Current Seminars

Fall Semester 2017

Speaker Institute Title Host/Sponsor
8/16/2017 John Gensel, PhD University of Kentucky Sex, Drugs, and Macroph-aging in Spinal Cord Injury Alan Daugherty
8/30/2017 Kerry S. McDonald, PhD University of Missouri Cardiac myofilaments: from health to heart disease Ken Campbell
9/6/2017 Kenneth Campbell, PhD University of Kentucky Contractile function in human heart failure: from biophysics to biospecimens and back Alan Daugherty
9/13/2017 Gregory Frolenkov, PhD University of Kentucky Molecules and mechanisms of deafness Alan Daugherty
9/20/2017 Wolfgang J. Streit, PhD University of Florida Role of microglia in AD pathogenesis Sasha Rabchevsky
9/22/2017 Donna Wilcock, PhD University of Kentucky Translating a genetic risk gene for Alzheimer’s into an effective therapy Alan Daugherty
9/29/2017 Joe Abisambra, PhD University of Kentucky Endoplasmic reticulum catastrophes in neurodegeneration: tau, ER dysfunction, and other demons Alan Daugherty
10/3/2017 Cheavar Blair, PhD Candidate University of Kentucky PGY Dissertation Defense - The Mechanical Properties of Non-failing and Failing Human Myocardium Mentor: Ken Campbell
10/4/2017 Kara C. Hoover, PhD University of Alaska Sensory Disruptions: Is modern living killing our sense of smell? Tim McClintock
10/11/2017 TBD
10/18/2017 TBD
10/25/2017 Lena H. Ting, PhD Emory University Force encoding in muscle spindles: Towards a multiscale model for sensorimotor feedback control Ken Campbell
11/1/2017 Hiroaki Matsunami, PhD Duke University TBA Tim McClintock
11/8/2017 Gilbert Gallardo, PhD Washington University St. Louis TBD Joe Abisambra
11/15/2017 TBD
11/22/2017 Allison Steele, PhD Candidate University of Kentucky PGY Dissertation Defense - New Insights into Post-Sepsis Muscle Weakness Elucidated using a Novel Animal Model Mentor: Hiroshi Saito
11/29/2017 David M. Holtzman, MD Washington University St. Louis TBD Lance Johnson
12/6/2017 L. Ashley Cowart, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Sphingolipids as mediators of diabetic cardiomyopathy M.N. Karakashian
12/13/2017 Hans Keirstead, PhD AIVITA Biomedical TBA Sasha Rabchevsky

Spring Semester 2018

Speaker Institute Title Host/Sponsor
1/24/2018 TBD
1/31/2018 Analia Loria, PhD University of Kentucky TBD Ming C. Gong
2/7/2018 Susan Schwab, PhD Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NY University School of Medicine TBD Guanghu Wang
2/21/2018 TBD
2/28/2018 Dandan Sun, MD, PhD Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh TBD Guanghu Wang
3/7/2018 TBD
3/14/2018 TBD
3/21/2018 Julian E. Stelzer, PhD Dept. Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University TBD Ken Campbell
3/28/2018 TBD
4/11/2018 TBD
4/18/2018 TBD
4/25/2018 TBD
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