Past Events by Category
Cellular communication: how cells control who they’re talking to and what they’re saying
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Michael B. Elowitz, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics and Bren Scholar at the California Institute of Technology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
The two faces of the IL-15- Janus Kinase-Stat system: implications for the immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases and cancer
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D., National Cancer Institute, NIH
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Establishing causality in microbiome studies
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Rob Knight, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Computing cures: discovery through the lens of a computational microscope
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Rommie E. Amaro, Ph.D., Professor and Shuler Scholar, UC San Diego
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Deconstructing lifecourse mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease disparities
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Jennifer J. Manly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neuropsychology in Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Systemic immunity protects the mind: Can immune checkpoint blockade combat Alzheimer’s disease?
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Michal Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroimmunology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Biophysics and Biology of K+ Channels
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

From microbial immunity to genome editing
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Core Member, The Broad Institute of MIT; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Associate Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Structural biology of gene, epigenetic and immune regulation
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Dinshaw J. Patel, Ph.D., Member and Laboratory Head, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

Repetitive DNA sequences in health and disease: gift wrappings for precision medicine
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Ken Ramos, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Precision Health Sciences; Interim Dean of the UA College of Medicine, Phoenix; Executive Director, Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine; Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences
Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
