Paola Vermeer, PhD
Associate Scientist
Sanford Research Institute
Sanford Health
Zoom/Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (1st floor, NRB; Medical Campus)
Talk title: “Tumor innervation and neural regulation of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment”
The Monday Noon Seminars are co-hosted by the WashU Hope Center for Neurological Disorders and Department of Neurology.
Mini-series: Cancer Neuroscience
Organizers: Albert Kim (WashU Neurosurgery) and Dimitrios Mathios (WashU Neurosurgery)
- March 23: Adam Kepecs (WashU Neuroscience)
- April 6: Bhuvic Patel (WashU Neurosurgery)
- April 13: Paola Vermeer (Sanford Health)
Full schedule, Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Michael Meers, PhD (WashU Medicine)
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
“Advanced chromatin profiling methods for understanding development and disease”
Michael Meers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics
WashU Medicine
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 14-Apr @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Alex Holehouse
Medicine Grand Rounds
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.
Holocaust Lecture
Goldman
Speaker –
David Goldman, JD
Founder and Chairman
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE)
Title –
“Learning from the Perpetrators; Nazi Doctors and Medical Ethics Today”
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.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Zvonimir Đogić, PhD (WashU Medicine)
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
“Generating life-like soft materials from cytoskeletal building blocks”
Zvonimir Đogić, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
University of California-San Diego
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 21-Apr @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Michael Greenberg
*Speaker will be presenting remotely to an in-person audience
CYCN Conference: Katie McLaughlin (University of Oregon)
Katie McLaughlin, PhD
Knight Chair and Professor of Psychology
Executive Director, The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health
University of Oregon
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
“Creative solutions for child health and well-being”
Hosted by the Children and Youth Collaborative Network (CYCN)
The CYCN Conference is an opportunity for the WashU Community to address successes and challenges in driving research on child health and well-being, and foster community relations.
Programming will feature a keynote talk, panel and a poster session to learn about research programs and expertise in the WashU Community. Following the keynote speaker’s presentation, a panel of four speakers will each give a five-minute Ignite-style talk (20 slides, 15 seconds each automatically advancing), highlighting a creative solution to a child-focused problem they have addressed or are currently addressing with their research. The Ignite presentations will be followed by a Q and A session.
Panelists
- Caitlin Kelleher (Professor, WashU Computer Science & Engineering)
- Trish Kohl (Professor, WashU Brown School)
- Joan Luby (Professor, WashU Psychiatry)
- Victoria May (Executive Director, WashU Institute for School Partnership)
The CYCN is supported by a Transcend Initiative Award. For additional information or questions about the CYCN, contact us at ChildrenYouthNetwork@wustl.edu.
Conference Program
Where: Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning & Teaching Center (WashU Med Campus) and the Farrell Atrium
When: 9:00am – 2:00pm
- Light breakfast
- Welcome remarks from Christopher Smyser, MD MSCI, Director of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology, WashU Medicine and Dorian Traube, PhD, Dean of the Brown School.
- Keynote talk by Katie McLaughlin, PhD, Executive Director of The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and Knight Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon.
- Panel discussion featuring Caitlin Kelleher, PhD (Professor, WashU Computer Science & Engineering), Trish Kohl, PhD MSW (Professor, WashU Brown School), Joan Luby, MD (Professor, WashU Psychiatry) and Victoria May (Executive Director, WashU Institute for School Partnership).
- Lunch and Poster Session
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Gucan Dai (SLU Medicine)
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
“Membrane lipid compartmentalization modulates HCN pacemaker channels: structural and signaling mechanisms.”
Gucan (Gabriel) Dai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Saint Louis University Medicine
Location: 264 McDonnell Sciences
Date/Time: 28-Apr @ 10:30 a.m. CDT
Host: Alireza Ghanbarpour
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Kristine Wylie (WashU)
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
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: “TBA”
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)
- 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: “TBA”
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)
- 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