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 Jon Resch, PhD |
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 |
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Tues. Zoom |
Roswitha Wiltschko, PhD Professor Emeritus Institute of Ecology, Evolution, & Diversity Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main Germany |
Calvin Carter, PhD | POSTPONED |
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Tues. 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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Thurs. Apr. 27 12:30 PM |
Bryan Cox, PhD Tom Herzig, PhD |
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 |
Co-sponsored by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute |
Synapse-enriched long non-coding RNAs: Implications in translational control and memory storage |
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Tues. |
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 |
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 |