction
8/22/2018	Dr. Alejandro Chade	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Biotechnology and Renal Disease: An Update About the Search for Nove Therapies
8/29/2018	Council Practice Seminars	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Cancelled
9/5/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar	Council for Hypertension Research
9/12/2018	Dr. Drew Pruett	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Topological Tools for Elucidating Systems Response
9/19/2018	Dr. Zhen Wang	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Role of TRPC Channels in Mediating Hypertensive-Diabetic Kidney Injury and Obesity
9/26/2018	Dr. Alfonso Eirin	Mayo Clinic	Mitochondrial Injury and Renal Disease: Renovascular Disease and Beyond
10/3/2018	Dr. Yingjie Chen	University of Minnesota	The Role of Inflammation in the Transition from Left Heart Failure to Right Heart Failure
10/10/2018	Dr. Martin Frank	The American Physiological Society	From Bench to... - Opportunities for PhDs!
10/17/2018	Victoria Wolf	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Ovarian Hormones and Hypertension in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
10/24/2018	Dr. Gregg Semenza	Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering	Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Physiology & Medicine
10/31/2018	Dr. John Burnett	The Mayo Clinic	The Heart as an Endocrine Organ: From Biology to Drug Discovery to the Bedside
11/7/2018	Erika Guise	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Renovascular Disease
11/14/2018	Dr. Thiago Bruder do Nascimento	Medical College of Georgia	Leptin Therapy for the Vascular Disease Associated with Congenital and Acquired Lipodystrophy
11/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28/2018	Elena Dent	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Renal Hemodynamic Function during Autoimmunity
12/5/2018	Adrian Eddy	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Therapeutic Approaches for Experimental Preeclampsia
12/12/2018	Dr. Bhavisha Bakrania	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Soluble Guanylate Cyclase as a Target for the Treatment of Preeclampsia: sGC Stimulators and Activators
12/19/2018	Dr. John Clemmer	UMMC - Physiology & Biophysics	Modeling Device-Based Therapies for the Treatment of Hypertension
12/26/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar	Christmas Holiday