Omar N. Al Yacoub, Pharmaceutical Sciences
THE N/OFQ-NOP RECEPTOR SYSTEM: A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Date and Time: June 9th, 2023, 9:00 AM CST, Location: College of Pharmacy Building, CPB 101
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Kelly M. Standifer, PhD (Committee Chair); Hibah O. Awwad, PhD; Anna Csiszar, MD, PhD; Rheal A. Towner, PhD; Amanda L. Sharpe, PhD
Kevin Thomas, Pathology
Molecular Characterization of Heterogeneity of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Date and Time: May 23rd, 2023, 1:00 PM, Location: Hensley Library, BMSB 433
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Judith James, MD, PhD; Joel Guthridge, PhD; Joe Zhao, PhD; Asish Ghosh, PhD; Matlock Jeffries, MD
Vasileios Morkotinis, Cell Biology 
Mechanisms of intestine remodeling and regeneration in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Date and Time: Thursday, May 4th, 2023, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: David J. Forsthoefel, Ph.D., Chair; Shannon Conley, Ph.D.; Patrick Gaffney, M.D.; Courtney Griffin, Ph.D.; Eric Howard, Ph.D.; Lorin Olson, Ph.D.
Wentao Liang, Physiology 
Pathogenic Mechanisms of Diabetic Keratopathy
Date and Time: Friday May 5th, 2023, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Jian-Xing Ma, M.D., Ph.D., Chair; Jiyang Cai, Ph.D., Co-Chair; Dimitrios Karamichos, Ph.D.; Michelle Callegan, Ph.D.; Raju Rajala, Ph.D.; Shaoning Jiang, Ph.D.
Destiny Simpson, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 
RAG2 Noncore Domain Regulates Localization, Enzyme Activity, and Chromatin Interactions of the V(D)J Recombinase
Date and Time: May 3rd, 2023, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Karla Rodgers, PhD; Paul DeAngelis, PhD; Christopher Sansam, PhD; Mark Lang, PhD; William Rodgers, PhD; Guangpu Li, PhD
Nicole Lee Eliason, Pharmaceutical Sciences
HYPOTHALAMIC ASTROCYTES EXPRESSING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTORS REGULATE INFLAMMATION AND BODY WEIGHT HOMEOSTASIS
Date and Time: April 27th, 2023, 1:00 PM, Location: College of Pharmacy Building, CPB 101 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Dr. Amanda Sharpe, Dr. Kelly Standifer, Dr. Michael Ihnat, Dr. Ann Louise Olson, Dr. Bill Freeman
Ruhul Kayesh, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Regulation of Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide (OATP) 1B1 and OATP1B3 by Competitive Inhibition and Post-translational Modifications
Date and Time: April 26th, 2023, 12:00 PM, Location: College of Pharmacy Building, CPB 101
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Wei Yue, PhD (Committee Chair); Nathan Shankar, PhD; Michael Ihnat, PhD; Lucila Garcia-Contreras; PhD; Jie Wu, PhD.
Michael Chacko, Radiolocial Sciences 
Application of Computed Tomography and Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Proton Stopping Power Estimation for Radiation Therapy
Date and Time: April 26th, 2023, 2:00 PM, Location: Garrison Tower, Suite 3G3210 Room 3211
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: J.R. Sonnad, Ph.D., Dee Wu, Ph.D., Salahuddin Ahmad, Ph.D., Raman Rana, Ph.D., Hong Liu, Ph.D.
Araya Dimtsu Assfaw, Public Health - Health Promotion Sciences
IDENTIFYING UNMET NEEDS AND CHALLENGES OF INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA (PLWD)
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023, 2:00 PM, Location: Hudson College of Public Health Building 1st floor Room 144 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Kerstin M. Reinschmidt PhD, MPH (Committee Chair); Thomas A.Teasdale, DrPH; Lancer Stephens, PHD; Keith L. Kleszynski, PhD; Kathleen Dwyer, PhD, RN
Ami E. Sedani, Epidemiology 
Understanding Emerging Issues in Lung Cancer Prevention Strategies
Date and Time: April 17, 2023, 8:00 AM, Location: Hudson College of Public Health (CHB) Room 144 or Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Janis E. Campbell, Ph.D. (chair), Laura A. Beebe, Ph.D., Jennifer D. Peck, Ph.D., Summer G. Frank-Pearce, Ph.D., Ann F. Chou, Ph.D.
Amy Kennedy, Pathology 
Mechanism of SHetA2 in Cervical Cancer
Date and Time: Monday, April 17th, 2023 3:00 P.M. Location: Bird Library Auditorium (LIB299) and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Doris Benbrook, PhD (Committee Chair); Bethany Hannafon, PhD, Asish Ghosh, PhD, Anna Csiszar, PhD, Wei-Qun Ding, PhD
Rachel McNamar, Cell Biology 
Identifying Components of the Mammalian RNA Polymerase I Apparatus Required for rDNA Transcription
Date and Time: Monday, April 17th, 2023 3:00 - 4:00 P.M.. Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Lawrence I. Rothblum, Ph.D., Chair; Gary Gorbsky, Ph.D.; Ralf Janknecht, Ph.D.; Christopher Sansam, Ph.D.; Augen Pioszak, Ph.D..
Huiping Shi, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
ROLES OF VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE
Date and Time: March 21st, 2023 10:00 A.M. Location: Bird Library Auditorium and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Lijun Xia, MD, PhD (Committee Chair); Ann Louise Olson, PhD; Paul L. DeAngelis, PhD; Archana Unnikrishnan, PhD; Xin Zhang, MD, PhD
Katarzyna Zyla-Jackson, Cell Biology
METABOLIC INTERVENTIONS FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Date and Time: February 10th, 2023, 10:00am Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC) 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Scott M Plafker, PhD, Shannon M Conley, PhD, Susan Kovats, PhD, John Kimble Frazer, MD, PhD, Kenneth M Humphries, PhD, David M Sherry, PhD
Leena Almasri, Nursing 
INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN OLDER ADULTS WITH DIABETES WHO LIVE IN NURSING HOMES IN OKLAHOMA
Date and Time: December 16th, 2022, 12:00 PM, Location: CON Rm. 130
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Emily J. Jones PhD, RNC-OB, Chair; Barbara Carlson PhD, RN; Diana L. Sturdevant PhD, GCNS-BC, APRN; Summer G. Frank-Pearce, Jonea Lim UM, MD
Robert S. Fogle, III, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Design and Development of Atypical Steroidal Scaffolds Targeting Oxysterol Binding Protein
Date and Time: December 15th, 2022, 10:00 AM, Location: COP Rm. 339 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Anthony Burgett, Ph.D., Vibhudutta Awasthi, Ph.D., Hariprasad Gali, Ph.D., Aditya Joshi, Ph.D., Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Walker Hoolehan, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Updating the Definition of V(D)J Recombination Signal Sequences with High-Throughput Recombination Assays
Date and Time: 14th December, 2022, 3:30 pm, Location: Bird Library Auditorium (LIB299) and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Karla Rodgers, PhD (Committee Chair); Sanjay Bidichandani, MBBS, PhD; Paul DeAngelis, PhD; Franklin Hays, PhD; Jonathan Wren, PhD; Madeleine Cunningham, PhD
Jordan (Jordi) DelFavero, Physiology
AGE-DEPENDENT ACCUMULATION OF SENESCENT CELLS AND THEIR IMPACT ON CEREBRALVASCULAR HEALTH AND COGNITION
Date and Time: December 14th, 2022, 3:00 pm, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC) 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Anna Csiszar MD, Ph.D.; Shannon Conley, Ph.D.; Robert Foreman, Ph.D.; Andrei Belousov, Ph.D.; Xin Zhang, Ph.D.; Mike Ihnat, Ph.D.; Michael Wenger, Ph.D.; and Michael Elliott, Ph.D.
Jonathan D. Day, Rehabilitation Sciences
NON-INVASIVE METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING PROGRESS OF HEALING AFTER TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTATION: A PILOT STUDY
Date and Time: Friday, December 9, 2022 at 8:00 AM, Location: AHB 2058, TUL 2D15, and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Shirley James, Ph.D., Hongwu Wang, Ph.D., Carrie Ciro, Ph.D., William J.J. Ertl, M.D., Elizabeth Hile, Ph.D., Andriy Yabluchanskiy, M.D., Ph.D., Daniel Zhao, Ph.D.
Hunter Porter, Neuroscience
USING COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND DNA METHYLATION IN AGING AND AGE-RELATED DISEASE
Date and Time: December 9th, 2022, 1:00 PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC) Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Jonathan D. Wren, Willard M. Freeman, Arlan Richardson, Benjamin F. Miller, and Michael B. Stout
Zitha Redempta Isingizwe, Pharmaceutical Sciences
MODELING AND INTERVENING IN PATHOLOGIC INTERACTIONS OF PLATELETS AND OVARIAN CANCER
Date and Time: December 7, 2022, 3:00 PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Doris M. Benbrook, PhD (Chair), Randle Gallucci, PhD , Lucila Garcia-Contreras, PhD, Wei-Qun Ding, PhD, Michael Ihnat, PhD and Anil K. Sood, MD
Fiifi Neizer-Ashun, Cell Biology
Elucidating the Unknown Biology of the Lysine Rich Coiled-Coil 1 (KRCC1): A Novel Target in Cancer
Date and Time: December 5th, 2022, 10:00 AM
Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Resham Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Chair; Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D.; Courtney Griffin, Ph.D.; Julio Morales, Ph.D.; Wei-Qun Ding, Ph.D.
Sherri Longobardi, Microbiology & Immunology
Shared Autoantibody Specificities in Sjögren’s Syndrome Patients
Date and Time: November 28th, 2022, 2:00pm, Location: BRC 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: A. Darise Farris, Ph.D., Michelle Callegan, Ph.D., Madeleine Cunningham, Ph.D., William Hildebrand, Ph.D., David Sherry, Ph.D.
Xiang (Eric) Ma, Physiology
THE ROLE OF VERY LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR IN AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION
Date and Time: November 11, 2022, 9:00 a.m. CDT, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Jian-Xing Ma, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Michael H. Elliott, Ph.D. Co-Chair, Jiyang Cai, Ph.D., Xin Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Courtney T. Griffin, Ph.D., Lijun Xia, M.D., Ph.D.
Yuan Sui, Pathology
DUAL FUNCTION OF DNPH1 IN MELANOMA
Date and Time: November 02, 2022, 2:00 - 4:00 PM, Location: BMSB 433 (Pathology Hensley Library) and Zoom
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Ralf Janknecht, Ph.D., Zhizhuang Joe Zhao, Ph.D., Wei-Qun Ding, Ph.D., Maria J. Ruiz-Echevarria, Ph.D., Asish K. Ghosh, Ph.D., Lawrence Rothblum, Ph.D.
Yeboah Kofi Gyening, Cell Biology
Deciphering Mutant ELOVL4 Activity in Different Disease Phenotypes
Date and Time: Thursday September 8th, 2022 at 10am, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom (details attached)
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Martin-Paul Agbaga, Ph.D., Chair; Robert E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.; Scott Plafker., Ph.D.; David Sherry., Ph.D.; Xi-Qin Ding, Ph.D.; Michael H. Elliott., Ph.D.
Chetan Ahire, Pathology
PHARMACOLOGICAL DEPLETION OF SENESCENT ENDOTHELIAL CELLS RESCUES VASCULAR FUNCTION, PREVENTING CHEMOBRAIN IN PACLITAXEL-TREATED MICE
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 at 10 a.m., Location: Bird Library Auditorium, Room 299
Committee in Charge: Anna Csiszar, M.D., Ph.D., Doris Benbrook, Ph.D., Shannon Conley, Ph.D., Asish Ghosh, Ph.D., Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D.