2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

 

Department Seminar Organizer: Dr Antonis Kourtidis
RMCB Seminar Archive

2023-2024 Seminar Series

September 6, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Gary Lopaschuk, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta
  "Optimizing cardiac energy metabolism as an approach to treating heart failure"

September 13, 11:00 am, BSB  611

• Lu Han, Ph.D.
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MUSC
  "Persistence of the fetal splanchnic program in the adult pancreatic fibroblasts during homeostasis and tumorigenesis"

September 20

• No Seminar: (FASEB GI Meeting)

September 27, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Martin Morad, Ph.D.
  Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  "What are we learning from gene editing of the major Cardiac Calcium signaling protein about arrhythmia, remodeling, and fundamental EC-coupling?"

October 2, 11:00 am, BSB 611 (broadcast virtually)

• Cristina Llorente, Ph.D.
  Faculty candidate, Assistant Professor, Div. of Gastroenterology, Dept. of Medicine, UC San Diego
  "The Gut-Liver Axis in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease: Insights into Disease Pathogenesis"

October 4, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Daysha Ferrer-Torres, Ph.D.
  Faculty candidate, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  "In vitro models of the human esophagus reveal ancestrally diverse response to injury"

October 11, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Andrei Ivanov, Ph.D.
  Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
  "Cytoskeletal regulation of epithelial barrier integrity and host-pathogen interactions in the gut"

October 18, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Kyle S. McCommis, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, St. Louis University School of Medicine
  "Inhibition of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in metabolic diseases"

October 25, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Robin Muise-Helmericks, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology - Works in Progress
  TBA

November 1

• Rescheduled in January, 2024

November 8, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Ph.D.
  Research Professor, DR2 Inserm, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center
  "Updates on genetics of spontaneous coronary artery dissection"

November 15, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Garth R. Swanson, M.D.
  Professor and Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, MUSC
  TBA

November 29, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Paul Monga, M.D.
  Professor of Pathology and Medicine; Director, Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, Uviversity of Pittsburgh
  "Beta-catenin and hepatocellular cancer"

December 6

• No Seminar: (ASCB Meeting)

December 13, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• Victoria Weis, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine
  "Intestinal Disease in the NICU: Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches for Necrotizing Enterocolitis"