Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series
Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series brings nationally renowned experts to the Roanoke community. The free public lectures are open to members of the general public as well as to Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic faculty, students, and staff. These lectures are in-person and all people interested in science and biomedical research are are encouraged to attend. Read more about Maury Strauss.
2024-2025 Lectures
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Home ItemConducting the Neuro-Symphony in the Brain — Space, Time, and Calcium , home
Sept. 12, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Michael Friedlander, Ph.D., Executive Director, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology, Virginia Tech Senior Dean for Research, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemMechanisms of Longevity: From Mice to Whales , home
Oct. 10, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology, Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center, University of Rochester | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemClinical Applications of Cancer Genetics , home
Nov. 21, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Luis Diaz, Jr., M.D., Head, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemRethinking Human Health with AI: Solving Old Mysteries with Modern Tools , home
Jan. 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Regina Barzilay, Ph.D., School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health; AI Faculty Lead, Jameel Clinic; MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab; MacArthur Fellow; Member, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemHow Big Med Drives Rising Healthcare Costs and What to Do About It , home
Feb. 20, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Vivian Ho, Ph.D., James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemSuicide by Firearm in the United States: A Collaborative Path for Prevention , home
March 6, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Marian Betz, M.D., M.P.H. Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine, Deputy Director, Injury & Violence Prevention Center, University of Colorado School of Public Health; Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemBringing Precision Medicine to Psychiatry , home
April 10, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D., MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Epidemiology, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemMolecular and Neurobiological Studies in Rett Syndrome and Other MECP2 Disorders , home
May 1, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Huda Zoghbi, M.D., Professor, Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Neurology; Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine; Member, National Academy of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
About Maury Strauss
Maury Strauss was a longtime community benefactor and businessman who supports biomedical research with the goal of energizing the local economy and improving quality of life in our neighborhoods and around the world. The founder of the Strauss Development Corp., a real estate development firm, Mr. Strauss and his family learned about the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, and the work done here. In order to ensure the continued success of Roanoke’s biomedical research enterprise, as well as the free, public seminars by the world’s leading scientists, Mr. Strauss made a generous gift to the series, which was renamed in his honor as the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture Series. He passed away in June 2024 at age 99.
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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 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 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 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 St. Louis Health Care System | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemThe Human Milk Microbiome: A Paradigm Shift for Infant Health , home
Feb. 15, 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 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, Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Nutritional Sciences and Public Health, University of Toronto | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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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 ItemPlanning the Future of Environmental Health Sciences , 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 | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemSocially-Directed Science and Technology: Design at the Intersection of History, Sustainability, and Equity with Applications to Biotechnology and Biomaterials , home
Sept. 22, 2022, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Christine Ortiz, Ph.D., Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemBreeding Crops for Resilience to a Changing Climate , home
Oct. 20, 2022, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Pamela Ronald, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, and Member, American Academy of Sciences | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemThe Role of Translational Science in Addressing the Decline in Health Status in the U.S: A Perspective from the FDA , home
Nov. 3, 2022, 5:30 p.m. | Robert Califf, M.D., Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemBecoming a Super-Diagnostician: Optimizing Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision-Making , home
Nov. 17, 2022, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Gurpreet Dhaliwal, M.D., Professor or Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Tuning Depression Circuits Using Deep Brain Stimulation , home
December 15, 2022, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Helen Mayberg, M.D., Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Member, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Inventors | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Era of Big Data , home
Feb. 9, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Damien Fair, PA-C, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Medical School | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Harnessing the Power of Big Biobanks for Precision Medicine , home
March 16, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Zhengming Chen, MBBS, D.Phil., The Richard Peto Professor of Epidemiology, Oxford University, and Fellow, Academy Europaea | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Sticky Nanoparticles for Health and Healing , home
April 27, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Paula T. Hammond, Ph.D., Institute Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Member,National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and National Academy of Engineering | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemCancer Control in the 21st Century with Special Attention to Disparities in Health , home
Sept. 9, 2021, 5:30 p.m. | Otis W. Brawley, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Brawley is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
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Home ItemSocial Inequities in Health: What Each One of Us Can Do , home
Sept. 16, 2021 5:30 p.m. | David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Williams is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Science, and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Home ItemDigital Innovations Are Essential For Leading Organizations: A Houston Methodist Hospital Experience , home
Oct. 14, 2021 5:30 p.m. | Roberta L. Schwartz, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Schwartz is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Healthcare Executives
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Home ItemGene Therapy and Liver Transplants for a Birth Defect , home
Nov. 4, 2021 5:30 p.m. | Mark L. Batshaw, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemTransforming Prenatal Screening: From New Technologies to Gender Reveal Parties , home
Dec. 16, 2021 5:30 p.m. | Diana Bianchi, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Bianchi is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
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Home ItemSARS-CoV-2 Variants – Past, Present, and Future , home
Jan. 20, 2022 5:30 p.m. | Sharon Peacock, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Peacock is an elected member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences
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Home ItemThe Digital Transformation of Healthcare: (Finally) a Time for Optimism , home
Feb. 10, 2022 5:30 p.m. | Robert M. Wachter, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Wachter is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
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Home ItemTelomeres and Telomerase: From Basic Science to Disease , home
Feb. 24, 2022 5:30 p.m. | Carol Greider, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. Greider is a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
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Home ItemLiving your Best Life: How Hearing Well Contributes to Healthy Living and Healthy Aging , home
April 14, 2022 5:30 p.m. | Debara L. Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemPublic Lecture: Dynamic Brain Mapping and Brain-Computer Interfaces , home
May 5, 2022 5:30 p.m. | Bin He, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture | Dr. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria
Sept. 3, 2020, 5:30 p.m. | Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Pediatric Robotics - A Journey from the Lab to a Child's Home
Oct. 15, 2020, 5:30 p.m. | Ayanna Howard, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: Understanding Human Pain, Relief and Altered States of Consciousness Using Brain Imaging
Nov. 19, 2020, 5:30 p.m. | Irene Tracey, D.Phil, MA, FRCA, FMedSci | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: Reconciling Privacy and Accountability: the Context of COVID-19
Dec. 3, 2020, 5:30 p.m. | Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: Navigating Pandemics: Trusted Messenger Perspectives on Coronavirus, COVID-19 and Vaccines
Feb. 25, 2021, 5:30 p.m.| A. Oveta Fuller, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: Genes Regulating Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
March 25, 2021, 5:30 p.m. | Michael Young, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture **Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine**
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: How Vaccines Train the Immune System in Ways No One Expected
April 15, 2021, 5:30 p.m. | Christine Stabell Benn, M.D., Ph.D., D.M.Sc. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Public Lecture: Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
May 6, 2021, 5:30 p.m. | Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Transforming Evidence into HIV Policies and Practice: Lessons from Global Implementation Science
Sept. 19, 2019 | Julie Pulerwitz, Sc.D | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: The Science of Minority Health and Health Disparities: NIMHD Perspective
Oct. 17, 2019 | Eliseo Perez-Stable, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Climate Change: Policy, People, and Place
Nov. 7, 2019 | Vicki Arroyo, M.P.A., J.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Social Inequality & Cancer Survival: How Can We Close the Gap?
Dec. 5, 2019 | Ophira Ginsburg, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: What's Next in Digital Health Care?
Dec. 12, 2019 | John Halamka, M.D., M.S. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Catalyzing Translational Innovation
Jan. 23, 2020 | Christopher Austin, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: The Cognition Crisis: Perils and Promise of Technology and the Brain
Feb. 27, 2020 | Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Can Exercise Teach Us How to Treat Heart Failure?
Oct. 4, 2018 | Anthony Rosenzweig, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Synapses Lost and Found: Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer's Disease
Nov. 29, 2018 | Carla Shatz, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Disability in the 21st Century: What Are We Thinking, Talking, and Doing About It?
Nov. 15, 2018 | Peter Rosenbaum, M.D., F.R.C.P. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact
Dec. 13, 2018 | Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Socioeconomic Status and Brain Development: From Science to Policy
Jan. 24, 2019 | Martha J. Farah, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Caloric Restriction and Longevity: From Calorie- to Time-Restricted Feeding
Jan. 31, 2019 | Eric Ravussin, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World
Feb. 21, 2019 | Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Remodeling and Makeovers in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Feb. 28, 2019 | Kimryn Rathmell, M.D., Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Strengthening the Disaster Resilience of Academic Research Communities
Mar. 28, 2019 | Georges C. Benjamin, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: The Age of Living Machines: How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
April 18, 2019 | Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: Understanding, Treating, and Preventing Addiction: What Would Animals Do?
April 25, 2019 | Marilyn Carroll, Ph.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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General ItemArchived Lecture: The New Genetics of Mind: Navigating a Brave New World
May 23, 2019 | Steven Hyman, M.D. | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
2017 - 2018 Academic Year
- A Path from Genes to Treatment of Fragile X Syndrome and Related Developmental Brain Disorders (Watch Lecture)
Oct. 19, 2017 | Mark Bear, Ph.D. - Positioning Lifestyle for Enhanced Treatment of Obesity
Nov. 15, 2017 | John M. Jakicic, Ph.D. - Prevention of Obesity and Diabeters (Watch Lecture)
Feb. 8, 2018 | Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P. - On the Rational Boundedness of Cognitive Control (Watch Lecture)
Mar. 22, 2018 | Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. - Winning Hearts and Minds for Science (Watch Lecture)
April 5, 2018 | Mary Woolley, M.A. - The Scarcity Context and Mindset: Behavioral and Policy Implications (Watch Lecture)
May 17, 2018 | Eldar Shafir, Ph.D.
2016 - 2017 Academic Year
- Our Environment, Our Health, and Our Future (Watch Lecture)
Oct. 20, 2016 | Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., DABT, ATS - Neurocircuitry of Addiction: An Alcohol Perspective (Watch Lecture)
Jan. 19, 2017 | George Koob, Ph.D. - Defining New Pathways for Human Arrythmia
Jan. 26, 2017 | Peter J. Mohler, Ph.D. - Unraveling the Multigenerational Syndrome of Diabetic Embryopathy: From Cell Signaling to Clinical Care (Watch Lecture)
Mar. 9, 2017 | E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., MBA - Early Childhood Education: What Works and What Doesn't
Mar. 16, 2017 | Greg J. Duncan, Ph.D. - What it's Like To Be A Dog: Using MRI to See How Dogs Think
May 9, 2017 | Gregory S. Berns, M.D., Ph.D. - The Power of Integration in the Biomedical Sciences and Beyond: Using All Spheres of Knowledge to Solve Our Most Challenging Problems (Watch Lecture)
May 18, 2017 | David J. Skorton, M.D.
2015 - 2016 Academic Year
- Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Modeling Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Watch Lecture)
Nov. 12, 2015 | Mario Capecchi, Ph.D. - Can We Live to 100? New Evidence from the National Institute on Aging (Watch Lecture)
Dec. 10, 2015 | Marie A. Bernard, M.D.
- Repair and Regeneration of the Injured Spinal Cord (Watch Lecture)
April 29, 2016 | Michael Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D. - Cytokines and Human Immunodeficiency: From Genes to New Therapeutics
May 25, 2017 | Warren J. Leonard, M.D. - A Neural Circuit Approach to Psychiatric Illness (Watch Lecture)
June 8, 2017 | Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
2014 - 2015 Academic Year
- Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression
Sept. 11, 2014 | Anthony Grace, Ph.D. - Modern Treatment of Alcoholism
Oct. 2, 2014 | Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D. - Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics
Nov. 20, 2014 | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ph.D. - Epigenetics and the Immune System
Dec. 4, 2014 | Jeremy Boss, Ph.D. - Linking Discoveries in Developmental Biology to 3-Dimensional Printing of New Tissues and Micro-Organs
Jan. 8, 2015 | Roger R. Markwald, Ph.D. - Molecular Architecture of the Circadian Clock in Mammals
Feb. 12, 2015 | Joseph S. Takahashi, Ph.D. - Infectious Causes of Heart Failure: Viral Myocarditis
Mar. 19, 2015 | Kirk Knowlton, M.D. - Fruit Flies and the Human Heart: The Evolution and Function of Potassium Channels From the Inside Out
April 30, 2015 | Gail Robertson, Ph.D. - Fear and Fear-Related Disorders: From Pavlov to PTSD
May 21, 2015 | Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
2013 - 2014 Academic Year
- Family-Wide Impacts of Genetics: The Case of Fragile X
Sept. 26, 2013 | Marsha R. Mailick, Ph.D.
- Autism: New Mutations, Genes, and Pathways
Nov. 14, 2013 | Evan Eichler, Ph.D. - Innovations in Stroke Neurorehabilitation
Jan. 9, 2014 | Steven L. Wolf, Ph.D. - What Is the BRAIN Initiative and What Will It Teach Us About Ourselves?
Feb. 20, 2014 | Joshua Sanes, Ph.D. - Charting Our Future Together: Envisioning a Diverse, Adaptive, and Networked Biomedical Science Ecosystem
April 3, 2014 | Gary Gibbons, M.D. - How Viruses Infect the Brain
April 10, 2014 | Terence S. Dermody, M.D. - What Makes the Human Brain Human?
May 1, 2014 | Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D. - Cancer and Aging
May 22, 2014 | Ronald A. DePinho, M.D.
2012 - 2013 Academic Year
- Children’s Right to Thrive: The Promise and Barriers to Putting Science into Action
Oct. 4, 2012 | Craig Ramey, Ph.D. and Sharon Ramey, Ph.D. - GABA Neurons in Schizophrenia
Oct. 25, 2012 | Francine Benes, M.D., Ph.D. - The Brain and the Law
Nov. 12, 2012 | David Eagleman, Ph.D. - Personalized Cancer Medicine: Are We There Yet?
Dec. 6, 2012 | Eileen Dolan, Ph.D. - The Power of Singing: Implications for Brain Plasticity and Recovery of Function
Jan. 10, 2013 | Gottfried Schlaug, M.D., Ph.D. - Denial of Service Attacks: Network Hyperexcitability in Alzheimer’s Dementia
Jan. 17, 2013 | Jeffrey Noebels, M.D., Ph.D. - Exciting New Ways to Stimulate the Brain to Treat Depression or Pain
Feb. 14, 2013 | Mark George, M.D. - Understanding Biological Systems: Mission Impossible?
- March 28, 2013 | Peter Kohl, M.D., Ph.D.
- Visualizing Molecular Machines and Cells
April 11, 2013 | Wah Chiu, Ph.D. - Changing Fear
April 18, 2013 | Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D.
Engaging the Public in Biomedical Research
Aug. 15, 2013 | Yvonne Maddox, Ph.D.
2011 - 2012 Academic Year
- The Molecular Biology of Memory Formation
Sept. 9, 2011 | Ron Davis, Ph.D. - What Do We Know About Addiction?
Sept. 29, 2011 | Nora Volkow, M.D. - Seeing What the Nose Tells the Brain
Sept. 30, 2011 | Matt Wachowiak, Ph.D. - How the Mind Makes Morals
Oct. 13, 2011 | Patricia Churchland, Ph.D. - Parallel Universes
Oct. 20, 2011 | Robert Kimberly, M.D. - How Electron Crytomography is Opening a Window into Bacterial Ultrastructure
Oct. 27, 2011 | Grant Jensen, Ph.D. - Bacterial Toxins: Structural Studies of Molecular Trojan Horses
Nov. 3, 2011 | Melanie Ohi, Ph.D. - Why Tools of the Mind and Montessory Educational Approaches Help Executive Function Skills
Dec. 1, 2011 | Adele Diamond, Ph.D. - Steroid Hormones and Cancer
Dec. 8, 2011 | Jan-Ake Gustafsson, M.D., Ph.D. - Neurotransmitter Transporters
Jan. 12, 2012 | Susan Amara, Ph.D. - Evolution of an Adaptive Immune System of Defense
Jan. 19, 2012 | Max Cooper, M.D. - New Approaches to Treating Chronic Pain
Jan. 26, 2012 | Robert Gereau, Ph.D. - What Therapeutic Drugs Do
Feb. 2, 2012 | John Scott, Ph.D. - How Does a Frog Egg Solve Geometry Problems?
Feb. 9, 2012 | Timothy Mitchison, Ph.D. - Behavioral Choice Theory and Obesity
Feb. 23, 2012 | Leonard Epstein, Ph.D. - The Violent Brain: Ethical and Legal Implications
March 8, 2012 | Afrian Raine, D.Phil. - The Functional Architecture of Face Processing
Mar. 15, 2012 | Lesie Ungerleider, Ph.D. - Back to the Future: Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
Mar. 29, 2012 | Sarah Lisanby, M.D. - Your Genome and Your Health
April 5, 2012 | Richard Gibbs, Ph.D. - Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
May 10, 2012 | Amy Wagers, Ph.D. - How the Brain Develops the Ability to Integrate Information from Different Senses
May 24, 2012 | Barry Stein, Ph.D.
2010 - 2011 Academic Year
- Risk, Resilience, and Gene-Environment Interplay
Mar. 24, 2011 | Stephen Suomi, Ph.D. - Glial Derived Brain Tumors
April 7, 2011 | Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. - Synaptic Plasticity - The Brain's Response to Experience
May 6, 2011 | Robert Malenka, Ph.D., M.D. - Developing Pharmacotherapies for Cognitive Impairment in Down Syndrome
May 19, 2011 | Craig C. Garner, Ph.D.