Department Seminar Organizer: Dr Antonis Kourtidis
RMCB Seminar Archive
2024
September 4, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Eric Meissner, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, MUSC
"Role of interferon lambda receptor isoforms in modulation of the hepatocellular response to infection"
September 11
- No Seminar - FASEB GI Meeting
September 18, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Siyan "Stewart" Cao, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University in St. Louis | Barnes-Jewish Hospital
"ER stress controls innate lymphoid cells in IBD"
September 25, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Martin Morad, Ph.D.
Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
"β-adrenergic regulation of cardiac relaxation: an evolutionary marvel"
October 2, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Cassandra Clift, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate, Division of Cardiovascular Life Sciences, Dept. of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
"Mass Spectrometry Based Approaches to Define Translational and Post-Translational Modification Signaling in Cardiovascular Tissues and Models"
October 9, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Kate Hamilton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
"IMP-lications for cell plasticity in the regenerating intestine"
October 16, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
"Cytoskeletal control of localized translation and cardiac growth"
October 23, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- James Martin, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
"Hippo Signaling in Cardiac Regeneration"
October 30, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Yang Xiao, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
"Functional interrogation of single-cell omics in cardiometabolic disease"
November 6
November 13, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Rajan Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno
"A paradigm shift in deciphering the pathophysiology and therapeutics of gastroparesis, a disorder of Gut-Brain interaction"
November 20, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Elizabeta Nemeth, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
"New iron biology: from anemias to iron overload and infection"
December 4
December 11, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Scott Magness, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill
"Division and Death Dynamics: Preserving and protecting intestinal stem cell driven repair after injury"
2025
January 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Jorge Munera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
"Modeling human hindgut development, disease and differentiation using organoids derived from pluripotent and adult stem cells"
January 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Udayan Apte, Ph.D.
Professor, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center
"Role of HNF4alpha in Liver Regeneration"
January 22, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Diana Fulmer, Ph.D. **Postponed**
Faculty Candidate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
"A regulatory role for nuclear architecture in development and disease"
January 29, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- David Assis, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), Yale School of Medicine
"Emerging Insights into Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis through Bile Derived Organoids"
February 5, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Evan Delgado, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Experimental and Translational Pathology, Pittsburgh Liver Research Center Faculty
"Metabolic Heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for the Immune Microenvironment"
February 12, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Silvia Guglietta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
TBA
February 19, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Kengo Nozaki, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, MUSC
"Cell death and “Bucket List” during infection -How a cell dies matters in immunology-"
February 26, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Arthur "Art" Beyder, M.D., Ph.D., AGAF
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Associate Professor, Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic
TBA
March 5, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, MUSC
"Enteric Neurons and Host Defense"
March 12, 3:00 am, DD 110
- Brian Kobilka, M.D
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
"G Protein Coupled Receptors: Challenges and New Approaches to Drug Discovery"
March 19, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Diana Fulmer, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
"A regulatory role for nuclear architecture in development and disease"
March 26, 11:00 am, BSB 611
April 2, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Sonia Kupfer, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, University of Chicago
"Modeling inter-individual gene-environment interactions in human colonic organoids"
April 9, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Scientific Director and Professor, The Jackson Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics
"Young at heart: the new genetics of regeneration"
April 16, 11:00 am, BSB 611
April 23, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Stacey S. Huppert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
"Mechanisms regulating hepatic epithelial cell plasticity and identity"
April 30, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Xia Xiao, Ph.D.
Instructor, Nephrology and Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
"BMP-SMAD signaling pathway in iron homeostasis and liver fibrosis"
May 7, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Dipak Panigrahy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
TBA
May 14, 11:00 am, BSB 611
May 21, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Henry Sucov, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
TBA
May 28, 11:00 am, BSB 6D.11
- Jashodeep Datta, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
TBA
August 27, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Rui Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
"Target liver-cancer crosstalk in metastatic colorectal and pancreatic cancer"
September 3
September 10, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Stefano Berto, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, MUSC
"Neurogenomics in Action: CHAMP1, Brain Evolution, and the Power of Bioinformatics"
September 17, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Alexander Hoffmann, PhD
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
"Hematopoietic Decline during Inflammaging: Models expose multiple mechanisms"
September 24, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Kristin Wallace, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, MUSC
"T-cell signatures in preinvasive colorectal lesions: Clues to the origins of aggressive phenotypes?"
October 1, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Justin P. Van Beusecum, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, MUSC
"The Autoimmune Heart and Vasculature: Endothelin and Endothelin Autoantibodies in SLE"
October 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Mark Frey, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Cancer Biology, The Saban Research Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
"Tales from the crypt and villus: neuregulin signaling in intestinal epithelial maturation"
October 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Monika Gooz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
"Zooming In: Mapping Protein Interactions with Super-Resolution Microscopy and PLA"
October 22, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Mark McNiven, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Program Leader, Mayo Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director, Mayo-NCI Hepatobiliary Cancer SPORE, Mayo Clinic
"Cytoskeletal dynamics in GI epithelial disease"
October 29, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Chip Norris, PhD
Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
"The Ties That Bind: Unraveling Connective Tissue Diseases Through Science and Story"
November 5
November 12, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Cynthia Sears, MD
Professor of Cancer Immunotherapy, Departments of Medicine, Oncology, and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Microbial contributors to CRC pathogenesis: where are we?"
November 19, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Radhika Gudi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, MUSC
"Role of ESCRT machinery and endocytic trafficking pathway in centriole biogenesis"
December 3, 11:00 am, BSB 611
December 10
December 17, 11:00 am, BSB 611
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Naohiro Yamaguchi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
"Cardiac Muscle Calcium-Induced Calcium Release: Hydrogen Bond Dynamics at the Regulatory Domain"
2026
January 7, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Konstantinos Drosatos, PhD
Ohio Eminent Scholar & Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
"GLUT1: "Ignition point" for diabetic cardiomyopathy"
January 14, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Gerald Dorn, MD
Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
"Mitofusin Activators: from Concept to Clinic"
January 21, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Saverio Gentile, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MUSC
TBA
January 28, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Sungjin Ko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Transcriptional compensation of YAP1 and SOX9 in cholangiocarcinoma"
February 4, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Sarah Andres, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
TBA
February 11, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
Whitehead Career Development Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
"Understanding how the organism monitors liver function to properly time regeneration"
February 18, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Mindy Engevik, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
TBA
February 25, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Geoanna Bautista, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Children's Hospital
TBA
March 4, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Richard Lehner, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Canada
"Regulation of hepatic fat metabolism by endoplasmic reticulum-localized lipases"
March 11, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Amy Engevik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
"Fat, Flares, and Forgetfulness: Type 2 Immune Pathways Linking Western Diets to Gastric and Neural Pathology"
March 18, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Andrew Duncan, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
TBA
March 25, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Neil Chi MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine - Cardiology, University of California, San Diego
TBA
April 1, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSCRC), David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
"Unveiling the Mysteries of Vascular Development and Regeneration with Advanced Human Organoid Models"
April 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Robert Huebert, MD
Professor of Medicine, William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical Regeneration, Mayo Clinic
"Molecular Mechanisms of Cholestatic Fibrogenesis"
April 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Brian Smith, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin
TBA
April 22, 11:00 am, BSB 611
April 29, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Cynthia Ju, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Joseph C. Gabel, MD Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston
TBA
May 6, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Takako Makita, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
TBA
May 13, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Daniel Sprague MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MUSC
TBA
May 20, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Elia Tait Wojno, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine
"Prostaglandin regulation of Type 2 inflammation at mucosal barriers"
May 27, 11:00 am, BSB 611
- Xiao Zhao, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
TBA
