Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Seminars will be held in 2117 MERF for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 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 2023 - Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule
Fall 2023
Date | Speaker | Host | Title |
Thurs. |
Banu Gumusoglu, Msc, PhD |
Offspring neurodevelopment after exposure to a complex pregnancy: Offering a translational perspective |
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Thurs. |
Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD Deniz Atasoy, PhD |
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Moving beyond depression: An expanded role for serotonin in the pathophysiology of neurological disease
Neuronal basis of feeding rhythms |
Tues. |
Subhash C. Pandey, PhD |
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Anxiety and Alcohol Use Disorders |
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Thurs. Sept 14 |
Calvin Carter, PhD |
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Electromagnetic reprogramming of metabolism |
Tues. Sept. 19 10:30 AM Zoom |
Jennifer Kong, PhD |
Effective Grant Writing |
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Thurs. |
Shannon M. Harlan, PhD |
Novel Hypertensive Mouse Models of Progressive Diabetic Kidney Disease for Preclinical Assessment of Therapeutics |
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Tues. |
Snehajyoti Chatterjee, PhD Jon Resch, PhD |
Role of histone crotonylation in the regualtion of gene expression and memory consolidation
Neurocircuitry underlying aldosterone regulation of sodium appetite |
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Tues. Zoom |
Raajaram (Raaj) Gowrishankar, PhD |
Dynamic endogenous opioid neuromodulation shapes goal-directed behavior |
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Tues. Zoom |
Stephen Liberles, PhD |
Mechanisms of body-brain communication |
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Tues.
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Budd A. Tucker, PhD |
Using Patient Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model and Treat Inherited Retinal Disease |
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Thurs. 1110A |
Charles S. Zuker, PhD |
Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture |
The Body-Brain Axis: From Sugar and Fat to Immunity |
Tues.
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Kyle Flippo, PhD |
Defining glutamatergic circuits in basolateral amygdala function |
Spring 2024
Date | Speaker | Host | Title |
Tues. |
Elizabeth A Heller, PhD |
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Epigenetic editing for the study of psychiatric disease |
Tues. |
Samer Hattar, PhD |
Beyond Vision: Impact of light on behavior |
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Tues. |
Katelin Dannen, PhD |
Accessible Pharmacology |
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Tues. Zoom |
Yang He, PhD |
Deciphering Obesity: The Role of Serotonin 2C Receptor |
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Tues. Zoom |
Roswitha Wiltschko, PhD |
The Magnetic Compass of Birds |
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Thurs. 1110A MERF |
Beth Stevens, PhD |
Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture Co-Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology and the Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture |
Mapping Microglia States to Function in Development & Disease |
Tues. Zoom |
David M. Holtzman, MD |
The Role of APOE and the immune response in Amyloid-induced Tauopathy and Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration |
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Tues. |
Maya Opendak, PhD |
Building a Social Brain: Genes, Circuits and Behavior |
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Tues. Zoom |
Li Wang, PhD |
Development of the Human Neocortex: from Progenitors to Circuits |
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Tues. |
Elva Denise Diaz, PhD |
How to change your mind: Molecular mechanisms of excitatory synapse development and plasticity |
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