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Seminar Series

Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers.  Seminars will be held in 2117 MERF for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters unless otherwise noted.  If interested in more seminars at The University of Iowa, please visit the Carver College of Medicine's upcoming events.

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Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule

Spring 2023

Date Speaker Host Title
Tues.
Jan. 17
10:30 AM
Caleb James Browne, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai

Postdoctoral Seminar Series
 

Introduced by Dr. Lakshmi Balasubramanian

Molecular signatures of relapse vulnerability in rodent models of opioid use disorder
Thurs.
Jan. 19
12:30 PM

Calvin Carter, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa

Jon Resch, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa

Introduced by Stefan Strack, PhD Targeting evolutionarily encoded antennae to develop bioelectromagnetic medicines

 

The neural basis for fasting activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis

Tues.
Feb. 14
10:30 AM

Zoom

Roswitha Wiltschko, PhD 
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Ecology, Evolution, & Diversity
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Calvin Carter, PhD POSTPONED

Tues.
Feb. 21
10:30 AM

Zoom

Chandrashekhar Borkar, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Introduced by Dr. Lakshmi Balasubramanian

Prefrontal cortex to the central amygdala circuit in the regulation of defensive behaviors in mice
Tues.
Mar. 14
SPRING BREAK  
Tues.
Mar. 28
10:30 AM
Paul M. Titchenell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, & Metabolism
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Potthoff, PhD

 

Co-Sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center (FOEDRC)
Insulin Signaling and Hepatic Metabolism - Navigating Downstream of AKT
Tues.
Apr. 11
10:30 AM
Zoom
David A. D'Alessio, MD
James B. Wyngaarden Distinguished Professor
Department of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine

Graduate / Postdoc

Introduced by Graduate Student, Cierra Boyer  

 
Thurs.
Apr. 20
4:00 PM

1110A MERF
Beth Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Harvard University,
Research Associate
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Boston Children's Hospital
Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology and the Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture
 
Thurs.
Apr. 27
12:30 PM

Bryan Cox, PhD
Chief of Research, TriSalus Life Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Tom Herzig, PhD
Commandant
Medical Education and Training Campus
US Navy

Careers in Drug Development  
       

Fall 2022

Date Speaker Host Title
Tues.
Aug. 30
10:30 AM
Matt Potthoff, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Introduced by Stefan Strack The Physiology of FGF21: Clarifying the Confusion
Thurs.
Sept. 8
12:30 PM
Sourav Banerjee, PhD
Scientist V
National Brain Research Centre
Manesar, India

Ted Abel, PhD

Co-sponsored by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Synapse-enriched long non-coding RNAs: Implications in translational control and memory storage

Tues.
Sept. 13
10:30 AM

Elena Gracheva, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Yale University
Jon Resch, PhD

Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Adaptations of Hibernation

Tues.
Sept. 27
10:30 AM
Ege T. Kavalali, PhD
Professor & Chair
Dept of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University
Yuriy Usachev, PhD

Co-sponsored by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Functional Nano-Organization of Central Synapses

Tues.
Oct. 11
 
Annarita Di Lorenzo, PhD
Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine
Kamal Rahmouni, PhD

Altered sphingolipid metabolism and signaling contribute to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease

Tues.
Oct 25
Marcelo Wood, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurobiology & Bahavior
School of Biological Sciences
University of California, Irvine

Stefan Strack, PhD

Co-sponsored by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Pharmacological Sciences T32

Epigenetic molecular memory of a previous experience: Is ACVR1C the link?

Tues.
Nov. 29
Linda Rinaman, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Deniz Atasoy, PhD

Interoceptive Circuits and Motivated Behavior

Tues.
Dec. 15

Aud 2 (Spivey)
Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
Introduced by Stefan Strack

Brainstem neuropathology in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease