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The Department of Physiology & Biophysics holds seminars to inform and update on current research.  Seminars are typically held in the Med Ed Building Telemedicine Theater in Room B001 at 11:00 am unless otherwise noted.  Please join us and welcome each invited speaker.  Please check back often for updates and additions that will made to the calendar during the year.  For more information, please contact Janita Parpana at 949-824-6833 or Duke Park at 949-824-5865. 

Date/Time

Speaker

Department/Faculty Host

Title

Tuesday

21-January-2020

2:00pm

Guillaume Sandoz, PhD

Geoffrey Abbott, PhD Optogenetic and Optical probing of TREK Channel Physiology

Tuesday

14-January-2020

12:00pm

Anthony Gregory, PhD

Philip Felgner, PhD Novel vaccine strategies against Q fever

Thursday

9-January-2020

2:00pm

Olivier Benveniste, PhD

Armando Villalta, PhD Inflammatory Myopathies: the importance of being well classified

Tuesday

7-January-2020

10:00am

Michael Hicks, PhD

Michael Cahalan, PhD In Vivo Satellite Cell Niche Formation by hPSCs

Monday

16-December-2019

10:00am

Aparna Bhaduri, PhD

Michael Cahalan, PhD Understanding Cell Types in the Developing Human Brain and Glioblastoma.

Wednesday

11-December-2019

10:00am

Momoko Watanabe, PhD

Michael Cahalan, PhD Human brain organoids as a model system for neural development and disease

Monday

9-December-2019

2:00pm

Leah Katzelnick, PhD

Philip Felgner, PhD Protective versus disease-enhancing antibodies and vaccine safety: insights from flavivirus seroepidemiology

Thursday

5-December-2019

10:00am

Faranak Fattahi, PhD

Michael Cahalan, PhD Human pluripotent stem cells for the study of peripheral nervous system development and disease

Wednesday

4-December-2019

10:00am

Timothy O’Shea, PhD

Michael Cahalan, PhD Bioengineering neural repair in the central nervous system

Monday

2-December-2019

2:00pm 

Barbara Jusiak, PhD

Todd Holmes, PhD Gene Regulation and Synthetic Biology: From Fruit Flies to Anti-Cancer Circuits

Wednesday

13-November-2019

2:00pm

Alex Loukas, PhD

Philip Felgner, PhD The parasitic worm pharmacopeia for inflammatory and metabolic disease

Monday

28-October-2019

11:00am

James Costantin, PhD

Francesco Tombola, PhD Nanion’s Solutions for Screening Ion Channels, Transporters and Cardiomyocytes

Friday

18-October-2019

2:00pm

Gaurav Chopra, PhD

Armando Villalta, PhD

Targeting Function of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Solid Tumor Microenvironments

Thursday

3-October-2019

12:00pm

Francesco Marangoni, PhD

Imaging-driven discovery of a CTLA-4-dependent feedback loop that controls T regulatory cell abundance in tumors

Friday

31-May-19

8:30am

Irene Vorontsova

Probing Functional Requirements for Aquaporin 0 in the Zebrafish LensIn Vivo

Friday

24-May-19

8:30am

Geoffrey Abbott

Activation of K+ channels by GABA, Metabolites and Ancient Folk Medicines

Thursday

23-May-19

11am

Srigokul Upadhyayula

Medha Pathak, PhD

High Resolution Biological Imaging Across Scales for Fundamental Research

Tuesday

14-May-19

10am

Philip Kiser

Ken Myrie, PhD

Conditional deletion of Des1 in the mouse retina does not impair the visual cycle in cones

Tuesday

14-May-19

10am

Jonathan Skupsky

Ken Myrie, PhD

Biotin Supplementation Ameliorates Murine Colitis by Maintaining Intestinal Mucosal Integrity

Tuesday

12-March-19

10am

Lisa Soyeon Baik

Todd Holmes, PhD

Short Wavelength Light-Evoked Responses of Drosophila and Mosquitoes

Thursday

07-March-19

11am

Wei Ling Lau, MD.

Todd Holmes, PhD

Gut dysbiosis in chronic kidney disease

Monday

11-Febuary-19

11am

Francesco Marangoni, PhD

Eric Pearlman, PhD

Repeated short-lived activation signals sustain Treg immunosuppressive functions and promote tumor growth

Monday

04-Febuary-19

11am

Ming-Ru Wu, PhD

Eric Pearlman, PhD

Synthetic gene circuits for cancer immunotherapy: Turning cancer cells against themselves.

Monday

28-January-19

11am

Yuan Chen, PhD

Eric Pearlman, PhD

Ubiquitin-Like Modifications as Cancer Therapeutic Targets

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