Physiology Seminar Series
The Department of Physiology offers many opportunities for fellows and graduate students to expand their knowledge and training, including a monthly seminar series conducted by faculty and researchers from UT Southwestern and elsewhere.
Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are expected to attend these Physiology Department-sponsored seminars to ensure broad training within the Department’s academic training programs.
Seminars are held in ND13.218 at 4 p.m on Mondays.
Fall 2024 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2 | Labor Day - No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 9 | Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, UTSW |
"How Bacteria and Circadian Rhythms Influence Enteric Virus Infection." | Yi Liu Ph.D. |
| Sept. 16 | Yingxi Lin, Ph.D. Professor & Division Chief, Department of Psychiatry | Neuroscience Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UTSW |
"Cellular Memories in Active Neuronal Ensembles" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 23 | Jian Zhou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, UTSW |
"Sequence Basis of Transcription Initiation in the Human Genome" | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 30 | Kim Orth, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UTSW |
"Fic Domains & AMPylation from Vibrio to Flies, Mice and Humans" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 7 | Hongying Shen Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology, Yale University |
"The Guardians of Mitochondrial Metabolism: Solute Carrier SLC25 Family Transporters" | Xing Zeng, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 14 | Marc Freeman, Ph.D. Director and Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University |
"Astrocyte Control of Neural Circuits and Behavior" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 21 | Erika Bach Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine |
"Selfish Genetic Elements and Spermatogonial Stem Cell Competition." | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 28 | Alex Toker, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
"Identifying Targetable Vulnerabilities in the PI3K/AKT Pathway in Cancer" | Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. |
| Nov. 4 | Roberto J. Botelho, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Canada |
"Loss of PIKfyve: there goes the Neighbourhood!" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 11 | TBD | ||
| Nov. 18 | Maya Shelly Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University |
"Directed Mechanisms for Apical Dendrite Development in Principal Pyramidal Neurons in the Embryonic Brain" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 25 | John Hanna Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
"Chaperone-Mediated Assembly of the Proteasome Core Particle" | George DeMartino, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 2 | No Seminar | ||
| Dec. 9 | Jeroen Roelofs, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center. |
"Mechanisms of Proteasome Assembly and Condensate Formation" | George DeMartino Ph.D. |
Spring 2024 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 8 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 15 | MLK Day - No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 22 | Amy Lee Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin |
"A non-canonical role for a voltage-gated Ca2+ channel in driving synapse assembly in the retina" | Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. |
| Jan. 29 | No Seminar | ||
| Feb. 5 | Raimund Dutzler, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich |
"The TMEM16 Family of Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels and Lipid Scramblases: From Structures to Mechanisms" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Feb. 12 | Jared Toettcher, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University |
"Recording, controlling, and re-wiring cell signaling pathways" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Feb. 19 | President's Day - No Seminar | ||
| Feb. 23 | Antonella De Matteis, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Cell Biology and Disease Mechanisms Program Coordinator, The Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) |
TBD | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| March 4 | Jun Wu, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Dynamic Pluripotent Stem Cell States and Their Applications" | Yi Liu Ph.D. |
| March 11 | Ram Madabhushi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Twisting, writhing, and breaking: DNA mechanics in neuronal transcription" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| March 18 | James Murphy, Ph.D. Professor, WEHI |
"Killing zombies- dead enzymes as novel therapeutic targets" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| March 25 | Tzumin Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Peter D. Meister Professor of the Life Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan; Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
"Conserved Cell Fating Mechanisms in Brain Development" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D |
| April 1 | Lin Xu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Toward single-cell resolution spatially resolved profiling: algorithm and application" | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. |
| April 8 | Liang Feng, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University |
TBD | Youxing Jiang Ph.D. |
| April 15 | TBD | ||
| April 22 | Jun Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine |
TBD | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. |
| May 6 | Cory Root, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego |
"Neural circuits underlying olfactory motivational valence" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| May 13 | Pablo Artigas, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center |
TBD | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| May 20 | Robert J. Tomko Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine |
TBD | George Demartino, Ph.D. |
Fall 2023 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 4 | Labor Day – No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 11 | Xiaowei Chen, Ph.D. Investigator, Peking University |
"Receptor-Mediated Lipid Delivery in Metabolic Homeostasis and Viral Defense" | Xing Zeng Ph.D. |
| Sept. 18 | Robert Bachoo, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Neurology, and Internal Medicine, UTSW Medical Center |
"Recurrent Glioblastoma: A Problem Rooted in the Elusive Residual Dormant Cell" | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 25 | Xiaochen Bai, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, UTSW Medical Center |
"Cryo-EM studies of insulin receptor: from mechanisms to therapeutics" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 2 | Keisa Mathis, Ph.D. Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, UTSW Medical Center |
"Neuroimmune control of renal inflammation in hypertension and lupus" | |
| Oct. 9 | Michael Reese, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Biochemistry, UTSW Medical Center |
"Gaining a biophysical understanding of the apicomplexan invasion machinery" | Matt Sieber, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 16 | John Schoggins, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, UTSW Medical Center |
"Genetically encoded antiviral mechanisms" | Yi Liu, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 23 | David Bilder, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley |
"Cold-blooded Cancer: tumor-host interactions in the Drosophila model" | Matt Sieber, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 30 | Xiaolei Su, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine |
Alec Zhang, Ph.D. | |
| Nov. 6 | Reto Fiolka, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, UTSW Medical Center |
"Advanced light microscopy techniques" | Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 13 | Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D. Assistant Instructor, Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern |
"Developmental Metabolism: Why it matters and what it can teach us" | Matt Sieber, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 20 | TBT – NO SEMINAR | ||
| Nov. 27 | Ken Hsu Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin |
Jen Liou, Ph.D. | |
| Dec. 4 | Iok In Christine Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University |
"Malignant consequences of redox signaling" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 11 | Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases | Biophysics | Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UTSW Medical Center |
Jen Liou, Ph.D. | |
| Dec. 18 | Orson Moe, M.D. Professor and Director, Departments of Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research | Internal Medicine | Physiology, UTSW Medical Center |
TBT |
Fall 2022 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 12 | Yang Hong, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
"Electrostatic Membrane Targeting and Hypoxia in Cell Polarity" | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 19 | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Surprising Mechanisms of Plasma Membrane Remodeling" | |
| Sept. 28 | Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor & HHMI Investigator, Department of Biology, University of Utah |
"Synaptic Transmission in Time and Space" | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 3 | Jin Zhang, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego |
"Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 10 | Hui Zong, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia |
"Cell Competition and Cooperation In Brain Tumors: The Implications For Effective Therapy" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 17 | Katherine Wert, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Metabolic Perturbations During Retinal Degenerative Disease" | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 24 | Baron Chanda Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine In St. Louis |
"Probing Allostery In Pacemaker Ion Channels At A Single Molecule Resolution" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 31 | Ming Guo, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurology and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles |
TBD | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 7 | Ege Kavalali, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University |
"Functional Nano-Organization Of Central Synapses" | Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 14 | Ming Zhou, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Baylor College of Medicine |
"Mechanisms of Fe2+ Transport In Ferroportin And Fe3+ Reduction In Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1" | Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 21 | Kenta Asahina, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
"Neuropeptidergic control of “hanger” in the fruit flies" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 28 | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"ITIM-Receptors: New Wave of Immune Checkpoint Targets for Cancer Treatment" | |
| Dec. 5 | Matthew Sieber, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, and UT Southwestern Medical Center |
TBD |
Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date | Speaker, Title, School | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 8 | Ilya Levental, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine |
“The Composition, Organization and Function of Mammalian Plasma Membranes” | Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. |
| Feb. 22 | Gregorz Kudla, Ph.D. Group Leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh |
“Synonymous but not the same: the role of coding sequence mutations in gene regulation” | Yi Liu, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 1 | Mark T. Nelson, Ph.D. University Distinguished Prof & Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont |
“Translating thought into blood flow in the brain: Capillaries as sensors of neural activity” | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 15 | Mark Wu, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University |
“Circadian Regulation of Sleep and Arousal in Flies and Mice” | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| Mar. 22 | Gerald Shadel, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Lab, Audrey Geisel Chair, Biomedical Science, Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in Basic Biology of Aging |
“Mitochondrial Stress Signaling in Disease, Aging and Immunity” | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Apr. 5 | Konstantin Doubrovinski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Green Center for System Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Physical Aspects of Drosophila Gastrulation” | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. |
| Apr. 12 | Rui Chang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University |
“The Molecular and functional architecture of the vagal interoceptive system” | Xing Zeng, Ph.D. |
| Apr. 26 | Hao Zhu, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Physiology, Children's Research Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Mechanisms of Tissue Regeneration and Implications for Cancer” | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| May 3 | Jian Xu, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Children's Research Institute, Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Decoding the Pathogenic Non-Coding Genome” | Yi Liu, Ph.D. |
| May 10 | Takashi Kitamura, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"Neural circuit mechanism for learning and memory for understanding others and myself" | Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D. |
| May 24 | Nan Yan, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
"STING trafficking and signaling in health and disease" | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. |
| May 31 | Memorial Day |
Fall 2020 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7 | Labor Day – No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 14 | Mike Henne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Compartmentalization of metabolism at inter-organelle contacts: lessons from yeast” | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 21 | Justin Kline, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine |
“Immunotherapeutic strategies to overcome CD8+ T cell tolerance in leukemia” | Alec Zhang, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 28 | Open | ||
| Oct. 5 | Jonathan Lederer, M.D., Ph.D. Director of Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Professor of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
“ATP Production in Heart by Mitochondria” | Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 14 | Bashour Lecture Carol Vivien Robinson, DBE, FRS, FMedSci Professor, Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford |
“From peripheral proteins to membrane motors – mass spectrometry comes of age” | Duojia Pan, Ph.D. and Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 19 | Open | ||
| Oct. 26 | Michael S. Marks, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Physiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania |
“The dark side of organelle biogenesis enlightened by rare human disease” | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 2 | Open | ||
| Nov. 9 | Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard University |
"Quantifying and manipulating the aging process" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 16 | Richard Lu, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
"Decoding Brain Tumorigenesis and Heterogeneity with Single-Cell Omics" | Jiang Wu, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 23 | Edward Chouchani, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Biology, Harvard University |
"Mechanisms of metabolite regulation over health and disease" | Anju Sreelatha, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 30 | Ezra Burstein, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Recycling in the endosomal compartment: Understanding the roles of the CCC complex” | Jen Liou, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 7 | Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago |
"Structural basis of Force-form-Lipid Gating in Mechanosensitive Channels" | Paul Blount, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 14 | Wolfgang Baumeister, Ph.D. Director, Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry |
"Structural Biology in situ or the Power of Seeing the Whole Picture" | George DeMartino, Ph.D. |