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Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology

Fall 2023
Date Name Institution Host Title
09/06/2023 Samantha Brugmann, Ph.D. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Brad Yoder, Ph.D. "Dissecting ciliopathies: From molecular mechanism to potential treatments"
09/20/2023
Michael Miller Memorial Lecture
Karyn Esser, Ph.D.  University of Florida CDIB Trainees "The muscle circadian clock and exercise; partners in health"
10/04/2023 Piali Sengupta, Ph.D. Brandeis University HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D.  "Doing a lot with a little: The molecular profile of a single sensory neuron links experience with behavioral plasticity"
10/18/2023 Mythreye Karthikeyan, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham Braden McFarland, Ph.D.  "At the crossroads of growth factor signaling and stress responses in metastatic ovarian cancer"
11/01/2023  James Smyth/Samy Lamouille, Ph.D. Virginia Tech  Stefanie Robel, Ph.D. "Channel independent functions of gap junction proteins in cellular stress and cancer progression"
         
12/06/2023 Joseph Lau, Ph.D. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Susan Bellis, Ph.D.  "Blood Cell Production and Function is Centrally Coordinated by the Sialyltransferase ST6GAL1"
Spring 2024
01/24/2024 Igor Chesnokov, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham Elizabeth Sztul, Ph.D.  "Multiple functions of the Origin Recognition Complex. From basic science to disease modeling"
02/07/2024 
Virtual
Claudia Krebs, M.D., Ph.D. The University of British Columbia Cathy Fuller, Ph.D. "An ethical future for anatomy visualizations"
         
03/06/2024  Josh Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D.
Co-sponsored by Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Sex differences in cancer should come as no surprise"
03/20/2024 Kirstie Cummings, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D.  "The Rodent Dorsal Peduncular Cortex Encodes Fear Memory"
         
04/17/2024  Glenn Rowe, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham Sasanka Ramanadham, Ph.D. "Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria in Health and Disease"
05/01/2024
Benos Lecture 
Kelly Hyndman, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham  Cathy Fuller, Ph.D.
Co-sponsored by Division of Nephrology
“The evolution of the physiology of water balance”
05/16/2024
(Thursday) 
Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.  UCLA Health Sasanka Ramanadham, Ph.D.
Co-sponsored by Comprehensive Diabetes Center
"Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiometabolic Disease"