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.
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| September 6 | Kasia Zyla-Jackson – Mechanisms of ketogenic diet mediated neuroprotection in a preclinical model of multiple sclerosis Jillian Cox – Sex differences in response to amyloid pathology |
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| September 13 | No Seminar | |
| September 20 | Michelle Nguyen – A pain in the a–: How mt-haplotype can influence the gut microbiome Jose Victor Isola – Increased mTOR activation on ovarian stroma/theca accelerates ovarian aging |
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| September 27 | No Seminar | |
| October 4 | Samah Houmam – Probing the isoform-specific expression of the GABA B receptor in health and Alzheimer’s disease Sabira Jazir – Exploring the non-necroptotic role of MLKL in obesity-driven liver cancer |
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| October 11 | No Seminar | |
| October 18 | Dr. Aaron DiAntonio – Washinton University School of Medicine The SARM1 Axon Degeneration Pathway: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities |
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| October 25 | Jacob Brown – Gpx4 overexpression mitigates cancer cachexia Subhasri Biswas – Mitochondrial Genotypes: The hidden players in ovarian aging |
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| November 1 | Hongyang Xu – Detection of iPLA2 as a novel intracellular Ca2+ regulator in triggering muscle weakness during denervation Kriti Shukla – Contribution of amyloid precursor protein towards mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease |
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| November 8 | William Kennedy – Dissecting amyloid β- and tau-mediated dopamine neuron deficits in Alzheimer’s disease Lauren Miller – The role of mTOR in Alzheimer’s cerebral amyloid angiopathy |
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| November 15 | Jordan Fuqua – Mechanisms of protein homeostasis in aged skeletal muscle Weronika Zarzycka – The role of mitochondrial NAD+ transporter, SCL25A51, in cardiac function |
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| November 22 | Sunghwan Ko – Estrogen and Microglia: Unraveling the links between hormonal changes and brain inflammation Matt Bubak – Systemic interventions to improve aged skeletal muscle bioenergetic capacity and exercise adaptations |
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| November 29 | No Seminar | |
| December 6 | Agnieszka Borowik – Who’s the boss? Revealing the role of myonuclei in skeletal muscle | |
| December 13 | Kasia Cizio – Impact of OGDH knockdown on embryonic brain development Colleen O’Reilly – Determining the context specificity of metformin treatment on muscle mitochondria using high-resolution respirometry |
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| January 10 | Vu Dang – Regulated protein nitration and Parkinson’s Disease | |
| January 17 | No seminar | |
| January 24 | Marisa Bickel – Vascular smooth muscle cell Igf1r deficiency in cerebrovascular aging | |
| January 31 | Roberto Santin Marquez – Aromatase is not required for 17a-estradiol to elicit metabolic in male mice Sunho Lee – Dead Cells Society |
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| February 7 | Parker Kneis – Probing the mitochondrial redox environment across neuronal compartments | |
| February 14 | Jessica Halle – Disrupted metabolism during chemotherapy treatment and recovery Haneen Makhlouf – Tau-induced astrocyte senescence in AD |
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| February 21 | Abigail Morgan – Impact of methamphetamine on mitochondrial morphology and function in dopaminergic neurons | |
| February 28 | Kamil Kobak – Proteostatic imbalance drives the pathogenesis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Walker Hoolehan – Cell-type specific epigenetic modifications in the aging brain |
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| March 7 | Joanna Papinska – The age-related role of gonadotropins in skeletal muscle FAP cell fate Matthew Baier – Don’t ‘SOD’ off yet… |
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| March 14 | No seminar | |
| March 21 | No seminar | |
| March 28 | Anna Faakye – The pharmacological role of acetylation on cardiac mitochondrial metabolism Duraipandy Natarajan – Targeting adipose lipid turnover to improve age-related metabolic dysfunction |
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| April 4 | No seminar | |
| April 11 | Phoebe Ohene-Marfo – Exploring the role of hepatocyte-specific MLKL in MASLD and HCC Paulo Caldeira Mesquita – Effects of aging on the recovery of our most important muscle from a period of disuse |
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| April 18 | Ameera Hasan – The dynamics of immune microenvironment and risk of ovarian cancer with aging Matt McDougal – A pathogenic variant in ATAD3A disrupts neuronal mTOR/TFEB regulation |
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| April 25 | Laci Liter – The effects of neurotensin on VTA neuron firing Leslie Baehr – Uncovering the mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy through the identification of the MuRF1 ubiquitylome |
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| May 2 | Berenice Benayoun – Sex dimorphic regulation of immune aging | |
| May 9 | AGE Conference | |
| May 16 | No seminar | |
| May 23 | Chao Jiang – MLKL-Mitochondria connection in hepatocytes Dominika Siodlak – Tetraspanin-regulated endolysosomal trafficking of APP and its contribution to Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis |
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| May 30 | Eric Moore – Molecular mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and reduced lifespan in maternal obesity offspring Christiana Raymond-Pope – Investigating the impact of disuse, reloading, and rapamycin on the extracellular matrix of aged tendon |
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| June 6 | Dante Barreda Adrianna De Santis |
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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.
