Seminar Series

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Physiology Seminar Series occurs each Tuesday morning during the academic year in HKRB 150 at 9:30 a.m. The series brings prominent scientists and educators to campus to share their work with our faculty, staff, and trainees.

Fall 2025 

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
09/09/2025 All Roads Lead to Rome: Convergent Mechanisms of Network Hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's Disease Misha Zilberter, PhD University of California, San Francisco Shannon Macauley, PhD
09/16/2025 Mom Does It Best: Parental Care as a Model Phenotype to Explore How Cell-Type-Specific Changes in Gene Expression Influence Brain Activity and Animal Behavior Brandon Logeman, PhD University of Kentucky Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
09/23/2025 Characterizing Systemic Infection and Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction Following SCI Samir Patel, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
09/30/2025 FCPS Fall Break
10/07/2025 Lipid Storage and Trafficking in Metabolic Diseases Hongyuan "Robert" Yang, PhD University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Xu Xiao, PhD
10/14/2025 No Seminar
10/21/2025 No Seminar
10/28/2025 UK Fall Break
11/04/2025 Physiology Research Day
11/11/2025 Dr. Perozo's research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the transduction of different forms of energy into protein motion; in particular the different molecular mechanisms of ion channel gating. Eduardo Perozo, PhD University of Chicago Isabel Aristizabal Ramirez & Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
11/18/2025 Cross Talk Between Cholesterol, PIP2, Sphingomyelin, and ABCA1 in Heart and Liver Disease Kailash Gulshan, PhD Cleveland State University Ryan Temel, PhD
11/25/2025 Thanksgiving Week
12/02/2025 Dr. Emfinger recently joined the department of internal medicine as an assistant professor Christopher Emfinger, PhD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc

Spring 2026

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
02/24/2026 Available
03/03/2026 Dr. Dubal's research investigates mechanisms of longevity, resilience and neurodegenerative disease. They investigate how aging pathways can confer resilience to a brain and counter neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Dena Dubal, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco Ryan Temel, PhD
03/10/2026 Available
03/17/2026 UK Spring Break
03/24/2026 Available
03/31/2026 Available
04/07/2026 FCPS Spring Break
04/14/2026 Available
04/21/2026 Trainee Talks
04/28/2026 Trainee Talks
05/05/2026 Trainee Talks
05/12/2026 Trainee Talks
05/19/2026 Trainee Talks

Previous Seminars

Seminars from 2013 – 2025