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2015 Apr 03

Considering Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular Repair

8:00am to 9:00am

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Bornstein Family Amphitheater, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health
and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

cordially invites you to a medical Grand Rounds featuring

Doris Taylor, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Director, Regenerative Medicine Research
Director, Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology
Texas Heart Institute

for the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women's Health

2015 Mar 26

Quality Control of iPS-induced Neurons

9:00am to 10:00am

Location: 

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

Guest speakers:
Ajamete Kaykas, PhD
"Generation of isogenic-hPSC neuronal disease models"
Senior Investigator
and
Bilada Bilikan, PhD
"High-throughput cellular phenotyping of hPSC-derived neuronal sub-types"
Neuroscience Group
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Moderators:
Elizabeth Buttermore and Maria Sundberg

2015 Mar 09

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

"Making the Heart Young Again"
Richard Lee, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

"The Role of Pdgfrb Signaling in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development"
Christie Lim
Goessling & North labs

Presentations will be followed by a Happy Hour!

2015 Jun 03

Human iPSC Derivation and Culture - a hands-on workshop

Wed - Fri, Jun 3 to Jun 5, 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, HSCI iPS Core Facility, Bauer Bldg., B01, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Program presented by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the UK Stem Cell Bank.

Learn current reprogramming techniques with this three-day, hands-on course.

Topics include:

  • Hands-on technical training in current reprogramming methodologies
  • Presentation of Sendai virus, episomal vector and mRNA reprogramming
  • Characterization methods for reprogrammed cells
  • Maintaining PSC on feeder free culture
  • Evaluation of PSC cell quality and passaging
  • Banking and Cryopreservation

Space is limited! Register now at:...

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2015 Mar 03

Organ Regeneration - Challenges and Opportunities

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series

Guest speaker:
Harold Ott, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital

Online registration recommended.

The 'Leaders in Regenerative Medicine' Seminar Series provides a platform for regenerative medicine researchers at BWH to come together, network with...

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2015 Feb 25

Insights into the Pathogenesis of RNA Splicing Factor Retinitis Pigmentosa

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Meltzer Auditorium (3rd Floor), 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114

Genetic & Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease Lecture

Guest speaker:
Michael Farkas, PhD
Instructor in Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Organized by the Ocular Genomics Institute & the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute

2015 Mar 04

Fluidigm CyTOF Interest Group Meeting

8:30am to 7:00pm

Location: 

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Amenities Bulding Auditorium, 250 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

Space is limited!  Click here to register for this event.

Join us and learn how your colleagues are using Fluidigm mass cytometry to study cellular heterogeneity with unprecedented data quality and reliability. Please register to attend inspirational scientific and product sessions describing recent results and best practices to make future and current users of CyTOF even more successful.

AGENDA:
8:30-9:00 am     ...

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2015 Feb 18

Long Noncoding RNA from Discovery to Development and Disease

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

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

Guest speaker:
John Rinn, PhD
Alvin and Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Principal Faculty, Harvard University

For more information, please call 617.496.7053

2015 Feb 23

DRB Faculty Student Seminar

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Presenters:
Ryoji Amamoto
"Regeneration of neuronal diversity in the axolotl brain"

Chenghua Gu, PhD
"Molecular mechanisms governing the formation and function of the blood-brain barrier"

Happy Hour to follow the presentations.

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2015 Feb 04

Retinal Cell Therapy Using iPS Cells

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Meltzer Auditorium (3rd Floor), 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114

10th Annual Ephraim Friedman Lecture

Presented by Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology and MEEI's Age-related Macular Degeneration Center of Excellence

Guest speaker:
Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD
Project Leader
Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration Research
RIKEN

Reception to follow.

ABOUT THE LECTURESHIP:

Through this annual lecture, we celebrate Dr. Friedman’s
extraordinary contributions in teaching,...

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2015 Mar 27

Lower Extremity: Innovations and Discovery

8:00am to 5:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Rotunda Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Wyss Annual Diabetes Symposium

Please click here to register and learn more.

Diabetic foot problems significantly impair the quality of life of diabetic patients. Each year in the United States, these complications lead to more than 750,000 new diabetic foot ulcers and 70,000 lower extremity amputations. Our inaugural one-day symposium will promote better understanding of the unmet management needs of Diabetic Lower Extremity (DLE) complications and the new therapeutic...

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2015 Jan 28

Functional Genomics and Screening

1:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC), Room 227, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Nanocourse

Lecturers:
Dr. Steve Elledge, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Norbert Perrimon, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Stephanie Mohr, Director of the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center, Co-Director of the Genome Engineering Production Group, and Coordinator of the DF/HCC Collaborative RNAi Core, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Jen Smith, Assistant Director of the ICCB-Longwood...

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2015 Jan 29

Presentation Techniques for Scientists [part 2 of 2]

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC), Room 227, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Nanocourse

Lecturers:
Sarah Jessop
Associate Director for Speaking Instruction
Derek Boc Center for Teaching and Learning
Harvard University

Fred Winston
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Description:
Presentations are an essential part of a scientist’s career. From pre-qualifying exams to job talks, seminars, and classroom teaching, it is important to effectively communicate one’...

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2015 Jan 13

Shades of Grey: Sensitization and antibody mediated rejection in lung transplantation and the implications for organ allocation

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of General Internal Medicine, Conference Room BC-3-002B*, One Brigham Circle, Boston, MA

Guest speaker:
Hilary Goldberg, MD
Medical Director, Lung and Transplant Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Please RSVP to Ramya Sampath at rsampath@partners.org

*Directions to the Conference Room:  One Brigham Circle is located at the intersection of Tremont Street and Huntington Ave.  Walk towards the JP Licks and TGI Friday's, and enter the glass doors between these two complexes.  Go through the 'Partners' double doors on your left.  Take the...

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2015 Jan 12

DRB Student/Faculty Seminar Series

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

Program:
"Lipid Signaling in Zebrafish Hematopoietic Stem Cells"
Jamie Lahvic (Laboratory of Len Zon)

"A Family Business: Interactions between Stem Cells and Progeny in the Mammalian Hair Follicle Niche"
Ya-Chieh Hsu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University

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