2016 - 2024 Research Seminar Archives | Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

March 2024

Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Title
3/29/24		Seminar canceled	Seminar canceled
3/22/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Chengfeng Yang, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center Renaissance School of Medicine	“Non-coding RNA dysregulations and lung carcinogenesis”
3/15/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Prerana Shrestha, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Spatiotemporally-precise Protein Synthesis Regulation in Emotional Memories”
3/8/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Nurit Ballas, Ph.D. Research Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“The impact of Rett syndrome-causing MECP2 mutations on mature human astrocytes”
3/1/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Soosan Ghazizadeh, Ph.D. Professor of Epithelial Cell Biology Department of Oral Biology & Pathology School of Dental Medicine Stony Brook University	"Renewal, Regeneration and cell plasticity in Salivary Glands"

February 2024

Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Title
2/23/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Dada Pisconti, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	A p53-dependent unifying mechanism regulating muscle stem cell quiescence
2/16/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Stony Brook Cancer Center Special Seminar: Da Yang, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Center of Pharmacogenetics University of Pittsburgh (canceled)	The Genomic Medicine Era: Transforming Cancer Care with Personalized Solutions (canceled)
2/9/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Rahul Sharma, M.Sc., Ph.D. Associate Professor with Term Division of Nephrology Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Virginia	Alarming the T-regulatory cells for therapy of Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases
2/2/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Hani Babiker, MD Hematologist – Oncologist Division of Hematology Senior Associate Consultant, Associate Director, Clinical Research Operations, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Florida	Update on new therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

January 2024

Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Title
1/26/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Gábor Balázsi, Ph.D. Henry Laufer Professor, The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	Synthetic biological insights into chemoresistance and metastasis
1/19/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Natalia Kronbauer de Oliveira, B.S., M.S. Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University	Comparative Analysis of Calorie Restriction Effects on Cryptococcus neoformans Mating Types
1/12/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Co-Director of Stony Brook University Neurosciences Institute Stony Brook Medical School Stony Brook University	Gustatory Cortex: From Taste to Decision Making
1/5/24 12pm	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Navjot Pabla, Ph.D. Associate Professor Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy & Translational Therapeutics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University	Druggable targets for Acute Kidney Injury

December 2023

Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Title
12/15/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Kamalika Mukherjee, Ph.D. Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholar Award Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School	A single therapeutic target for diverse kidney diseases
12/8/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Wei Yang, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center Stony Brook University	RIPK2/MKK7/c-Myc Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Prostate Cancer Metastasis
12/1/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Yuanpu Peter Di, Ph.D., MBA Professor and Chair Department of Environmental and Occupational Health University of Pittsburgh	Infection, Immunity, and Antimicrobial Resistance

November 2023

Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Title
11/24/23	Holiday - No Seminar	Holiday - No Seminar	Holiday - No Seminar
11/17/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Patrick C.H. Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA Distinguished Research Fellow and Chief Division of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica Professor, National Taiwan University College of Medicine	Gut Bacteria and Heart Healing: The Hidden Players in Post-Infarction Resilience
11/10/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Seminar Canceled	Seminar Canceled
11/3/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Sandy Lee Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Program B.S., Biochemistry Cancer, Hematology Stony Brook University	Deciphering the Differential Impact of Thrombopoietin/MPL Signaling on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function in Bone Marrow and Spleen

October 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
10/27/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Ulas Sunar, Ph.D. SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	Non-invasive Optical Imaging and Intervention Monitoring of Neurological Diseases and Cancer with Hemodynamic and Metabolism Contrasts
10/20/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Jignesh Patel, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Pulmonary Hypertension and Associate Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine	My Journey in Cardiac Arrest Research: The Past Decade And The Next Decade
10/13/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Hyungjin Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	Therapeutic targeting of DNA replication stress in cancer
10/6/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Nezar Mehanna 4th Year Medical Student Charles Vorkas Lab Division of Infectious Diseases Renaissance School of Medicine	NK cell subpopulations responding to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

September 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
9/29/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Huichun Zhan, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor Division of Hematology-Oncology Attending Physician, Northport VA Medical Center Stony Brook University	Decoding Endothelial MPL and JAK2V617F Mutation: Insights into Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Clonal Hematopoiesis
9/22/23	HSC T16 Conf. Room 025	Helen Hsieh, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery Renaissance School of Medicine	A titrateable mouse model of Necrotizing enterocolitis

June 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
6/23/23	Zoom	Marie A. Badalamente, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Stony Brook University	From Bench to Bedside OR How I Got From Here to There
6/16/23	Zoom	Zachary Hage Ph.D. Student in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Stony Brook University	Cerebrovascular Consequences of Inflammation in a Rodent Model of Chronic Psychosocial Stress
6/9/23	Zoom	Salah Al-Zaiti, PhD, FAHA Associate Professor of Nursing, Emergency Medicine, and Cardiology Vice Chair of Research, Department of Acute & Tertiary Care Co-Director, T32 Technology in Chronic and Acute Illness Co-Director, Data Science Core, Digital Health HUB University of Pittsburgh	Machine Learning for the ECG Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction
6/2/23	Zoom	Chelsea Estrada, MS, DO Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Stony Brook University	Mechanisms of glomerular endothelial injury

May 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
5/26/23	Zoom	Jingfang Ju, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology Department of Pathology Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University Director of Oncogenic Drivers and Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis Stony Brook Cancer Center	Development of a novel class of miRNA based cancer medicine
5/19/23	Zoom	Frank Pessler, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Head, Research Group Biomarkers for Infectious Diseases TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover Medical School, Hannover Germany	Towards the magic pill box: itaconate-related compounds to treat infection and inflammation
5/12/23	Zoom	Ken-Ichi Takemaru, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University	Ciliogenesis in the Respiratory and Male Reproductive Systems
5/5/23	Zoom	Brian S. Sheridan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Center for Infectious Diseases Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	No guts, no glory: Tissue-resident memory T cells in the intestinal mucosa

April 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
4/28/23	Zoom	Samia Mohammed, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Stony Brook Cancer Center Stony Brook University	Defining the role of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 in Doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity
4/21/23	Zoom	Markus Riessland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Empire Innovation Program Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Center for Nervous System Disorders Stony Brook University	Investigating genetic risk factors of Parkinson’s disease and cellular senescence
4/14/23	Zoom	Marie A. Badalamente, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Stony Brook University	From Bench to Bedside OR How I Got From Here to There - rescheduled to June
4/7/23	Zoom	No seminar	No seminar (Good Friday)

March 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
3/31/23	Zoom	No seminar - canceled	No seminar - canceled
3/24/23	Zoom	No seminar - canceled	No seminar - canceled
3/17/23	Zoom	Kathryn M. Dupnik, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease Weill Cornell Medical College New York-Presbyterian Hospital	Pathologic immune reactions of leprosy: clinical challenges and current research
3/10/23	Zoom	Daniel S. Jamorabo, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Stony Brook University	Mortality and Morbidity Benefits from Dual Oral Therapy in Diabetic Patients with Cirrhosis
3/3/23	Zoom	A.K. Guddati MD PhD Associate Professor Head & Neck, Rare Cancer Clinics Translational Research and Quality Initiatives Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology Georgia Cancer Center Augusta University	Stony Brook Cancer Center Special Seminar Transdifferential & Re-differentiation: Repurposing Old Tools

February 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
2/24/23	Zoom	Martin R. Pollak, M.D. George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	APOL1 associated kidney disease
2/17/23	Zoom	Marat Fudim, M.D., MHS, FACC, FHFA Assistant Professor of Cardiology Duke University School of Medicine	Pressure and Volume-based Management in Heart Failure
2/10/23	Zoom	Can E. Senkal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Virginia Commonwealth University	Regulation of Ceramide Synthase by Protein-Protein Interaction
2/3/23	Zoom	Daniel J. Salamango, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	HIV-mediated inhibition of DNA damage repair responses

January 2023

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
1/27/23	Zoom	Hani Suleiman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Washington University School of Medicine	Novel Approaches to Study the Podocyte Actin Cytoskeleton in Health and in Disease
1/20/23	Zoom	Ann D. Cuccia MPH, RRT-NPS, RPFT, AE-C, FAARC Director of Clinical Education, Clinical Associate Professor Respiratory Care Program School of Health Professions Stony Brook University	Immunotherapeutic and Pharmacologic Targeting of MUC16 (CA-125) Positive Ovarian Cancer
1/13/23	Zoom	Soma Kobayashi MD/PhD Student GI Translational Research Lab Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	A Computational Approach for the Histopathological Assessment of Colitis Mouse Models
1/6/23	Zoom	Jacqueline Ho, M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Division of Nephrology UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh	miR-17~92 in kidney development and disease

December 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
12/16/22	Zoom	Oladapo Yeku, M.D., Ph.D., FACP Director of Translational Research Center for Gynecologic Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School	Immunotherapeutic and Pharmacologic Targeting of MUC16 (CA-125) Positive Ovarian Cancer
12/9/22	Zoom	Karam Aboudehen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology & Hypertension Stony Brook University	Dysregulations of long noncoding RNA in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
12/2/22	Zoom	Jaymie R. Meliker, Ph.D. Professor, Program in Public Health Department of Family, Population, & Preventive Medicine Faculty Member in Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research (CIDER) Stony Brook University (SUNY)	Cadmium and incident cardiovascular disease in never-smokers: Case-cohort study in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health Cohort

November 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
11/18/22	Zoom	Madeleine W. Cunningham, Ph.D. George Lynn Cross Research Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Autoimmunity and Infection: The Group A Streptococcal Sequelae
11/11/22	Zoom	Anita Saraf, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh Medical School University of Pittsburgh	Role of hypomorphic NOTCH1 mutations in cardiomyocyte signaling and function in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
11/4/22	Zoom	Dr. Libusha Kelly Associate Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Hydrogen Sulfide Drives Cryptic Redox Chemistry in Gut Microbial Communities

October 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
10/28/22	Zoom	Russell Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Assistant Physician in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital	Evaluating Novel Cancer Therapeutic Strategies Using Living Tumor Biopsies
10/21/22	Zoom	Lucy Palmer, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook University, State University of New York	Inhaled Antibiotics in the Intensive Care Unit
10/14/22	Zoom	Agnieszka Bialkowska, Ph.D. Associate Professor Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine Department of Medicine GI Translational Research Lab	Targeted Therapy for Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers
10/7/22	Zoom	Jun Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University, State University of New York	Single-cell functional proteomics by MIST technology

September 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
9/30/22	Zoom	Vanessa K.A. Silva, Ph.D. Biomedical Scientist, MSc Postdoctoral Researcher Stony Brook University Hospital	The importance of replicative aging of yeast cells during fungal infections
9/23/22	Zoom	DOM Research Symposium	DOM Research Symposium
9/16/22	Zoom	Gerald C. Smaldone, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook Medicine	Changes in Alveolar Geometry During Breathing
9/9/22	Zoom	Flaminia Talos, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Urology Department of Pathology Stony Brook Medicine	New insights into prostate cancer heterogeneity from mouse models and single cell transcriptomics
8/5/22	Zoom	Jie Zhang, Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Morsani College of Medicine University of South Florida	Macula Densa SGLT1 in Diabetic Kidney Disease

June 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
6/24/22	Zoom	Sean A. P. Clouston, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine Stony Brook University	Cognitive Impairment in World Trade Center Responders: An Update on Current Results, and Upcoming Plans
6/17/22	Zoom	Sung-Ho Huh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Mary & Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program Department of Neurological Sciences University of Nebraska Medical Center	Role of Fibroblast Growth Factors Signal in Kidney Development: Toward Regeneration
6/10/22	Zoom	Robert P. Hirten, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Connecting the Dots: Wearable Technology for the Study of Disease
6/3/22	Zoom	Dean Sheppard, M.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Director, Lung Biology Center University of California, San Francisco	Cellular Cross-Talk Driving Tissue Fibrosis

May 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
5/27/22	Zoom	Amil M. Shah, M.D., MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Associate Physician, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine	Cardiac imaging in multi-center studies to refine understanding of heart failure risk and prognosis
5/20/22	Zoom	Ethan S. Brandler, M.D., MPH, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS Associate Director of Emergency Medical Services Director, Academic Associate Program Department of Emergency Medicine Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	Challenges and Solutions in Pre-Hospital and Emergency Critical Care Research
5/13/22	Zoom	Canceled	Canceled
5/6/22	Zoom	Ramesh A. Shivdasani, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School	Delineation, birth, and self-organization of the intestinal stem cell niche

April 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
4/29/22	Zoom	Victoria A. Blaho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Immunity and Pathogenesis Program Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Immunology Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	Modulating Immunity from Hematopoiesis through Sphingosine 1-phosphate Signaling
4/22/22	Zoom	Luis A. Marcos, M.D., MPH, FIDSA Fellowship Program Director Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases	Research in Global Health: From Madagascar to Peru
4/15/22	Zoom	Canceled	Canceled
4/8/22	Zoom	Jonathan M. Barasch, M.D., Ph.D. Lambert Professor of Medicine & Cell Biology Columbia University	Capture of Iron: AKI, UTI and Identity Crises
4/1/22	Zoom	Gurtej Singh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Research Stony Brook University	Tissue Engineering of Vascularized Human Skin Substitutes

March 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
3/25/22	Zoom	Joshua D. Miller, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Dean for Clinical Integration Medical Director, SBM CIN & ACO, LLC Medical Director of Diabetes Care Associate Professor of Medicine Endocrinology and Metabolism Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University	Novel Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Devices to Support Critically-ill Patients with COVID-19 During the Pandemic
3/18/22	Zoom	Eldad Arie Hod, M.D. Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Director of the Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine	Transfusion Medicine-Related Perturbations to Systemic Iron Homeostasis
3/11/22	Zoom	Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D. Toll Professor Emeritus Director of Translational Research Stony Brook University	Approach Towards Disentangling the Factors Contributing to Disparities in Colorectal Cancer
3/4/22	Zoom	Robert Bronstein, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	Parietal Epithelial Cell Dynamics in Proliferative Glomerulopathy

February 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
2/25/22	Zoom	Alanna Morris M.D., MSc, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Director of Heart Failure Research Emory University Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute	The Complexity of Heart Failure Risk and Treatment in Patients from Minoritized Racial and Ethnic Groups
2/18/22	Zoom	Audun Lier, M.D., MPH Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Infectious Disease Northport VA	Infectious complications of opioid use disorder
2/11/22	Zoom	Pawan Kumar, BVSc, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stony Brook University	Gut microbiota and autoimmune neuroinflammation
2/4/22	Zoom	John C. Kennedy, M.D., M.Sc. Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Pulmonary Medicine Staff, Boston Children’s Hospital Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Staff, Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Homozygous Missense Mutations in GRN Cause Progressive Fibrotic Lung and Liver Disease that is Augmentable with TNF-alpha Inhibition

January 2022

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
1/28/22	Zoom	Yonathan Lissanu Deribe, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Research, Division of Surgery The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX	Chromatin Remodelers and Transcription Regulators in Cancer: a chemical biology approach
1/21/22	Zoom	Daniel Canals, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Research Medicine Department of Medicine and Cancer Center Stony Brook University	1-O-acylceramide: a new player in chemotherapy resistance
1/14/22	Zoom	Emilia J. Orzechowska-Licari, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine GI Translation Research Lab	Influence of stromal-epithelial interaction on the intestinal epithelium regeneration post-irradiation injury
1/7/22	Zoom	Dana Mordue, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology New York Medical College	Babesia: the tick-borne malaria-like parasite in your backyard

December 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
12/17/21	Zoom	Kelly Anne Hyndman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Cardio-Renal Physiology and Medicine Division Nephrology Department of Medicine \| Heersink School of Medicine UAB \| The University of Alabama at Birmingham	Epigenetic regulation in the kidney leading to fluid-electrolyte balance
12/10/21	Zoom	Elinor Randi Schoenfeld, Ph.D. Research Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Research, Family, Population and Preventive Medicine Deputy Division Head, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Fan Ye, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Stony Brook University	Principles and Infrastructure of Extreme Scale Edge Learning for Computational Screening and Surveillance for Health Care
12/3/21	Zoom	Esperanza Arias, PharmD, Ph.D.Department of Medicine Marion Bessin Liver Research Center Institute for Aging Research Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Selective Autophagy in Liver Pathophysiology

November 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
11/19/21	Zoom	Ari Grinspan, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Gastroenterology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	“Fecal Microbiota Transplant: A Hitchhikers Guide to the Microbiome”
11/12/21	Zoom	Neil Hukriede, Ph.D. Professor and Vice-Chair Department of Developmental Biology Director, Integrative Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh	“Hdac8 – Therapeutic Target for Acute Kidney Injury”
11/5/21	Zoom	Simon de Denus, B.Pharm, MSc, Ph.D. Professor and the Director of the Pharm.D. program at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UdeM Université de Montréal Beaulieu-Saucier	“From personalised medicine to drug concentrations: Back…to the future?”

October 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
10/29/21	Zoom	S. Elissa Altin, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale University	“Lower extremity peripheral revascularization for claudication: do we know it’s safe?”
10/22/21	Zoom	Stefanka D. Spassieva Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physiology University of Kentucky	“Taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy: deoxysphingolipid metabolism to-the-rescue”
10/15/21	Zoom	Marc Halterman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology Co-Director, Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute Stony Brook University	“Lung-brain coupling: reframing opportunities for post-ischemic neurovascular protection”
10/8/21	Zoom	Harold Bien, M.D., Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology Northport VA Medical Center	"Optimizing gene expression profiling at the single cell level of resected lung adenocarcinomas"
10/1/21	Zoom	Christian Faul, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Nephrology	“The Pathologic Actions of FGF23 in Chronic Kidney Disease"

September 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
9/24/21	Zoom	Arianne L. Theiss, Ph.D., AGAF Associate Professor Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology University of Colorado Denver	"Mitochondrial dysfunction and intestinal inflammation"
9/17/21	Zoom	Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D. Toll Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University	“A multi-omic approach to analyzing the effects of fecal microbial transplantation on recurrent C. difficile infection and /or inflammatory bowel diseases"
9/10/21	Zoom	Hwan Keun Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stony Brook University	“Comparative genetic analysis of tick-borne rickettsial pathogenesis"

June 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
6/29/21	Zoom	Erika Nemeth Biology B.S. \| Class of 2021 Specialization in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics Honors College, Stony Brook University 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence Winner	"WebGen – a serverless Web application for customized visualization of TCGA RNA-sequencing data"
6/22/21	Zoom	Michael Frohman, M.D., Ph.D. SUNY Distinguished Professor Chair, Department of Pharmacological Sciences Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD, MSTP) Associate Director for Education, Cancer Center Stony Brook University	"Role of Phospholipase D in breast cancer and an unexpected role in cardiac valve formation"
6/15/21	Zoom	Nehaben A. Gujarati, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Associate Department of Medicine-Nephrology Stony Brook University	"Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in diabetic kidney disease"
6/8/21	Zoom	Adrianus. W.M. van der Velden, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Center for Infectious Diseases Stony Brook University	"Immunity and host defense against Salmonella"
6/1/21	Zoom	Paolo Boffetta, M.D., MPH Professor, Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine Associate Director for Population Sciences Stony Brook Cancer Center Stony Brook University	"COVID-19 in Italian Healthcare Workers"

May 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
5/18/21	Zoom	Laurie W. Shroyer, Ph.D., M.S.H.A. Vice Chair for Research Department of Surgery Professor, School of Medicine Stony Brook University	"Publication Tips That Your Mentor Never Taught You"
5/11/21	Zoom	Chuan Huang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry Director of PET/MR Clinical Research Stony Brook University	"PET/MR – A marriage made in heaven?"
5/4/21	Zoom	Moshe Levi, M.D. Dean for Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology Georgetown University	"Effects of restoring NAD metabolism with Nicotinamide Riboside on mitochondrial function, inflammation, and kidney disease"

April 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
4/27/21	Zoom	Giovanni D’Angelo, Ph.D. Professor, Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair on Metabolism Institute of Bioengineering Laboratory of Lipid Cell Biology EPFL-SV-IBI Station 15 Swiss Federal Institute of Techno	“Sphingolipid Control of Fibroblast Heterogeneity Revealed by Single-Cell Lipidomics”
4/20/21	Zoom	Pawan Kumar, BVSc, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stony Brook University	“Intestinal IL-17 receptor signaling regulates epithelial cell lineage commitment”
4/13/21	Zoom	David C. Montrose, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“The Sweeter Side of Diet in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”
4/6/21	Zoom	Michael Edward Hall, M.D., MS, FAHA, FACC Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Diseases Department of Medicine University of Mississippi Medical Center	“Is HFpEF a Kidney Disease?"

March 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
3/30/21	Zoom	Sian Piret, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Transcriptional control of cellular metabolism in kidney injury”
3/23/21	Zoom	Carlos Simmerling, Ph.D. Marsha Laufer Endowed Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology Professor, Department of Chemistry Associate Director, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology Stony Brook University	“Activation of the SARS-CoV-2 membrane fusion spike: what can we learn from simulations?”
3/16/21	Zoom	Martin Kaczocha, PhD Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“Targeting Endocannabinoid Metabolism to Treat Pain”
3/9/21	Zoom	Sarah Huen, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Internal Medicine/Nephrology UT Southwestern Medical Center/Parkland Hospital	“Metabolism as Disease Tolerance: Implications for Sepsis-associated AKI”
3/2/21	Zoom	Holly Colognato, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pharmacology Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University	“Muscling in on the brain: a critical role for the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in postnatal brain development”

February 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
2/23/21	Zoom	Markus Riessland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Empire Innovation Program (Aging Brain) Department of Neurology and Behavior Center for Nervous System Disorders Stony Brook University	“Senescence in the midbrain: Do 'Zombies' cause Parkinson’s Disease?”
2/16/21	Zoom	Dada Pisconti, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	"No cell is an island: muscle stem cells and their niche in health and disease"
2/9/21	Zoom	Charles Kyriakos Vorkas, M.D. Instructor in Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Visiting Investigator, Glickman Lab, Sloan Kettering Institute	"Innate Lymphocytes and Tuberculosis"
2/2/21	Zoom	Krisztian Stadler, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pennington Biomedical Research Center Oxidative Stress and Disease Laboratory	"Mitochondrial substrate balance, nutrient overload and chronic kidney disease"

January 2021

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
1/26/21	Zoom	Benjamin Martin, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	"Coordinating morphogenesis and cell fate determination during vertebrate development"
1/19/21	Zoom	James E. Swain, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Parental Brain Adaptations to Stress, Depression & Opioid Use Disorder”
1/12/21	Zoom	Anat Biegon PhD Professor of Radiology and Neurology Director, Center on Gender, Hormones and Health Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Gender, hormones and health: The tip of the iceberg”
1/5/21	Zoom	Ken-Ichi Takemaru, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Cilia in Mammalian Development and Disease”

December 2020

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
12/15/20	Zoom	Matthew D. Lerner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Pediatrics Department of Psychology Stony Brook University	“What Have we learned about Social Competence in Autism at Stony Brook (and what else are we up to)?"
12/8/20	Zoom	Weiqin Lu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Stony Brook University	“Unraveling the Mechanistic Link Between High-Fat Diet and Pancreatic Cancer”
12/1/20	Zoom	Chelsea Estrada, DO, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program Stony Brook University Hospital	“Mechanisms of renal thrombotic microangiopathy”

November 2020

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
11/24/20	Zoom	No lecture - holiday	No lecture - holiday
11/17/20	Zoom	Nadia Hasaneen, M.D., Ph.D., FCCP Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital	“EMMPRIN as a Promising Therapeutic Target for Lung Fibrosis and SARS-CoV-2”
11/10/20	Zoom	Daria (Dasha) Ilatovskaya, MSc, PhD, FAHA Assistant Professor Medical University of South Carolina Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, and Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology	“The effects of ANP on mitochondrial bioenergetics in salt-sensitive hypertension"
11/3/20	Zoom	No lecture - Election Day	No lecture - Election Day

October 2020

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
October 27, 2020	Zoom	Christopher Clarke, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Research Department of Medicine and Cancer Center SUNY Stony Brook	“Oncogenic reprogramming of Sphingolipid metabolism promotes anchorage-independent survival in breast cancer"
October 20, 2020	Zoom	Adam J. Singer, M.D. Professor and Vice Chairman for Research Department of Emergency Medicine Stony Brook University	"Research in Emergency Medicine: A Journey of Opportunities"
October 13, 2020	Zoom	Styliani-Anna E. Tsirka, Ph.D. Miriam and David Donoho Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Director, Scholars in BioMedical Sciences Program Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University	“Microglia and Macrophages in high grade glioma"
October 6, 2020	Zoom	Eszter Boros, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Co-appointed with Departments of Pharmacology and Radiology Stony Brook University	"Exploring metallic radioisotopes for theranostic applications for cancer: from chemistry to preclinical validation"

September 2020

Date	Location	Presenter	Title
September 29, 2020	Zoom	Jingfang Ju, Ph.D Professor of Pathology Department of Pathology Renaissance School of Medicine	“Development of a miRNA based platform technology for cancer therapeutics”
September 22, 2020	Zoom	Gábor Balázsi, PhD Henry Laufer Professor The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	"Role of cellular heterogeneity in chemical therapy resistance and metastasis"
September 15, 2020	Zoom	Mary F. Kritzer, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Renaissance School of Medicine	“Using Rodent Models to Identify Impacts of Sex and Sex Hormones on Cognitive Function in Neuropsychiatric Disease”
September 8, 2020	Zoom	Jon Patrick Longtin, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Dean and Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Renaissance School of Medicine	"Engineering and Medicine Working Together: An Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19”
September 1, 2020	Zoom	Farrukh M. Koraishy, MD, PhD, FASN Associate Professor of Nephrology/Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital	"AKI in Patients with COVID-19"

March 2020

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
March 10, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Styliani-Anna (Stella) E. Tsirka, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences Director, Scholars in BioMedical Sciences Program Stony Brook University	“Microglia/Macrophages in glioma”
March 3, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Cungui Mao, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine and Cancer Center Renaissance School of Medicine	“Alkaline ceramidase 2 (ACER2): a novel mediator of p53 in DNA damage response and tumor suppression”

February 2020

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
February 25, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Somanon Bhattacharya, MS, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Fries Lab State University of New York - Stony Brook	"Increased Anti-fungal Resilience in Older Generation of Pathogenic Fungal Cells"
February 18, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Markus Bitzer, M.D. Professor of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology University of Michigan	"The Increasing Complexity of MicroRNA Functions in the Kidney"
February 11, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Therapeutic Radiology Yale University	"Understanding and targeting RNA Splicing in Pancreatic Cancer: The Missing Link Between KRAS and Mutant P53"
February 4, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Sahar Ahmad, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Director of Ultrasound Education Associate Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital	"Ultrasound To Predict Trapped Lung"

January 2020

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
January 28, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Turhan Canli, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Area Head, Integrative Neuroscience Department of Psychology Stony Brook University	"Discovery and cross-validation of genes associated with anxiety-related traits”
January 21, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Flaminia Talos, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Departments of Urology and Pathology Stony Brook Medical Center Stony Brook Cancer Center	“Direct conversion of Fibroblasts into prostate and bladder epithelia”
January 14, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Youhua Liu, Ph.D. UPMC Endowed Chair in Tissue Biology, Professor of Pathology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	"Interstitial Fibroblasts After Kidney Injury: Friends or Foes?"
January 7, 2020	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Roger Berner Sher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Stony Brook University	“Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Defects and Retrotransposon Reactivation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”

December 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
December 17, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Matthew H. Wilson M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University	"Engineering a Novel Cell Therapy for Sustained Therapeutic Protein Delivery in Vivo"
December 10, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Agnieszka Bialkowska, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine GI Translational Research Lab Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine	"Pancreatic neoplasia - development and progression"
December 3, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, FASN Chief, Division of Nephrology Associate Professor of Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital Renaissance School of Medicine

November 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
November 19, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Nancy Reich, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stony Brook University	"Context Dependency of KRAS and STAT3 in Pancreatic Cancer"
November 12, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Lonnie P. Wollmuth, PhD Professor, Depts. of Neurobiology & Behavior and Biochemistry & Cell Biology Center of Nervous System Disorders Stony Brook University	"Clearing the Brain Fog in Lupus"
November 5, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, FASN Chief, Division of Nephrology Associate Professor of Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital

October 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
October 29, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Viktoriya Sidorenko, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University Hospital	"Human nephrotoxins and carcinogens: aristolochic acids - from global exposure to mechanistic insights"
October 22, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Alexander Stessin, MD, PhD Radiation Oncology Residency Program Director Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology Stony Brook University Hospital	"Combination of Radiosurgery and Immunotherapy as Novel Treatment Paradigm for Glioblastoma"
October 8, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Srinivas Pentyala, PhD Professor & Director of Translational Research of Anesthesiology Faculty Member in Urology, Health Sciences, Physiology & Biophysics, SARAS Coordinator Stony Brook University Hospital	"Bench-to-Bedside: Translational approach of thinking outside the box"

September 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
September 24, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Jignesh Patel, M.D., MSc. Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital	“Role of Inflammatory Cytokines on Cardiac Arrest Outcomes"
September 17, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Nancy Marie Hollingworth, Ph.D. SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“Coordination between double strand break repair and meiotic progression in yeast"
September 10, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Thomas W. White, Ph.D. Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Connexin Channels and Genetic Skin Disease"
September 3, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Jessica Seeliger, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University Medical School	"Mycomembrane Madness: Exploring the Lipidic Origins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesi

June 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
June 4, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D. Chair and Professor Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Stony Brook Medical School Stony Brook University	“Integration of sensory and cognitive Signals in the insular cortex”
June 11, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Rachel Wong, M.D., MPH, MBA, FACP Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Training Providers for the Future: Interdisciplinary Care of Chronic Pain and Opioid Management in the Age of Telemedicine”
June 18, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ryuji Morizane Assistant Professor Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan	“Kidney Organoids for Disease Modeling and Regenerative Medicine”

May 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
May 7, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	David Talmage, PhD Professor of Pharmacological Sciences, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Intramural Research Program National Institute for Mental Health, NIH Stony Brook University	“Sepsis and Acute Kidney”
May 14, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Vivek Bhalla, M.D., FASN, FAHA Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Stanford University School of Medicine	“Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Brain”
May 21, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Patricia Ng, M.D., FACP Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Primary Care Track Director Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program Department of Medicine, Division of General, Geriatrics, and Hospital Medicine Stony Brook Medicine	“Semen exosome-mediated inhibition of HIV: A tale of two vesicles”
May 28, 2019		Seminar Cancelled	Cancelled

April 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
April 2, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Hato Takashi, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology Indiana University School of Medicine	“Sepsis and Acute Kidney”
April 9, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Shaoyu Ge, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Brain”
April 16, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Chioma M. Okeoma, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology Stony Brook University	“Semen exosome-mediated inhibition of HIV: A tale of two vesicles”
April 23, 2019			Cancelled
April 30, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Bhaskar Das Departments of Medicine and Pharmacological Sciences Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai	“Boron Based Retinoid Probes and Therapeutics”

March 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
March 5, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Runjun Gong, MD, PhD, FASN Professor of Medicine Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Medicine Director of Kidney Research, Division of Nephrology University of Toledo College of Medicine	“Therapeutic targeting of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta in kidney disease”
March 12, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Joshua Dubnau, PhD Professor Department of Anesthesiology Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“The Retrotransposon Storm Hypothesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”
March 19, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Dongyan Tan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Health and Cancer”
March 26, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Chioma M. Okeoma, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University School of Medicine	Canceled

February 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
February 5, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Stefan Judex, Ph.D. Professor and Interim Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	“How bone perceives exercise: implications for preventing osteoporosis”
February 12, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Seminar cancelled
February 19, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Brian Sheridan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Molecularr Genetics and Microbiology Center for Infectious Diseases Stony Brook University	“Inducing T cell immunity mucosal tissues”
February 26, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Luis Marcos-Raymundo, MD, FACP, MPH Fellowship Program Director Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Global Health Institute & Tropical Medicine	“Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases in Madagascar: 2016-2018”

January 2019

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
January 8, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Anissa Abi-Dargham, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Vice Chair of Research Department of Psychiatry Stony Brook University	“Molecular Imaging in Schizophrenia”
January 15, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Robert L. Bacallao, M.D. Professor of Medicine Associate Professor Cell Biology and Anatomy Indiana University	“Mathematical models of cyst formation in ADPKD insights from computer based modeling”
January 22, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Richard Moffitt, PhD Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Enabling personalized medicine in pancreatic cancer”
January 29, 2019	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Steven E. Glynn, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“Mechanisms of mitochondrial proteolysis in health and neurodegeneration”

December 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
December 4, 2018	Hospital lobby conference rooms 1&2	Ashley J. Snider, Ph.D. Research Health Scientist, VAMC Assistant Professor, SBUMC Department of Medicine	“Sphingolipids in Saturated Fatty Acid-Induced ER Stress and Inflammatory Responses”
December 11, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Mary D. Frame (McMahon), Ph.D Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University	“Thermal Burn Injury Progression: understanding the process and potential treatment”
December 18, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ruth J. Napier, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Oregon Health & Science University	“A T cell intrinsic role for Nod2 in suppression of autoimmune arthritis”

November 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
November 6, 2018	Hospital Lobby conference rooms 1&2	Avi Z. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D.-DABP Assistant Professor Department of Pathology Division of Kidney and Urologic Pathology Department of Cell Biology (secondary) Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	“Deconstructing Fibrosis in Kidney Diseases”
November 27, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Laura Conforti, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension University of Cincinnati	“Ion Channels and the failure of Immunosurveillance in Cancer”

October 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
October 2, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Leah J. Siskind, Ph.D. Associate Professor Associate Vice Chair for Graduate Education Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology James Graham Brown Cancer Center University of Louisville	“Understanding Mechanisms of Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity”
October 9, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Kevin Czaplinski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology Stony Brook University	“Hnrnpab regulates neural cell motility through transcription of the Eps8 gene”
October 16, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ahmed Attallah, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Department of Medicine - Nephrology Stony Brook University	“Role of Tubular Krüppel-Like Factor 15 in renal injury”
October 23, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Elizabeth M. Boon, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Co-Director NIH-funded T32 Chemical Biology Training Program Stony Brook University	“Nitric oxide regulation of bacterial biofilms”
October 30, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Helen Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Surgery Stony Brook University	“Voltage dependent potentiation of GABA-A currents in hippocampal pyramidal neurons”

September 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
September 4, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Esther Speer, MD Professor of Surgery and Radiology Director, Vascular Laboratory	“Age-specific adjunctive immune-modulatory sepsis therapy for the very young - Is it feasible?”
September 11, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Silvana Obici, M.D. Division Chief of Endocrinology Department of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Approaches to Precision Obesity Therapy”
September 18, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Agnieszka Bialkowska, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine GI Translational Research Lab Stony Brook University	“Krüppel-like factor 5 [KLF5] is a critical mediator of pancreatic tumorigenesis”
September 25, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Danny Bluestein, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	“Calcific Aortic Valve Disease and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement – a Biomechanics Perspective”

June 2018

Date/ Time

Location

Presenter

Title

June 12, 2018

HSC T-16 conference room 025

David Basile, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology
Indiana University School of Medicine

“Endothelial and Inflammatory Modulation
of the AKI to CKD Transition”

June 19, 2018

HSC T-16 conference room 025

Julie Paik, MD
Associate Professor
Channing Division of Network Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

“Vertebral Fractures: A Major Healthcare Burden”

May 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
May 1, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Nicos Labropoulos, PhD Professor of Surgery and Radiology Director, Vascular Laboratory	“Thrombus venous wall interaction and spatial distribution of fibrin”
May 8, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Jonas Almeida, Ph.D. Professor, Chief Technology Officer Department of Biomedical Informatics Stony Brook University	“Data, Data Everywhere but not a Bit to Use – Mobile Biomedical Informatics for an Health System Awash in Data”
May 15, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Sian Piret, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Mechanisms of Renal Fibrosis”
May 22, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	John Lee, MD, MS Assistant Professor in Medicine New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College	“The Gut Microbiome in Kidney Transplantation; Dysbiosis, Complications, and Potential Treatments”
May 29, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	John D. Haley, PhD Associate Professor Research Department of Pathology Director, Proteomics Center Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Cancer targeted therapy pathways and feedback mediated resistance”

April 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
April 3, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Rajeev Rohatgi, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine Chief, Renal Section, Northport VAMC	“The role of cholesterol in salt-sensitivity”
Thursday, April 5, 2018	BST T9 room 145 (Pathology Classroom)	Keping Xie, MD, PhD Professor (Tenured), Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	“Transcription Factors in Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression"
April 17, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Jonas Almeida, PhD Cancelled	“Data, Data Everywhere but not a Bit to Use – Mobile Biomedical Informatics for an Health System Awash in Data”
April 24, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Leslie Gewin, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University Medical Center	“TGF-beta and Renal Fibrosis: The Goldilocks Principle”

March 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
March 6, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Adam J. Singer Professor and Vice Chair for Research Department of Emergency Medicine Stony Brook University	“Understanding and limiting burn injury progression”
March 13, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Jiang Chen, MD Associate Professor Departments of Pathology and Dermatology Stony Brook Medicine	“Cilia and cilia-related genes in skin morphogenesis, adhesion, and cancer”
March 20, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Nadia Hasaneen, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Stony Brook University Hospital	“Role of Extracellular Matrix Metalloproteinase Inducer in Lung Fibrosis”
March 27, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Huichun Zhan, MD, MS Assistant Professor Division of Hematology-Oncology Stony Brook University Attending Physician, Northport VA Medical Center	“Hematopoietic Microenvironments in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms”

February 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
February 6, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Chia-Hsin (Lori) Chan Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University	“Ubiquitin Ligases as Novel Drug targets in Human Cancers”
February 13, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Division of Gastroenterology Stony Brook University	“ Longitudinal Integr-omic Microbiome Analysis of Single Donor Fecal Microbial Transplantation in Patients with Recurrent C. difficile Infection and/or Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ”
February 27, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Kelley Yan, M.D., Ph.D. Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Assistant Professor of Medicine Columbia Center for Human Development Department of Medicine Department of Genetics & Development Columbia University Medical Center	“ Intestinal stem cell identity and fate at single-cell resolution ”

January 2018

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
January 9, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Hyungjin Kim, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Proteolytic control of DNA replication stress and tumorigenesis”
January 16, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Benjamin Martin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“ Using zebrafish as an in vivo model of stem cell development and cancer metastasis ”
January 23, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	William E. (Ted) Diehl, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Program in Molecular Medicine Mass Medical School	“ Glycoprotein mutation from 2013-2016 Ebola virus outbreak provides mechanistic insight into viral fusion ”
January 30, 2018	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Shu Jia, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	“ Exploring Single-Molecule Biophotonics with Ultrahigh-Resolution Spatiotemporal-Multiplexed Optical Microscopy ”

December 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
December 5, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Weiqin Lu, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“NADPH Oxidase in Essential for Mutant Kras-mediated Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma”
December 12, 2017	Hospital Lobby Conference Rooms 1&2	Herve Tiriac, PhD Research Investigator Laboratory of Dr. David Tuveson Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	“Accelerating Therapeutic Discovery with Organoid Models of Pancreatic Disease”

November 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
November 7, 2017	Hospital Lobby Conference Rooms 1&2	Chang Kyung (Joanna) Kim MD/PhD Candidate Department of Pharmacological Sciences Medical Scientist Training Program Stony Brook Medicine	“Regulation of intestinal stem cells by Kruppel-like factor 5”
November 14, 2017	Health Science Tower level 3 Lecture Hall 6	Ken-Ichi Takemaru, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences School of Medicine Stony Brook University	“Mechanisms of Ciliogenesis and Ciliary Diseases”
November 28, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Michael V. Airola, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	“Structural and functional insights into triglyceride metabolism”

October 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
October 3, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Stony Brook University School of Medicine	“Epidemiology of Heart Failure in Older Adults”
October 10, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Daifeng Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Affiliated Assistant Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Faculty member, Stony Brook Cancer Center Stony Brook University	“Multi-scale modeling and network analysis in systems biology”
October 17, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Lampros Papadimitriou, MD, PhD Research Assistant Professor Heart Failure Research Stony Brook University	“How Low should we go with salt in Heart Failure”
October 24, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Richard Lin, MD Professor of Physiology & Biophysics and Medicine Department of Physiology Stony Brook University	“Targeting PI 3-kinase Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer”
October 31, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Nirvani Goolsarran, MD, FACP Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Associate Program Director Internal Medicine Residency	“Systems Based Thinking in Medical Education: Developing an Approach to Competency in Quality and Patient Safety”

September 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
September 5, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	David Q. Matus, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	"Divide or Conquer: Cell Cycle Regulation of Cell Invasive Behavior"
September 12, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Getu Teressa, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Division of General Medicine-Hospitalist Section Stony Brook University Medical Center	"Coronary CT Angiography for Low-Risk Acute Chest Pain Patients: How Low is too Low?"

June 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
June 6, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Elizabet Diago Navarro, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Stony Brook University	"Characterizing Monoclonal Antibodies Against Klebsiella Pneumoniae"
June 13, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Lorna Role, PhD SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Member CNS Disorders Research Center Co-director, Neuroscience Institute	"Manipulating Cholinergic Circuits and Modulating Emotionally Salient Memories"
June 20, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Laurie T. Krug, PhD Associate Professor Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University	"Molecular Piracy by a Murine Gammaherpesvirus to Infect and Persist in the Host"
June 27, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	David L. Spector, PhD Robert B. Gardner Jr., Professor Director of Research Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	"Finding New Ways to Halt Breast Cancer Progression"

May 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
May 2, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ronald P. Taylor, PhD Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia	"Compelling Evidence for Re-design of Dosing Schedules in mAb-based Immunotherapy of Cancer: Lessons learned from CD20 mAbs"
May 9, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Eric Brouzes, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University	"Array of Microwells for Analysis of CML at Single-cell Resolution"
May 16, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Lena Heung, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Medicine	"The CCR2+ Inflammatory Monocyte: A Checkpoint for the Immune Response to Cryptococcus Neoformans"
May 23, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Puja B. Parikh, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI Assistant Professor Director of Invasive Cardiology Co-Director, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program	"Impact of PTSD on Cardiovascular Morbidity in Veterans with Heart Disease"

April 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
April 4, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Pawan Kumar, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University	"Intestinal IL-17R Signaling and Mucosal Host Defense"
April 11, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Iwao Ojima, PhD University Distinguished Professor Director, Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery	"Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery of New-Generation Taxanes"
April 18, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Cancelled	Cancelled
April 25, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Peter J. Tonge, PhD Professor, Department of Chemistry Professor, Department of Radiology Co-Founder Chronus Pharmaceuticals Inc. Stony Brook University	"Improving the Prediction of In Vivo Drug Activity"

March 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
March 7, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Holly Colognato, PhD Associate Professor Associate Director, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Program Stony Brook University	"Thinking Outside The Cell: The Role of Extracellular Matrix in Regulating The Brain's Largest Neural Stem Cell Niche "
March 14, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Cancelled	Cancelled
March 21, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	W. Todd Miler, PhD Professor, Physiology and Biophysics Department of Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University	"Mechanisms That Regulate Oncogenic Tyrosine Kinase Signaling"
March 28, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Rick Schnellmann, PhD Professor and Dean College of Pharmacy Research Health Scientist University of Arizona Southern Arizona VA Health Care System	"Mitochondrial Biogenesis as a Pharmacological Target to Treat Cardiovascular Diseases"

February 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
February 7, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Aaron Neiman, PhD Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	"From Yeast Spores to Neurodegeneration: The Functions of VPS13"
February 14, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Dima Neiman, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Stony Brook University	“Modeling and Modulating Protein-Protein Interactions”
February 21, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Markus Seeliger Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University	"Dynamics of Inhibitor Binding and Regulation of Protein Tyrosine Kinases"
February 28, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	David Montrose Instructor of Pharmacology in Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Weill Cornell Medicine	“Targeting Luminal and Host Metabolism as A Cancer Prevention Strategy in The GI Tract”

January 2017

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
January 3, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Ed Luk, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University	"Chromatin Remodeling Mechanisms at Yeast Promoters"
January 10, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Maurizio Del Poeta, MD Professor Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University	"The Research and Development of New Antifungal Drugs"
January 17, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Mihaela Gadjeva, PhD Assistant Professor Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine	"Impact of Microbiota on Resistance to P.aeruginosa-induced Infection"
January 24, 2017	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Fred Friedberg, PhD Research Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry Stony Brook University Medical Center	“Fibromyalgia: Assessment and Intervention"

December 2016

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
December 13, 2016	Hospital Lobby conference rooms 1 & 2	Kirk Campbell, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, NYC	"Novel Mediators of Podocyte Survival in Glomerular Disease Progression"

November 2016

Date/ Time	Location	Presenter	Title
November 1, 2016	Hospital Lobby conference rooms 1 & 2	Blythe D. Shepard, PhD Department of Physiology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	"A Renal Olfactory Receptor Aids in Kidney Glucose Handling"
November 8, 2016	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Peter S. Heeger, MD Arthur and Irene Fishberg Professor of Medicine Director, Translational Transplant Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	“An Expanded Role for Complement in Transplant Rejection”
November 15, 2016	Hospital Lobby conference rooms 1 & 2	Wen-Wei Tchou, MD Associate Professor Department of Medicine Small Grant Research Corporation of Long Island NVAMC IRB #00433	“Northport VAMC Pilot Study-Baseline Findings Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Impacts upon NVAMC Prostate Cancer Veterans‘ Outcomes”
November 22, 2016	N/A	No Conference	N/A
November 29, 2016	HSC T-16 conference room 025	Agnieszka Bialkowska, PhD Assistant Professor Stony Brook University GI Translational Research Lab	“Krüppel-like Factor 5 [KLF5] in Inflammation and Cancer”