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.