Physiology/PMI Seminar Series: Fall 2023

September 11, 2023
3:00PM-4:00PM
Austrian Auditorium - Clinical Research Bldg, 415 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Mondays @ 3:00 - 4:00PM (refreshments at 2:45pm)

Location: CRB, Austrian Auditorium (415 Curie Blvd.)

  • **9/11/2023: Jenny J. Yang, Ph.D., Regents' Professor, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University

    Title: “Rational Design of Metalloproteins and Signaling for Precision Diagnostics and Treatment”

  • **10/2/2023Jennifer R. Morgan, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Director, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA)
    Title: “Illuminating Cell Biological and Synaptic Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease Using the Lamprey Model”
  • 10/9/2023Sabine Petry, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    Title: “How to make microtubules and build the cytoskeleton”
  • *NO SEMINAR* 10/16/2023Pennsylvania Muscle Institute (PMI) Annual Symposium & 50th Anniversary - "Celebrating 50 Years of Muscle, Motors, and the Cytoskeleton"
    BRB Gaulton Auditorium, BRB (421 Curie Blvd.) – ALL DAY
  • 10/23/2023: Stephen Brohawn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology & HWNI, University of California, Berkeley

    Title: “Mechanisms of ion channels in sensory transduction”
  • 10/30/2023: Amy Palmer, Ph.D., Professor Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder

    Title: “Quantitative imaging to reveal new roles for zinc in biology”  
  • **11/6/2023Nancy Carrasco, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
    Title: “The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure”
  • 11/13/2023: Michael J. Greenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis
    Title: “Harnessing Multiscale Models to Understand Dilated Cardiomyopathy Thin Filament Mutations” 
  • **12/11/2023:

    Henry M. Colecraft, Ph.D., John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Pharmacology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

    Title: “Of ubiquitin, ion channels, and diseases”

(**ATLE = At The Leading Edge seminar series)