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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.

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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

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Research 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

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Ph.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.

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Research 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

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Chemosensory 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

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Second-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

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Second-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 |

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Second-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.

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Second-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.

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Thesis 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

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No seminar

Sep 23, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

First Year Faculty Research Presentations

Sep 16, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Seminars & Events

Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm”

Research Talk: "Understanding the Role of Innervation and Cell-Specific Ccr2 Signaling on Muscle Regeneration"

Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Regulation of Endothelial Cell Behavior via KRIT1 Localization and Function”

Research Talk: “Identification of Altered Muscle Calcium Channel Activity as a Potential DM1 Therapeutic Target”

Chemosensory Bile Acid Receptors in the Mouse Vomeronasal Organ (and Beyond?)

Second-year 20-min Literature Review: "Reward-related cortical projections in the primate striatum”

Second-year 20-min Literature Review: “Discovery of Human Signaling Systems: Pairing Peptides to G protein-Coupled Receptors”

Second-Year 20-min Literature Reviews

Second-Year 20-min Literature Reviews

Thesis Proposal: “The Role of Myotonia in DM1 Pathogenesis”

No seminar

First Year Faculty Research Presentations

First Year Faculty Research Presentations

Thesis Proposal: Pathogenic and Compensatory Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Tubular Aggregate Myopathy

Thesis Proposal: Electroporation-mediated Gene Delivery of CFTR Plasmids as a Novel Approach to Treat Cystic Fibrosis in Vivo

Thesis Proposal: Platelet Mediated Monocyte/Macrophage Immune Training

First Year Faculty Research Presentations

To Be, or Not to Be (oxidized), That is the Question

FGF21 Reduced Morphine Preference and the Development of Acute Antinociceptive Tolerance and Physical Dependence

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

Pharmacology 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

Pharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Rotation Talk: Potential Inhibitors of ALKBH7

Pharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Rotation Talk: Behavioral Assessment of Muscle Function in a Novel Mouse Model of Tubular Aggregate Myopathy

Pharmacology 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

Pharm/Phys and CMPP Program First Year Research Talk: Inhibition of Presenilin 1-γ-Secretase Complex in the Context of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

Pharmacology 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

Pharmacology and Physiology and CMPP Program Guest Speaker: Dynamics of muscle stem cells during tissue growth and repair

Pharm/Phys and CMPP Program Guest Speaker: Lightning Storms of Calcium Signaling during Virus Infection

Pharmacology 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

Pharmacology 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

SPECIAL EVENT: RNA Presentations by UR Grad Students, Postdocs, and Technicians (Day 1)