Seminar Series
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Dean’s Seminar Series
The seminars will be held at 4PM ET, unless otherwise specified. The seminars will be held virtually until further notice.
CME/CE Credit Offered for Most Seminars
September 9, 2021 (view the recording of the seminar (new window))
Paul Roepe, PhD
Dept. of Chemistry and
Dept. of Biochemistry & Cellular & Molecular Biology
Georgetown University
Title: “The Biochemistry of Antimalarial Drug Resistance”
September 30, 2021 via Zoom (new window) – cosponsored by the Scientific Partners Distinguished Lecture Series
Enrico Gratton, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physics
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics
Title: “Single cell physiological characterization in living tissue. Determination of cell fate”
Abstract (new window)
October 7, 2021 (view the recording of the seminar (new window))
Dorian McGavern, PhD
Senior Investigator
Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Section
NINDS, NIH
Title: “How Infections Influence Repair in the Damaged Brain”
Abstract (new window)
October 14, 2021 via Zoom (new window)
Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD
Principal Deputy Director, NIH
Senior Investigator, NIDCR, NIH
Title: “How Ira’s Protein led me down a Sugar-Coated Path”
Abstract (new window)
October 21, 2021 – Scientific Partners Distinguished Lecture Series cosponsored by the Dean’s Seminar Series via Zoom (new window)
Mary Carrington, Ph.D.
Director, Basic Science Program
Frederick National Laboratory
Title: “Immunogentic variation: The benefits of a protective variant against one disease can increase the risk of another”
Abstract (new window)
October 28, 2021 via Zoom (new window)
Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD
Chief, Section on DNA Repair
National Institute on Aging, NIH
Title: “DNA damage and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration and aging”
Abstract (new window)
November 11, 2021 via Zoom (new window):
Michael Lauer, MD
NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research
Title: “Extramural Research in the Era of COVID-19″
Abstract (new window)
November 17, 2021 via Zoom (new window):
Mark O’Connor, PhD
Chief Scientist, Early Oncology Discovery
AstraZeneca
November 18, 2021 via Zoom (new window):
Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH
Professor
Director, Center for Global Health Science and Security
Georgetown University
Topic: COVID AMP: Analysis and Mapping of Policy
December 2, 2021
Stephen Byers, PhD
Professor, Oncology
Director for Shared Resources
Georgetown University
December 9, 2021
Barbara Rehermann, MD
Chief, Immunology Section, LDB
NIDDK, NIH
December 16, 2021
Michelle Digman, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Equity Advisor for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering
BME Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California Irvine
January 6, 2022
John Cijiang He, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine, Nephrology
Professor, Pharmacological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
January 13, 2022
Patricia Heberer Rice, PhD
Senior Historian, Division of the Senior Historian
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
January 20, 2022
Peter Kolkhof, PhD
Head of Heart and Vascular Diseases VI
Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals
Bayer
January 27, 2022
Judith Campisi, PhD
Professor, The Buck Institute
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 3, 2022
Haim Cohen, PhD
Faculty of Life Sciences
Bar Ilan University
February 10, 2022
Eric Verdin, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Professor
The Buck Institute
February 24, 2022
Jonathan Schneck, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Johns Hopkins Translational Immunology, JH-TIE, Director
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering
March 10, 2022
M. Celeste Simon, PhD
Scientific Director and Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Associate Director-Shared Resources, Abramson Cancer Center
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
March 24, 2022
Mariana Kaplan, MD
Senior Investigator
Systemic Autoimmunity Branch
NIAMS, NIH
March 31, 2022
Kristi Anseth, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
April 14, 2022
Meng Wang, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics
Robert C. Fyfe Endowed Chair on Aging
Co-Director, Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program
Baylor College of Medicine
April 28, 2022
David Mangelsdorf, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alfred G. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology
Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
May 5, 2022
Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
George MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences
Director, Center for Inflammation Research
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
May 12, 2022
T. Jake Liang, MD
Distinguished Investigator
NIDDK, NIH
June 2, 2022
Aviv Regev, PhD
Executive Vice President, Genentech Research and Early Development
June 23, 2022
Mary Klotman, MD
Dean and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
R. J. Reynolds Professor
Duke University
&
Paul Klotman, MD
President & CEO
Executive Dean
Baylor College of Medicine
April 30, 2020 – CANCELLED
“Burn it up—Temperature and Obesity Physiology and Treatment” – Marc Reitman, NIH
May 7, 2020 – CANCELLED
Title: TBD – Rafael deCabo, NIH
May 21, 2020 – CANCELLED
“FGF21 and Nutrient Stress: Eat and Drink, but Don’t Get Too Merry” – David Mangelsdorf, HHMI & UT Southwestern Medical Center
June 11, 2020 – CANCELLED
“Igniting Immune Response with cGAS” – Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, HHMI & UT Southwestern Medical Center
May 20, 2020 at 1:00PM ET (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Michael Lauer, M.D., NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research – 1) The status of NIH funding during and after COVID-19 and 2) Consequences of foreign influence.
July 29, 2020 at 11:00AM ET (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Joseph Beechem, PhD
Chief Science Officer and Senior Vice President, Research & Development
NanoString Technologies
September 3rd (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Hari Shroff, PhD
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
NIH
September 10th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Russell DeBose-Boyd, PhD
Beatrice and Miguel Elias Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science
Professor of Molecular Genetics
UT Southwestern Medical Center
September 17th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Hannah Valantine, MD
Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity
NIH
September 24th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Charles Brenner, PhD
Alfred E Mann Chair
Dept of Diabetes & Cancer Metabolism
City of Hope National Medical Center
October 1st (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Rebecca Haeusler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
Columbia University Medical Center
October 29th:
John Carethers, MD
C. Richard Boland Distinguished University Professor
John G. Searle Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor, Human Genetics
University of Michigan
November 5th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Stefan Hell
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Nobel Prize 2014
November 12th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP
Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
NIH
November 19th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine
Touchstone Diabetes Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
December 3rd via Zoom (new window):
Kandice Tanner, PhD
Laboratory for Cell Biology
NCI, NIH
December 10th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD
Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona Tucson
December 17th at 11:00 AM ET (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Prof. Eran Elinav
Department of Immunology
Weizmann Institute of Science
January 7th (via Zoom (new window)):
Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly MD FRS FMedSci
Director, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge
Co-Director, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge
Head of Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge,
Scientific Director, Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Hon. Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
January 14th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Mary Klotman, MD
Dean, Duke University School of Medicine
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University
January 21st (via Zoom (new window)):
Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
UCLA Health
January 28th (via Zoom (new window)):
Helen H. Hobbs, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
February 11th (via Zoom (new window)):
Michaela U. Gack, Ph.D.
The Arthur and Marylin Levitt Endowed Chair
Scientific Director, Florida Research & Innovation Center
Cleveland Clinic Florida
February 25th at 10 AM ET (view the recording of the presentation here (new window))
Leonard Freedman, PhD
Chief Science Officer, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
February 25th at 2:30 PM ET (via Zoom (new window)):
Marc Reitman, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator and Chief
Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH
March 1st (via Zoom (new window)):
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD
Senior Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Janelia Research Campus
March 4th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Thomas Sudhof, MD
Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Prize 2013
March 11th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Gökhan Hotamisligil, MD, PhD
James S. Simmons Professor, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Director of the Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
March 18th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Trevor Archer, PhD
NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH
March 24th at 2 PM ET (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
T.E. Schlesinger
Benjamin T. Rome Dean
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
March 25th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window)):
Bruce Tromberg, PhD
Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
NIH
April 8th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window))
Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health
April 15th (view the recording of the presentation here (new window))
Clyde Yancy, MD
Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
April 22nd (via Zoom (new window)):
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Professor, Developmental and Molecular Biology
Professor, Anatomy and Structural Biology
Co-Director, Institute for Aging Research
Robert and Renée Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
May 6th:
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD (via Zoom (new window))
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center
Professor of Internal Medicine, Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering
University of Iowa Health Care
May 10th at 3:30 PM (via Zoom (new window)): (seminar will be recorded)
Norman Sharpless, MD
Director, National Cancer Institute
NIH
May 13th (via Zoom (new window)): (seminar will be recorded)
Tim F. Greten, MD
Deputy Branch Chief & Senior Investigator
Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch
Co-Director NCI CCR Liver Cancer Program
National Cancer Institute, NIH
June 3rd (via Zoom (new window)):
Gary Gibbons, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NIH
June 10th (via Zoom (new window)):
Heather Clark, PhD
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry
Northeastern University
June 17th (via Zoom (new window)):
Nancy Brown, MD
C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine
Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine