McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 264, Biochemistry Seminar Room
4565 McKinley Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
“Dynamic Interplay of the Virome and Host During Pregnancy”
Kristine Wylie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
The McDonnell Genome Institute
WashU Medicine
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 05-May @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Lizzy Draganova
Medicine Grand Rounds
Clopton Auditorium, Wohl Clinic
4950 Children's Pl, St. Louis, MO 63130
In-person Only – Clopton Auditorium, Wohl Clinic.
Breakfast will be available outside of the auditorium. In-person attendance is beneficial for the speaker, our trainees and faculty.
The CME department announced their transition to the CloudCME data management platform. This upgrade will streamline your CME experience with several key enhancements. Steps are below to receive CME credit.
Edward Massie Lecture

Shivkumar
Speaker –
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Title –
“Electrocardiography & Electrophysiology, 100 years after Einthoven’s Nobel”
Required: Claim Credit Instructions
Prior to attending – if you have not already – visit WashU.cloud-cme.com and register/confirm your account and get set up to Claim Credit for your future attendance.
Credit claiming options
- Texting option: Prior to your first use, you must pair your mobile number by texting your WashU email address to 833-300-0118. After pairing, you can text the Activity ID provided at the session to this same number to receive credit automatically—no further action is needed.
Tip: Save this number to your phone contacts to easily access - CloudCME® mobile app option: Download the free CloudCME® mobile app from your device’s app store. Log in using the organization code WashU.
- Apple iOS
- Google/AndroidApp Claim Credit Button: Select Claim Credit and enter the Activity ID provided at the session and click Submit Activity ID.
- Website option: Log in to the WashU CloudCME site. Click on My CME. Click on Claim Credit. Enter the Activity ID provided at the session and click Submit Activity ID.
Hope Center/Developmental Biology/Neurology Monday Noon Seminar
Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
Investigator, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zoom conference
Talk title: “Mechanisms of robustness in jellyfish neural networks”
NOTE location, Zoom-only
This Monday Noon Seminars mini-series is co-hosted by the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, the Department of Developmental Biology and the Department of Neurology.
Mini-series: Nervous System Regeneration Across Evolution
Joint mini-series with the Department of Developmental Biology
Organizers: Elizabeth Pollina (WashU Developmental Biology) and Tony Tsai (WashU Developmental Biology)
- May 4: Andy Groves (WashU Developmental Biology)
- May 11*: Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*Zoom only - May 18: Maria Antonietta Tosches (Columbia University)
- June 1: Mayssa Mokalled (WashU Developmental Biology)
Full schedule, Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Daniel Southworth, PhD (UCSF)
McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 264, Biochemistry Seminar Room
4565 McKinley Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
“The Structural Basis of Protein Aggregation and Unfoldase Machines in Neurodegenerative Disease
Daniel Southworth, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
University of California-San Francisco
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 12-May @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Alireza Ghanbarpour
*Speaker will be presenting remotely to an in-person audience
Hope Center/Developmental Biology/Neurology Monday Noon Seminar
Maria Antonietta Tosches, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Zoom/Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (1st floor, NRB; Medical Campus)
Talk title: “Evolution of the cerebral cortex: Cell types, circuits, and tissue architecture”
This Monday Noon Seminars mini-series is co-hosted by the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, the Department of Developmental Biology and the Department of Neurology.
Mini-series: Nervous System Regeneration Across Evolution
Joint mini-series with the Department of Developmental Biology
Organizers: Elizabeth Pollina (WashU Developmental Biology) and Tony Tsai (WashU Developmental Biology)
- May 4: Andy Groves (WashU Developmental Biology)
- May 11*: Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*NOTE Zoom only - May 18: Maria Antonietta Tosches (Columbia University)
- June 1: Mayssa Mokalled (WashU Developmental Biology)
Full schedule, Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Amanda Hargrove, PhD (Univ. of Toronto)
McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 264, Biochemistry Seminar Room
4565 McKinley Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
“TBD”
Amanda Hargrove, Ph.D.
Professor
Canada Research Chair in RNA-Targeted Drug Discovery
University of Toronto
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 19-May @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Jim Janetka
*Speaker will be presenting remotely to an in-person audience
Genetics Shreffler Lecture – Dr. Jef Boeke
Department of Genetics