CRM Seminar Series

Guest speaker:
Utpal Banerjee, PhD
Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair
University of California, Los Angeles
HHMI Investigator

Guest speaker:
William F. Crowley, Jr., MD
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Lecturers:

• Dr. Chad Nusbaum, Co-director, Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute
• Dr. Peter Park, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, and HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
• Mr. Robert Steen, Director, Harvard Medical School Biopolymers Facility

Description:

Traditional capillary sequencing technology using base-specific chain termination by fluorescent di-deoxy nucleotides represents modifications to the original sequencing methodology devised by Sanger and colleagues in the 1970s....

Guest presenters:
Adam Cohen, PhD
Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics
and

Daniel Hochbaum, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cohen Lab
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Abstract:
We recently developed a technology for probing the electrophysiology of cells using light-alone.  A blue light-activated ion channel triggers membrane depolarizations...

Program of the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute and Harvard Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology

Presented in partnership with the Third International Biennial Symposium on AMD

Click here to register for this event.  Registration fee of $150.00 is waived for pre-...

Registration is free, but you must register by Friday, November 14, 2014 to attend!  Click here to register.

Organized by Mitzi Kuroda, Jeannie Lee, Fred Winston, and Yi Zhang

Program:

Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

Guest speaker:
Fernando Camargo, PhD
Associate Professor
Stem Cell Program
Boston Children's Hospital

Online registration recommended.

These seminars will provide a platform for regenerative medicine researchers at BWH to come together, network with each other,...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seminars in Oncology

Guest speaker:
Udo Oppermann, MD
Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Oxford

Hosted by:  James Bradner, MD

For more information, or to join the Seminars in Oncology email list, please email claudia_steele@dfci.harvard.edu

HMS Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine Research Seminar

Guest speaker:
John P. Chute, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA

For more information, please contact:  pamela.quattrocchi@childrens.harvard.edu

HMS Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine Research Seminar

Guest speaker:
Peter Klein, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

For more information, please contact:  pamela.quattrocchi@childrens.harvard.edu

Guest speaker:
Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Hosted by:  Charles Roberts, MD, PhD

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

The landscape of scientific research and funding is in flux, affected by tight budgets, evolving models of both publishing and evaluation, and questions about training and workforce stability. As future leaders, junior scientists are uniquely poised to shape the culture and practice of science in response to these challenges. A group of postdocs in the Boston area are convening to give voice to graduate students and postdocs in the ongoing dialog about policies that shape the scientific establishment. The event will consist of talks and panel discussions on issues affecting the future of...

HSCI Cancer Program Symposium

Guest speaker:
Phil Jones, FMedSci
Programme Leader
MRC Cancer Unit
University of Cambridge
Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

Additional presentations by
Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD (MGH and HHMI)
"Epigenetic plasticity of drug-tolerant glioblastoma cells"

and
Franziska Michor, PhD (DFCI and HSPH)
"Systems biology of cancer stem cells"

...

Genetic and Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease Lecture
Organized by the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI)

Guest speaker:
Robert MacLaren, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Oxford (UK)

The Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI) invites you to the 2nd annual "Genetic & Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease" lecture series. The faculty organizers are Neena...

Genetic and Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease Seminar
Organized by the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI)

Guest speaker:
Peter Campochiaro, MD
George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute

The Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI) invites you to the 2nd annual "Genetic & Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease" lecture series. The faculty organizers are Neena...