Biology Fall 2015 Seminar Schedule
Please note that all seminars are on Tuesdays, 3:00-4:15pm, at the location specified.
Printable seminar schedule (PDF)
Available abstracts are posted if made available. Click on the seminar title to view the abstract.
Date: September 1
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Topic: Introduction
Date: September 8
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Alessandra Luchini, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University
Date: September 15
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Charbel Moussa, Department of Neurology, Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism, Translational Neurotherapeutics Program, Georgetown University Medical Center
Topic: “Is tau the how behind Alzheimer’s?”
Date: September 22
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Sina Gallo, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University
Topic: “The Early Life Origins of Disease: A Nutrition Perspective”
Date: September 29
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Sricharan Murugesan, National Institutes of Health
Topic: “Structured illumination microscopy reveals novel insights into actomyosin arc formation at the T cell immune synapse”
Date: October 6
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Nigel Crawford, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, NHGRI, NIH
Topic: “Identification of Aggressive Prostate Cancer Susceptibility Genes Using Mouse Models”
Date: October 20
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Robert H. Lipsky, Director of Translational Neuroscience Research, INOVA Neurosciences Institute, INOVA Health System, Falls Church, VA
Topic: “Understanding the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease from the Perspective of the Aging Brain”
Date: October 27
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Ramin Hakami, School of Systems Biology, and the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, George Mason University
Topic: “Host communication mechanisms during infection with pathogenic agents”
Date: November 3
Location: HUB 1 & 2
Speaker: John Hawdon, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University
Topic: “Dissecting the hookworm infective process”
Date: November 10
Location: HUB 1 & 2
Speaker: Barbara Biesecher, Director, JHU/NHGRI Genetic Counseling Program Associate Investigator SBRB/NHGRI/NIH
Topic: “Genetic conditions and risk: Making decisions to learn predictive information and living with the results”
Date: November 17
Location: HUB 1 & 2
Speaker: Daniel Temple, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University
Date: December 1
Location: Johnson Center Meeting Room F
Speaker: Philip C. Wong, Departments of Pathology and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: “The RNA-binding Protein, TDP-43, in Health and Disease”
Date: December 8
Location: Research Hall 202
Topic: Wrap-up
