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2023-2024 Calendar of Events and Seminars
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Virtual Dissertation Defense: Women's Healthcare Utilization in Primary and Acute Care Contexts , homeSept. 21 2023, 10 a.m. | Jasmine Johnson | Graduate Student Dissertation Defense
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In Person Seminar: Sustaining Power: Building Energy Networks in Striated Muscles , homeSept. 22, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Brian Glancy, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Muscle Energetics Laboratory, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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In Person Lecture: Novel Iron Sensing Mechanisms and Role of Hexokinase Mitochondrial Binding in the Development of HFpEF , homeSept. 22, 2023, 1 p.m. | Hossein Ardehali, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiac Metabolism, Director, Center for Molecular Cardiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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Machine Learning and Human Thought - A Modern Frontier , homeSept. 28, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Read Montague, Ph.D., Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor and Director, Center for Human Neuroscience Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute; Professor, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech College of Science | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Mitochondrial Ion Stress in Neurodegeneration , homeSept. 29, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Xinnan Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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In Person Seminar: Precision Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology , homeOct. 6, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Jennifer Silva, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology, Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Jonathan Silva, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis; and | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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2023 Vascular and Heart Research Symposium , redirectOct. 9-10, 2023 | 4 Riverside Circle | Hosted by the Center for Vascular and Heart Research and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
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Cloudy with a Chance of Science: The Intersection of Wicked Problems, Perception, Communication, and Risk , homeOct. 19, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | J. Marshall Shepherd, Ph.D., Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geography, Director, UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program, University of Georgia, and Member, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Adolescent Alcohol, Behavioral Flexibility, and Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in Control Circuitry , homeOct. 20, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Charlotte Boettiger, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Health Behaviors Research and the Addiction Recovery Research Center
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In Person Lecture: Reflex Apneas and Failed Autoresuscitation in the Pathogenesis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome , homeOct. 27, 2023, 1 p.m. | James V. Leiter, M.D., Research Scientist, White River Junction VA Health Center, Emeritus Professor, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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Learning and Relearning Movement , homeNov. 2, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Amy Bastian, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Chief Science Officer and Senior Vice President, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Member, National Academy of Sciences | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Biobehavioral Synchrony and the Foundations of Resilience; From Science to Clinic , homeNov. 3, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Ruth Feldman, Ph.D., Simms-Mann Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience, Yale Child Study Center, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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In Person Seminar: The Blood-Tumor Barrier: New Perspectives on Drug Delivery and Clinical Relevance , homeNov. 9, 2023, 11:00 a.m., Children's National Research and Innovation Campus, Washington, D.C. | Sadhana Jackson, M.D., Investigator, Developmental Therapeutics and Pharmacology Unit, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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In Person Lecture: Title TBD , homeNov. 17, 2023, 1 p.m. | Jon Mark Hirshon, M.D., MPH, Ph.D., Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, University of Maryland Baltimore VA Medical Center Emergency Department | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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In Person Seminar: Viewing Metabolic Disease from a Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Perspective , homeNov. 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Darrell Neufer, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Obesity Institute, East Carolina University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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In Person Seminar: Exploring the Interplay between Metabolic and Epigenetic Signaling Pathways to Regulate Vascular Remodeling , homeDec. 1, 2023, 11 a.m. | Sébastien Bonnet, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Canadian Research Chair in Translational Research in Pulmonary and Vascular Diseases, University of Laval | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Advances in Frontotemporal Dementia: From Diagnosis to Treatment , homeDec. 7, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Bruce Miller, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Director, Memory and Aging Center, Founding Director, Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Hyperactivation of an RNA Binding Protein by Cancer-associated Mutations , homeDec. 8, 2023, 11:00 a.m. , Children's National Research and Innovation Campus, Washington, D.C. | Daniel Dominguez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, UNC School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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In Person Seminar: The Role of the Hippocampal Projection to the Prefrontal Cortex in Social Memory and its Dysfunction in Rett Syndrome , homeDec. 15, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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In Person Seminar: Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Epigenetic Cancer Mechanisms , homeJan. 12, 2024, 11 a.m. | Ben Garcia, Ph.D., Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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In Person Seminar: Building and Maintaining Biological Tubes , homeJan. 19, 2024, 11 a.m. | Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Long Covid: the Lasting Legacy of the COVID-19 Pandemic , homeJan. 25, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Ziyad Al-Aly, M.D., FASN, Chief of Research and Development Service, Director, Clinical Epidemiology Center, VA Saint Louis Health Care Systems | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Mapping Connections in the Zebrafish Brain , homeJan. 26, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Marnie Halpern, Ph.D., Chair and Andrew J. Thomson Professor, Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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In Person Lecture: What About the False Negatives? An Examination of Masked Hypertension , homeJan. 12, 1 p.m. | Anthony J. Viera, M.D., MPH, FAHA., Leonard J. & Margaret Goldwater Distinguished Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health, Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School of Medicine | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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In Person Seminar: Theta Oscillations, Memory, and Emotion: Insights from Mobile Intracranial EEG Recordings and Closed-Loop Stimulation in Humans , homeFeb. 2, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Nanthia Suthana, Ph.D., Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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In Person Seminar: Novel Mechanism Mediating the Benefits of Exercise on Health , homeFeb. 9, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Laurie Goodyear, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Senior Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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In Person Seminar: Title TBD , homeFeb. 16, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Tera Fazzino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Associate Director, Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, The University of Kansas | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Health Behaviors Research and the Addiction Recovery Research Center
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The Human Milk Microbiome: A Paradigm Shift for Infant Health , homeFeb. 22, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Michelle "Shelley" McGuire, Ph.D., Director and Professor, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Idaho, Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Cytoskeletal Control of Local Protein Synthesis and Directed Cardiac Growth , homeFeb. 23, 2024, 11 a.m. | Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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In Person Seminar: Understanding Glioma Heterogeneity Hierarchy , homeMarch 1, 2024, 11:00 a.m. , Children's National Research and Innovation Campus, Washington, D.C. | Luis Parada, Ph.D., Director, Brain Tumor Center, Foster Chair, American Cancer Society Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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In Person Seminar: Presynaptic Plasticity: Novel Functions and Mechanisms , homeMarch 8, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Pablo Castillo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Harold and Muriel Block Chair Professor in Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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In Person Seminar: Chromatin Regulation of Neuronal Maturation , homeMarch 15, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Anne Elizabeth West, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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In Person Seminar: Deciphering the Metabolic Origins of Heart Failure: Towards Novel Therapeutic Targets , homeMarch 22, 2024, 11 a.m. | Daniel Kelly, Ph.D., Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor, Director, Penn and CHOP Cardiovascular Institutes, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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In Person Seminar: Circadian Clocks in Skeletal Muscle; Contributions to Systemic Health , homeMarch 29, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Karyn Esser, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Physiology and Aging, University of Florida College of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations: What Can Be Done? , homeApril 4, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Zulfiqar Bhutta, Ph.D., Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Lecture: Pharmacogenetics Applied to the Treatment of Psychiatric Illness , homeApril 5, 2024, 1 p.m. | David Oslin, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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In Person Seminar: The Meaning of Dopamine , homeApril 5, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Henry Yin, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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What is Alzheimer's Disease and Can We Prevent It? , homeApril 11, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Kristine Yaffe, M.D., Professor and Roy and Marie Scola Endowed Chair of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology, Director, Center for Population Brain Health, University of California, San Francisco, Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Addiction Recovery: From Culture to Science , homeApril 12, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | John Kelly, Ph.D., Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Health Behaviors Research and the Addiction Recovery Research Center
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In Person Seminar: Continuous Decision-Making , homeApril 19, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Benjamin Hayden, Ph.D., Professor and McNair Scholar of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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In Person Seminar: Our Mass Spectrometry Screening Studies in the Mouse and Human Hearts in Health and Disease , homeApril 26, 2024, 11 a.m. | Anthony Gramolini, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology and Translational Biology and Engineering, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University of Toronto | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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In Person Seminar: Regulation of Mitochondrial Parameters in Skeletal Muscle , homeMay 3, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Glenn Rowe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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Building Health Resilience to Climate Change in Individuals, Communities, and Nations Around the World, Especially Among Those at Highest Risk , homeMay 9, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Rick Woychik, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health; Director, National Toxicology Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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In Person Seminar: Flavors in Tobacco and Nicotine Products: Science-based Regulation , homeMay 10, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Ph.D., Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Health Behaviors Research and the Addiction Recovery Research Center
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In Person Seminar: Sex Influences on Brain and Body: An Issue That is Here to Stay , homeMay 17, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Larry Cahill, Ph.D., Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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In Person Seminar: Title TBD , homeMay 24, 2024, 11 a.m. | William Eward, M.D., DVM, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group