Past Events

  • 2016 Jan 11

    DRB Student/Faculty Seminar

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

    Presentations by:
    Xi He
    Professor, Boston Children's Hospital
    "Understanding WNT signaling in development, stem cells, and cancer"

    Jon Henninger
    BBS Graduate Student, Zon Lab
    "Clonal analysis of zebrafish hematopoiesis using Zebrabow"

  • 2016 Jan 06

    Investigating metabolic disease with human pluripotent stem cells

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall, B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    Presented by:
    Chad Cowan, PhD
    Associate Professor, Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
    Associate Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine, MGH

  • 2015 Dec 17

    Engineering Safe and Effective T Cell Therapy for Cancer

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    2015 Dr. George P. Canellos Lecture in Medical Oncology

    Guest speaker:

    Stanley Riddell, MD
    Member, Program in Immunology
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Professor, Department of Medicine
    University of Washington School of Medicine

    All are welcome...no registration necessary.

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  • 2015 Dec 17

    A Conversation with Margaret A. Hamburg, FDA Commissioner, 2009-2015

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2nd floor), 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

    Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a conversation with former FDA Commissioner (and former New York City Health Commissioner), Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, led by Peter Barton Hutt, former Chief Counsel to FDA and current Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Topics discussed will include FDA’s role and the changing scientific, legal, political, and economic landscape; the overlap of science, innovation, and cost regarding biomedical products; food safety and nutrition; challenges of globalization, and more.

    Speakers:

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  • 2015 Dec 16

    Molecular and cellular mechanisms of growth and regeneration

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University, Northwest Building, Room B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    Presented by:
    Fernando Camargo, PhD
    Associate Professor, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
    Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
    Principal Faculty, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital

  • 2015 Dec 15

    Coordinating Genetics and Epigenetics to Assemble Antigen Receptor Genes

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seminars in Oncology

    Guest speaker:
    Ranjan Sen, PhD
    Senior Investigtor
    Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Immunology
    NIH/National Institute on Aging
    Baltimore, MD

    Host:  Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD

    For more information, please email claudia_steel@dfci.harvard.edu

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  • 2015 Dec 14

    DRB Student/Faculty Seminar

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

    Guest presenters:
    April Craft, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital
    Generating Cartilage from Pluripotent Stem Cells and Future Hopes for Repair

    Christie Lim
    BBS Graduate Student, Trista North Lab
    Pdgfrb Signaling Downstream of Metabolic Alterations in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Induction

  • 2015 Dec 11

    Improving stem cell-based therapy and developing a novel gene therapy approach for treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University, BioLabs Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

    Dissertation Defense

    Presented by:
    Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar

    For the PhD in Developmental and Regenerative Biology
    Advisor:  Dr. Amy Wagers
    Committee:  De. Alan Beggs | Dr. Lou Kunkel | Dr. Rudolph Jaenisch | Dr. Kevin Eggan

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  • 2015 Dec 11

    Introduction to R

    10:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Room 403, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA

    Program of the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core

    For members of the HSCI research community!

    This workshop will provide a basic introduction to R, the open-source platform for statistical computation and graphics. With hands-on exercises, learn how to import and manage datasets, create R objects, install and load R packages, conduct basic statistical analyses, and create graphical displays.  

    Cost: $50 per participant

    Registration:...

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  • 2015 Dec 10

    Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell asymmetric division

    2:30pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

    Special seminar of the Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Genetics and Genomics, and Harvard Medical School

    Guest speaker:
    Michael Rudnicki, OC, PhD, FRSC
    Ottawa Health Research Institute
    University of Ottawa, Canada

    Host:  Emanuela Gussoni

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