Pharmacology Seminars 2022

Seminars 2022

Spring Semester

DatePresenterTitle
Jan. 27, 2022Michael Previs, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont"New views of cardiac muscle structure and function: It's all mixed up!"

Feb. 11, 2022

Virtual

Mohamed El Amki, PhD 
Feb. 25, 2022Mohamed Trebak, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA"Heat, Sex and Blood"
Mar. 9, 2022Wesley Evans, PhD, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA"Recurrent Hypoglycemia exacerbates cerebral infarct volume and is associated with disrupted cerebral properties in vivo"
Mar. 10, 2022Andy Y. Shih, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital Research Foundation"Optical dissection of blood flow in brain capillaries"
Mar. 18, 2022Iris Z. Jaffe, MD, PhD, Professor of Molecular Cardiology (TUSM), Professor of Medicine, Executive Dir. Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI), Cardiologist, Dir. Vascular Biology, Tufts, Boston, MA"Vascular Mineralocorticoid Receptors in Cardiovascular Disease"
Apr. 7, 2022George Anene-Nzelu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Canada"Discovering Heart Failure Genetic Determinants through Epigenetic Marks in Human Hearts"
April 14, 2022Luis Fernando Santana, PhD, Professor and Chair, Physiology & Membrane Biology, Interim Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV"A bit of noise is good for you:  How biological noise tunes the reproducibility and adaptability of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling"
April 21, 2022Amreen Mughal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont"Electrocalcium signaling - a new dimension of blood flow regulation in the brain"
May 5, 2022Anne Joutel, MD, PhD, Professor, Dir. of Research Inserm, Team Leader, Institute of Psychiatry & Neurosciences, Inserm - Paris, France"Towards tackling two challenging puzzles in the CADASIL disease"

Fall Semester

DatePresenterTitle
Sept. 15, 2022Anusha Mishra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurology, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR"Astrocyte regulation of neurovascular coupling in health and disease"
Oct. 20, 2022Stephen Anagnostraras, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California, San Diego, CA"Psychostimulants, Psychdelics and Memory"
Nov. 3, 2022John Salogiannis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont"Organelles hitch a ride on motile vescles"

Nov. 8, 2022

Retreat

Chris B. Schaffer, PhD, and Nozomi Nishimura, PhD, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY"Capillary-level blood flow disruptions contribute to reduced blood flow in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular disease"