Systems Biology Interest Group: Learning to rewire cells
Systems Biology Interest Group
Traditionally, biology has focused on deconstructing and mapping the molecular systems that carryout complex regulatory functions. We still lack, however, a more global understanding of the design principles governing how cells solve problems and make regulatory decisions. To address this problem, we have been complementing deconstructionist approaches with synthetic approaches in which we ask how to build molecular systems that can execute particular regulatory tasks. Are there a limited number of molecular algorithms that evolution can use to solve common physiological tasks? If so, can we ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NCCIH Integrative Medicine Research Lecture: Bacteria Get on Your Nerves: How Bugs Modulate Pain and Immunity
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. Dr. Isaac Chiu is Assistant Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology, Harvard Medicine School. Dr. Chiu's research focus is in uncovering interactions between the nervous system, the immune system, and microbes, in health and disease. Dr. Chiu will also discuss other aspects of bacterial interact...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
New initiative looking to turn innovation into patient-centric results
Harvard University ’s Stan Shaw and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s John Halamka detail a new executive education joint venture between Harvard Medical School and HIMSS. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - February 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: HIMSS19 Innovation Pulse Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: video
NIDCR Grand Rounds: Mechanoregeneration via Biomaterials
NIDCR Clinical Research Fellowship Grand Rounds
Dr. David Mooney ’ s research is based on the question, “ How do mammalian cells receive information from the materials in their environment? ” By using the tools of bioengineering and cell and molecular biology, he studies the mechanisms by which chemical or mechanical signals are sensed by cells, and how these signals alter cellular proliferation and specialization to either promote tissue growth or destruction. His research results inform the design and synthesis of new biomaterials that regulate the gene expression of interacting cells for a variety of tissue engine...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NCCIH Lecture: Watch Your Step, There Is New Chemistry Everywhere
NCCIH Integrative Medicine Research Lecture
The characterization of biologically active small molecules (natural products) produced by easily cultured bacteria has been a rewarding avenue for identifying novel therapeutics. The characterization of biologically active small molecules (natural products) produced by easily cultured bacteria has been a rewarding avenue for identifying novel therapeutics, as well as gaining insights into how bacteria interact with the world around them. Large-scale sequencing of bacterial genomic and metagenomic DNA indicates that the traditional pure culture – based approach to studying bact...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Rational Combinatorial Approaches to Immune Checkpoint Blockade
CCR Grand Rounds
F. Stephen Hodi, M.D., is the Director of the Melanoma Center and the Center for Immuno-Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1992. Dr. Hodi completed his postdoctoral training in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Medical Oncology training at Dana-Farber cancer Institute where he joined the faculty in 1995. His research focuses on gene therapy, the development of immune therapies, and first-in-human studies for malignant melanoma...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Carey and Zaitchik discuss how vitalist biology--being alive or dead--helps realize complex thought.
In this NSF Science360 radio interview, listen to Harvard professors Susan carey and Deborah Zaitchik discuss how vitalist biology--being alive or dead--helps them understand the process of building complex thought.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 13, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Closing the Divide in Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul received a master ’ s and doctoral degree in Economics from Harvard University. She undertakes global health research, advocacy and policymaking focused on reducing inequities and improving the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable populations, with emphasis on Latin America. Her main areas of research include access to palliative care and pain relief, global cancer care and control, women and health, health system reform and finance, gender-based violence and children in especially difficult circumstances.
At the University of Miami, she i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Health, Not Healthcare: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
The objectives of Dr. Galea ’ s presentation will include an understanding of the following:• We pay substantial attention to healthcare in the United States; as a result, we have a mismatch between attention paid to health and our health outcomes.• In large part, this mismatch is because we do not pay sufficient attention to the forces that influence health.• Place, power, money, race, the past, compassion, and other forces are inevitable drivers of health, and we need to talk about them all if we are to improve our health.
Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, is a...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
DDM Seminar: Leadership and Self-Awareness
Deputy Director for Management Seminar Series
To receive credit for watching this LIVE Videocast, you need to register for the event in LMS on the morning of the event. Archived Videocast registration is also available in LMS approximately 7 days after the event. Videocast from Masur Auditorium, this third seminar of the FY19 DDM Seminar Series features Tasha Eurich presenting on leadership and self-awareness.
Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, “ Top 100 Coach, ” and New York Times best-selling author whose work on leadership and self-awareness has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 19, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Metabolic Constraints of Tumor Growth
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Matthew Vander Heiden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is also an HHMI Faculty Scholar, an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and an Instructor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vander Heiden received his M.D. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He also completed clinical training in internal medicine and medical oncology at the Brigham and...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Native American Heritage Month - November 2018
NIH Tribal Health Research Office
Dr. Joseph Gone is a clinical-community psychologist and Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.
In his interdisciplinary scholarship, Gone examines cultural influences on mental health status, as well as the intersection of evidence-based practice and cultural competence in mental health services. A citizen of the Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana, he has investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban American Indian communities. As this celebration ’ s special guest, Dr. Gone wi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
How have radio telescope discoveries impacted materials science?
Michael McCarthy of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - October 24, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
CCR Eminent Lecture: The Multifaceted Function of the PD-1 Pathway
NCI Center for Cancer Research Eminent Lecture
Arlene Sharpe is the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, Head of the Division of Immunology and Interim Co-Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women ’ s Hospital, an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women ’ s Hospital.
Dr. Sharpe earned h...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
What do we know about how people recognize faces?
Catherine Stamoulis, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
Original air date: Aug. 28, 2018This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 29, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
