Special Seminars
Hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Upcoming Special Seminars
Archived Special Seminars
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Home ItemSpecial Seminar: Exploring the Role of Lactate as a Metabolic Signal in Mitochondrial Biogenesis , home
Nov. 18, 2024, 11 a.m. | Kenya Takahashi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo | Special Seminar sponsored by the Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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Home ItemSpecial Seminar: Pore-tergeist: The Haunting of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition , home
Oct. 28, 2024, 11 a.m. | Jason Karch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine | Special Seminar
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Home ItemSpecial Seminar: A Genetic Toolset for Investigating Glio-vascular Interactions , home
Oct. 10, 2024, 11 a.m. | Hajime Hirase, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Translational Medicine, University of Copenhagen | Special Seminar
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Home ItemSpecial Seminar: Atomic Physics on the Brain , home
July 24, 2024 2 p.m. | Mark Limes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech | Special Seminar
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Home ItemNext Generation Cell Therapies for Cancer , home
May 20, 2024, 12:30 p.m. | Catherine Bollard, M.D., M.B.Ch.B., Dr. Robert J. and Florence T. Bosworth Distinguished Professor of Cancer and Transplantation Biology Research, Interim Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children’s National Hospital; Interim Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Associate Dean, Pediatric Academic Affairs, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences | Special Seminar
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Home ItemFrom FBRI to NIH: Charting a Path Out of the Lab to Science Planning and Policy , home
May 14, 2024, 11 a.m. | Alicia Kerr, Ph.D., Health Science Policy Analyst, Office of Program Planning and Analysis, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Evidence Accumulation Drives Perceptual Experience , home
April 3, 2024, 11 a.m. | Nathan Faivre, Ph.D., Professor, CNRS Scientist, Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognition Grenoble Alpes University, France | Special Seminar | Sponsored by the Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Involvement of Non-canonical Inflammatory Response in Tissue Dysfunction of Several Chronic Diseases , home
Feb. 15, 2024, 11 a.m. | David Crossman, Ph.D., PAcademic Director, Biomedical Research Imaging Unit, Senior Research Fellow, Heart Foundation New Zealand, Cardiac Nanobiology Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland | Special Seminar sponsored by the Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Hippocampal Sharp Wave Sleep: A Unifying View of Sleep in the Hippocampus , home
Jan. 31, 2024, 10 a.m. | Graham Findlay, Doctoral Candidate, Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Involvement of Non-canonical Inflammatory Response in Tissue Dysfunction of Several Chronic Diseases , home
Jan. 23, 2024, 11 a.m. | Juan Saez, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center, University de Valparaiso, Chile; Member, National Academy of Sciences | Special Seminar sponsored by the Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Electrochemistry in the Conscious Human Brain , home
Nov. 8, 2023, 1 p.m. | Dan Bang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Aarhus University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry , home
Nov. 8, 2023, 10:45 a.m. | Peter Dayan, Ph.D., Director and Scientific Member, Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Computing Conscious Experience: Reinforcement Learning, Neuromodulatory Systems, and Dynamic Changes in Phenomenal Experience. , home
Nov. 8, 2023, 9:30 a.m. | Kenneth T. Kishida, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Building Superior Multivariable Systems to Enhance Precision in Models of Behavior Change , home
Sept. 11, 2023, 11 a.m. | Brian Smith, Ph.D., Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Building Superior Multivariable Systems to Enhance Precision in Models of Behavior Change , home
Aug. 23, 2023, 11 a.m. | Holly O'Rourke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Prioritization of Episodic Representations During Memory Encoding , home
Aug. 22, 2023, 11 a.m. | Gene Brewer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Cardiac Protein O-GlcNAcylation Induces Cardiac Hypertrophy and Increases Risk of Heart Failure , home
May 15, 2023, 11 a.m. | Adam Wende, Ph.D., FAHA, Associate Professor, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Department of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Topography-Independent Sensory-Motor Circuit Development in the Vagus System , home
May 11, 2023, 12 p.m. | Takuya Kaneko, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Novel Viral and Genetic Tools for Studying Cell Type-Specific Inhibitory Circuits , home
April 20, 2023, 3 p.m. | Ubadah Sabbagh, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Exercise in a Pill: A Chemist Approach and Drugging the S1P Pathway; and a Discussion of the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery , home
Feb. 22, 2023, 1 p.m. | Webster L. Santos, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, and Director, Center for Drug Discovery, Virginia Tech | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Connexin 43: A New Player in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Associated Cardiomyopathy , home
Jan. 5, 2023, 11 a.m. | Diego Fraidenraich, Ph.D., FAHA, Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Special Seminar: Endophenotypes of Traumatic Brain Injury: What We Need to Know for the Next Generation of Clinical Trials in TBI , home
Oct. 6, 2022, 11:30 a.m. | Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, M.D., Ph.D., John McCrea Dickson M.D. Presidential Professor, Department of Neurology, and Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Center | Special Seminar
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Home ItemRare Disease as an Emerging and Distinct Field of Medicine , home
Aug . 30, 2022, 1 p.m. | Marshall Summar, M.D., Chief, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, and Director, Rare Disease Institute, Children's National Research and Innovation | Special Seminar
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Home ItemSpecial Seminar: Gene Therapy Targeting Vascular Function in Cardiovascular Disease: Are We There Yet? , home
May 20, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Steven Fisher, M.D. | Special Seminar | Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Nanocardiology: A Microscopy-Driven Approach to Cardiac Biology and Physiology , home
March 31, 2022, 11:00 a.m. | Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, Ph.D. | Special Seminar | Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Investigation into Acute Febrile Illness in Belize and El Salvador , home
March 17, 2022, 12:00 p.m. | Kristy O. Murray, D.V.M., Ph.D. | Special Seminar
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Ephaptic Coupling in Cardiac Intercalated Disc Nanodomains: Insights from a Finite Element Model , home
Feb. 16, 2022, 12:00 p.m. | Ena Ivanovic | Center for Vascular and Heart Research Special Seminar
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Home ItemCRISPR-guided Therapeutic Discovery: First-in-Class Inhibitors of CHD4 for Glioblastoma , home
Oct. 29, 2021 11:00 a.m. | Elmar Nurmemmedov, Ph.D. | Special Seminar | Center for Vascular and Heart Research
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General ItemArchived Seminar: Understanding the regulation of cardiac contractility by Transient Outward Potassium Channels: How to make an efficient pump
May 19, 2021, 12 p.m. | Peter Backx, Ph.D., DVM | Center for Vascular and Heart Research Seminar
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General ItemArchived Virtual Seminar: IL-1 blockade in heart disease
May 13, 2021, 11 a.m. | Antonio Abbate, M.D., Ph.D. | Center for Vascular and Heart Research Seminar
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Jan. 31, 2025, 11:00 a.m. | Saul Villeda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Biomedical Science, University of California, San Francisco | Co-Sponsored by the Center for Exercise Medicine Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute