Medical Pharmacology and Physiology seminars are held 12-1 p.m. Tuesdays.
For the Fall 2026 semester, seminars will be in-person and via Zoom.
In-person seminars will be held in M525 Medical Science Building.
Fall 2026 Seminar Dates and Speakers
August 2026
August 25
- Charles E. Norton III, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: “Vascular Apoptosis in Stroke and Pulmonary Fibrosis”
September 2026
September 1
- Kerry McDonald, PhD, Chair of Medical Pharmacology and physiology, Bolm Distinguished Professor, George L. and Melna A. Bolm Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Health, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: “Is Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C (cMyBP-C) a Tunable Load Sensor?”
September 8
- Fares Alahdab, MD, MS, MSc, FAHA, FACC, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatics, and Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Cardiology, Director of Graduate Programs in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME), University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: TBD
September 15
- Kevin Murach, PhD, Associate Professor, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: “Skeletal Muscle-Specific Roles for an Oncogene in Exercise Adaptation"
September 22
- Courtney Griffin, PhD, Vice President of Research, Professor, Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Scott Zarrow Chair in Biomedical Research, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Title: “Manipulating Pathological Capillary Regression”
September 29
- J. Brandon Dixon, PhD, Woodruff Professor, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: TBD
October 2026
October 6
- Laura Santambrogio, MD, PhD, Associate Director Precision Immunology, Cornell University
Title: “Physiological and Immunological Role of the Lymphatic Fluid”
October 13
- Marni Boppart, ScD, Professor, Health and Kinesiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: TBD
October 27
- TBD
November 2026
November 3
- David Buckley, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinesiology, University of Texas Arlington
Title: TBD
November 17
- Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD, FAHA, Professor, Vice Chair, Director, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Maryland School of Medicine
Title: TBD
December 2026
December 1
- TBD
December 8
- Matthew Caporizzo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Title: TBD
