Seminars & Events
The weekly colloquium is generally held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in K-207 Auditorium (2-6408). Unless otherwise noted, our departmental colloquia program is supported by the Alejandro Zaffaroni Endowment Fund and the John R. Murlin Fund. For outside guests, contact Dr. Houhui Xia. For graduate student colloquia, contact Dr. Cesare Orlandi.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm”
Chongyang Zhang - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Chen Yan
Dec 16, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 Auditorium, 2-6408
Or Join ZoomResearch Talk: "Understanding the Role of Innervation and Cell-Specific Ccr2 Signaling on Muscle Regeneration"
Esraa Furati - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Joe Chakkalakal
Dec 09, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912
Or Join ZoomPh.D. Thesis Defense: “Regulation of Endothelial Cell Behavior via KRIT1 Localization and Function”
Harsha Swamy - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Angela Glading
Dec 02, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
Join the ZoomResearch Talk: “Identification of Altered Muscle Calcium Channel Activity as a Potential DM1 Therapeutic Target”
Lily Cisco - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. John Lueck
Nov 11, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912
Or Join ZoomChemosensory Bile Acid Receptors in the Mouse Vomeronasal Organ (and Beyond?)
Julian P. Meeks, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, and Department of Pediatrics
Nov 04, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-207 Auditorium, 2-6408
Or Join ZoomSecond-year 20-min Literature Review: "Reward-related cortical projections in the primate striatum”
Halima Aweis - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Suzanne Haber
Oct 28, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912
Or Join ZoomSecond-year 20-min Literature Review: “Discovery of Human Signaling Systems: Pairing Peptides to G protein-Coupled Receptors”
Wenqi Fu - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
Oct 28, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center |
Or Join ZoomSecond-Year 20-min Literature Reviews
Miao He; Xiaoyi Liu - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Robert Dirksen; Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Eric Small
Oct 21, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Join ZoomSecond-Year 20-min Literature Reviews
Michal Shaposhnikov; Rana Alabdali - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Bradford Berk; Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi
Oct 14, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Join ZoomThesis Proposal: “The Role of Myotonia in DM1 Pathogenesis”
Matthew Sipple - Graduate Student in the laboratory of Dr. John Lueck
Sep 30, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (CMR), 1-9576
Join ZoomNo seminar
Sep 23, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
First Year Faculty Research Presentations
First Year Faculty Research Presentations
Thesis Proposal: Pathogenic and Compensatory Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Tubular Aggregate Myopathy
Nan Zhao - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Robert Dirksen
Sep 08, 2021 @ 2:00 p.m.
Thesis Proposal: Electroporation-mediated Gene Delivery of CFTR Plasmids as a Novel Approach to Treat Cystic Fibrosis in Vivo
David Delemos - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David Dean
Sep 07, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Thesis Proposal: Platelet Mediated Monocyte/Macrophage Immune Training
Chen Li - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
Sep 03, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
First Year Faculty Research Presentations
Sep 02, 2021 @ 12:00 a.m.
To Be, or Not to Be (oxidized), That is the Question
Alexander Milliken - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul Brookes
Aug 26, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
FGF21 Reduced Morphine Preference and the Development of Acute Antinociceptive Tolerance and Physical Dependence
Miriam E. Barnett - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Jean Bidlack
Aug 18, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.
Differential Regulation of Opioid Receptor Signaling via Gα Proteins
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Faculty Speaker: Voltage-gated Calcium channel functions in non-excitable tissues
Chike Cao, PhD - Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester
May 27, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Thesis Defense: Functional Analysis of Disease-Associated Mutations in the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor”
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program First Year Rotation Talk: The impact of myotonia in DM1 on skeletal muscle
Matthew Sipple - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. John Lueck
May 13, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Rotation Talk: Potential Inhibitors of ALKBH7
Michal Shaposhnikov - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul Brooks
May 06, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
ZoomPharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Rotation Talk: Behavioral Assessment of Muscle Function in a Novel Mouse Model of Tubular Aggregate Myopathy
Miao He - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Robert Dirksen
May 06, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Research Talk: Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase 1C Contributes to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Pharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Research Talk: Determining Ki values for inhibition of [3H] DAMGO binding by opioids
Wenqi Fu - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Jean Bidlack
Apr 22, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
ZoomPharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Research Talk: Inhibition of Presenilin 1-γ-Secretase Complex in the Context of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Halima Aweis - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Gail Johnson
Apr 22, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Research Talk: Protein Kinase C? regulates the nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of KRIT1
Graduate Student NIH T32 Retreat in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences: Pro- and Anti-CRISPR
Erik Sontheimer, PhD - Pillar Chair in Biomedical Research; Professor and Vice Chair, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Apr 14, 2021 @ 2:00 p.m.
RegisterHost: Dr. Lynne Maquat (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science and the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Guest Speaker: Dynamics of muscle stem cells during tissue growth and repair
Alessandra Sacco, Ph.D. - Associate Dean of Curriculum, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Associate Professor Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Neuroscience and Aging Research Center
Apr 08, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharm/Phys and CMPP Program Guest Speaker: Lightning Storms of Calcium Signaling during Virus Infection
Joseph M. Hyser, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Alkek Center for Metagenomic and Microbiome Research
Apr 01, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Research Talk: Photocrosslinking reveals the acidic pocket of ASICs act as an allosteric hub
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Guest Speaker: Orphan GPCRs in the vascular and immune system: from single-cell expression analyses to the identification of in vivo functions
Nina Wettschureck, M.D., Ph.D. - Full Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomPharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Regulation, function and mechanism of phosphodiesterase 10A in pathological cardiac remodeling and dysfunction
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Research Talk: Impact of a Tubular Aggregate Myopathy Mutation in Orai1 on Skeletal Muscle SOCE Activity and Contractile Function
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program MS Thesis Proposal: Targeting of C-C chemokine receptor type 2 (Ccr2) to promote aged and denervated skeletal muscle regeneration
Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Research Talk: KRIT1-Mediated Regulation of Neutrophil Adhesion/Motility
Nicholas Nobiletti - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Angela Glading
Jan 21, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.
ZoomSPECIAL EVENT: RNA Presentations by UR Grad Students, Postdocs, and Technicians (Day 1)
Lily Cisco (Lueck Lab), Xueyang He (Boutz Lab), Shon Koren (Johnson Lab), Kamel Awayda (O'Connell Lab) - University of Rochester, Center for RNA Biology
Jan 06, 2021 @ 2:00 p.m.
Zoom RegistrationHost: Dr. Lynne Maquat and Dr. Dave Mathews