The Department of Physiology & Biophysics holds regular seminars with invited speakers from outside the institution, as well as researchers from Rush University.
2024-2025 academic year seminars schedule
Seminars are held under virtual meeting, unless noted otherwise.
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2024 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Gregory Melikian, PhD Professor Emory University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease Department of Pediatrics | "Imaging Key Steps of HIV Infection" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| October 21, 2024 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Boris Musset, PhD Director of the Institute for Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Biophysics Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Austria | "Somatic Mutations in the Human Voltage-Gated Proton Channel HV1" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| November 4, 2024 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Andrew P. Wojtovich, PhD Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY | "Optogenetic Control of Mitochondrial Energetics and ROS Production" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| December 9, 2024 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Xun Ai, MD Professor Department of Physiology and Cell Biology College of Medicine Ohio State University | "Dual Role of Stress Kinase JNK2 in the Heart: the Good and the Bad" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| January 13, 2025 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Felix Hohendanner, PhD Assistant Professor Max Rubner Center for Cardiovascular Metabolic Renal Research The Charite - University Medicine Berlin Germany | "Translational Aspects of Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| March 24, 2025 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Jingsong Zhou, PhD Professor of Kinesiology University of Texas at Arlington | "Deficient Sarcolemma Repair in ALS" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
| April 7, 2025 Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Sandrine Pouvreau, PhD Researcher University of Bordeaux, France | "Advanced Optical Approaches to Decode Mitochondrial Calcium Signaling in Astrocyte-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity" Virtual Seminar Series (Webex) Webex Meeting |
Please call the department at (312) 942-7011 or email our seminar coordinator, Ruben Markosyan, PhD for additional information.