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2015 Jun 03

CyTOF User Group Meeting

10:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Modell Center for Immunology, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Presenter:
Chamith Fonseka
(Ray Chaudhuri Lab, BWH)

2015 May 11

DRB Faculty/Student Seminar

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Program:
Sharif Bordbar
"A combined cell and gene therapy approach to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"

and

John Rinn
"Regulatory roles of repeat RNA"

Happy hour to follow!

2015 Jun 22

High Throughput Phenotyping of iPSC-induced Neurons

9:00am to 10:30am

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston

HSCI Neuro Stem Club Seminar

Guest speakers:
Dwight Morrow, PhD
Director of Biology | Target Sciences Department | GlaxoSmithKline
"High-throughput, Disease-Relevant Screening of Stem Cell Derived Neurons"

and

Graham Dempsey, PhD
Director of Research and Development | Q-State Biosciences
"All-optical electrophysiology in human iPSC-derived neurons for disease modeling and drug discovery"

All are welcome...no registration necessary!

2015 May 05

Myofibroblast Progenitors and Solid Organ Fibrosis

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Anesthesia Conference Room, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

BWH Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

Online registration recommended.

Presentation:Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Renal Division, HMS
and
Rafael Kramann, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Humphreys Lab

Organ fibrosis is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world, but the pathogenic mechanisms...

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2015 Apr 24

Systems biology of cancer stem cells

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

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

Presenter:
Franziska Michor, PhD
Professor of Computational biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
Harvard School of Public Health

2015 Apr 14

The Art of Scientific Storytelling: Transform Your Research Manuscript Using a Step-by-Step Formula

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC), Room 209, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Nanocourse

Lecturer:
Dr. Rafael E. Luna
Instructor at Harvard Medical School and
author, The Art of Scientific Storytelling

This interactive nanocourse provides instruction on how to write a scientific manuscript using the structural aspects of storytelling, i.e. dramatic arc. We will explore the logic of narrative craft and adapt it to writing a scientific manuscript. Dr. Luna will introduce his Scientific Storytelling method for writing research manuscripts. During the first session, instruction will be provided...

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2015 Apr 20

Mechanism and evolution in vertebrate limb regeneration

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, Shapiro Breakout Room, 70 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Guest speaker:
Jeremy Brockes
Professor, University College London

2015 Apr 14

Understanding the Range of Career Options in Higher Education

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC), Room 109, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Curriculum Fellows Program | Series on Education

Guest presenter:
Jason Heustis, PhD
Lecturer and Curriculum Fellow
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

This series is open to everyone.  Please bring your lunch and join us!
RSVP to lauren_mackay@hms.harvard.edu.

2015 Apr 13

Developmental and Regenerative Biology Seminar

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Guest presenters:
Olivier Pourquie, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Integrating signaling with metabolism during embryo patterning"

and

Tyler Huycke (Lab of Dr. Clifford Tabin)
"Generating morphological variation in the developing gut"

Happy hour to follow!

2015 Apr 14

Single Cell Analysis Tools for Uncovering Biological Heterogeneity

11:45am to 1:40pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild Room 268, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

An Introduction to Single Cell Genomics and CyTOF Mass Cytometry for Stem Cell Research

Guest presenters:
Ken Livak, PhD
Sr. Scientific Fellow
Fluidigm Co.
"Driving Genomics to the Single-Cell Level"

and

Michelle Poulin, PhD
Manager, Field Applications
Fluidigm Co.
"Understanding Biological Heterogeneity through Mass Cytometry"

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP in advance to nicholas.confuorto@...

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2015 Apr 01

Genes, genomes, and the future of medicine

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Boston Children's Hospital, Folkman Auditorium, Enders Research Bldg., 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Fyler Lecture at Medical Grand Rounds | Department of Medicine

Guest speaker:
Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Genetics
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale School of Medicine

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