Date Title and Speaker
Aug. 24

Introduction for Graduate Students

Janet Casagrand, Ph.D.
Senior Instructor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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Aug. 31

Optimality of human motor control: Negotiated equilibrium and sticky gradients

Jesse Dean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Physical Therapy
Medical University of South Carolina
(Hosted by Rodger Kram rodger.kram@colorado.edu)

Sep. 14

Reductionism is killing biomedical science

Michael Joyner, M.D.
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic
(Hosted by Roger Enoka roger.enoka@colorado.edu)

Sep. 21

Sleep as a mediator of cardiometabolic health disparities

Kristen Knutson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
(Hosted by Monique LeBourgeois monique.lebourgeois@colorado.edu)

Sep. 28

Biomarker-responsive imaging: In search of a noninvasive biopsy

Andrew Goodwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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(Hosted by Pei Tsai pei-san.tsai@colorado.edu)

Oct. 5

A sleepy sabbatical: Impact of nicotine on sleep in mice

Jerry Stitzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute of Behavioral Genetics and Department of Integrative Physiology
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Oct. 12

Pathways linking sleep restriction and fat feeding to insulin resistance

Josiane Broussard, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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Oct. 19

Of mice and macrophages - How salmonella evades the immune system

Corrie Detweiler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
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(Hosted by Moni Fleshner monika.fleshner@colorado.edu)

Oct. 26

An immunization strategy for prevention of stress-related psychiatric disorders

Christopher Lowry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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Nov. 2

Genetic mapping for diabetes and obesity traits using outbred rats

Leah Solberg-Woods, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Genomics
Human and Molecular Genetics Center
(Hosted by Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Nov. 9

Biomechanical and cognitive factors contributing to locomotor learning

Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
(Hosted by Alaa Ahmed alaa.ahmed@colorado.edu)

Nov. 16

Circadian clock and metabolic flexibility

Lei Yin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan Medical School
(Hosted by Pei Tsai pei-san.tsai@colorado.edu)

Nov. 30

Time-restricted feeding as an intervention against metabolic diseases

Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Regulatory Biology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
(Hosted by Ken Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Dec. 7

The healthspan-promoting effects of periodic fasting

Valter Longo, Ph.D.
Professor
Gerontology and Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
(Hosted by Doug Seals seals@colorado.edu)