2022-2023 Seminar Schedule

 

Departmental Seminar Organizer: Dr. Antonis Kourtidis
RMCB Seminar Archive

2022

August 31, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Michele Battle, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
  "Examining GATA4's Role in the Gastroinstestinal epithelium"

September 7, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Stephen Duncan, D.Phil.
  Smartstate Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
  "A human iPSC-derived hepatocyte screen identifies a new class of molecules that inhibit production of apolipoprotein B"

September 14, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Jacco van Rheenen, Ph.D.
  Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute
  "Filming the fate of cells that carry mutations in oncogenic driver genes"

September 21, *** No Seminar ***

September 28, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Michael J. Grey, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  "ER stress at mucosal surfaces--impact on epithelial development, host-microbe interactions, and host defense"

October 5, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Takako Makita, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, MUSC
  "New insights into enteric nervous system development and diseases"

October 12,*** No Seminar ***

• DDRCC Eastern Alliance meeting

October 19, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Kris DeMali, Ph.D.
  Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Iowa
  "Mechanisms Linking Mechanotransduction and Metabolism"

October 26, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Alexis Stamatikos, Ph.D./R.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Science, Clemson
  "Developing Atheroprotective Strategies that Target Endothelial Cells"

November 2, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Chip Norris, Ph.D.
  Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology - Works in Progress
  "Vision for the future for Connective Tissue Diseases and Associated Co-morbidities"

November 9, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Katie Chetta, M.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, MUSC
  "Free fatty acids, lipid-protein complexes, and intestinal toxicity in the preterm infant"

November 16, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Andrea McClatchey, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
  "Intrinsic cellular heterogeneity in morphogenesis and tumorigenesis"

November 30, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Naohiro Yamaguchi, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology - Works in Progress
  "Structure and function of ryanodine receptor ion channel"

December 7, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Jim Luyendyk, Ph.D.
  Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University
  "Mechanisms linking blood coagulation to liver regeneration: from mice to patients"

December 14, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Christine Kern, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology - Works in Progress
  "Dysregulated Proteoglycan Metabolism; Developmental Basis for the Comorbidities of Bicuspid Aortic Valves and Ascending Aortopathies"

2023

January 11, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Joseph M. Miano, Ph.D.
  Distinguished University Chair in Vascular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
  "Regulation and Function of the SRF-Myocardin Transcriptional Switch"

January 18, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Nordine Helassa, Ph.D.
  Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Liverpool
  "Investigating the role of calmodulin in cardiac arrhythmia syndromes"

January 25, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Yuan Zhai, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Surgery, MUSC
  "The innate immune regulation of liver ischemia/reperfusion injury"

February 1, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Arianne Theiss, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado Denver
  "Mitochondrial dysfunction as a driver of intestinal inflammation"

February 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Eunyoung Choi, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  "De novo cancer-initiating cells in gastric carcinogenesis"

February 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Postponed

February 22, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Mindy Engevik, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  Unraveling the role of y-Proteobacteria in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

March 1, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, MUSC
  "Engineering regulatory T cells: challenges and opportunities"

March 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Ying Mei, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Clemson-MUSC Bioengineering Program
  "Human cardiac organoids for heart regeneration and disease modeling"

March 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Samar Hammad, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  "Role of fatty acid elongation in diabetic kidney disease"

March 22, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Hainan Lang M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MUSC
  "Immune cell dysfunction in the cochlea and implications for future therapies for age-related hearing loss"

March 29, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• James M. Wells, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's
  "Using engineered gastrointestinal tissues to study human development and disease"

April 5, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Monika Gooz, MD, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences, MUSC
  "Imbalances in mitochondrial metabolism and upregulation of uncoupling protein 2 promote cell proliferation and cyst formation in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease"

April 12, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Oleg Palygin, Ph.D., FAHA
  Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, MUSC
  "Protease-activated receptors mediated intracellular calcium oscillations in renal mesangial cells"

April 19, *** No Seminar***

• AACR Meeting

April 26, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Björn C. Knollmann, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  "Modeling heart disease with human induced pluripotent stem cells"

May 3, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Postponed

May 10, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Kurt E. Schaecher, Ph.D., M(ASCP), D(ABMM)
  Chief, Division of Virology, Laboratory Director, USAMRIID
  "From Scientist To Soldier Scientist, A 22 Year Journey Of A MUSC Graduate"

May 17, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Roberto Pacifici, M.D.
  Professor and Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine
  "The gut-bone axis: How the gut microbiome communicates with bone"

May 24, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Amy Engevik, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  "Investigating the Role of Myosin Vb in Intestinal Apical Assembly"