Colloquium in Integrative Physiology

Spring 2025

  • When:ÌýMondays: 11:15am-12:05pm Eaton Humanities Building 250 (Occasional Wednesday talks same time in MUEN E214)
  • For more information about the series or about any of the speakers, contact Marissa EhringerÌýat marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu
  • To attend the talks remotely, please request Zoom link from Brandon.Michieli@colorado.edu

Schedule

DateTitle and Speaker

Wednesday, January 15thÌý

Eaton Humanities 250

Circadian Lifestyle Optimization to Improve Health

Emily Manoogian, Ph.D.
Head of Human Research
Regulatory Biology Laboratory
Salk Institute

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Wednesday, January 22nd

MUEN E214Ìý

Exercise timing in cardiovascular risks and benefits: The role of the endogenous circadian system

Leandro Brito, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
Oregon Health & Science University

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Monday, January 27th

Eaton Humanities 250

Harnessing light: Exploring novel therapeutic pathways to enhance sleep, cognition, and health equity

Renske Lok, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Department of Psychiatry
Stanford University

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Monday, February 3rd

Eaton Humanities 250

Circadian Rhythms and Light: New Approaches to Enhancing Fertility, Assisted Reproduction Technology Success, and Animal Welfare

Alexandra Yaw, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Animal Science
Michigan State University

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Wednesday, February 5th

MUEN E214Ìý

Gut-brain sensory cells that differentially regulate ingestion-related physiology and behavior.

Marito Hayashi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard University

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Monday, February 10th

Eaton Humanities 250

From variant-to-function: a cross-species approach to understanding sleep

Amber Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Division of Human Genetics
University of Pennsylvania

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Monday, February 17th

Eaton Humanities 250

Biophysical mechanisms of brain state dynamics

Oscar Gonzales, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Standford University

(Host: Kenneth Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

Monday, February 24th

Eaton Humanities 250

Chemicals and Regulation: A Focus on Menstruation, Fossil Fuel Pollution, and Disproportionate Exposure

Jenni Shearston Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
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(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, March 3rd

Eaton Humanities 250

Foams, plates and non-responders - the latest insights on performance running shoes

Wouter Hoogkamer Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology
University of Massachusetts Amherst

(Host: Peter Kim sewan.kim@colorado.edu)

Monday, March 10th

Eaton Humanities 250

Environmental Metal Exposure and Impacts on Chronic Disease

Tiffany Sanchez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Colorado School of Public Health

(Host: Jenni ShearstonÌýjenni.shearston@colorado.edu)

Monday, March 17th

Eaton Humanities 250

Can you mitigate gender bias in student evaluations of teaching? Evaluating alternative methods of soliciting feedback

Ann Owen, Ph.D.
Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Hamilton College

(Host:Janet Casagrand janet.casagrand@colorado.edu)

Monday, April 7th

Eaton Humanities 250

No Colloquium this week

(students enrolled in course will still attend recitation)

Monday, April 14th

Eaton Humanities 250

Moving Bionic Legs from the Lab to the Real World

Tomasso Lenzi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah

(Host: Alena Grabowski alena.grabowski@colorado.edu)

Monday, April 21st

Eaton Humanities 250

Graduate Student Presentations

Joseph Lim, MS- Self-Reported Sleep Measures are Associated with the Gut Microbiome Among Young Adults

Sophia Mahoney, PhD- The role of cellular senescence and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype in vascular aging: Amelioration by the natural senolytic fisetin

John Sterrett, PhD- Novel multi-omics methods improve understanding of host-microbe crosstalk in the mammalian gut

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