The National Cancer Institute's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center provides funding, networking, and mentoring assistance to small businesses with early-stage innovative cancer technology projects. NCI SBIR Team Leader […]
Addiction Workgroup of the GCC Mental Health Research ClusterVirtual Mini SymposiumFrom Theories to Empirical Findings and Back
Brain Circuits and PainWelcomeAnnemieke Kavelaars, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Ted Price, PhD, UT Dallas1:00 Cell Therapy for the Treatment of CIPN Cobi Heijnen, MD Anderson Cancer Center1:15 […]
We invite you to this networking event jointly sponsored by the Clusters for Single Cell Omics and Mental Health Research/Biological Psychiatry workgroup. With the increasing importance of applying single cell […]
The Gulf Coast Consortia is pleased to invite you to a networking event jointly sponsored by the Clusters for Single Cell Omics and Mental Health Research/Biological Psychiatry workgroup. With the […]
This Roundtable Workshop will focus on useful/essential traits for successfully leading a biotech company that are often different from the skills/traits of successful academics. Additionally, attendees will receive insights on […]
Stephen S. Laurie, PhDSenior Scientist, SANS Discipline Lead, KBR, NASA Johnson Space CenterSwelling in the Eye on ISS
We invite you to join us for this Mini-Symposium that will take place via Zoom on September 16 from 1-4 pm CST. This event will kick off future virtual workgroup activities including sub workgroups […]
GPCR and Opioid Signaling in Chronic PainModerator: Patrick Dougherty, MD Anderson
Caroline Ajo-Franklin, PhDProfessor, BioSciences Rice UniversityEngineering Electronic Actuation and Sensing into Microorganisms Using Synthetic Biology
Joan E. Nichols, PhD, Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine, UTMBBig or Small, Simple or Complex:How 3D Human Engineered TissueModels can be used to Study HumanTissue Responses
Jean Fan, Assistant Professor,Dept. BiomedicalEngineering, John HopkinsUniversityComputational Methods forAnalyzing Spatially-resolved SinglecellTranscriptomics Data
Presented by CARMiG, Gulf Coast Consortia, and The ASM-TMC ChapterDr. Edward Septimus will present, "Sepsis 2020 from the Infectious Diseases Perspective".Conference held via Zoom
Confirmed Speakers: Stephen Quake, Orit Rosenblatt, Lukas Simon, Koichi Takahashi, Nick Navin, Navin Varadarajan, Courtney Hodges, Ruli GaoMore information can be found on the symposium website.
This GCC IDDD Roundtable Workshop that will focus on some of the core drug discovery and development resources of our extended Texas-wide network. Drs. Stan McHardy and Matthew Hart will talk about medicinal chemistry and high throughput […]
Ricardo Azevedo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of HoustonSex and The Origin of Species
1st place winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Innovations in Research and Research Education Award, this exciting workshop brings together highly acclaimed experts in rigor and reproducibility […]
Our inaugural CMB Weekly Seminar will feature George Phillips from Rice University via Zoom. More information coming soon.
We invite you to join us for the series of monthly AI in Healthcare Cluster Meet-and-Greet events that will take place via Zoom. The goal of the Meet-and-Greet meetings is […]
The 4th workshop in the #pain2020 series, focused on Neuroimmune Mechanisms in Pain, will take place on October 16, 1:00-2:00pm CDT. Attendees will have the opportunity to post questions directed to […]
Barbara Trautner, MD, PhD, Professor and Director, Clinical and Health Services ResearchImprecision Medicine: TheChallenges in Diagnosis, Treatment,and Antibiotic Stewardship for UTI
This series sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster will feature Dr. Md. Abul Hassan Samee from Baylor College of Medicine who will present From Protein-DNA Binding to Spatial Transcriptomics: Machine Learning Models of Transcriptional […]
Leaf Huang, University of North Carolina; Stephan Schmidt University of Florida; Elisabeth Martinez, Univ. of Texas Southwestern; Robert YL Tsai, Texas A&M Institute of BioSciences and Technology.
Career Symposium for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, featuring a keynote address on biomedical science careers of the future and break-out discussion groups with former Keck Center trainees.
This annual conference recognizes the collaborative research conducted by predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees of the Keck Center. To celebrate the Keck Center’s 30th anniversary, the conference will feature outstanding speakers, Keck alums […]
Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSEProfessor, Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine and The Reynolds and Reynolds Professorship in Clinical InformaticsUT Health Science Center Houston
We invite you to register for the GCC MHR Medicinal Cannabinoids Workgroup Kickoff Meet-and-Greet that will take place via Zoom on Nov. 9 from 1-2:30pm CST. The goal of this meeting is to facilitate new […]
Shella Keilholz, Georgia Tech/Emory UniversityCristian Badea, Duke UniversityDavid Fuentes, MD Anderson Cancer CenterKristy Brock, MD Anderson Cancer CenterAnanth Annapragada, Baylor College of MedicineBrett Shoelson, MatLabMaryellen Giger, University of ChicagoPonnada A. […]
This workshop will present opportunities for academic researchers to partner with two different industry partners. Speakers include Dr. Fiona Mack, Head of JLabs@TMC and Sushmita Lahiri, External Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim. Stay […]
Headache and MigraineWelcome: Annemieke Kavelaars, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterModerator: Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin 1:00pm The Role of HDAC6 and the Cytoskeleton in Chronic Migraine-associated PainZachariah Bertels, University of Illinois at […]
Nicholas Navin, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Dept. of Genetics, Division of Basic Science Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer CenterCancer Evolution Through the Lensof Single Cell Genomics
We invite you to join us for the series of monthly AI in Healthcare Cluster Meet-and-Greet events that will take place via Zoom. The goal of the Meet-and-Greet meetings is […]
Keegan Korthauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of British Columbia11 20 20 Keegan KorthauerMining the epigenome: computational tools to interpret DNA methylation data
*This event takes place on three consecutive Wednesdays. We ask that you commit to all three sessions.*This evidence-based workshop is designed for faculty to develop skills and insight in mentoring postdocs and […]
1st place winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Innovations in Research and Research Education Award, this exciting workshop brings together highly acclaimed experts in rigor and reproducibility […]
Confirmed speakers include Ilya Finkelstein, Univ. of Texas; Vasanthi Jayaraman, UT Health Science Center at Houston; Hong Wang, North Carolina State Univ.; David Baker, Univ. of Washington; Serena Nik-Zainal, Univ. […]
*This event takes place on three consecutive Wednesdays. We ask that you commit to all three sessions.*This evidence-based workshop is designed for faculty to develop skills and insight in mentoring postdocs and […]
Sponsored by the GCC Single Cell Omics Cluster, the first discussion will take place from 2:00-3:00pm CST and will provide a brief introduction to single cell technologies and local core resources. […]
Christopher Obara, Janelia HHMI
*This event takes place on three consecutive Wednesdays. We ask that you commit to all three sessions.*This evidence-based workshop is designed for faculty to develop skills and insight in mentoring postdocs and […]
Mehmet Sen, University of Houston
We invite you to join us for the series of monthly AI in Healthcare Cluster Meet-and-Greet events that will take place via Zoom. The goal of the Meet-and-Greet meetings is […]
Travis Moore, UT Health Science Center Houston
We invite you to register for the first of our 2021 GCC IDDD Roundtable Workshops that will focus computer-aided drug discovery and will highlight the computational resources of our local TMC Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT). The workshop […]
Novel Mechanisms on Chronic Pain
Confirmed speakers include Robert Bonomo, Case Western; Robert Britton, BCM; Henry Chambers, UCSF; Anrea Cruz, BCM; Scott Flanders, Univ. of Michigan; Vance Fowler, Duke; Danielle Garsin, UTHealth; Tom Giordano BCM; Matt Goetz, UCLA/VA; Blake Hanson, UTHealth; Lee Harrison, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Robert Jenq, MD Anderson; Anthony Maresso, BCM; William […]
Agenda:10 - 11 Fabio Anselmi11 - 12 Bobby Kashturi12 - 1 break1 - 2 Daniela Witten2 -3 Jonathan Cohen
Confirmed speakers include Fabio Anselmi, Baylor College of Medicine; Cameron Buckner, Univ. of Houston; Jonathan Cohen, Princeton Univ.; Chong Xie, Rice Univ.; Daniella Witten, Univ. of Washington; Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London; and Bobby Kasthuri, Univ. of […]
We invite you to join us for the series of monthly AI in Healthcare Cluster Meet-and-Greet events that will take place via Zoom. The goal of the Meet-and-Greet meetings is […]
Yong Zhou, UT Health Science Center Houston
A Physician-Scientist Journey in Translational Research on Antimicrobial ResistanceCesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhDProfessor, Herbert L and Margaret W. DuPont Chair in Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School and School […]
Dr. Chris Fagundes is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University, Dr. Fagundes uses theories and methods from clinical, social, and developmental health psychology to examine […]
Matters of the Heart: Contributions of Psychoneuroimmunology to Spousal BereavementChris Fagundes, Rice University
The workshop will feature Drs. Yang Shen, Texas A&M Univ., and Aaron Morris, PostEra, focusing on AI in drug discovery and development.
Tumor cell total mRNA expression shapes the molecular and clinical phenotype of cancerWenyi Wang, PhDProfessor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterLink to register for […]
Due to power outages, the GCC Hot Topics in Imaging Seminar originally scheduled for February 17, has been postponed.This series is sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster. Check back each month for […]
Due to power outages, the GCC February #Pain2021 Workshop originally scheduled for February 19, has been postponed.
*Due to blackouts, Dr. Waxham's talk will be rescheduled*M. Neal Waxham, PhDWilliam M. Wheless III, Professor In Biomedical Sciences, Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at HoustonCryo-EM as […]
George Golovko, PhDAssistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCSMB), University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonLink to register for this […]
Nirakar Sahoo, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
The application of neural stimulation technologies and computer interfaces for paralysis, neuroregenerationand psychiatric disorders has risen steadily. However, the field will be accelerated by a deeper molecular and physiological understanding […]
Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonCryo-EM structures of ribosome complexes reveal new insights into bacterial translation initiationLink to […]
Emily Caporello, PhDDirector, NINDS Small Business ProgramNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNational Institutes of HealthNINDS Small Business Grants
The workshop will feature Dr. Emily Caporello, Director, NINDS Small Business Program. Dr. Caporello will be available for a roundtable discussion during the second hour for those interested in discussing […]
Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Pediatric-Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of MedicinePicking sides: competition and cooperation in human nasal microbiotaLink to register for this talk:https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuf-murDspHt0HxPyToXmNGbrBWheVipMd
Featuring Rita Allen Scholars Sarah Linnstaedt, Univ. of North Carolina; Geoffroy Laumet, Michigan State Univ.; Andrew Shepherd, MD Anderson; and Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
From Academia to the Deep End of Industrial Drug Discovery ResearchJunghae Suh, PhDVice President, Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen Inc.Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcuqvrzsuEtEyxRL90DF9QmPYQdn574ymClick here to download flyer
Confirmed speaker, Walter Koroshetz, Director, NINDS. Stay tuned for more information.
Robert Tillman, PhDFaculty Development Specialist National Research Mentoring Network Master FacilitatorLinkedIn: Where Your Network WorksLink to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfu2trzMtGdHAgDYyvSVKobyfrrUEfo7I Click here to download flyer
Designing RIPK2 kinase inhibitors for blocking NOD cell signalingGreg Cuny, PhDAssociate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of HoustonLink to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcuCvrD8qG9OqRHW72vI-CyYx1XYuF6PUClick here to download flyer
Seeing is believing: Unraveling the mysteries of embryonic development one experiment at a timeRosa Uribe, PhDAssistant Professor, Biosciences, Rice UniversityThe Innovation and Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series is new […]
Confirmed speakers include Dario Vignali, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Linda Saif, The Ohio State Univ.; Bali Pulendran, Stanford Univ.
Margie Moczygemba, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, IBT, Texas A&M UniversityAutomated high-throughput flow cytometry-based assays for cancer drug discoveryLink to register for the talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApdeuurzsvE9HLe-oMaBtM2PV7arUYtGKg
Please save the date for this exciting conference and stay tuned for speaker updates. James Inglese, NIH/NCATS is confirmed.More information can be found on the conference website.
Genetics of PainWelcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterModerator: Kyle Baumbauer, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center 1:00pm Genomic Instability and Host-microbiome Interactions in the Bowel: Implications for Pain and […]
1st place winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Innovations in Research and Research Education Award, this exciting workshop brings together highly acclaimed experts in rigor and reproducibility […]
This workshop will be the 1 year follow up with Drs. Alan Barrett and Roger Nosal to discuss what has transpired over the course of the last year and what we can expect in the […]
Bryan Denny, Rice Univ., will present Examining the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation Training: Behavioral, Linguistic, and Neural Evidence and Douglas Engelke, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston, will present A Hypothalamic-thalamostriatal […]
Genetic Interrogation of Spinal Cord CircuitsWelcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterModerator: Helen Lai, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern1:00pm Wired for Touch: The Role of Social Touch in Pain ModulationVictoria […]
Panelists: Jin Wang, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Linghua Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Navin Varadarajan, Univ. of Houston
1:00pm Using Functional MRI to Study Brain Mechanisms Underlying Sex and Age Differences in an Animal Model of Chronic Osteoarthritis PainJoyce Da Silva, University of Maryland Baltimore1:15 pm Brain Reward […]
Jane Grande-Allen, PhDProfessor, Bioengineering, Rice UniversityBiophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology
Pain in Clinical PopulationsModerator: Stacey Gorniak, PhD, Univ. of HoustonWelcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center1:00pm Cognition, Expectations, and Risk for Chronic PainSimon Haroutounian, Washington Univ.1:15pm Approaches for Classification […]
Damian Young, PhDAssistant Professor, Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Baylor College of MedicineConnecting a Passion for Chemistry and a Desire to Develop New Medicines
Sponsored by the GCC Mental Health Research Consortium, this event will take place virtually, September 21, 2021. We are delighted to feature Keynote, Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director, National Institute for Mental […]
Neal Waxham, PhDProfessor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at HoustonCryo-EM As A Tool to Investigate Membrane Architecture At the Nanoscale
Training Clinicians to Use Artificial IntelligencePanelists:Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH: Senior Vice President, Research & Policy, American Board of Family Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Professionalism & Value in Health CareSteven Lin, […]
Bibb Allen, MD FACRChief Medical Officer ACR Data Science InstituteDiagnostic RadiologistDr. Allen is a diagnostic radiologist with the Birmingham Radiological Group and is in community practice at Grandview Medical Center […]
Featuring keynote speakers: Nir Yosef, Univ. of California Berkeley and Matt Spitzer, Univ. of California San Francisco/Teiko Bio. Other confirmed speakers: Rui Chen, Baylor College of Medicine; Andrew Futreal, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Shaoheng Liang, MD […]
Bradley McConnell, PhD, FAHA, FCVSProfessor, Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of HoustonToward Understanding Heart Disease: Cardiac Signaling Mechanisms, Reprogrammed Cardiac Conduction Cells, and the UH-HEART Training Program
nvestigating the Role of GFRAL in Cancer-related FatigueBrandon Chelette, PhDMD Anderson Cancer CenterIntersecting Alterations of GSK3 Inhibition and Neuronal Cytoskeleton Proteins in Neurons from Patients with SchizophreniaJessica Di Re, PhDUT […]
This panel will discuss Single Cell Multiomics, from Experiment to Analysis.Panelists:Spence Fast, 10xGenomicsRui Chen, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterJared Burks, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterKen Chen, […]