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2021 CMB Seminars

  • March 15, 2021 – Jung Wu, Medical College of Wisconsin, "PPARgamma Downstream Pathways in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension: Renal Hemodynamic and Immune Mechanisms" 

  • March 22, 2021 – Reid Bishop, Professor and Chair, Belhaven University, "From COVID-19 Surveillance to Protein Folding and Drug Binding by Quantitative RT-PCR"

  • March 29, 2021 – Abdel Alli, Assistant Professor, The University of Florida, "Epithelial transport mechanisms in the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron and Hypertension"

  • April 5, 2021 – Kristine DeLeon-Pennell, Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, "CD8+ T-cells more than just trained killers"

  • April 12, 2021 – Damian Romero. Professor, UMMC, "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and COVID-19"

  • April 19, 2021 – Licy Yanes Cardozo, Associate Professor, UMMC, "Androgen Excess in Women: Role of obesity" WIP TALK

  • May 3, 2021 – Samar Rezq, Postdoc Fellow, UMMC, "MicroRNA-21 regulation of adipogenesis and adipose thermogenesis in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome"

  • May 10, 2021 – Krsitin Edwards, Assistant Professor, UMMC, "Sex-specific effects of indomethacin-induced inflammatory bowel disease on mitochondrial function"

  • May 17, 2021 – Omar Logue, Assistant Professor, UMMC, "Lipid profiles of maternal and fetal tissues in a rodent model of placental ischemia: a potential role of lipid metabolites"

  • May 24, 2021 – Nita Maihle, Professor, UMMC, "Early detection of cancer: Next generation biomarkers"

  • June 7, 2021 – Michael Hebert, Professor, UMMC, "Regulating the Regulators: A role for coilin in the control of microRNA processing"

  • June 14, 2021 – Karine Gautheir, CNRS Researcher, Frédéric Flamant, "Thyroid hormones regulate energy expenditure: a burning topic"

  • June 21, 2021 – David Brown, Professor, UMMC, "Linker histones, PARP1 and the DNA damage response"

  • July 12, 2021 – Alex Addinsall, Postdoc Fellow, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet "Regulation of complement C3/3R as a target for critical illness myopathy"

  • July 19, 2021 – JungSu Ryu, Instructor, UMMC, "Soluble Splice Variants of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor"

  • July 26, 2021 – Jerry Monroe, Postdoc Fellow, UMMC, "In vitro and in vivo identification and validation of novel platinum chemotherapeutics"

  • August 2, 2021, McKelvie Maxwell, Valeria Brown, Hanna Bynum, and Logan Ryals, SURE/MSRP Students, UMMC

  • August 23, 2021, Carolyn Klinge, Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine, "Epitranscriptomic Reader RNA Binding Protein HNRNPA2B1 Promotes Endocrine-Resistance in Breast Cancer Cells"

  • September 13, 2021 – Vincent Giguère, Professor, McGill University, "An 'Omics' Characterization of mTOR Transcriptional Activities in the Nucleus"

  • September 20, 2021 – Angelo D’Alessandro, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, "High-throughout metabolomics: towards personalized transfusion medicine"

  • September 27, 2021 – Marlies Rossmann, Postdoc Fellow, Harvard University, "Dissecting metabolic gene regulatory networks in hematopoiesis"

  • October 4, 2021 – Madelyn Davis, Graduate Student, UMMC, "Hypoxic Regulation of Cajal Bodies"

  • October 11, 2021 – Tristan Clemons, Assistant Professor, USM, "Multifunctional nanomaterials for therapeutic delivery and regenerative medicine"

  • October 18, 2021 – Holly Ingraham, Professor, University of California, "Estrogen and Neurocircuits in Female Physiology"

  • October 25, 2021 – Jacob Pruett, Graduate Student, UMMC, "The Impact of SGLT2 Inhibition on the Cardiometabolic Profile of PCOS"

  • November 1, 2021 – Nicole Anderson, Postdoc Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Perelman, "Utilizing the zebrafish to define metabolic vulnerabilities in MYC-Driven Cancers"

  • November 8, 2021 – Alexandra Huffman, Graduate Student, UMMC, "Role of microRNA-21 on androgen-induced insulin resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome"

  • November 15, 2021 – Bridget Konadu, Graduate Student, UMMC, "Physiological and metabolic consequences of fetal hyperglycemia using the zebrafish model"

  • November 22, 2021 – Drazen Raucher, Professor, UMMC, "Elastin-like Biopolymers as Drug Carriers for Targeted Glioblastoma Therapy"

  • December 6, 2021 – Krishna Bhat, Professor, the Mary & Harry Goldsmith Endowed Chair, Department of Medicine, "Neural Connectivity, Dementias and Quantum State of Our Mind"

  • December 7, 2021 – Simon Marius Galyan, CEO of Galyan Bio, Inc, "Neuroprotective compounds repurposed for glioblastoma mulitofrme"

  • December 13, 2021 – Helen Raybould, Professor, and UC Davis Veterinary Medicine, "Bugs, Guts and Brain: interactions at the gut epithelium/vagal afferent interface"