Basic Medical Sciences - Seminars

Speaker: Xia Xiao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Seminar Title: BMP-SMAD Signaling in Iron Homeostasis and Liver Fibrosis
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD

Speaker: Vladimir Filkov, PhD, Professor and Director, AI for Health Initiative, College of Engineering, UC Davis, Sacramento
Seminar Title: AI Alone Won't Cut It: Toward Multimodal Collaborations in Medicine
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD

Speaker: Tamer Gamal El-Din, PhD; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Seminar Title: The Leak Current That Causes Autism
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD

Speaker: Na Li, PhD; Professor, Medicine, Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Seminar Title: : Inflammasome signaling in arrhythmogenesis
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD

Speaker: David R. Walt, PhD; Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Seminar Title: Single Molecule and Single Particle Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis; Via ZOOM
BMS Host: Frederic Zenhausern, PhD, MBA; Professor, BMS

Speaker: Alexander B. Niculescu III, MD, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry, Founding Director, C4P (Center for Precise, Personalized, and Preventive Psychiatry), University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Seminar Title: Precision Psychiatry and the Whole Body: Towards a “Hearts and Minds” Program; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD; Professor and Chair, BMS

Speaker: Fredric Edward Wondisford, MD, MS, MBA; Dean, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Seminar Title: Novel Regulation of mTORC1-Mediated Hepatic Lipogenesis; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Taben Hale, PhD; Professor and Vice Chair, BMS

Speaker: Megan E. Spurgeon, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Investigator, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology, Morgridge Institute for Research
Seminar Title: Development of preclinical models to study HPV pathogenesis and cancer development; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz, PhD; Professor, BMS

Speaker: Inna Gladysheva, PhD; Research Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Seminar Title: Impaired Neurohormonal Pathways in Heart Failure: from bedside to pre-clinical discoveries; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD; Professor and Chair, BMS

Speaker: Prabhu S. Arunachalam, PhD; Assistant Professor, Immunobiology; Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
Seminar Title: Developmental and epigenetic remodeling of inflammation in the aging human innate immune system; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Frederic Zenhausern, PhD, MBA; Professor, BMS

Speaker: Haobo Li, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital
Seminar Title: Epi(c)-transcriptional Regulation of Cardiometabolic Disease; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Liya Yin, MD, PhD; Professor, Internal Medicine

Speaker: Artak Tovmasyan, PharmD, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Translational Neuroscience at Barrow Neurological Institute
Seminar Title: Drug Development for CNS Disorders; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Rayna Gonzales, PhD; Associate Professor, BMS

Speaker: Jiandong Liu, PhD; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Fixing Broken Hearts: Mechanisms of Cardiac Repair and Maturation; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Liya Yin, MD, PhD; Professor, Internal Medicine, COM-Phoenix

Speaker: Y. Eugene Chen, MD, PhD; Frederick Huetwell Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiac Surgery, Physiology, Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry; Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research at Cardiac Surgery; Director, Center for Advanced Models for Translational Sciences and Therapeutics; Director, National Center of Rabbit Models for Translational Research; Associate Director, Michigan Medicine-PKUHSC Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Translating Cardiovascular Genomics into Potential Drug Targets and Disease Mechanisms; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Liya Yin, MD, PhD; Professor, Internal Medicine, COM-Phoenix

Speaker: Xi Fang, PhD; Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Seminar Title: Genetic Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy: From Barth Syndrome to Beyond; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Liya Yin, MD, PhD; Professor, Internal Medicine, COM-PHX

Speaker: Andreia Zago Chignalia, PhD, PharmD; Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Seminar Title: Glypican 1 mechanosensing in acute pulmonary edema; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Taben Hale, PhD; Professor and Vice Chair, BMS

Speaker: Allen Ehrlicher, PhD, P.Eng.; Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biological Mechanics, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Seminar Title: Biophysical determinants of YAP nuclear mechanotransduction; Via ZOOM
BMS Host: Frederic Zenhausern, PhD, MBA; Professor, BMS

Speaker: Mario Romero-Ortega, PhD; Department Head of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Courses, Member of the Graduate Faculty Contact, University of Arizona, Tucson
Seminar Title: Bioelectronics in Orthopaedic, Cardiovascular, Immune and Pelvic Health; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Janko Nikolich, PhD; Professor, BMS

Speaker: Emily Goldberg, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco
Seminar Title: How the metabolic environment controls inflammatory disease; Hybrid seminar
BMS Host: Janko Nikolich, PhD; Professor, BMS