Past Events by Category
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
Cancer and aging: rival demons?
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Judith Campisi, Ph.D., Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Senescence: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., National Cancer Institute, NIH
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
What Makes America Great
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Travelling through tissues one cell at a time: the Human Cell Atlas and barrier tissues
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Sarah Teichmann, Ph.D., Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute; Visiting Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute; Director of Research, Physics Department, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University; Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Genes controlling sleep and circadian rhythms
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Michael W. Young, Ph.D., 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Laboratory of Genetics, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor, Rockefeller University
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures