Schedule

Date Title and Speaker

August 24

Student Orientation

Mark Opp, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Integrative Physiology
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August 31

Canceled

September 7

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Campus closed - Labor Day

September 14

Dissecting Neuromolecular Signaling in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Disease

Charles Hoeffer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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(Host: Chris Link linkc@colorado.edu)

September 21

Canceled

September 28

Canceled

October 5

Life Across Latitudes

Claudia Moreno, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health, Life cycle, and Society
School of Public Health, University of São Paulo
(Host: Ken Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

October 12

Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Explainable-AI and Systems Biology

Daniel Jacobson, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist for Computational Systems Biology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

October 19

Addressing Unanswered Questions in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Chris Link, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

October 26

Gating of Sensory Processing by Physiological Need

Christian Burgess, Ph.D.
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
(Host: Pei Tsai pei-san.tsai@colorado.edu)

November 2

Determinants and Consequences of Sleep Health Disparities: Implications for Addressing Health Disparities

Dayna Johnson, Ph.D.
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
(Host: Céline Vetter celine.vetter@colorado.edu)

November 9

It Pays to Walk Asymmetrically: What We Have Learned from Assessing the Energetics of Adaptation to Split-Belt Walking

Natalia Sanchez, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Biokinesiology
University of Southern California
(Host: Andrew Tan andrew.tan@colorado.edu)

November 16

Geography, Diet and Effect Size in Human-Microbiome Association Studies

Anthony Fodor, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Bioinformatics and Genomics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(Host: Tanya Alderete tanya.alderete@colorado.edu)

November 23

Fall Break - No Classes

November 30

Nutrition for Bone Health: Building Strength through Research

Shirin Hooshmand, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Exercise & Nutritional Sciences
San Diego State University
(Host: Douglas Seals seals@colorado.edu)