Seminar Series

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Physiology Seminar Series occurs each Tuesday morning during the academic year in HKRB 150 at 9:30 a.m. The series brings prominent scientists and educators to campus to share their work with our faculty, staff, and trainees.

Fall 2025 

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
09/09/2025 All Roads Lead to Rome: Convergent Mechanisms of Network Hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's Disease Misha Zilberter, PhD University of California, San Francisco Shannon Macauley, PhD
09/16/2025 Mom Does It Best: Parental Care as a Model Phenotype to Explore How Cell-Type-Specific Changes in Gene Expression Influence Brain Activity and Animal Behavior Brandon Logeman, PhD University of Kentucky Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
09/23/2025 Characterizing Systemic Infection and Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction Following SCI Samir Patel, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
09/30/2025 FCPS Fall Break
10/07/2025 Lipid Storage and Trafficking in Metabolic Diseases Hongyuan "Robert" Yang, PhD University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Xu Xiao, PhD
10/14/2025 No Seminar
10/21/2025 No Seminar
10/28/2025 UK Fall Break
11/04/2025 Physiology Research Day
11/11/2025 Dr. Perozo's research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the transduction of different forms of energy into protein motion; in particular the different molecular mechanisms of ion channel gating. Eduardo Perozo, PhD University of Chicago Isabel Aristizabal Ramirez & Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
11/18/2025 Dr. Gulshan's lab is focused on dissecting role of signaling lipid Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and Gasdermin D (GsdmD) in CVD and lung cancer. Kailash Gulshan, PhD Cleveland State University Ryan Temel, PhD
11/25/2025 Thanksgiving Week
12/02/2025 Available

Spring 2026

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
02/24/2026 Available
03/03/2026 Dr. Dubal's research investigates mechanisms of longevity, resilience and neurodegenerative disease. They investigate how aging pathways can confer resilience to a brain and counter neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Dena Dubal, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco Ryan Temel, PhD
03/10/2026 Available
03/17/2026 UK Spring Break
03/24/2026 Available
03/31/2026 Available
04/07/2026 FCPS Spring Break
04/14/2026 Available
04/21/2026 Trainee Talks
04/28/2026 Trainee Talks
05/05/2026 Trainee Talks
05/12/2026 Trainee Talks
05/19/2026 Trainee Talks

Previous Seminars

Seminars from 2013 – 2025