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2023-2024 Calendar of Events and Seminars
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Home ItemVirtual Dissertation Defense: Women's Healthcare Utilization in Primary and Acute Care Contexts , home
Sept. 21 2023, 10 a.m. | Jasmine Johnson | Graduate Student Dissertation Defense
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Sustaining Power: Building Energy Networks in Striated Muscles , home
Sept. 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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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Novel Iron Sensing Mechanisms and Role of Hexokinase Mitochondrial Binding in the Development of HFpEF , home
Sept. 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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Home ItemMachine Learning and Human Thought - A Modern Frontier , home
Sept. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Mitochondrial Ion Stress in Neurodegeneration , home
Sept. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Precision Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology , home
Oct. 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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Redirect Item2023 Vascular and Heart Research Symposium , redirect
Oct. 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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Home ItemCloudy with a Chance of Science: The Intersection of Wicked Problems, Perception, Communication, and Risk , home
Oct. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Adolescent Alcohol, Behavioral Flexibility, and Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in Control Circuitry , home
Oct. 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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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Reflex Apneas and Failed Autoresuscitation in the Pathogenesis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome , home
Oct. 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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Home ItemLearning and Relearning Movement , home
Nov. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Biobehavioral Synchrony and the Foundations of Resilience; From Science to Clinic , home
Nov. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: The Blood-Tumor Barrier: New Perspectives on Drug Delivery and Clinical Relevance , home
Nov. 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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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Title TBD , home
Nov. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Viewing Metabolic Disease from a Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Perspective , home
Nov. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Exploring the Interplay between Metabolic and Epigenetic Signaling Pathways to Regulate Vascular Remodeling , home
Dec. 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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Home ItemAdvances in Frontotemporal Dementia: From Diagnosis to Treatment , home
Dec. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Hyperactivation of an RNA Binding Protein by Cancer-associated Mutations , home
Dec. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: The Role of the Hippocampal Projection to the Prefrontal Cortex in Social Memory and its Dysfunction in Rett Syndrome , home
Dec. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Epigenetic Cancer Mechanisms , home
Jan. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Building and Maintaining Biological Tubes , home
Jan. 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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Home ItemLong Covid: the Lasting Legacy of the COVID-19 Pandemic , home
Jan. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Mapping Connections in the Zebrafish Brain , home
Jan. 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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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: What About the False Negatives? An Examination of Masked Hypertension , home
Jan. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Theta Oscillations, Memory, and Emotion: Insights from Mobile Intracranial EEG Recordings and Closed-Loop Stimulation in Humans , home
Feb. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Novel Mechanism Mediating the Benefits of Exercise on Health , home
Feb. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Title TBD , home
Feb. 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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Home ItemThe Human Milk Microbiome: A Paradigm Shift for Infant Health , home
Feb. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Cytoskeletal Control of Local Protein Synthesis and Directed Cardiac Growth , home
Feb. 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Understanding Glioma Heterogeneity Hierarchy , home
March 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Presynaptic Plasticity: Novel Functions and Mechanisms , home
March 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Chromatin Regulation of Neuronal Maturation , home
March 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Deciphering the Metabolic Origins of Heart Failure: Towards Novel Therapeutic Targets , home
March 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Circadian Clocks in Skeletal Muscle; Contributions to Systemic Health , home
March 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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Home ItemThe Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations: What Can Be Done? , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Pharmacogenetics Applied to the Treatment of Psychiatric Illness , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: The Meaning of Dopamine , home
April 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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Home ItemWhat is Alzheimer's Disease and Can We Prevent It? , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Addiction Recovery: From Culture to Science , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Continuous Decision-Making , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Our Mass Spectrometry Screening Studies in the Mouse and Human Hearts in Health and Disease , home
April 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Regulation of Mitochondrial Parameters in Skeletal Muscle , home
May 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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Home ItemBuilding Health Resilience to Climate Change in Individuals, Communities, and Nations Around the World, Especially Among Those at Highest Risk , home
May 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Flavors in Tobacco and Nicotine Products: Science-based Regulation , home
May 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Sex Influences on Brain and Body: An Issue That is Here to Stay , home
May 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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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Title TBD , home
May 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