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2024-2025 Schedule

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 TimeSpeakerTitle
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
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 or 20, 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

"TBA"

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.