BRIAN HARGREAVES, DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY
Attend Dr. Hargreaves's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Mark Griswold's seminar, "Applications of Mixed Reality in Medical Education and Beyond", to be held Thursday, May 25th.
MIMI SHIRASU-HIZA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
The Shirasu-Hiza Lab investigates circadian regulation of the immune system in Drosophila melanogaster.
AARON STRAIGHT, DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY and DAVID SCHNEIDER, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY
Attend Drs. Straight and Schneider's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza's seminar, "Off the Clock: Circadian-Regulated Physiologies and Disease", to be held Thursday, May 4th.
JACOPO ANNESE, DIRECTOR OF THE BRAIN OBSERVATORY
Dr. Annese is a computational neuroanatomist whose formal training stems from a wide background in the biological sciences and the neurosciences.
JENNIFER MCNAB, DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY
Attend Dr. McNab's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Jacopo Annese's seminar, "Empathy by Neuroimaging: Making Humanized Brain Maps to Support Scientific Discovery, Education and Improved Health Care", to be held Thursday, April 13th.
Dr. Wong will discuss how organization of immune ligands impacts immune activation via Toll-Like Receptors, the surprising role played by innate immunity peptides in this organization, and how these effects are at play in inflammation induced by heart disease, necrotic cell death, neutrophil extracellular traps, and autoimmune diseases.
BO WANG, DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERING and JIAN QIN, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Attend Dr. Wang's and Dr. Qin's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Gerard Wong's seminar, "Physical chemistry and machine learning meet innate immunity", to be held Thursday, March 9th.
MELODY SWARTZ, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
It has long been assumed that local lymph formation is driven primarily by pressure gradients generated by interstitial fluid stress and downstream lymphatic pump function, but Dr. Swartz's lab has found that vesicular transendothelial transport also contributes significantly to lymph formation and is actively regulated by the lymphatic endothelium according to inflammatory stimuli, allowing fine control of the delivery of antigens, cells, and chemokines to the local lymph node.
ANNELISE BARRON, DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERING
Attend Dr. Barron's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Melody Swartz's seminar, "Lymphatic vessels in inflammation and cancer: Linking mechanobiology with immune regulation", to be held Thursday, February 16th.
SAMUEL STUPP, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Dr. Stupp's lecture will demonstrate the use of supramolecular biomaterials in regeneration of the spinal cord, cartilage, bone, muscle, and blood vessels, among others; and will also describe the possibility of using these systems dynamically to turn signals to cells "on and off" reversibly, a direction which may prove useful in the management of stem cells in regenerative medicine.
