Date Event Title Speaker Host
06/30/2026 Dissertation Defense Alex Pettey Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
06/24/2026 Dissertation Defense Kelsey Bullens Thad Wilson, PhD
06/03/2026 Dissertation Defense Ana Lopez Porras Cata Velez-Ortega, PhD
06/02/2026 Trainee Talks Chloe Lucido, Ryan Barney, Meredith Campbell Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
05/26/2026 No Seminar - Room Unavailable
05/19/2026 Trainee Talks Madison Kilgore, Cortney Laye, Shrishti Naidu Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
05/12/2026 Available
05/12/2026 Trainee Talks Sara Gonzalez Velez, Chloe Roth Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
05/05/2026 Trainee Talks Susana Munoz Gil, Payton Nies, Clair Ashley Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
05/04/2026 Dissertation Defense Georgia Nolt Lance Johnson, PhD
05/01/2026 Dissertation Defense Abigail Dragich Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
04/28/2026 Trainee Talks Sandra Miranda Sardon, Samantha Radomski, Amunet Jacobs Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
04/27/2026 Available
04/21/2026 Trainee Talks Clairity Voy, Gabby Brown, Josh Moses Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
04/14/2026 Dan Richardson Lecture: The Iron Transporters DMT1 and Ferroportin: Physiological Roles and Therapeutic Targets Bryan Mackenzie, PhD Thad Wilson, PhD
04/07/2026 No Seminar- FCPS Spring Break
04/01/2026 Dissertation Defense Nicholas Constantino Shannon Macauley, PhD
03/31/2026 Membrane Lipid Remodeling Shapes Macrophage Fate Quan Zhou, MD, PhD Xu Xiao, PhD
03/26/2026 Dissertation Defense Isabel Aristizabal Ramirez Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
03/24/2026 From Lipid Droplets to Longevity Charles Najt, PhD Isaiah Stephens
03/17/2026 No Seminar- UK Spring Break
03/10/2026 Proteome-Wide Identification of Phenotype-Based Endotypes in Pulmonary Sepsis Hong-Long Ji, MD, PhD Xiangan Li, PhD
03/03/2026 Melinda Wilson Lecture: Longevity and the Aging Brain Dena Dubal, MD, PhD Ryan Temel, PhD
02/24/2026 Dynamic Roles of Astrocytes in the CNS Development and Disease Sandeep Singh, PhD Erhard Bieberich, PhD
02/17/2026 Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis and Aortic Aneurysms: The Aorta and Beyond Hong Lu, MD, PhD Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/10/2026 When Metabolism Fails the Brain: Microglial Reprogramming, Sleep Loss, and Alzheimer's Disease Shannon Macauley, PhD Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
12/02/2025 Modeling Conditional Dependencies Between Metabolic Regulators Christopher Emfinger, PhD Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
11/25/2025 Thanksgiving Week
11/18/2025 Cross Talk Between Cholesterol, PIP2, Sphingomyelin, and ABCA1 in Heart and Liver Disease Kailash Gulshan, PhD Ryan Temel, PhD
11/11/2025 Molecular Basis of Force Transduction in Prestin Eduardo Perozo, PhD Isabel Aristizabal Ramirez & Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
11/04/2025 Physiology Research Day
10/28/2025 UK Fall Break
10/21/2025 No Seminar
10/14/2025 No Seminar
10/07/2025 Lipid Storage and Trafficking in Metabolic Diseases Hongyuan "Robert" Yang, PhD Xu Xiao, PhD