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 online at 4 p.m. Mondays.

Fall 2022 Seminars

DateSpeakerTitleHost
Sept. 12 Yang Hong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Electrostatic Membrane Targeting and Hypoxia in Cell Polarity Duojia Pan, Ph.D.
Sept. 19 Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Surprising Mechanisms of Plasma Membrane Remodeling   
Sept. 28 Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor & HHMI Investigator, Department of Biology, University of Utah
Synaptic Transmission in Time and Space Duojia Pan, Ph.D.
Oct. 3 Jin Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego
Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D.
Oct. 10 Hui Zong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia
Cell Competition and Cooperation In Brain Tumors: The Implications For Effective Therapy Jiang Wu, Ph.D.
Oct. 17 Katherine Wert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Metabolic Perturbations During Retinal Degenerative Disease Jen Liou, Ph.D. 
Oct. 24 Baron Chanda
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine In St. Louis
Probing Allostery In Pacemaker Ion Channels At A Single Molecule Resolution Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.
Oct. 31 Ming Guo, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurology and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles
TBD Duojia Pan, Ph.D.
Nov. 7 Ege Kavalali, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
Functional Nano-Organization Of Central Synapses Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D.
Nov. 14 Ming Zhou, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Baylor College of Medicine
Mechanisms of Fe2+ Transport In Ferroportin And Fe3+ Reduction In Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.
Nov. 21 Kenta Asahina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Neuropeptidergic control of “hanger” in the fruit flies Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D.
Nov. 28 Alec Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
ITIM-Receptors: New Wave of Immune Checkpoint Targets for Cancer Treatment  
Dec. 5 Matthew Sieber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, and UT Southwestern Medical Center
TBD