Molecular Cues for Axon Guidance and Regulation
Presented by: John Flanagan, PhD, Harvard University Medical SchoolCategory: SpecialAired date: 04/06/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series: Genomics in Mexico: Implications for Health Care and the Bioeconomy
Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez MD, PhD is Professor of Genomic Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, and Program Director, Genomic Medicine and Bioeconomy, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also Executive President of Global Biotech Consulting Group. He was the founding Director of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) in Mexico, and director of the Mexican Genomic Diversity Project.
The Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series was formed to enhance opportunities for dialogue about how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities. The lecture series...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cellular Metabolism in the Brain and Resistance to Epileptic Seizures
Presented by: Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 04/04/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
The Role of PTPN22 in Autoimmunity and Viral Immunity.
Dr. Linda Sherman received her Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Biology, and did postdoctoral research in immunology at Albert Einstein Medical College and Harvard Medical School, after which she started her laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, where she remained throughout her career. She has served on advisory panels for the National Science Foundation, The American Cancer Society, The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and The National Institutes of Health. She was a member of the Advisory Council to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease from 2002-2006. She has served on numerous committees for t...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Images and Texts in Medical History: Keynote Presentation
Keynote presentation to Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities, April 11-13, 2016, a program hosted by the NLM, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and made possible through a multi-institutional collaboration involving the NEH, Virginia Tech, the Wellcome Library, and the Wellcome Trust.
Introductions and welcoming remarks:
Chair, Jeffrey S. Reznick, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine;
Betsy Humphreys, Acting Director, National Library of Medicine;
Margaret Plympton, Deputy Chairman, National Endowm...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Sensory Neurons of Touch: From Function to Dysfunction
Presented by: David Ginty, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolCategory: National Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthAired date: 03/07/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Exploring Genetic Dependencies in Ras Mutant Cancer Cells
NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Ji Luo received his B.A. in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1998. He completed his Ph.D. training as an HHMI Predoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Lewis Cantley at Harvard University, Boston. His Ph.D. research focused on the role of PI 3-kinase in development, diabetes and cancer. Ji Luo undertook his postdoctoral training as an AACR Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Elledge at Harvard Medical School, Boston. His postdoctoral research focused on the development of bar-coded shRNA library technologies for genome-wide RNAi syn...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Internal and external sensory systems
Presented by: Stephen Liberles, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 02/08/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
When Watson and Crick Get Linked: DNA Interstrand Crosslink Repair and Human Disease
NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Smogorzewska received her B.S. in molecular biology and biochemistry from the University of Southern California in 1995, her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University in 2002 where she was mentored by Dr. Titia de Lange and her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2003. Following a residency in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow in Stephen Elledge's lab in 2005. She joined The Rockefeller University as an assistant professor in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor in 2015.
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Source: Videocast - All Events - February 1, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Sensory Neurons of Touch: From Function to Dysfunction
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) presents the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series. The series provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary health approaches and explores perspectives on the emerging discipline of integrative medicine.
David Ginty, Ph.D., is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Ginty’s work is focused on the development, organization, and function of neurons that stimulate the skin and mediate our sense of...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 20, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Novel Roles for Oxysterols in Resolution of Inflammation and Critical Illness.
Michael Fessler is a physician scientist who is a Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief of the Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease Laboratory of the intramural research program at NIEHS/NIH. Mike received his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1996, after which he completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1996-1999, and then a pulmonary-critical care fellowship at University of Colorado from 1999-2002. In 2006, after four years on faculty at National Jewish Hospital, Mike started as a Tenure Track Investigator at NIEHS, and, in 2013, he received tenure. His laboratory focuses on the in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 20, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Personal Patient Profile - Prostate (P3P): Decision support when most needed
NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Donna L. Berry, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN is Director of the Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berry practiced as an oncology nurse specialist prior to receiving her PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1992.
Dr. Berry leads several studies to improve the human experience of having a cancer diagnosis, ranging from making treatment decisions to managing cancer symptoms and side effects.
In 2011, Dr. Berry was the recipient of the Distinguished Rese...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 30, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Assembly of Feature-Detecting Circuits in the Retina
Presented by: Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D., Harvard UniversityCategory: SpecialAired date: 11/02/2015 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Three Decades of Neuroscience, Glutamate Receptor Channels
Three Decades of Neuroscience on Glutamate Receptor Channels 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks9:35 a.m. "Who knew NMDA Receptors did this....." Gary Westbrook, M.D., Senior Scientist and Co-Director, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University10:05 a.m. “Too many Potassium Channels”Bruce Bean, Ph.D., Robert Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School10:35 a.m. “Glutamate Receptor Pores”James Huettner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis11:05 a.m. Break11:30 a.m. “NMDA Receptors: Presynaptic, ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strategies for Cytosolic Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens.
Immunology Interest Group Dr. Russell Vance is Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2000, and then conducted postdoctoral research on host-pathogen interactions in the laboratories of John Mekalanos and Bill Dietrich at Harvard Medical School, where he developed a focus on the genetics of host resistance to Legionella pneumophila. Continuing this work in his own lab at Berkeley, he has made major contributions to our understanding of the molecular basis by which pathogens are ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
