Past Events by Category
A community approach to breast cancer prevention: addressing health disparities
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Lucile Adams-Campbell, Ph.D., Associate Director, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research, Senior Associate Dean, Community Outreach and Engagement, Professor of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Getting by with a little help from their friends: how bacteria aid virus infection
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
The fast and the furious: mechanisms underlying rapid cell motility
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Julie Theriot, Ph.D., Benjamin D. Hall Endowed Chair in Basic Life Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Department of Biology, University of Washington
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
The biosynthesis of lipoic acid: a saga of death, destruction, and rebirth
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Squire J. Booker, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; Evan Pugh University Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science, Pennsylvania State University
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
The secret lives of cells
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Eric Betzig, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, University of California, Berkeley and 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Microbiome: friend and foe
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Julie Segre, Ph.D., Chief, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch; Senior Investigator, Microbial Genomics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
How to bust up a bacterial biofilm
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Lauren O. Bakaletz, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology, Vice President for Basic Sciences, Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
In scientific method we don’t just trust: or why replication has more value than discovery
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Research and Policy, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Medicine; Co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRICS) at Stanford University
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Leveraging science to change hearts and minds: addressing the opioid crisis
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Sharon Walsh, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky and Director, Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Is the Study of Monogenic Diseases of the Immune System Relevant for More Common and Complex Diseases?
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Alain Fischer, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Experimental Medicine, College de France
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures