Hot Topics in Imaging Seminar Series
This series is sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster. Check back each month for speakers and topics!
This series is sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster. Check back each month for speakers and topics!
Keegan Korthauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of British Columbia 11 20 20 Keegan Korthauer Mining 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 […]
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. […]
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
Mehmet Sen, University of Houston
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 Anselmi 11 - 12 Bobby Kashturi 12 - 1 break 1 - 2 Daniela Witten 2 -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 […]
Yong Zhou, UT Health Science Center Houston
A Physician-Scientist Journey in Translational Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Cesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhDProfessor, Herbert L and Margaret W. DuPont Chair in Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School and […]
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 Bereavement Chris 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 cancer Wenyi Wang, PhDProfessor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Link to […]
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 […]
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 Houston […]
George Golovko, PhDAssistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCSMB), University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Link to register for […]
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 Galveston Cryo-EM structures of ribosome complexes reveal new insights into bacterial translation initiation […]
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 Medicine Picking sides: competition and cooperation in human nasal microbiota Link to register for this […]
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 Research Junghae Suh, PhDVice President, Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen Inc. Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcuqvrzsuEtEyxRL90DF9QmPYQdn574ym Click here […]
Confirmed speaker, Walter Koroshetz, Director, NINDS. Stay tuned for more information.
Robert Tillman, PhDFaculty Development Specialist National Research Mentoring Network Master Facilitator LinkedIn: Where Your Network Works Link 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 signaling Greg Cuny, PhDAssociate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcuCvrD8qG9OqRHW72vI-CyYx1XYuF6PU Click here […]
Seeing is believing: Unraveling the mysteries of embryonic development one experiment at a time Rosa Uribe, PhDAssistant Professor, Biosciences, Rice University The Innovation and Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series […]
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 University Automated high-throughput flow cytometry-based assays for cancer drug discovery Link 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 Pain Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Kyle Baumbauer, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center 1:00pm Genomic Instability and Host-microbiome Interactions in the Bowel: Implications […]
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 Circuits Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterModerator: Helen Lai, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern 1:00pm Wired for Touch: The Role of Social Touch in […]
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 Pain Joyce Da Silva, University of Maryland Baltimore 1:15 pm […]
Jane Grande-Allen, PhDProfessor, Bioengineering, Rice University Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology
Pain in Clinical Populations Moderator: Stacey Gorniak, PhD, Univ. of Houston Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 1:00pm Cognition, Expectations, and Risk for Chronic Pain Simon Haroutounian, Washington […]
Damian Young, PhDAssistant Professor, Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Connecting 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 Houston Cryo-EM As A Tool to Investigate Membrane Architecture At the Nanoscale
Training Clinicians to Use Artificial Intelligence Panelists: Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH: Senior Vice President, Research & Policy, American Board of Family Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Professionalism & Value in Health […]
Bibb Allen, MD FACRChief Medical Officer ACR Data Science InstituteDiagnostic Radiologist Dr. Allen is a diagnostic radiologist with the Birmingham Radiological Group and is in community practice at Grandview Medical […]
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 Houston Toward Understanding Heart Disease: Cardiac Signaling Mechanisms, Reprogrammed Cardiac Conduction Cells, and the UH-HEART Training Program
nvestigating the Role of GFRAL in Cancer-related Fatigue Brandon Chelette, PhD MD Anderson Cancer Center Intersecting Alterations of GSK3 Inhibition and Neuronal Cytoskeleton Proteins in Neurons from Patients with Schizophrenia […]
This panel will discuss Single Cell Multiomics, from Experiment to Analysis. Panelists: Spence Fast, 10xGenomics Rui Chen, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Jared Burks, University of Texas MD […]
Lili Zheng will present on topic: “Statistical Connectomics” We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you are interested, please feel free to sign up with this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150UlqytnPUi_NaR8xbM37rTEZlJ5-uI0JLTOvBuB6W8/edit#gid=926874423 After […]
Musculoskeletal Pain Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Jun-Ho La, PhD, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 1:00pm Risk Factors for the Development of Pain in […]
Carmen Dessauer, PhDProfessor and Vice-Chair, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston Nanometric Targeting and Function of Adenylyl Cyclase in Heart
Keck Center Annual Research ConferenceSee website for talk titles and agenda Theme: Infectious Diseases: Emerging Threats and Emerging Technologies Chairs: Theresa Koehler, PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, […]
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Kathryn Patras, PhDAssistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Group B Streptococcus and the Vaginal Microenvironment
Andrew L. Routh, PhDAssistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, UT Medical Branch at Galveston RNA Recombination in SARS-CoV-2
Ana María Cárdenas, PhDR&D Associate Director, Solution Analysis, Becton Dickinson (BD) From Local to Global Impact With a Non-Linear Career
Krešo Josić and Mst Afroja Akter will present on "The interplay between randomness and structure during learning in RNNs" We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you […]
Dima Suki, PhDProfessor, Neurosurgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Ethical Considerations in Research
Confirmed speakers include: Werner Braun, UTMB; Josephine Chu Ferreon, BCM; Sherry Gao, Rice Univ.; Yang Gao, Rice Univ.; Joshua Mendell, UT Southwestern; Monte Pettit, UTMB; Robert Raphael, Rice Univ.; Michael Sheetz, UTMB; Marvin Tanenbaum, Hubrecht Institute; Yuhong Wang, Univ. of […]
Akash Umakantha (CMU) will present on "Bridging correlations and dimensionality reduction" We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you are interested, please feel free to sign up […]
Julian Hurdle, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A&M Health Science Center Evolution of antibiotic resistance in C. difficile drives new drug […]
Yizhou Chen We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you are interested, please feel free to sign up with this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150UlqytnPUi_NaR8xbM37rTEZlJ5-uI0JLTOvBuB6W8/edit#gid=926874423 After the meetings we summarize […]
Stelios Papadopoulos We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you are interested, please feel free to sign up with this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150UlqytnPUi_NaR8xbM37rTEZlJ5-uI0JLTOvBuB6W8/edit#gid=926874423 After the meetings we summarize […]
Neurobiology of Affective Disturbances in Chronic Pain
Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, DASM, PHCNS-BCAssistant Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health Science Center at Houston Implementation Science: Research to Practice; Operationalized
Rafael Rosengarten, PhDCEO and co-founder of Genialis, and co-founder of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH) A Million to One: Bridging the Biomarker Chasm from Discovery to the […]
Ted Wensel, PhDProfessor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Emerging Molecular Imaging Approaches to Photoreceptor Cilia
This workshop will feature presentations from Jim Ray, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Zachary Sweeney, PhD, CEO, Interline Therapeutics. The workshop will take place in-person (pending pandemic) at the BioScience Research […]
James Chappell, PhDAssistant Professor, BioSciences, Rice University Programming “Wild” Microbes and Microbiomes using RNA
Christopher Kearney, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology, Baylor University. Guided peptides for control of specific target species in a complex population: application to mosquitoes in the field and Helicobacter pylori in […]
Pratip Bhattacharya, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer by Real-time Metabolic Imaging
Maria L. Marco, PhD, Professor, Chair, Food Science & Technology, University of California at Davis. Electron Shuttles of Electroactive Lactobacilli
Hot Topics in the Basic Science of Migraine Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, Washington Univ. 1:00pm Peripheral CCL2-CCR2 Signaling in Migraine Yu-Qing Cao, Washington Univ. […]
Lauren Stadler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University. Waste to Action: Wastewater disease surveillance for public health response in Houston, TX
PhD Students: Alyssa Emig, BCM, and Shelby Simar, UTHealth Postdocs: Leo Elworth, Rice, and Eva Preisner, BCM
Kay Choi, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Confirmed speakers: Diana Bautista, UC Berkely; Gregory F. Corder, Univ. of Pennsylvania and Will Renthal, Harvard Univ.
Panelists Nicholas Navin, MDA; Rui Chen, BCM; Hassan Samee, BCM
Lori Banks, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology, Bates College The Pursuit of Global Domination