Next Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

Guest speaker:
George Daley, MD, PhD
Samuel Lux IV Professor of Hematology/Oncology

Online registration is required.

These seminars will provide a platform for regenerative medicine researchers at BWH to come together, network with each other, learn about the latest findings in regenerative medicine and explore...

The Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research is open to Harvard faculty in the natural or social sciences to submit high-risk, high-impact projects with an interdisciplinary focus. Twice a year, a selection committee of faculty members choose projects for awards ranging in size from $20,000 to $200,000.

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Presenters:
Les Silberstein, MD (Boston Children's Hospital) with Shin-Young Park
"Imaging of the hematopoietic niche in bone marrow"

Charles Lin, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital) with Joel Spencer
"Live imaging: from cell tracking to in vivo sensing"

The HSCI Technology Series was developed to best serve researchers in their day-to-day experimental work in the lab.  Each session will cover:

• Which...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seminars in Oncology | Rose Winer Levin Lecture

Guest speaker:
George Calin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Experimental Therapeuitcs
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Hosted by:  Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD

Guest speakers:
Kiran Musunuru and Feng Zhang

The HSCI Technology Series was developed to best serve researchers in their day-to-day experimental work in the lab.  Each session will cover:

• Which technology worked, and which didn't - in which circumstance.  Even negative results are important to share!
• The 'nuts and bolts' of the technology - talks will be given by the people who actually performed the work in the lab.

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Guest speaker:
Franziska Michor, PhD
Associate Professor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health

Host:  Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD

2014 Susan Swerling Lectures

Speakers:
David Bowtell, PhD
Peter MacCallum Cancer Center – Melbourne, Australia
“Catch Me If You Can: Primary and Acquired Chemotherapy Resistance in Cancer”

Joan Brugge, PhD
Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA
“Matrix Control of Adaptive Responses to Targeted Therapies in Breast and Ovarian Cancer”

Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD
University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
“Interactions Between Ovarian Cancer Cells...

Guest speaker:
Zena Werb, MD
Professor and Vice-ChairDepartment of Anatomy
University of California-San Francisco

Host:  Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD

Lecturers:

• Dr. Connie Cepko, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Davie VanVactor, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Elizabeth Engle, Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital

Description: This nanocourse will explore the fundamental mechanisms underlying the development of the Central Nervous System (CNS) with a focus on the genes that drive this process. We will...

Guest speakers:
Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD (BWH) with Christina Muratore, PhD and Priya Srikanth
"Modeling Alzheimer's disease with human induced pluripotent stem cells"

Kevin Eggan, PhD (HSCRB) with Evangelos Kiskinis, PhD
"Measuring electrophysiological changes in ALS patients and stem cell derived motor neurons"

The HSCI Technology Series was developed to best serve researchers in their day-to-day...

Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

Online registration is required.

Guest speaker:
Ali Khademhosseini, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Bioengineer, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Khademhosseini's talk will focus on his work on engineered materials...

Emily Frederick DiMaggio Lecture

Guest speaker:
Mark T. Bedford, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Hosted by:  James Bradner, MD

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

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Edmund Au, PhD

For more information, call 617.496.7053
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

THIS EVENT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED.

Introduction by Len Zon, MD, Boston Children's Hospital

Presentations by:
Charles Lin, PhD - MGH
"TBA"

Attendees are invited to bring a brown bag lunch.  Open to the entire HSCI research community.

Event will be shared via WebEx.

Genetic and Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease Lecture Series

Guest speaker:
Patsy Nishina, PhD
Professor, The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine

Hosted by the Ocular Genomics Institute, Neena Haider, PhD

Contact:  Mary Wheeler (mary_wheeler@meei.harvard.edu)

Light snacks and refreshments will be served.