Genes, networks and variations of the immune response
Nir Hacohen is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard/MGH and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford and was trained in physics, mathematics and computer science from his undergraduate studies at Harvard University. He joined Harvard/MGH as an assistant professor in 2003 after leading his own lab as an independent Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute. His honors include the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Sandler Memorial first prize PhD thesis award, and a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship with David Baltimore.
Nir is a...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 13, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Initiation and Regulation of Toll-like Receptor Signal Transduction
Presented by: Dr. Jonathan Kagan, Harvard Medical SchoolCategory: ImmunologyAired date: 04/01/2015 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 2, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
CANCELED - Inequality in the 21st century: The declining significance of discrimination
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Dr. Fryer will provide a brief history of efforts to close the achievement gap, as well as new findings from his research. His Educational Innovation Laboratory (Edlabs) works to provide pathbreaking research and development in the field of education. Fryer strives to work with ambitious, reform-minded leaders who always place what is best for children over adult issues. He has developed and implemented several innovative ideas on student motivation and teacher pay-for-performance concepts. At thirty, Fryer became the youngest African-American to receive tenure from Harvard. He has been...
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Initiation and Regulation of Toll-like Receptor Signal Transduction
Immunology Interest Group
Dr. Jon Kagan is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Shwachman Chair in Gastroenterology at Boston Children's Hospital. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2003 then conducted postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Ruslan Medzhitov until 2007. Jon studies the mechanisms of Pattern Recognition Receptor (PRR) signaling, with a focus on the role of cellular localization in controlling pathway activation. During his postdoctoral work, he made the important discovery that the activation of the MyD88 and TRIF branches of the LPS/TLR4 pathway is a sequen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 26, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Inequality in the 21st century: The declining significance of discrimination
Dr. Fryer is an American economist and the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.For more information go to http://wals.od.nih.govAir date: 4/1/2015 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series - April 1, 2015
Dr. Fryer is an American economist and the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.For more information go to http://wals.od.nih.govAir date: 4/1/2015 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Pi Day 2015
The National Institutes of Health will celebrate Pi Day 2015 with a series of events on Pi Day Eve (March 13, 2015) to promote data science, which combines statistics, computer science, and the biological sciences.
The inaugural NIH Data Science Lecture at this year's Pi Day will feature Dr. Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, speaking about the quantitative sciences in biomedicine. Dr. Lander is the founding director and serves as a core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. One of the principal architects of the Human Genome Project, he and his colleagues have a long-standing int...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Bringing Genetics and Epigenetics to the Fetal-Adult Hemoglobin Switch
Presented by: Stuart H. Orkin, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteCategory: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon LecturesAired date: 01/21/2015 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 22, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Preserve and Protect: BCLW Promotes Axonal Survival
Presented by: Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard University Medical SchoolCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 12/22/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 22, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
The extraordinary bacterial Type VI secretion machine
Presented by: John Mekalanos, Ph.D., Adele H. Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical SchoolCategory: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon LecturesAired date: 12/10/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 11, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Using C. elegans to study psychiatric disorders
Presented by: Joshua Kaplan, Ph.D., Harvard UniversityCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 12/08/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Stephen E Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies: When Experts Disagree - the Art of Medical Decision Making
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) will hold the sixth annual Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies. Speakers, Jerome Groopman, M.D., the Dina and Raphael Recanati chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Pamela Hartzband, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician in the division of endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will present “When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making.”...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Programmable on-chip DNA compartments as Artificial Cells
Presented by: Roy Bar-Ziv, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard UniversityCategory: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon LecturesAired date: 11/19/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 20, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish
Presented by: Florian Engert, Ph.D., Harvard UniversityCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 11/10/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 10, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Normalizing the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Cancer Treatment
Presented by: Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D., Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General HospitalCategory: HHS OnlyAired date: 10/22/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 27, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
