Spring 2020 Seminars will be hosted virtually over Zoom! Please visit each seminar's webpage for videoconference information.
Current Seminar Series: 2019/2020
Pre-Seminars are held in Clark Center Seminar Room S361; seminars are held in Clark Center Seminar Room S360. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM, and lectures begin at 4:00 PM (unless otherwise noted).
1 October, 2019
Pre-seminar speaker: Sarah Heilshorn, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
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3 October, 2019
Seminar speaker: Tatiana Segura, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
“Injection of Hyaluronic Acid Particle Hydrogels after Ischemic Stroke Dictates Phenotypic Changes in Astrocytes”
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22 October, 2019
R&D Career Panel: Industry Insights & Scientific Careers Path in Biotech
Panelists: Jennifer Hellawell, Medical Director, Amgen; Zhulun Wang, Executive Director, Therapeutic Discovery, Amgen; Robert Loberg, Executive Director, Clinical Biomarkers, Amgen
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12 November, 2019
Pre-seminar speaker: James Spudich, Department of Biochemistry
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14 November, 2019
Seminar speaker: Richard Lieber, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Physiology, Northwestern University
“Intraoperative and Laboratory Studies of Human Muscle Contractures”
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14 January, 2020
Pre-seminar speaker: Julia Salzman, Departments of Biochemistry and Biomedical Data Science
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16 January, 2020
Seminar speaker: Barbara Engelhardt, Department of Computer Science and Center for Statistics & Machine Learning, Princeton University
“Understanding How Environment Influences Cells through Paired Images and Gene Expression Data”
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18 February, 2020
Pre-seminar speaker: Ovijit Chaudhuri, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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20 February, 2020
Seminar speaker: Kenneth Yamada, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, NIH NIDCR
“Dynamics of 3D Cell Migration and Organogenesis”
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3 March, 2020
Pre-seminar speaker: Xiaoke Chen, Department of Biology
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5 March, 2020
Seminar speaker: Yi Zhang, Genetics and Pediatrics, Harvard University
“Understanding the Brain Reward System”
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7 April, 2020
Pre-seminar speaker: Aaron Gitler, Department of Genetics
**This pre-seminar begins at 5:00 PM.
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9 April, 2020
Seminar speaker: Nancy Bonini, Biology, University of Pennsylvania
“Genetic Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease from Drosophila”
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28 April, 2020
Pre-seminar speakers: Jian Qin, Department of Chemical Engineering
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30 April, 2020
Seminar speaker: Arup Chakraborty, Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry, MIT
“How to Hit Highly Mutable Pathogens Where It Hurts”
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19 May, 2020
Pre-seminar speaker: Shamit Kachru, Department of Physics
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21 May, 2020
Seminar speaker: Nigel Goldenfeld, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Diversity, Co-Evolution and Stability of Microbe-Phage Communities”
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