Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
Hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
2020-2021 Seminar Series
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General ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual Seminar: Talk Title To Be Announced, Presented by Hedy Kober, Ph.D.
March 19, 2021, 11 a.m. | Hedy Kober, Ph.D. | Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
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General ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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 ItemVirtual 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: 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: 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.
About the Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series
The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Pioneers in Biomedical Research Program offers the expertise of a range of scientists who are exploring frontiers in biomedical research. These seminars are open to Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic faculty, students, and staff. For more information about these events, please call 540-526-2059.