Schedule

Date Title and Speaker

January 14

Introduction for Graduate Students

Mark Opp, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

January 21

MLK Day - No colloquium

January 28

Light and Health - A Novel Take on Quantifying Human Light Exposure and its Potential for Interventions

Céline Vetter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

February 4

Targeting Healthspan with Translational Physiology

Tom LaRocca, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

February 11

Circadian Misalignment and Metabolic Health

Kenneth Wright, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

February 18

Lumos! The Magic of Light in Our Lives

Gena Glickman, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
(Host: Céline Vetter celine.vetter@colorado.edu)

February 25

What Wakes Us Up: Networked Circadian Clocks in the Brain

Erik Herzog, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Washington University
(Host: Ken Wright kenneth.wright@colorado.edu)

March 4

High-resolution Metabolomics: Advanced Blood Chemistry for Precision Medicine

Douglas Walker, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY
(Host: Tanya Alderete tanya.alderete@colorado.edu)

March 11

CANCELED

March 18

Navigating a Hybrid Industry/Academic Postdoc Experiment

Melissa Linden, Ph.D.
Department of Health & Exercise Science
Colorado State University

and Pfizer Inc.
(Host: Doug Seals seals@colorado.edu)

March 25

Spring Break - No colloquium

April 1

Inbred Strains of Mice Selected for High and Low Open Field Activity as a Model to Study the Genetics of Anxiety and Drug Behaviors

Marissa Ehringer Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

April 8

Sleep Modulates Short-term Memory by Optimizing Circuit Flexibility

Paul Shaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

April 15

The Effects of Running-specific Leg Prostheses on Performance

Alena Grabowski, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu)

April 22

Estrogen, Physical Activity, and Energy Expenditure: Links to Post-menopausal Weight Gain?

Ed Melanson, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus
& Department of Integrative Physiology

University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Bill Byrnes william.byrnes@colorado.edu)

April 29

Alivia Blumenstein - Combined effects of sleep and circadian disruption on inflammation
Ryan Alcantara - Sacral accelerations predict whole body and stride kinematics during running
Erzsebet Nagy - Time-restricted feeding in normal weight middle-aged and older adults

Graduate students
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder
(Host: Bob Mazzeo robert.mazzeo@colorado.edu)