2024-2025 Seminar Schedule

Department Seminar Organizer: Dr Antonis Kourtidis
RMCB Seminar Archive

2024-2025 Seminar Series

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, 2024

• 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, 2024

• No Seminar

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, 11:00 am, BSB 611

• No Seminar

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"

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

• TBA

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

• TBD

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

• TBA

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