Colloquium in Integrative Physiology

Fall 2025

Schedule

DateTitle and Speaker

Monday, August 25th

Ramaley N1B23

No speaker, students enrolled in course will meet with course instructor
Monday, September 1stCampus Closed- Labor Day

Monday, September 8th

Ramaley N1B23

Looking for the unexpected

Chris Link, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, September 15th

Ramaley N1B23Ìý

Regulating the Infant Microbiome to Prevent Immune Disease

Matt Olm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, September 22nd

Ramaley N1B23Ìý

The physiological and biomechanical effects of leg prostheses for walking, cycling, and running

Alena Grabowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, September 29th

Ramaley N1B23

Kimberley Bruce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Endocrinology/Metabolism/Diabetes
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine

(Host: Rachel Rowe rachel.rowe@colorado.edu)

Monday, October 6th

Ramaley N1B23Ìý

Post-transcriptional mechanisms regulate stem cell biology

Justin Brumbaugh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Pei-San Tsai pei-san.tsai@colorado.edu)

Monday, October 13th

Ramaley N1B23Ìý

The Bedtime Brain: What Tells You to Fall Asleep?

Philippe Mourrain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University

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

Monday, October 20th

Ramaley N1B23Ìý

Probing the role of C-F linkages, nanoplastics and plasticizers in driving protein-misfolding-associated trajectories across biological assemblies.

Mahesh Narayan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Texas at El Paso

(Host: Christopher Link linkc@colorado.edu)

Monday, October 27th

Ramaley N1B23

Signals in the Noise: How Glial Plasticity and Machine Learning Illuminate Brain Disease

Charles Hoeffer Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, November 3rd

Ramaley N1B23

Mechanistic Targets to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease Progression in Women with a History of Preeclampsia

Anna Stanhewicz Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Human Physiology
University of Iowa

(Host: Douglas Seals/Matthew Rossman seals@colorado.edu, matthew.rossman@colorado.edu)

Monday, November 10th

Ramaley N1B23

Title TBD

Matt Frank, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Colorado Boulder

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, November 17th

Ramaley N1B23

From academia to patent law

Whitney Melroy-Greif, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
IP&T Dept
Womble Bond Dickinson

(Host: Marissa Ehringer marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu)

Monday, November 17th

No Colloquium this week-Fall Break

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Monday, December 1stÌý

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Graduate Student Presentations

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