DATE

SPEAKER AND LECTURE TITLE

HOST

January
21

Eileen M. Shore, Ph.D.
Cali and Weldon Research Professor in FOP
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

“Heterotopic ossification in FOP – how does one tissue become another?”

January
28

Astrid Gillich, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine

"Capillary Cell Type Specialization in the Alveolus"

February
4

Malú Gámez Tansey, Ph.D.
Norman & Susan Fixel Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology
Co-Director, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease
University of Florida

“Targeting Chronic Neuroinflammation to Reduce Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease”

Jacqueline Howells

February
11

Michael D.L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunobiology
Assistant Professor, Bio5 Institute
University of Arizona

"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Copper II"

February
18

Luísa Camacho, Ph.D.
Senior Staff Fellow – Division of Biochemical Toxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research
U.S. Food & Drug Administration

“Toxicokinetics and Toxicity of Bisphenol A (BPA). And Beyond”

Layra Cintrón-Rivera

February
25

CANCELED

Eric Martens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Michigan Medical School

"Degradation of diet and host derived polysaccharides by human gut bacteria: roles in health and disease"

March
4

Stacey S. Huppert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

"Hepatocyte plasticity - potential to build intrahepatic bile duct system"

March
11

Ann M. Moormann, Ph.D., MPH
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Discovering the immune inhibitory landscape associated with endemic Burkitt lymphoma pathogenesis: a pediatric cancer common in Africa and linked to malaria"

March
18

Annette T. Lee, Ph.D.
Dean, Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Associate Professor, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

"Prognostic Biomarkers of Metastatic Risk in Early Stage Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma"

Brandon Armstead

March
25

Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

"Molecular insights on pulmonary injury during bacterial pneumonia"

April
1

Christiane Wobus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan Medical School

"The fascinating biology of enterotropic viruses"

April
8

Tamir Rashid, Ph.D
Clinical Reader in Hepatology, Liver Transplantation & Regeneration
Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
King’s College London

"Induced pluripotent stem cells to advance therapies in liver disease"

April
15

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Derrick Ong, Ph.D.
President's Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

“Novel mechanisms of brain stem cell proliferation in the normal brain and brain tumors”

April
22

Stephen Blacklow, M.D., Ph.D.
Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor
Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School

"Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction”

April
29

Dionna Whitney Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Dept. of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

“But First You Must Cross the Blood Brain Barrier: Antiretroviral Therapy Access to the Brain”

May
6

Mahalia S. Desruisseaux, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Yale School of Medicine

“Neurotropism of severe malaria: Vasculopathy or tauopathy?”

Amanda Ruiz

May
13

Zelieann Craig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies - ACBS Graduate Programs
The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson

“Human Relevant Exposures to Phthalates and Female Reproduction”