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2023 Seminar Series

Seminars are held from noon - 1 p.m. Wednesdays either virtually or in CW106. All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. For more information, contact Jennifer Duckworth in the Department of Physiology at (601) 984-1810.

Date	Name	Title	Institution
01/04/2023	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
01/11/2023	Dr. Eric George	Mechanisms of Placental Ischemia-Induced Hypertension	UMMC-Physiology
01/18/2023	Dr. Alan Mouton	Role of Metabolic Reprogramming in Cardiac Macrophages and Fibroblasts During Injury	UMMC-Physiology
01/25/2023	Dr. Erin Taylor	Inflammation and Obesity in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	UMMC-Physiology
02/01/2023	Dr. Sarah Stern	Top Down Control of Adaptive and Maladaptive Feeding Behaviors	Max Planck Institute
02/08/2023	Dr. Kaice LaFavers	Systemic Effects of Uromodulin in Kidney Disease	Indiana University School of Medicine
02/15/2023	Dr. John Clemmer	Modeling Renoprotective Treatments in Chronic Kidney Disease and Heart Failure	UMMC-Physiology
02/22/2023	Dr. Christine Klemens	CIC, PKD, and More Alphabet Soup in Cardiorenal Physiology	University of South Florida
03/01/2023	Breland Crudup	The Role of Sex Hormones and their Impact on the Renin Angiotensin System in a Rodent Model of the Transfemale	UMMC-Physiology
03/08/2023	Justine Abais-Battad	Contribution of Diet and Sex to Gut-Immune-Kidney Crosstalk in Hypertension	Augusta University
03/15/2023	Dr. Alexandre da Silva	Central Nervous System Control of Glucose Homeostasis and Cardiac Function during Activation of the Leptin-Melanocortin System Pathway	UMMC-Physiology
03/22/2023	Dr. Zhen Wang	Mechanisms of Synergistic Interactions of Hypertension and Diabetes in Promoting Kidney Injury	UMMC-Physiology
03/29/2023	Dr. Michael Garrett	The New Molecular Center of Health and Disease-COBRE, Opportunities, and Multi-Omics Data	UMMC-Pharmacology
04/05/2023	Dr. Andriy Yabluchanskiy	The Contribution of Cerebral Microvasculature to Cognitive Decline in Aging and Age-Related Diseases	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
04/12/2023	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
04/19/2023	No Seminar	American Physiology Summit	No Seminar
04/26/2023	Dr. Drew Pruett	Simulating Integrated Control of Distal Nephron Chloride Transporters by With-No-Lysine Kinases	UMMC-Physiology
05/03/2023	Dr. Caroline Jones	Microphysiological Models of Sepsis: New Tools for Diagnosis and Drug Discovery	University of Texas at Dallas
05/10/2023	Dr. Jacqueline Limburg	Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in the Vascular Response to Insulin - Implications for Human Insulin Resistance	University of Missouri
05/17/2023	Dr. Marianna Sadagurski	Hypothalamic Glia in the Intersection of Environmental Stress and Metabolism	Wayne State University
05/24/2023	Dr. Lihong Pan	Legumain is an endogenous modulator of integrin αvβ3 triggering vascular degeneration, dissectin, and rupture	UMMC-Physiology
05/31/2023	Dr. Joshua Bloomkatz	Cell Transitions During Cardiac Development	University of Mississippi
06/07/2023	Dr. Ana Omoto	Role of brown adipose tissue in mediating the cardioprotective actions of CNS leptin-melanocortin pathway activation	UMMC-Physiology
06/14/2023	Dr. Eugenio Barone	Biliverdin reductase-A levels predict alterations of insulin signaling in metabolic disease	Sapienza University of Rome
06/21/2023	Dr. Zhiyu Dai	Endothelial Dysfunction in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension	Arizona State University
06/28/2023	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
07/05/2023	No Seminar	Independence Day Holiday	No Seminar
07/12/2023	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
07/19/2023	Dr. Austin Robinson	Interactions between dietary salt, hydration, and race on cardiovascular and kidney health in healthy adults	Auburn University
07/26/2023	Dr. Andrea McAlester	Acute high fat diet feeding interferes with macrophage supported intestinal barrier repair	Baylor College of Medicine
08/02/2023	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
08/09/2023	Dr. Kelly Hyndman	Kidney histone deacetylases in physiology and disease	University of Alabama-Birmingham
08/16/2023	Dr. Aaron Polichnowski	East Tennessee State University	East Tennessee State University
08/23/2023	Dr. Yi Tan	Uncoupling the mitogenic and metabolic functions of FGF1: translational studies in metabolic syndrome-associated complications	University of Louisville School of Medicine
08/30/2023	Dr. Joshua Speed	Contribution of endothelin-1 to pathophysiology of obesity	UMMC-Physiology
09/06/2023	Dr. Ji Li	Activated protein C signaling in aging	UMMC-Physiology
09/13/2023	Dr. Irving H. Zucker	Oxidant Stress and the Regulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease, Exercise and Aging	University of Nebraska Medical Center
09/20/2023	Dr. Heather Drummond	Proinflammatory cytokine regulation of degenerin channels on macrophage function	UMMC-Physiology
09/27/2023	Dr. Xuan Li	Do SGLT2 inhibitors possess direct cardioprotective effects?	UMMC-Physiology
10/04/2023	Dr. Alyssa Hasty Distinguised Lecture Physiologists in Training	Immune Memory to Weight Loss and Regain	Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences
10/11/2023	Dr. Olufunto Badmus	Cardioprotective Role of Beta Hydroxybutyrate in MAFLD	UMMC-Physiology
10/18/2023	Dr. Yingjie Chen	Effect of imflammation on heart failure development and heart failure progression	UMMC-Physiology
10/25/2023	Dr. Jussara do Carmo	Developmental Programming of Cardiometabolic Diseases	UMMC-Physiology
11/01/2023	Umesh Bhattarai	Effect of IL12 inhibition on pressure overload-induced heart failure development and progression	UMMC-Physiology
11/08/2023	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/15/2023	Madison Newberry	Pro-inflammatory Role of Endothelin-1 in Obesity	UMMC-Physiology
11/22/2023	No Seminar	Thanksgiving Holiday	No Seminar
11/29/2023	Dr. Xiaochen He	The role of NK cells in cardiopulmonary inflammation and heart failure progression	UMMC-Physiology
12/06/2023	Jordan Mallette	Sex Steroids and Cardiorenal Risk	UMMC-Physiology
12/13/2023	Dr. David Stec	The Physiology of Bilirubin	UMMC-Physiology
12/20/2023	No Seminar	Christmas Holiday	No Seminar
12/27/2023	No Seminar	Christmas Holiday	No Seminar