Seminar Schedule
2017-18 Seminar Series
The COM Research Seminar series is designed to serve all graduate student, post-doc and faculty researchers in the College of Medicine and/or affiliated with the BMS. An outstanding menu of speakers is being recruited, representing a broad range of interests. Speakers are encouraged to pitch their talks to a broad audience without compromising detail or rigor. We hope that all faculty, post-docs & graduate students will make an effort to incorporate this event into their regular weekly schedule of activities.
Please check back periodically as this information is subject to updates.
| Seminar Date | Speaker | Type of Seminar | Area of Expertise | Room |
| 8/24/17 | Wayne T. McCormack, Ph.D. | Career Development | Career Planning – It’s Not Too Early! | LG-101 |
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| 10/5/17 | Jason Weinstein Ph.D. | Career Development | Instructor, Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine | |
| 10/19/17 | Wayne T. McCormack, Ph.D. | Career Development | Mapping Research Career Directions | LG-101 |
| 11/13/17 | Zemer Gitai, Ph.D. | Career Development/ Concentration Research | “Mechano-microbiology: the how and why of bacterial cell shape” | C1-7 |
| 11/16/17 | Zahara Jaffer, Ph.D. | Career Development | Assistant Director and Licensing Officer, Office of Technology Licensing at the University of Florida | LG-101 |
| 12/7/17 | TBA | Career Development | C1-7 | |
| 1/4/18 | Philip Krause | Career Development | Deputy Director in the Office of Vaccines Research and Review at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, MD | LG-101 |
| 1/11/18 | TBA | Career Development/ Concentration Research | LG-101 | |
| 1/18/18 | TBA | Career Development/ Concentration Research | LG-101 | |
| 1/25/18 | TBA | Career Development/ Concentration Research | LG-101 | |
| 2/1/18 | Dan Littman, MD, PhD | GSO Career Development | New York University, 1st Annual Distinguished Lecture Series: “Influence of the microbiota on T cell immunity” | LG-101 |
| 2/8/18 | Ken Stedman, Ph.D. | MSB-Concentration Research | Professor of Biology, Portland State University, Center for Life in Extreme Environments: “Viruses from Hell” | C1-7 |
| 2/15/18 | Tyler McCullough | Student-led | Laboratory of Dr. Shannon Boye – Towards a Gene Therapy for GUCY2D– associated cone rod dystrophy (CORD6) | LG-101 |
| 2/22/18 | Duane Pierson, Ph.D. | GSO Career Development | Former Director of Microbiology at NASA Johnson Space Center. Area: microbiology and immunology projects related to space flight | LG-101 |
| 3/1/18 | Olga Anczukow, Ph.D. | MSA- Concentration Research | Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory: “Alternative-splicing alterations in breast cancer: molecular and therapeutic insights from model systems” | LG-101 |
| 3/15/18 | Aleixo Santiago, Ph.D. | Career Development/ Concentration Research | Deputy Director Principal Scientist at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals | LG-101 |
| 3/22/18 | TBA | TBA | LG-101 | |
| 3/29/18 | Andrea Lin | Student-led | Laboratory of Dr. Clayton Mathews | LG-101 |
| 4/5/18 | TBA | TBA | LG-101 | |
| 4/12/18 | Jeffrey Ostrove, Ph.D. | Career Development | CEO of 3 biotechnology companies | LG-101 |
| 4/19/18 | TBA | TBA | LG-101 | |
| 4/25/18 | Stephanie Gupton, Ph.D. | MCB-Concentration Research |
Stephanie L. Gupton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, UNC Neuroscience Center, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center |
C1-17 @10:45 am |
| 4/25/18 | Charles Rice, Ph.D. | MSI-Concentration Research |
Rockefeller University |
LG-101 @ 4:00 pm |
| 4/26/18 | Angela Starks, Ph.D. | MSG-Concentration Research |
Chief of the Laboratory Branch of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA |
C1-7 |