Department of Integrative Physiology

Integrative Physiology Seminar Series

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Seminar Series Schedule

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All seminars take place in 409B at 11 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.

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Faculty Seminar 2025 - 2026

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Speaker

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Sept 2, 2025Hamed Jafar-Nejad, M.D.
Molecular & Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
"Building Better Biliary Branches"
Sept 9, 2025 Ryan S. Dhindsa, M.D., Ph.D.
Pathology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine 
"Population-scale genomics for therapeutic discovery"
Sept 16, 2025Hongjie Li, Ph.D.
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
"Mapping Aging and Longevity at Cellular Resolution Across the Whole Organism"
Sept 23, 2025Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D.
IMM-Center for Human Genetics
UTHealth Houston
"Molecular genetic basis of electrocardiographic QT interval variability"
Sept 30, 2025Guangyu Wang, Ph.D.
Cardiovascular Sciences
Houston Methodist
"AI Approaches for Multi-Modality Genomics and Image in Biomedicine"
Oct 7, 2025George Rodney, Ph.D.
Integrative Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
"Turning the Heat Down in Skeletal Muscle"
Oct 14, 2025Jun Wang, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
"To Beat or Not to Beat: A Hippin in the Heart"
Oct 28, 2025Lachlan Rach, Ph.D.
Health, Medicine & Behavioural Sciences
The University of Queensland, Australia
"Development of venom peptide inhibitors of acid-sensing ion channel 1a as potential therapeutics for multiple sclerosis."
Nov 4, 2025David Durgan, Ph.D.
Integrative Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBA
Nov 11, 2025Mehmet Şen, Ph.D.
Department of Biology & Biochemistry
University of Houston
TBA
Nov 18, 2025Vishnu Dileep, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
TBA
Nov 25, 2025NO SEMINARHappy Thanksgiving!
Dec 9, 2025Ergun Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.
Huffington Center on Aging
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Dec 16, 2025NO SEMINAR Happy Holidays!
Dec 23, 2025NO SEMINARHappy Holidays!
Jan 6, 26NO SEMINARHappy New Year!
Jan 13, 2026Melanie Samuel, Ph.D.
Huffington Center on Aging
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Jan 20, 2026Jacob Reimer, Ph.D.
Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Jan 27, 2026Bruno Di Stefano, Ph.D.
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Feb 03, 2026Xiao Li, Ph.D.
Texas Heart Institute 
Integrative Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Feb 10, 2026Jeremy E. Wilusz, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Feb 17, 2026Mario Escobar Galdamez, Ph.D.TBD
Mar 3, 2026Pamela Wenzel, Ph.D.
Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
UT Health Houston
TBD
Mar 10, 2026Joseph Hyser, Ph.D.
Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Mar 17, 2026Sean Hartig, Ph.D.
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Mar 24, 2026Thomas A. Cooper, M.D.
Pathology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Mar 31, 2026Barna Dubok, Ph.D.
Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
TBD
Apr 21, 2026Gustavo Ayala, M.D.
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
UT Health Houston
TBD
May 19, 2026Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology
Division of Discovery Science
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
TBD