It’s time once again for the Aging and Metabolism (AM) Friday Seminar Series. Conferences will be held in person in conference room A.
The presentations will begin at 3:30 PM sharp.
This seminar series is mandatory for all lab personnel in the Aging and Metabolism Program.
| Seminar Season Fall 2025 | ||
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| September 12 | William Kennedy, PhD – Dissecting dopamine neuron deficits in mouse models of Alzheimer’s Disease Michaela Vance – Senescence and endothelial to mesenchymal transition in the aging cerebral vasculature |
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| September 19 | SeongEun Kwak, PhD – Exercise & Skeletal Muscle Health Sharon Negri, PhD – Neurovascular senescence induced by midlife obesity promotes blood-brain barrier dysfunction, neurovascular coupling deficits, and cognitive impairment |
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| September 26 | Mandi Stock, PhD – Determining the context-specific effects of metformin on efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation in skeletal muscles Michelle Nguyen, PhD – Our response to reviewer #2: Incorporating mulit-omic analysis from plasma of OKC-HET rats |
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| October 3 | Travis Pennington – The role of FMRP in Alzheimer’s Disease Zalan Kaposzta, PhD – Effects of NAD restoration on cerebrovascular plasticity in older adults |
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| October 10 | OU Holiday – No Seminar | |
| October 17 | Fall Break – No Seminar | |
| October 24 | Weronika Zarzycka – Maintenance of mitochondrial NAD+ pool by SLC25A51 is essential for postnatal cardiac maturation and survival Roland Patai, PhD – Targeting cellular senescence to prevent cerebral microhemorrhages in aging |
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| October 31 | Halloween – No Seminar | |
| November 7 | Kylene Harold – PFKFB2 Gates a Relationship Between Cardiac Glycolysis and Electrophysiology Sarah OtuBoakye – Role of Lipid Droplet-Accumulating Endothelial Cells in Age-Related Vascular Cognitive Impairment |
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| November 14 | Dylan Barber – sAPPa inhibits neurite outgrowth in primary mouse neurons via GABA B Receptor subunit 1a Subhasri Biswas, PhD – Decoding Ovarian Aging: Cellular and Mitochondrial Determinants |
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| November 21 | Special Guest- Dr. Heather Wilkins | |
| November 28 | Thanksgiving Week – No Seminar | |
| December 5 | Sarai Badillo – Early-Stage Investigations into Drivers of Neuroinflammation in Ovarian Aging Phoebe Ohene-Marfo, PhD – MLKL, Mitochondria Dysfunction, and Tumor progression in MASLD |
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| December 12 | Kasia Cizio – Impact of OGDH(L) loss on embryonic brain development Ana Langley, PhD – Urolithin A supplementation to improve endothelial and cerebrovascular function in middle-aged adults with obesity: An update |
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| January 30 | Roberto Santin Marquez, PhD Jillian Cox |
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| February 6 | Joseph Tuck Madison Milan |
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| February 13 | Colleen O’Reilly, PhD Vasileios Morkontinis, PhD |
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| February 20 | Yang Xu, PhD Matt Bubak |
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| February 27 | Michael Taylor Aishwarya Muppala |
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| March 6 | Ramasamy Selvarani, PhD Joanna Papinska, PhD |
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| March 13 | Scientific Retreat – No Seminar | |
| March 20 | Spring Break – No Seminar | |
| March 27 | Agnieszka Borowik, PhD Chao Jiang, PhD |
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| April 3 | Laci Liter Kamil Kobak, PhD |
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| April 10 | GREAT Symposium – No Seminar | |
| April 17 | Web of Life – No Seminar | |
| April 24 | Matt McDougal, PhD Kriti Shukla |
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| May 1 | Urszula Wasniowska Sabira Jazir, PhD |
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| May 8 | Anna Faakye Chinnu Salim, PhD |
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| May 15 | Parker Kneis Eric Moore |
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| May 22 | Abigail Morgan Aldona Szewczyk |
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| May 29 | Special Guest- Christopher Fry, PhD | |
The Aging & Metabolism Research Seminar Series will begin in September. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Friday afternoons from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you would like to be on the mailing list for this seminar series, send e-mail to Heather-Spencer@omrf.org.
