Physiology Seminar Series
The Department of Physiology offers many opportunities for fellows and graduate students to expand their knowledge and training, including a monthly seminar series conducted by faculty and researchers from UT Southwestern and elsewhere.
Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are expected to attend these Physiology Department-sponsored seminars to ensure broad training within the Department’s academic training programs.
Seminars are held in ND13.218 at 4 p.m on Mondays.
Spring 2025 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 20 | MLK Day - No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 27 | Craig Montell, Ph.D. Duggan Professor of MCDB Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara |
"Controlling the Most Dangerous Animal in the World" | Duojia Pan Ph.D. |
| Feb. 10 | Tsai Ming-Feng Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia |
"Molecular Mechanisms of the Mitochondrial Calcium Transport System" | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| Feb. 17 | President's Day - No Seminar | ||
| Feb. 24 | Yulong Li, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China |
"Spying on Neuromodulator Dynamics In Vivo by Constructing Multi-Color GeneticallyEncoded Sensors" | Duojia Pan; Ph.D. |
| Mar. 3 | Sergi Regot, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department Johns Hopkins University |
"New Approaches to Biochemically Characterize Live Single Cells" | Duojia Pan; Ph.D. |
| Mar. 10 | Yifan Cheng, Ph.D. Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco |
"Integrin αvβ8 mediated L-TGF-β activation" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 17 | Helmut Kramer, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UTSW |
"Neuronal Stress Responses in Long-Term Adaptation of Sensory Systems" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 24 | Denise J Montell, Ph.D. Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara |
"RaceCAR-M: from Drosophila Cell Migration to an Enhanced Cellular Immunotherapy" | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 31 | Philipp Scherer, Ph.D. Professor, IM-Touchstone Diab Ctr, Department of Internal medicine, UTSW |
"Obesity-Driven Metabolic Dysfunction: Adipose Tissue as a Rich Source for Target Discovery" | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D |
| Apr. 7 | Weizhe Hong, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry, Neurobiology, and Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles |
"Neural Basis of Prosocial Behavior" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| Apr. 21 | Fangyu Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UTSW |
"Structural-Docking Synergy for Ligand Discovery" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Apr. 28 | Michael Koval, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine |
"Molecular Regulation of Tight Junction Assembly and Permeability" | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. |
| May 5 | Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University |
"Hippocampal spatial representations in complex environments" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| May 19 | Yuan Zhu, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UTSW |
"Parallel Preclinical and Clinical Studies for Tumors in the Nervous System" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
Fall 2024 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2 | Labor Day - No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 9 | Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, UTSW |
"How Bacteria and Circadian Rhythms Influence Enteric Virus Infection." | Yi Liu Ph.D. |
| Sept. 16 | Yingxi Lin, Ph.D. Professor & Division Chief, Department of Psychiatry | Neuroscience Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UTSW |
"Cellular Memories in Active Neuronal Ensembles" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 23 | Jian Zhou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, UTSW |
"Sequence Basis of Transcription Initiation in the Human Genome" | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 30 | Kim Orth, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UTSW |
"Fic Domains & AMPylation from Vibrio to Flies, Mice and Humans" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 7 | Hongying Shen Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology, Yale University |
"The Guardians of Mitochondrial Metabolism: Solute Carrier SLC25 Family Transporters" | Xing Zeng, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 14 | Marc Freeman, Ph.D. Director and Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University |
"Astrocyte Control of Neural Circuits and Behavior" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 21 | Erika Bach Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine |
"Selfish Genetic Elements and Spermatogonial Stem Cell Competition." | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 28 | Alex Toker, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
"Identifying Targetable Vulnerabilities in the PI3K/AKT Pathway in Cancer" | Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. |
| Nov. 4 | Roberto J. Botelho, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Canada |
"Loss of PIKfyve: there goes the Neighbourhood!" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 11 | TBD | ||
| Nov. 18 | Maya Shelly Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University |
"Directed Mechanisms for Apical Dendrite Development in Principal Pyramidal Neurons in the Embryonic Brain" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 25 | John Hanna Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
"Chaperone-Mediated Assembly of the Proteasome Core Particle" | George DeMartino, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 2 | No Seminar | ||
| Dec. 9 | Jeroen Roelofs, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center. |
"Mechanisms of Proteasome Assembly and Condensate Formation" | George DeMartino Ph.D. |