Date Title and Speaker
Aug. 24

Introduction for Graduate Students

Janet Casagrand, Ph.D.
Senior Instructor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

Aug. 31

Optimality of human motor control: Negotiated equilibrium and sticky gradients

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

Sep. 14

Reductionism is killing biomedical science

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

Sep. 21

Sleep as a mediator of cardiometabolic health disparities

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

Sep. 28

Biomarker-responsive imaging: In search of a noninvasive biopsy

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

Oct. 5

A sleepy sabbatical: Impact of nicotine on sleep in mice

Jerry Stitzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute of Behavioral Genetics and Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

Oct. 12

Pathways linking sleep restriction and fat feeding to insulin resistance

Josiane Broussard, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

Oct. 19

Of mice and macrophages - How salmonella evades the immune system

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

Oct. 26

An immunization strategy for prevention of stress-related psychiatric disorders

Christopher Lowry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

Nov. 2

Genetic mapping for diabetes and obesity traits using outbred rats

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

Nov. 9

Biomechanical and cognitive factors contributing to locomotor learning

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

Nov. 16

Circadian clock and metabolic flexibility

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

Nov. 30

Time-restricted feeding as an intervention against metabolic diseases

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

Dec. 7

The healthspan-promoting effects of periodic fasting

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