I-Health Seminar Lecture Series 2024

Thursdays – 4-5 p.m.
Locations: In-Person – CM-133
Or via ZOOM

Fall 2024

Date	photo	Guest Speaker	Title of Lecture	Host
Aug. 22		Lee M. Ellis, M.D., F.A.S.C.O., F.A.C.S. Departments of Surgical Oncology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncology MD Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas	Research Integrity: Why is This Such a Problem	Gregg Fields, Ph.D.
Sept. 19		Emmanuel Thomas M.D., Ph.D., FAASLD Associate Professor & Director of Pilot Funding Program Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Founding Director, Oncology Pathway for Medical Students Miami CFAR Developmental Core Co-Director University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Location: COM BC-71, Rm 128 Watch seminar	Modeling Antiviral Inflammatory Responses and Cancer: From Community to Bench >	Claudia Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Nov. 14		Paul Smeets, Ph.D. Research Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University Register here Location: CM-133	Uncovering the Complex Architecture of Human Enamel Crystallites and Insights in their Nanoscale Mechanical Properties	Vivian Merk, Ph.D.
Dec. 5		Pravin T.P. Kaumaya, Ph.D. Indiana University School of Medicine The Vera Bradley Foundation Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Innovation Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Director Brown Center for Immuno-Oncology and Vaccine Immunotherapy Full Member IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research Register here Location: Building 55 (PS), Room 226 Time: 2:00 p.m.	The Complicated World of Peptide-based Vaccines/ Therapeutic. The promise of combination B-cell epitope vaccines to checkpoint inhibitors	Stephane Roche, Ph.D.

Spring 2024

Date	photo	Guest Speaker	Title of Lecture	Host
Jan. 25		Bulent Aydogan, Ph.D., DABR, FAAMP Professor and Director of Medical Physics Radiation and Cellular Oncology University of Chicago	Personalized medicine in Cancer Care: A hype or hope?	Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D.
Feb. 22		Jonathan Kurtis, MD, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Stanley M. Aronson Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School	Repurposing a vaccine candidate as a drug candidate for falciparum malaria	Andrew Oleinikov, Ph.D.
March 14		Georgii A. Bazykin, Ph.D. Visiting Scientist Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics	Towards understanding and Forecasting Evolution of Pathogenic Viruses	Raquel Assis, Ph.D.
Mar. 28		Muhammad Maqbool, Ph.D., M.S., M.Sc. Professor of Health Physics, Department of Clinical & Diagnostic Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham	Physical and Optical Biomarkers for Chronic Disease Detection and Radiation Damage Measurement	Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D.
Apr. 25		Jeremy E. Wilusz, Ph.D. Ruth McLean Bowman Bowers Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Therapeutic Innovation Center (THINC) Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX	Harnessing RNA endonucleases to control gene outputs	Massimo Caputi, Ph.D.