Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
The Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series began in 2012 and annually features leading biomedical researchers from throughout the country. The lectures are open to all members of the Virginia Tech community including graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and staff, as well as the public.
2022-2023 Seminars
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Home ItemRegulation of Endothelial Cell Specialization , home
Sept. 16, 2022, 11 a.m. | Karen K. Hirschi, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Developmental Genomics Center, University of Virginia | 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 ItemConnectomics of Addiction and Recovery , home
Sept. 23, 2022, 11:00 am. | Sarah Yip, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Child Study, Yale School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemOpposing Activities of Chromatin Modifiers in Balancing Stem Cell Division, Differentiation, and Death , home
Oct. 7, 2022, 11 a.m. | Jamy Peng, Ph.D., Associate Member, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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Home ItemThe Cyclical Nature of Food Reinforcement, Decision-making, and Overeating , home
Oct. 14, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Kyle S. Burger, Ph.D., MPH, RD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemConnexin Mutants and Cataracts: Clues to Gap Junction Functions , home
Oct. 21, 2022, 11 a.m. | Eric Beyer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago | 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 ItemReducing Nicotine in Cigarettes: Is It Time to Enable/Nudge/Push Smokers to Move Away from the Most Deadly Tobacco Products? , home
Oct. 28 2022, 11:00 am. | Eric C. Donny, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemCopper Conducted Kinase Signaling in Cancer , home
Nov. 18, 2022, 11 a.m. | Donita Brady, Ph.D., Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D., and Clifford C. Baker, M.D., Presidential Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | 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: Mitochondria in Synaptic Plasticity, Gamma Oscillations, and Anxiety , home
Dec. 2, 2022, 11 a.m. | Zheng Li, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Synapse Development and Plasticity, National Institute of Mental Health | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Electrophysiology of Basal Ganglia and Thalamus in Children Undergoing DBS for Dystonia , home
Dec. 9, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Pediatric Neurology, University of California - Irvine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Genetic Drivers in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma , home
Jan. 13, 2023, 11 a.m. | Azeddine Atfi, Ph.D., Mary Anderson Harrison Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University | 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: Brainstem Serotonin Neurons Selectively Gate Retinal Information Flow to Thalamus , home
Jan. 20, 2023, 11 a.m. | Mark L. Andermann, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Prioritizing Individuals and Individual Differences in the Study of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders , home
Jan. 27, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Bradley Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Zanvyl Krieger Faculty Endowed Chair, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Professor, Department of Neurology and Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Novel Therapies for Immune Neoplasms , home
Feb. 10, 2023, 11 a.m. | Ari Melnick, M.D., Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology, and Director, Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences, Weill Medical College, Cornell University | 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: Behavioral Economic Approaches for Measuring Substance Use Severity and Motivating Change , home
Feb. 17, 2023, 11:00 am. | James G. Murphy, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Functional MRI of Dynamic Physiological States , home
Feb. 24 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Catherine Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment , home
March 3, 2023, 11 a.m. | Johanna Joyce, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Director, Agora Cancer Centre, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | 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: Examining the Alveolar-Capillary Barrier in Lung Injury and Repair , home
March 10, 11 a.m. | Rebecca Heise, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University | 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 ItemWin to Fight and Lose to Flight: Innate Yet Flexible Aggression Circuit , home
March 24, 2023, 11 a.m. | Dayu Lin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors , home
April 14, 2023, 11:00 am. | Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D., Professor in Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California, Los Angeles | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Engineering Post-translational Regulation of Ion Channels , home
April 21, 11 a.m. | Henry M. Colecraft, Ph.D., John C. Dalton Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Irving 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 ItemIn Person Seminar: Cis-regulatory Control of Neural Crest Development , home
April 28, 2023, 11 a.m. | Marcos Simoes-Costa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Ethnicity-Informed Considerations In Addiction Medicine And Neuropsychiatry , home
May 5, 2023, 11 a.m. | Marjorie Gondre-Lewis, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Novel Regulators of Cardiac Maturation , home
May 12, 11 a.m. | Sihem Boudina, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah | 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: Cognitive Bias Modification in the Treatment of Addiction: Efficacy and New Insights into Working Mechanisms , home
May 19, 2023, 11:00 am. | Reinout Wiers, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychopathology, University of Amsterdam | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemRegulation of Endothelial Cell Specialization , home
Sept. 16, 2022, 11 a.m. | Karen K. Hirschi, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Developmental Genomics Center, University of Virginia | 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 ItemConnectomics of Addiction and Recovery , home
Sept. 23, 2022, 11:00 am. | Sarah Yip, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Child Study, Yale School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemOpposing Activities of Chromatin Modifiers in Balancing Stem Cell Division, Differentiation, and Death , home
Oct. 7, 2022, 11 a.m. | Jamy Peng, Ph.D., Associate Member, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Group
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Home ItemThe Cyclical Nature of Food Reinforcement, Decision-making, and Overeating , home
Oct. 14, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Kyle S. Burger, Ph.D., MPH, RD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemConnexin Mutants and Cataracts: Clues to Gap Junction Functions , home
Oct. 21, 2022, 11 a.m. | Eric Beyer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago | 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 ItemReducing Nicotine in Cigarettes: Is It Time to Enable/Nudge/Push Smokers to Move Away from the Most Deadly Tobacco Products? , home
Oct. 28 2022, 11:00 am. | Eric C. Donny, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemCopper Conducted Kinase Signaling in Cancer , home
Nov. 18, 2022, 11 a.m. | Donita Brady, Ph.D., Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D., and Clifford C. Baker, M.D., Presidential Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | 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: Mitochondria in Synaptic Plasticity, Gamma Oscillations, and Anxiety , home
Dec. 2, 2022, 11 a.m. | Zheng Li, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Synapse Development and Plasticity, National Institute of Mental Health | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Electrophysiology of Basal Ganglia and Thalamus in Children Undergoing DBS for Dystonia , home
Dec. 9, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Pediatric Neurology, University of California - Irvine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Genetic Drivers in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma , home
Jan. 13, 2023, 11 a.m. | Azeddine Atfi, Ph.D., Mary Anderson Harrison Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University | 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: Brainstem Serotonin Neurons Selectively Gate Retinal Information Flow to Thalamus , home
Jan. 20, 2023, 11 a.m. | Mark L. Andermann, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Prioritizing Individuals and Individual Differences in the Study of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders , home
Jan. 27, 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Bradley Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Zanvyl Krieger Faculty Endowed Chair, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Professor, Department of Neurology and Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Novel Therapies for Immune Neoplasms , home
Feb. 10, 2023, 11 a.m. | Ari Melnick, M.D., Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology, and Director, Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences, Weill Medical College, Cornell University | 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: Behavioral Economic Approaches for Measuring Substance Use Severity and Motivating Change , home
Feb. 17, 2023, 11:00 am. | James G. Murphy, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Functional MRI of Dynamic Physiological States , home
Feb. 24 2023, 11:00 a.m. | Catherine Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment , home
March 3, 2023, 11 a.m. | Johanna Joyce, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Director, Agora Cancer Centre, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | 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: Examining the Alveolar-Capillary Barrier in Lung Injury and Repair , home
March 10, 11 a.m. | Rebecca Heise, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University | 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 ItemWin to Fight and Lose to Flight: Innate Yet Flexible Aggression Circuit , home
March 24, 2023, 11 a.m. | Dayu Lin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors , home
April 14, 2023, 11:00 am. | Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D., Professor in Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California, Los Angeles | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Engineering Post-translational Regulation of Ion Channels , home
April 21, 11 a.m. | Henry M. Colecraft, Ph.D., John C. Dalton Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Irving 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 ItemIn Person Seminar: Cis-regulatory Control of Neural Crest Development , home
April 28, 2023, 11 a.m. | Marcos Simoes-Costa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Ethnicity-Informed Considerations In Addiction Medicine And Neuropsychiatry , home
May 5, 2023, 11 a.m. | Marjorie Gondre-Lewis, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Novel Regulators of Cardiac Maturation , home
May 12, 11 a.m. | Sihem Boudina, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah | 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: Cognitive Bias Modification in the Treatment of Addiction: Efficacy and New Insights into Working Mechanisms , home
May 19, 2023, 11:00 am. | Reinout Wiers, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychopathology, University of Amsterdam | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Cross-Organ Communication Through Lipid Signaling , home
Sept. 3, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Judith Simcox, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder , home
Sept. 10, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Katie Witkiewitz, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: The Future of Artificial Intelligence: A 3D Silicon Brain , home
Sept. 17, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Src Inhibitory Peptides Based on Connexin43 as a Promising Therapy Against Glioblastoma , home
Oct. 1, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Arantxa Tabernero, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: When Your Heart Skips More Than a Beat: Connexin Hemichannels in Cardiac Pathology , home
Oct. 8, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Jorge Contreras, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Dopamine Circuits in Reward and Aversion , home
Oct. 15, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Stephan Lammel, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Central Pattern Generation and Central Pain Suppression Circuits , home
Oct. 22, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Fan Wang, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Autism, Face Perception, and the Amygdala , home
Nov. 12, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Dissecting Toxicities of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors , home
Nov. 19, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Douglas Johnson, M.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemArchived Seminar: Basic Behavioral Science Research to Enhance Health Equity , home
Dec. 3, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Development of Cardiac Biorhythmicity , home
Dec. 10, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Michael Bressan, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Navigating Abstract Spaces , home
Dec. 17, 2021, 11:00 a.m. | Daniela Schiller, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Mechanisms of Progenitor Dynamics and Neuronal Wiring During Cerebral Cortical Development , home
Jan. 21, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Eva Anton, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Tumor Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms Promoting Brain Metastasis , home
Jan. 28, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Diana Cittelly, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras: Photoacoustic Tomography and Compressed Ultrafast Photography , home
Feb. 4, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Lihong Wang, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Programming and Reprogramming: What Does It Take to Make a Cardiomyocyte? , home
Feb. 25, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Li Qian, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemArchived Seminar: Why Did I Eat That? Alterations in Brain and Behavior Contributing to Obesity , home
March 4, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Carrie Ferrario, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemVirtual Seminar: Targeting PIK3CA Mutant Cancers , home
March 11, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Zhenghe J. Wang, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Regulation of Craving, Mindfulness, and CBT: From Neural Mechanisms to Treatment Development , home
March 18, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Hedy Kober, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Neural Circuits for Motivation and Reward , home
April 8, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Garret Stuber, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Developmental Programming of Neuroendocrine Integration , home
April 15, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Richard Simerly, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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Home ItemHow Early-life Experiences Shape Our Brain: Signals, Synapses Circuits, Behaviors , home
April 29, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Can Food Be Addictive?
Sept. 4, 2020, 11 a.m. | Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Fabric of the Neocortex
Sept. 11, 2020 | Andreas Tolias, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Design and Optimization of CAR T cells and their Application to Glioblastoma
Sept. 18, 2020 | Christine Brown, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Parkinson's Disease and Why Development Matters
Sept. 25, 2020 | Deanna Benson, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?
Oct. 2, 2020 | Daniel Kraft, M.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Genetics of Invasive Glioblastoma Cells
Oct. 9, 2020 | Nhan Tran, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Innovating for Health & Racial Equity: Transforming the Social, Structural, and Clinical Determinants with Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable Populations
Oct. 16, 2020, 11 a.m. | Antwi Akom, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Unlocking the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Cannabis and Relevance to Psychiatric Risk
Oct. 23, 2020, 11 a.m. | Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics
Oct. 30, 2020 | Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Event: Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Proteins in the Cardiomyocyte: Focus on ZO Proteins
Nov. 6, 2020, 11 a.m. | Robert S. Ross, M.D., M.B.A. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Engineering the Bio/Nano Interface for Enhanced Nano-Immunotherapy
Nov. 13, 2020, 11 a.m. | Evan Scott, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Running on Dopamine: Metabolic Regulation of Reward Seeking
Nov. 20, 2020, 11 a.m. | Nils Kroemer, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Sex, Drugs and Radiomics of Brain Cancer
Dec. 4, 2020, 11 a.m. | Kristin R. Swanson, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Cells That Tile Your Brain: Astrocyte Contributions to Neural Circuits and Disease
Dec. 11, 2020, 11 a.m. | Baljit Khakh, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Nervous Heart: Insights into Autonomic-Mediated Arrhythmias
Jan. 29, 2021, 11 a.m. | Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Using Social Media to Study Cannabis: Health Beliefs, Use Patterns, Consequences, Risk Factors, Interventions
Feb. 5, 2021, 11 a.m. | Alan J. Budney, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Memory, Learning to Learn, and Control of Cognitive Representations
Feb. 19, 2021, 11 a.m. | Andre Fenton, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Re-establishing Developmental Pathways for Heart Regeneration
Feb. 26, 2021, 11 a.m. | Kristy Red-Horse, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Reprogramming the Brain Cancer Stem Cell
March 5, 2021, 11 a.m. | John Laterra, M.D., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Effect of Contemporary Societal Exposures on Adolescent Behavioral Health
March 12, 2021, 11 a.m. | Adam Matthew Leventhal, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Epigenetic Basis of Memory Formation and Dysregulation in Memory Disorders
April 2, 2021, 11 a.m. | Farah Lubin, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Chemistry of the Adaptive Mind
April 9, 2021, 11 a.m. | Roshan Cools, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Aerobic Fitness and Susceptibility for Metabolic Dysfunction
April 16, 2021, 11 a.m. | John Thyfault, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Multi-channel MEG Measurements with a Wearable OPM System
April 23, 2021, 11 a.m. | Elena Boto, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Control of TGF-beta Signaling and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
April 30, 2021, 11 a.m. | Rik Derynck, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Stem Cells and Genomics for Cardiovascular Diseases
May 7, 2021, 11 a.m. | Joseph C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Application of Digital Health to Behavioral Health: State of the Science and Vision for the Future
May 28, 2021, 11 a.m. | Lisa Marsch, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Tuning Neurotransmission Through Local Protein Synthesis and Degradation at Synapses
August 30, 2019, 11 a.m. | Michael Sutton, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: A Computational and Neural Model for Mood Dynamics
September 13, 2019, 11 a.m. | Robb Rutledge, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Molecular Programs Defining Tumor-Specific T cell Dysfunction and Therapeutic Reprogrammability
September 27, 2019, 11 a.m. | Andrea Schietinger, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Stop Making Waves: A New Regulatory Role for Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C in Contraction
October 11, 2019, 11 a.m. | Samantha Harris, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Leveraging Metabolic Pathways for Antitumor Therapies
October 18, 2019, 11 a.m. | Mikhail A. Nikiforov, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Fractionating the Prospective Brain
October 25, 2019, 11 a.m. | Joseph W. Kable, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Genome is the Way Forward for Pediatric Medicine
November 8, 2019, 11 a.m. | David Rowitch, M.D., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Why is Decision-Making Hard?
November 22, 2019, 11 a.m. | Michael Sutton, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Probing Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Repair using Zebrafish
April 5, 2019, 11 a.m. | Michael Granato, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: MRI for the World
January 10, 2020, 11 a.m. | J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Calories, Carbs, or Quality? What Matters Most for Weight Control?
January 17, 2020, 11 a.m. | Kevin Hall, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Sleep and Wake Coordinated by Glia
January 24, 2020, 11 a.m. | Philip Haydon, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: A Motor Theory of Sleep-Wake Control
January 31, 2020, 11 a.m. | Yang Dan, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: The Neurobiology of Social Bonding, Empathy and Social Loss: Implications for Autism
February 14, 2020, 11 a.m. | Larry Young, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Evolutionary Psychopathology: An Integrative Approach to Mental Disorders
February 28, 2020, 11 a.m. | Marco Del Giudice, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Changing Computations Underlying the Development of Motivated Behavior
October 19, 2018, 11 a.m. | Catherine Hartley, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure and Molecular Context to Cell Biology Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy
April 5, 2019, 11 a.m. | Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Engineering Human Microvasculature in Inflammatory and Fibrotic Disease
February 8, 2019, 11 a.m. | Anjelica Gonzalez, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Neural Circuits for Vision in Action
April 5, 2019, 11 a.m. | Cris Niell, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Saving Adam from the Apple: Developing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Tool to Decrease Cue-Reactivity in Addiction Disorders
April 23, 2019, 11 a.m. | Colleen Hanlon, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: How Do Glia Sculpt Synaptic Circuits
April 26, 2019, 11 a.m. | Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: T Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms Limiting Tumor Immunotherapy
May 3, 2019, 11 a.m. | Benjamin Youngblood, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Archived Seminar: Arc as a Master Regulator of neuronal Plasticity: Signaling Protein or Retroviral-like Capsid
May 14, 2019, 11 a.m. | Clive R. Bramham, M.D., Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Epigenetic Vulnerabilities of Human Cancer
September 6, 2019, 11 a.m. | Alea Mills, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Reduced-Nicotine Cigarettes: Behavioral-Economics of Operant Reinforcement
April 5, 2019, 11 a.m. | Matthew Johnson, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
2017 - 2018 Academic Year
- What Are All These Wires For? Organizing Principles of Neocortical Circuits and Their Function
May 11, 2018 | Kevan Martin, Ph.D. - The Development of the Modern Cochlear Implant and the First Substantial Restoration of Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention (Watch Lecture)
Mar. 16, 2018 | Blake Wilson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng. - Sounds In Silence: How Glial Cells In The Ear Shape Development Of The Auditory System
Jan. 26, 2018 | Dwight Bergles, Ph.D. - The Neuroscience of Stress-Reward Interactions
- Jan. 19, 2018 | Danny Winder, Ph.D.
- New Insights into Restoring Mitochondrial Energy Production
Dec. 15, 2017 | David Brown, Ph.D. - The Development and Function of IL-9-Secreting T Cells (Watch Lecture)
Dec. 8, 2017 | Mark Kaplan, Ph.D. - Under- or Over-Connected? Cortical Circuit Development and Function in DiGeorge/22q11 Deletion Syndrome (Watch Lecture)
Dec. 1, 2017 | Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D. - Prontostriatal Interactions in Learning and Decision Making
Nov. 3, 2017 | Michael Frank, Ph.D. - Massively Parallel All-Optical Cardiac Electrophysiology (Watch Lecture)
Oct. 27, 2017 | Emilia Entcheva, Ph.D. - Interactions Between Natural and Drug Reward Influence Vulnerability for Addiction
Sept. 25, 2017 | Lique Coolen, Ph.D.
2016 - 2017 Academic Year
- Understanding the Differentation of Tissue Resident CD4+ T Cells (Watch Lecture)
June 9, 2017 | Marion Pepper, Ph.D. - Explanation and Reproducibility: Foundational Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience
April 21, 2017 | Aron Barbey, Ph.D. - Modulation of Human Cognition
Mar. 31, 2017 | Mark Witcher, M.D., Ph.D. - Probing the Brain’s Response to Trauma at the Cellular and Network Scale
Mar. 24, 2017 | David Meaney, Ph.D. - Role of Sodium Channel a and b1 Subunits in Epileptic Encephalopathy with SUDEP
Mar. 3, 2017 | Lori Isom, Ph.D. - Debunking the concept of one gene-one disease in inheritable sudden death (Watch Lecture)
Feb. 24, 2017 | Mario Delmar, M.D., Ph.D. - Control of T Follicular Helper (Tfh) Cell Responses by IL-2 (Watch Lecture)
Feb. 17, 2017 | Andrew Ballesteros-Tato, Ph.D. - Assembly and Maturation of Dengue and Zika Viruses (Watch Lecture)
Dec. 9, 2016 | Richard Kuhn, Ph.D. - Novel Roles for Ikaros Zinc Finger Transcription Factors in T Helper Cell Differentiation
Oct. 28, 2017 | Ken Oestreich, Ph.D.
2015 - 2016 Academic Year
- Repair and Regeneration of the Injured Spinal Cord (Watch Lecture)
April 29, 2016 | Michael Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D. - Integrating Actin and Adhesion Dynamics in Cell Migration (Watch Lecture)
Mar. 11, 2016 | Clare Waterman, Ph.D. - The Dynamic Complexity of Cancer Stem Cells
Jan. 15, 2016 | Jeremy Rich, M.D. - Exploiting Viruses to Understand and Treat Cancer
Dec. 11, 2015 | Clodaugh O'Shea, Ph.D. - Building and Using In-Vivo Microscopes to Understand Brain Function and Physiology
Dec. 4, 2015 | Elizabeth Hillman, Ph.D. - Did Free Radicals Kill Lou Gehrig? (Watch Lecture)
Oct. 30, 2015 | Joseph Beckman, Ph.D. - White Matter Injury and Recovery in the Developing Brain
Oct. 23, 2015 | Vittoria Gallo, Ph.D. - Central Nervous System Immune Priveilege Revisited
Sept. 25, 2015 | Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D., M.Sc.
2014 - 2015 Academic Year
- Dysregulation of Ion Channels in Various Disease Processes
May 15, 2015 | Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D. - Novel Roles for Immune Molecules in Brain Development and Disease
May 8, 2015 | A. Kimberley McAllister, Ph.D. - Marijuana Intoxication, Withdrawal and Relapse: Human Laboratory Studies
April 17, 2015 | Margaret Haney, Ph.D. - Imaging Mammalian Heart and Vessel Development: Insights into Vascular Remodeling and Congenital Heart Disease
Dec. 12, 2014 | Mary Dickinson, Ph.D. - Unraveling the Pathogenesis of Respiratory and Enteric Viruses in Normal and High-Risk Populations
Dec. 5, 2014 | Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D. - Deciphering the Mechanisms of Actin Filament Architecture in Striated Muscle
Nov. 14, 2014 | Carol Gregorio, Ph.D. - High-Throughput Self-Interaction Chromatography: Applications to Protein Solubility and Stability
Oct. 10, 2014 | Larry DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D. - Synapses, Muscular Dystrophy, and Brain Disorders
Oct. 3, 2014 | Lin Mei, M.D., Ph.D. - A View of Cortex from the Thalamus
Sept. 26, 2014 | S. Murray Sherman, Ph.D. - The Molecular Toolkit of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Sept. 12, 2014 | Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. - Brain Tumors: A Neurocentric Look at Cancer
Aug. 29, 2014 | Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D.
2013 - 2014 Academic Year
- Sex, Drugs, and Funky Rhythms in Silico
- April 25, 2014 | Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.
- Balancing Ultrastructural Synaptic Plasticity During Changes in Synapse Function
April 18, 2014 | Kristen Harris, Ph.D. - Wiring Up the Retina
Feb. 21, 2014 | Joshua Sanes, Ph.D. - Mechanisms of Autoimmune Synaptopathies
Jan. 31, 2014 | Rita Balice-Gordon, Ph.D. - DNA Methylation and Chromatin Architecture: The Nuts and Bolts of Gene Regulation
Jan. 24, 2014 | Paul Wade, Ph.D. - Top-Down Modulation of Interoception: A New Frontier for Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatments?
Nov. 1, 2013 | Martin Paulus, M.D. - Purkinje Fibers and Arrythmias
Oct. 25, 2013 | Penelope Boyden, Ph.D. - Imaging the Dynamics of Cortical Circuits During Behavior
Sept. 6, 2013 | Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.
2012 - 2013 Academic Year
- Capsids as Compartments
April 26, 2013 | Alasdair Steven, Ph.D. - Cryo-Electron Microscopy Structures of Protein Folding Machines
April 12, 2013 | Wah Chiu, Ph.D. - Magnetic Compass Sense of Lab Rodents: Working at the Interface of Quantum Chemistry and Spatial Recognition
April 5, 2013 | John Phillips, Ph.D. - New Imaging Approaches for Cardiac Structure and Function
Mar. 29, 2013 | Peter Kohl, M.D., Ph.D. - Mechanisms of Sensory Signaling in a Mammalian Touch Receptor
Feb. 8, 2013 | Ellen Lumpkin, Ph.D. - Hedgehog Signaling, Stem Cells, and Liver Regeneration
Jan. 18, 2013 | Yin-xiong Li, M.D., Ph.D. - Structural Dynamics of Muscle Contraction
Dec. 14, 2012 | David Thomas, Ph.D. - Whole Genome Studies to Identify Genetic Variants Assocated with Chemotherapy
Dec. 7, 2012 | Eileen Dolain, Ph.D. - Time and the Brain
Nov. 13, 2012 | David Eagleman, Ph.D. - Chemical Probing Interactions of the Urokinase Receptor
Nov. 2, 2012 | Samy Meroueh, Ph.D. - Brain Computer Interfaces Increase Whole-Brain Signal-to-Noise
Oct. 5, 2012 | Stephen LaConte, Ph.D.