Physiology Seminar Series ~ 2019

Seminar Archives

 

 

Date Speaker Title
January 7 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
January 14 LCME Site Visit No Seminar
January 21 Martin Luther King Holiday No Seminar
January 28 Rafael Rubio Garcia
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi
MEXICO
Functionalities of the endothelial luminal membrane-glycocalyx
February 4 Kenneth D. Mitchell, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
Navar and Mitchell: An unexpected 35-year journey by a Texan and a Scot
February 11 Yingzi Cong, PhD
Professor
Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

JOINT CONFERENCE

Host-microbiota interaction in regulation of inflammatory bowel diseases

February 18 Robert L. Hester, MD
Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor
Professor of Physiology and Orthopedic Surgery
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Mathematical modeling ofr understanding physiological responses

February 25

 

Antoine Chaanine, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Rochester, MN
Novel Insight in the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure. Role of the FOXO3a-BNIP3 Pathway
March 4 Lundi Gras Holiday No Seminar

March 11

*Room 7062

Clinton Webb, PhD
Herbert Kupperman Chair in Cardiovascular Disease
Regents' Professor
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA
2019 Mayerson-DiLuzio Lectureship

Joint Seminar, Co-Sponsored by THRCE

Mitochondria-derived DAMPs as a trigger of innate immune responses and vascular inflammation in hypertension

March 18 W. Marcus Lambert, PhD
Assistant Dean of Diversity and Student Life
Assistant Professor of Education Research
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY

Special School Wide Grand Rounds

Inclusive Excellence:  Breaking down barriers to success and recognizing your greatest potential

March 25 Heather Drummond, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Vascular degenerins in renal hemodynamics
April 1 Arthur Beyder, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Rochester, MN

JOINT CONFERENCE

The molecules and mechanisms that make irritable and slow colons

April 8 Experimental Biology Meeting No Seminar
April 15 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
April 22 Easter Monday No Seminar
April 29 Qinglin Yang, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA
Targeting metabolic dysfunction in the diseased heart
May 6 Ming Li, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
Why and how to design T-type calcium channel blockers

May 13

 

Zubaida Saifudeeen, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Tulane University SOM
Deconvolving the Contribution of the Glycolytic Pathway in Nephron Progenitor Cell Self-Renewal
May 20 Frank Mauvais-Jarvis, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Tulane University SOM

JOINT CONFERENCE

Is diabetes different in women?

May 27 Memorial Day No Seminar
June 3 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
June 10 Sudha Talwar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Urology
Tulane University SOM
Intracrine androgen-estrogen axis drives CRPC (castration resistance prostate cancer) progression: fact or fiction?

June 17

 

Lucie Desmoulins, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
TRPV1-expressing neurons project to thermoregulatory POA neurons
June 24 Krisztian Stadler, PhD
Associate Professor-Research
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
LSU
Mitochondrial substrate overload and chronic kidney disease
July 1 4th of July Week No Seminar
July 8 No Meeting No Seminar

July 15

Owen Richfield
Graduate Student
Departments of Physiology and Mathematics
Tulane University SOM
Quantification of Mechanical Stresses in the Rat Glomerulus under Pathophysiological Hemodynamic Conditions
July 22 Hong Gao
Research Scientist
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
Differential responses to insulin of RVLM DBH neurons and kidney-related RVLM neurons in diet-induced obesity mice
July 29 Bruna Visniauskas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
Gender differences of soluble proprenin receptor in Type 2 diabetes mellitus
August 5 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
August 12 Hans-Michael Kubisch, PhD
Associate Professor
Tulane National Primate Research Center
Tulane University SOM
Some thoughts on the genetics and genetic management of rhesus macaques and the development of new genetic disease models

August 19

Sergiy Sukhanov, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Heart and Vascular Institute
Tulane University SOM
GAPDH: New fate of old housekeeping protein
August 26 Ganesh Halade, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Disease
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leukocyte directed inflammation and resolution in heart failure
September 2 Labor Day Holiday No Seminar
September 9 Dulce Casarini, PhD
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Federal University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Association between 90 kDa N-domain ACE and presence of arterial hypertension
September 16 L. Lee Hamm, MD
Senior Vice President
Dean, School of Medicine
Tulane University SOM

JOINT SEMINAR

Acidosis: vicious cycle of chronic kidney disease

September 23 Town Hall Meeting No Seminar
September 30 Cheryl M. Heesch, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Sympatho-respiratory coupling:  Is a sigh really just a sigh?
October 7 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
October 14 Jennifer L. Sones
Assistant Professor
Veterinary Clinical Sciences
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Metabolic Basis for Disease in BPH/5 Preeclamptic-like Mice

October 21 Nazih Nakhoul, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine/Nephrology
Tulane University SOM

JOINT CONFERENCE

Regulation of Renal Ammonia Transport

October 28 Jennifer Simkin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopedics
LSU Health Sciences Center
Inflammation: Setting the stage for tissue regeneration in mammals
November 4 Faculty Meeting No Seminar
November 11 Minolfa Prieto, MD,PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
The Prorenin Receptor: A Pandora's Box

November 18

*JBJ Rm# 111A

Vivian Fonseca, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Chief, Section of Endocrinology
Tulane University SOM

JOINT SEMINAR

Precision Medicine - The All of US Program: Research Opportunities

November 25 Partha K. Chandra, PhD
Research Instructor
Department of Pharmacology
Tulane University SOM
The effects of exosomes from latent HIV-1 infected cells on  mitophagy and mitochondrial fusion in brain microvasculature
December 2 Nassir Marrouche, MD
Professor of Medicine
Section of Cardiology
Heart & Vascular Institute
Tulane University SOM

JOINT CONFERENCE

TBA

December 9 Kandasamy Neelamegam, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM
Biochemical and molecular mechanism of Myricetin on Streptozotocin-Cadmium-induced diabetic nephropathy in experiments rats
December 16 Dewan S.A. Majid, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane University SOM

TBA

December 23 Christmas Week No Seminar
December 30 Winter Recess No Seminar

**Not our normally scheduled day, time and/or place

Monday Seminars are held in the Tulane Medical School Building, Lecture Room 4150 from 12:00 Noon - 1:00 pm unless otherwise stated