The Keck Seminar Series, begun in 1990, focuses on contemporary interdisciplinary science involving quantitative or computational, biomedical informatics and data science, bioinformatics, chemical, and/or physical approaches to biological and biomedical problems. The speakers, selected by a committee of GCC-supported trainees, are drawn from GCC institutions, and institutions nationwide. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The Keck Seminar Series is also a 1-credit graduate course at Rice University, BIOS 592 Topics in Quantitative Biology & Biomedical Informatics. Seminars are also offered online via Zoom; however, trainees affiliated with GCC training programs are required to attend the seminars in person.
Fall 2024 Keck Seminars will begin on September 6, and the final seminar will be on November 22. Seminars take place from 4:00-5:15 pm Fridays in Rice University’s BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) room 280. Rice map.
Those not on the Keck Seminar listserv are to please contact Elizabeth Lawrence for the Zoom login information for a particular seminar; it is not the same every week.
If you would like to receive the Keck Seminar listserv weekly reminders, please email Elizabeth Lawrence.
For questions, speaker suggestions, or to join our trainee Keck Seminar planning committee, email Elizabeth Lawrence or Jim Briggs.
Keck Seminar Series - Fall 2024
September 6, 2024 George Webb, JD
Industry Relations Director, Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
Rice University
Seminar Title: Patents and Intellectual Property: A Brief Overview for Researchers
Host: Christina van Hal
September 13, 2024 Irma (Lisa) Cisneros, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
Seminar Title: A Hot Take on Neuroinflammation and My Research Journey
Host: Kevin Wilhelm
September 20, 2024 Emily Reiser, PhD
Director of Strategy and New Ventures
Texas Medical Center (TMC)
Seminar Title: Innovation Across the Texas Medical Center
Host: Kevin Wilhelm
September 27, 2024 Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine
UTHealth
Seminar Title: Circadian Rhythms in Health and Disease
Host: Peyton High
October 4, 2024 Lydia Contreras, PhD – ZOOM ONLY
Professor, Chemical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Seminar Title: Cell-Based Toxicity Models for Understanding Environmentally-Induced Molecular Reprogramming
Host: Christina van Hal
October 11, 2024 Matthias Koch, PhD – ZOOM ONLY
Assistant Professor, Biology
Texas A&M University
Seminar Title: The Bacterial Sense of Touch: How Micron-Small Cells Measure Substrate Mechanics Using Molecular-Scale Fingers
Host: Christina van Hal
October 25, 2024 34th Keck Annual Research Conference
Machine Learning and Computation in Structural Biology
November 1, 2024 Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Cancer Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Seminar Title: Applying Machine Learning and Computational Biology to Unravel the Basic and Applied Biology of Extra Cellular Vesicles
Host: Alex Kang
November 8, 2024 William Miller, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Houston Methodist Research Institute
Seminar Title: Unravelling Cefiderocol Heteroresistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Host: Will Shropshire
November 15, 2024 Dinler Antunes, DSc
Assistant Professor, Computational Biology
University of Houston
Seminar Title: Novel Cancer Immunoinformatics Pipelines to Advance Personalized T-Cell-Based Immunotherapies
Host: Jared Slone
November 22, 2024 Livia Eberlin, PhD – ZOOM ONLY
Associate Professor, Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Seminar Title: Guiding Medical Decisions with Mass Spectrometry Technologies
Host: Will Shropshire
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