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2015 Sep 09

Introduction to Microscopy

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, BioLabs Building, Room 1080, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

Harvard Center for Biological Imaging 'Lunch and Learn Series':
Sven Terclavers will speak on the basics of microscopy.  Come learn how a microscope works and what terms like NA and magnification really mean.

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2015 Aug 11

Addressing the Cost of Care: the Role of Academic Medical Centers in Leading Health Care Reform

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Anesthesia Conference Room, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA

The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities

Kindly RSVP for this event. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45 a.m.

Guest speaker:
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP
President Emeritus & Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Care Improvement
Lecturer, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and Harvard...

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2015 Sep 18

Symposium in celebration of Jack L. Strominger's 90th birthday

12:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA

Special program of the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Event concludes with a cocktail reception, in Jack's honor, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

This program is offered free of charge, but registration is required.  Click here to visit the event webpage and to register.  Testimonials and photos are also being accepted.

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2015 Nov 12

Inaugural HSCI Skin Program Symposium

8:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

This program is offered free of charge to our research community, but registration is required.  Please visit the registration webpage at: 
https://hsci.formstack.com/forms/hsci_skin_program_symposium 
Attendance by HSCI  members from across the different disease...

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2015 Sep 30

Non-Human Primates in Research: Legal and Ethical Considerations

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Program of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics | Co-sponsored by the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School

Please join us for a discussion of critical legal, ethical, scientific, and social issues raised by research involving non-human primates, and the research centers that house them.  What does the current regulatory structure require and permit, what gaps exist, what enforcement problems have arisen, and how are they being addressed, at Harvard and elsewhere?  How...

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2015 Jul 14

The future of STEM education: Preparing the next generation of faculty

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Modell Center for Immunology, Rosen Lecture Hall 100A, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Curriculum Fellows Program of Harvard Medical School

Guest presenter:

Bennett Goldberg, PhD
Director of STEM Education Initiatives in the Office of the Provost
Boston University
Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Education
Boston University

More than 80% of future STEM faculty that will teach the next generation of students in the 4,500+ institutions of higher education in the US receive their...

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2015 Jul 15

Pathways to Entrepreneurship

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, TMEC Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Guest speaker:
Gregory L. Verdine
Venture Partner, Third Rock Ventures
Erving Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University

What does it take to commercialize academic innovation?  Join us for a discussion of translational research in academia and biotech, followed by networking and refreshments.  RSVP on Eventbrite:
http://hvrd.me/ON2xH

For more information, visit:  http://otd.harvard.edu/news-events/events/pathways-to-entrepreneurship-gregory-verdine

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2015 Jun 22

In vitro modeling of complex neurological disorders

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild Room G62, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Guest speaker:
Lawrence W. Stanton, PhD
Associate Director
Genome Institute of Singapore

2015 Jul 14

Cell stress regulation driving resident progenitor cell function: a potential pan-stem cell mechanism?

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

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

Special Invited Seminar of the Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Guest speaker:
David Sassoon, PhD
Director of Research INSERM
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Team
Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universites

Host:  Paul B. Yu, PhD  (857-307-1988)

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2015 Jun 08

DRB Student Data Club and Faculty Seminar Series

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Presenters:
Marc Presler
BBS G4
Laboratory of Dr. Marc Kirschner
"In the Beginning:  A Systematic Analysis of Vertebrate Fertilization"

and

Danesh Moazed, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
HHMI Investigator
"Epigenetic Memory of Gene Expression"

2015 May 26

Bioengineering Strategies to Control the Function of Mesenchymal Stem Cells toward Improved Therapeutic Efficacy

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

Guest speaker:
Zhixiang Tong, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeffrey Karp Lab
Division of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Medicine
Center for Regenerative Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

No registration required...all members of the HSCI research community are welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015 Jun 19

Structural and functional assembly of the mouse neocortex

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, BioLabs Building, Room 1080, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

Special Seminar of HSCRB/HMS

Guest speaker:
Songhai Shi
Associate Member
Developmental Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Ketterin Cancer Center

For more information, please contact Kelly Deneen at 617-495-5292 or kelly_deneen@harvard.edu.

2015 May 14

Bioengineering Strategies to Control the Function of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Towards Improved Therapeutic Efficacy

9:15am

Location: 

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

Kidney Group Meeting - no registration - all members of the HSCI research community are welcome.

Presenter:
Zhixiang Tong, PhD
Post doctoral Fellow, Karp Lab
Division of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Medicine
Center for Regenerative Therapeutics
Brigham and Women's Hospital

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