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SUMMARY:September Teaching Conversation
DESCRIPTION:September 15\n11:10am – 12:00 p.m. PDT\nSAC 347\nTeaching Conversations are back! After a summer break\, the Office for Faculty Affairs and Continuing Professional Development is happy to announce that we’re starting up our monthly teaching conversations again. This month is an open discussion\, so bring any topics you’d like to discuss! \nRegister Online
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sept-teaching-conversation/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Development
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center present 2024 Gregory L. Belenky Distinguished Lecture presentation: Dr. Nita Lewis Shattuck
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nStudying Sleep in the Wild: From Pirates to Polar Bears\nMarch 19\, 2024\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 978 3913 8685\nPasscode: 202110 \nSpeaker: Nita Lewis Shattuck\, PhD\nProfessor in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School \nDr. Shattuck received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She teaches courses in human factors engineering and human systems integration\, directs thesis research\, and pursues her research interests in human fatigue in operational settings\, individual and team performance\, and decision-making. \nAs the leader of the NPS Crew Endurance Team\, she studies ways to improve the lives of military personnel. Her work has resulted in sweeping changes to US Navy policy that now mandates the use of circadian-based watchbills and emphasizes benefits of crew rest practices. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award\, the highest Navy award given to civilians. \n\nQuestions? Contact Michelle Sanchez at michelle.r.sanchez@wsu.edu.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-seminar-031924/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Translational Medicine and Physiology Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:By Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology \nCaspase-Mediated Regulation of Stress Responses\nOctober 8\, 2024\n12:10–1:00 P.M. PDT\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 998 2122 0897\nPasscode: 901049\nChronic stress and inflammation are major risk factors for disease. Heightened stress responses suggest a failure to sense resolution of the stressor. Recently\, we found that proteolytic cleavage of limited amounts of fatty acid synthase (FASN) releases a stable C-terminal fragment (FASN-CTF) that promotes an anti-inflammatory program including gene expression\, metabolic programs and lipid droplets. Our current findings resolve how caspase is differentially regulated in stress responses versus cell death. \nSpeaker: Benjamin Weaver\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\, UT Southwestern Medical Center \nBenjamin (Ben) Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology. He also holds appointments in the Department of Physiology\, the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine\, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2018\, Ben established the Weaver lab as an Endowed Scholar where he holds the title of Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research. His group studies gene-environment interactions with particular interest in how the outcomes of these interactions impact development\, stress responses\, aging\, stemness and innate immunity. The Weaver lab combines cross-disciplinary approaches using genetics\, proteomics\, metabolomics and biochemical analyses along with diverse models including C. elegans\, mammalian cell culture\, and in vitro systems. \n\nFor more information contact Michelle Sanchez.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-oct8/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Research,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Translational Medicine and Physiology Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:By Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology \n\n\n\nRevisiting Resident Physician Work Hours and Patient and Physician Safety\nNovember 12\, 2024\n12:10–1:00 P.M. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 995 2806 9528\nPasscode: 411948\nSpeaker: Laura Barger\, PhD\nAssistant Professor in Medicine\, Harvard Medical School \nDr. Barger will discuss the history of the policies governing resident physician work hours\, the impact of work hours on resident physician and patient safety and changes we have seen in work hours over the last two decades. \nDr. Laura Barger is Assistant Professor in Medicine and also holds administrative titles of Associate Physiologist\, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders\, Departments of Medicine and Neurology\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. \n\nFor more information contact Michelle Sanchez.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-111224/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nImaging Neuromodulatory Signaling In Vivo\nNovember 21\, 2024\n12:10 – 1 p.m. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 923 6974 6453\nPasscode: 001533\nSpeaker: Haining Zhong\, PhD\nProfessor and Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute at the Oregon State Health and Sciences University \nDr. Haining Zhong received his double bachelor’s degrees in Biology and in Computer Science from Tsinghua University\, Beijing\, China in 1996. He did his Ph.D. study in Neuroscience with Dr. King Wai Yau at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine\, and postdoctoral training with Dr. Karel Svoboda and Eric Betzig at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus. In 2010 he started his independent lab at the Vollum Institute and is currently a full professor and senior scientist at Vollum. \nDr. Zhong’s lab develops imaging technologies and uses these technologies to study the cellular mechanisms underlying animal locomotion execution and learning. His lab has developed strategies\, both based on mouse genetics and on CRISPR-based gene editing\, to fluorescently label endogenous proteins for live imaging without overexpression. More recently\, his lab became the first to achieve in vivo imaging of neuromodulatory signaling activities\, including cAMP\, PKA and PKC\, with cellular resolution in the cortex and the striatum of behaving mice.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-seminar-112124/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Translational Medicine and Physiology Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:By Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology \n\n\n\nHost-microbe metabolic interactions in C. elegans and mouse\nDecember 10\, 2024\n12:10–1:00 P.M. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 966 5257 7295\nPasscode: 660215\nSpeaker: Frank C. Schroeder\, PhD\nProfessor at Boyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology\, Cornell University \nMetabolites derived from the intestinal microbiota extensively modulate animal physiology and in particular lipid metabolism; however\, to what extent host responses balance the effects of microbiota-derived metabolites remains unclear. I will first discuss an example from C. elegans\, where untargeted metabolomics uncovered evolutionarily related endogenous and microbiota-dependent small molecule signals that control expression of the desaturase FAT-7/SCD1 via the nuclear receptor NHR-49/PPARα\, conserved gate keepers of fat metabolism. \nSimilarly\, untargeted metabolomics of mouse tissues revealed complementary host and microbial regulation of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) via bile acid (BA) derivatives. Conjugation of microbiota-derived BAs with methylcysteamine (BA-MCYs) by the host pantetheinase\, VNN1/vanin 1\, inverts bile acid function in the hepatobiliary system. Whereas microbiota-derived free BAs function as FXR agonists\, BA-MCYs act as potent FXR antagonists in vitro and accordingly regulate lipid metabolism in vivo. Taken together\, these examples demonstrate how deeply intertwined biosynthetic pathways in metazoan host and associated microbiota converge on nuclear receptor signaling to regulate physiology\, and draw attention to the vast space of microbiota-dependent metabolites whose chemical structures\, biosyntheses\, and physiological functions remain unannotated.\nSchroeder Lab \n\nFor more information contact Michelle Sanchez.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-121024/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Vice Dean for Research Candidate Seminar: Richard Minshall
DESCRIPTION:Richard Minshall\, PhD\, is a candidate for the Vice Dean for Research position at the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. \n  \nCandidate Seminar: \nDate: Wednesday\, January 8\nTime: 12:10–1:00 p.m.\nLocation: SAC 347 \n  \nRichard Minshall\, PhD\, is a professor of Anesthesiology\, Pharmacology\, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He is an established investigator with 25 years of research\, teaching\, and service activity\, continuous NIH funding\, and over 200 primary publications and book chapters (h-index\, 67). His research focuses on understanding the cellular signaling mechanisms that regulate vascular homeostasis\, and how disruption of “normal” contributes to cardiovascular\, cerebrovascular\, and pulmonary vascular disease. \nDr. Minshall has trained hundreds of high school\, undergraduate\, medical\, and graduate students\, postdocs\, residents\, and junior faculty\, and is currently funded to develop a patent on a new class of anticoagulant drugs. He has also chaired numerous committees and task forces for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research\, most notably IACUC and the Campus Research Board Basic Life Sciences review group\, and directed the Research Resources Center\, a conglomerate of 20 core facilities with 70 employees. \nDr. Minshall currently serves as Co-Lead for COM Team Science initiatives and Faculty Director of Clinical Translational Services and Resources for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/vice-dean-for-research-candidate-seminar-richard-minshall/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Research
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SUMMARY:Translational Medicine and Physiology Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Aβ42: A Jack of Many Troublesome Trades in Alzheimer’s Disease\nMarch 11\, 2025\n12:10–1:00 P.M. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 913 6848 3019\nPasscode: 804433\nSpeaker: Annalisa Scimemi\, PhD\nAssociate Professor in the Department of Biology at SUNY Albany \nSynapses are critical targets of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)\, a highly prevalent neurodegenerative disease associated with accumulation of extracellular amyloid-β peptides. Although amyloidosis and aggregation of the 42-amino acid amyloid-β (Aβ42) have long been considered pathogenic triggers for AD\, clinical evidence linking high levels of soluble Aβ42 with normal cognition challenges this hypothesis. To resolve this conundrum on the role of Aβ42 in regulating synaptic activity\, we used a viral approach to trigger extracellular accumulation of Aβ42 and spatial memory impairment. We will discuss the effects that this peptide exerts on synaptic function in the mouse hippocampus. \n\n\n\n\nFor more information contact Michelle Sanchez.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-march11/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nSleep and circadian rhythms in pilots and astronauts\nJune 12\, 2025\n10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 987 7864\n8511 Passcode: 667852\nSpeaker: Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans\, PhD\, MPH\, FAASM\nNASA Ames Research Center \nDr. Flynn-Evans is the Director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center. She holds a PhD from the University of Surrey and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining NASA\, she was an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Flynn-Evans has extensive research experience examining the short and long-term effects of sleep loss and circadian misalignment in occupational settings\, including among astronauts\, airline pilots\, physicians and other shift workers. \nDr. Flynn-Evans will review how sleep loss and circadian misalignment arise during spaceflight and aviation operations. She will also describe the results of studies that her team has conducted to introduce countermeasures to mitigate these risks.\nRegister
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-061225-1/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nInvestigative Fatigue: How Sleep-Circadian Factors Shape Criminal Investigations\nJune 12\, 2025\nNoon – 1:00 p.m. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 965 1256 6971\nPasscode: 860887\nSpeaker: Zlatan Križan\, PhD\nProfessor of Psychology at Iowa State University \nDr. Križan is a Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University where he directs the Sleep\, Self\, and Personality Laboratory (SSPeL). He also currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Research in Personality and an Associate Editor for SLEEP Advances. \nDr. Križan’s work examines how sleep\, fatigue\, and circadian rhythms intersect with social behavior and personality. Basic research efforts aim to establish how lost sleep and circadian misalignment impact consequential social thoughts and behaviors\, while applied research efforts consider these impacts within legal and investigative settings. \nRegister
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-061225-2/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \n24/7 Teaming: Performance and Fatigue in Face to Face and Distributed Teams\nJune 13\, 2025\nNoon – 1:00 p.m. PST\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 967 4025 6086\nPasscode: 280020\nSpeaker: Siobhan Banks\, PhD\nUniversity of South Australia \nDr. Siobhan Banks is a Professor of Psychology at UniSA and Director of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre. Her research focuses on the interactions between biology\, behavior\, and technology. She collaborates with 24/7 industries like healthcare\, transportation\, defence\, and aerospace to enhance individual and team performance\, health\, and well-being. She has received over $20M in research funding and has received the 2019 Australian Council Graduate Research Award for Industry Engagement and was a 2021 finalist for the Australian Defence Magazine Women in Defence Awards. \nRegister
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-061325/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T121000
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SUMMARY:TMP & SPRC Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Translational Medicine & Physiology and Sleep and Performance Research Center \nTemporal dynamics of oligodendroglia in health and disease\nSept. 9\, 2025\n12:10 – 1:00 p.m. PDT\nSAC 347 or via Zoom\nMeeting ID: 953 4043 7649\nPasscode: 164811\nSpeaker: Erin Gibson\, PhD \nAssistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine \nDr. Gibson’s lab focuses on understanding how oligodendroglial cells modulate neural circuits throughout development and in brain disorders\, with a focus on the intersection between sleep/circadian and glial biology in disorders such as autism spectrum disorders\, multiple sclerosis\, and Alzheimer’s disease. By using in vivo mouse and patient-derived iPSC models\, the Gibson lab aims to understand the intrinsic molecular drivers and cell-cell interactions that regulate myelin dynamics throughout life\, with the ultimate goal of finding therapeutic strategies to maintain myelin health.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-sprc-seminar-series/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T131000
DTSTAMP:20260413T042811
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SUMMARY:TMP & SPRC Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Translational Medicine & Physiology and Sleep and Performance Research Center \nThe autonomous biological clock needs feedback of the body to set our biological rhythms\nOctober 14\, 2025\n12:10 – 1:10 p.m. PDT\nSAC 347 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 983 7746 7008\nPasscode: 636839\nSpeaker: Ruud Buijs\, PhD\nProfessor of Neurobiology at Instituto de Investigacíones Biomedicas\, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico \n \nAfter his PhD thesis\, Dr. Ruud Buijs was appointed 1980 as a research scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam. He kept that position until 1990\, until he moved as senior scientist and professor at the Loeb Research Institute in Ottawa\, 1993 he returned to the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research to become associate director of the institute and leader of the group “Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms” and was cross-appointed as professor neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam. He is since 2006 investigador Titular C TC at Biomedicas instutute at the UNAM university in Mexico. He published over 250 papers\, mainly on hypothalamic integration mechanisms\, with over 25\,000 citations. His H-index is 106. Under his direct tutorship\, 29 graduate students received their PhD. \nAs one of the first discovered peptide hormones\, Vasopressin (VP) was also one of the first neuropeptides shown to act as a neurotransmitter. VP is also one of the transmitters of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) and the only peptide of the SCN that shows a precise rhythm in its secretion. The rhythm of clock genes in SCN neurons and the light/dark cycle drives VP production and release. A long time ago\, the group of Reppert et al. has demonstrated that VP release increases just before the onset of the light period in nocturnal rodents. \nFrom hormonal levels to temperature and activity\, these circadian variables show large amplitudes over the 24-hour cycle whereby trough to peak value may change until a factor 10. However\, despite these enormous 24-hour changes\, the day-to-day variation in hormonal level or activity will be less than 5% at any particular hour at a specific time. Consequently\, an elaborate feedback system must inform the SCN and other participating nuclei about the actual levels reached during the circadian cycle. Therefore\, changes in activity or circulating levels in glucose or corticosterone are transmitted to SCN neurons\, changing their neuronal activity and allowing for an adaptation in physiology or activity. Especially this essential feedback to the SCN will be the focus of this presentation.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-sprc-seminar-101425/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:SPRC Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nPreclinical Modeling of Spontaneous THC Withdrawal Symptoms in Mice: Sleep\, Dopamine\, and Behavioral Maladaptations\nNovember 6\, 2025\n12:10 – 1:00 p.m.\nSAC 347 and Zoom\nMeeting ID: 985 2410 0035\nPasscode: 334947\nSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Kesner\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University Indianapolis \n \nDr. Kesner grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York. His overarching scientific interest is in the neural mechanism of motivated behavior and how these mechanisms go awry in psychiatric disorders like addiction. He earned both his B.A. in Behavioral Biology (2012) and Ph.D. in Biology (2018) from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kesner performed his thesis research in the lab of Dr. Satoshi Ikemoto at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) as part of the NIH-Johns Hopkins Graduate Partnership Program\, where he used optogenetics and in-vivo electrophysiology in awake\, behaving mice to elucidate the roles of a novel brain reward system. Next\, Dr. Kesner moved to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. David Lovinger’s Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and soon after became a Fellow with the NIH Center on Compulsive Behavior. His Postdoctoral research focused on modeling cannabis withdrawal symptoms in mice\, where he found that\, like humans\, mice experience profound sleep disturbance during withdrawal from d9-tetrahydocanabinol (THC). These findings open the door for preclinical research towards understanding the neural mechanisms of sleep disruption during withdrawal from misused substances\, which turns out to be a major driver of relapse. In 2021\, Dr. Kesner became the Chief of the Unit on Motivation and Arousal at NIAAA as part of the NIH Independent Research Scholar Program. He recently moved his lab to Indiana University – Indianapolis where he continues these research efforts. The mission of his lab is to use systems neuroscience approaches to understand how brain systems controlling motivated behaviors and sleep/arousal processes interact to drive maladaptive behaviors.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-seminar-110625/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:TMP Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine & Physiology \nFrom Worm Genetics to Human Health: Discovery and Exploration of the Beneficial Roles of Bacterial Metabolites\nDecember 9\, 2025\n12:10–1:10 p.m. PST\nSAC 347 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 996 3869 9725\nPasscode: 149255\nSpeaker: Min Han\, PhD\nDistinguished Professor in the Department of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder \nMin Han\, PhD\nMin Han is a distinguished professor in the department of MCDB at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his BS degree from Peking University in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the Molecular Biology Institute of UCLA\, where he explored histone functions in gene regulation under the guidance of Michael Grunstein. He then worked under Paul Stenberg at Caltech to study the regulation of developmental decisions using the genetics of C. elegans. Dr. Han started his own lab at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1991 and was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1997 to 2018. He has received numerous awards/scholarships in his career and was elected to be a member of American Academy of Arts and Science in 2024. \nAbstract for Presentation:\nRiding on the philosophy of using animal models to explore novel biological problems related to human health and the adventurous tendencies of trainees\, our lab has made numerous changes in research directions in the past 34 years\, often into fields that were foreign to us. Following the exploration of lipid functions and novel nutrient-sensing mechanisms\, several researchers in the lab have taken innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to uncover the unexpected “nutrient” value of two bacterial metabolites. One of them\, an E. coli-produced siderophore called enterobactin\, was found to benefit animal physiology by transporting iron into intestinal cells. The other\, muropeptides derived from the peptidoglycan of the bacterial cell wall\, was found to enter the mitochondria of intestinal cells of animals to promote oxidative phosphorylation and suppress mitochondrial stress. I will describe our recent efforts to analyze the mechanisms underlying these roles and to explore their potential usage to treat human health conditions. \n  \n 
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar/
LOCATION:SAC 347\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Translational Medicine and Physiology
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