Medical Pharmacology and Physiology seminars are held 12-1 p.m. Tuesdays.
For the Fall 2025 semester, seminars will be either in-person or via Zoom but not both.
In-person seminars will be held in M525 Medical Science Building.
Fall 2025 Seminar Dates and Speakers
September 2025
September 9
Steven Segal, PhD, Curators Distinguished Professor, Chancellor's Professor of Research Excellence, Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professorship in Medical Research, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology University of Missouri.
“Multicellular Crosstalk During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration”
September 16
Xiaofeng Yang, MD, PhD, FAHA, Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, Immunology and Pharmacology Associate Director, Lemole Center for Integrated Lymphatics and Vascular Research, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
“Metabolic Reprogramming, Intracellular Immunology and Inflammation"
September 23
Cheryl Rockwell, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University
"The Role of Immune Cells in Animal Models of Hypertension"
September 30
Andrew L. Koenig, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
"Monocyte Fate Specification in the Injured Heart and Preliminary Insights into a Model of Congenital Valve Disease"
October 2025
October 7
Amandeep Bajwa, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
"Harnessing Mitochondria for Biomarker Discovery and Therapeutic Targeting"
October 14
Osama Harraz, PhD, Bloomfield Professor in Cardiovascular Research, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
“Piezo 1: Sensing Forces to Steer Brain Vascular Dynamics”
October 21
William David Arnold, MD, Executive Director, NextGen Precision Health, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Missouri
"Defining and Targeting the Aging-Disease Nexus to Prolong Healthspan"
October 28
Patrick Osei-Owusu, PhD, FAHA, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
“Cardiovascular Aging and Hypertension Pathogenesis: Beyond the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System”
November 2025
November 4
Camila Manrique, MD, Professor of Medicine, Distinguished Professor in Diabetes, Director of Faculty Research, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri; Chief of Endocrinology, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital
“TBD”
November 18
Sarah M. Greising, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota
Zoom-Only
"Can Targeting Metabolism Overcome the Limited Plasticity of Skeletal Muscle After Traumatic Injury?"
December 2025
December 2
- Elaine Shelton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
"Leveraging Advances in Basic Research to Identify New Therapeutics for Patent Ductus Arteriosus"
December 9
- Luke (Zhe) Sun, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Medical Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Missouri
"Spatial Gradient of Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation in the Rat Superior Cerebellar Artery Implications for Mechanotransduction"
