Basic Science Academic Department Seminars

December 2022

The Basic Science academic departments welcome members of the Northwestern community to attend upcoming seminars.

Please click on the event times for more details, updates and to confirm the event format (in-person, hybrid or virtual).

Campus partner events are noted below with an asterisk.

Thursday, December 1

10:00 a.m. | "SWI/SNF (BAF) complex mutations in cancer: Mechanisms and vulnerabilities"

Charles W. M. Roberts, MD, PhD
Cancer Center Director and Executive Vice President
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics 

*4:30 p.m. | "Mitochondria meet inflammation in cardiac injury and heart failure"

Rong Tian, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Bioengineering
University of Washington School of Medicine

Host: The Feinberg Cardiovascular & Renal Research Institute

Friday, December 2

Noon | "Functional Neuroanatomy of Economic Choice"

Benjamin Hayden, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Minnesota   

Host: Department of Neuroscience

Tuesday, December 6

8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Annual Review

1:00 p.m. | Keynote Seminar: "The Neurobiology of Stress Related Memories"
Jelena Radulovic, MD, PhD
Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME)
Sylvia and Robert S. Olnick Chair in Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Host: Center for Translational Pain Research 

10:00 a.m. | "Precision Medicine in Solid Tumors"

Ernesto Guccione, PhD
Professor of Oncological and Pharmacological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Host: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics 

*11:00 a.m. | "Terminal Erythropoiesis and Its Dysregulation in Myeloid Neoplasms"

Peng Ji, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology (Experimental Pathology)and Pathology (Hematopathology)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Basic Sciences Research Division of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Noon | "Unlocking Antibiotic Persisters During Infection"

Sophie Helaine, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Harvard Medical School

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

1:00 p.m. | "Single-Cell Lunch and Learn"

Bill Warble
Senior Business Development
Manager, Automation
Takara Bio USA, Inc.

Steve Butcher
Senior Territory Manager
Takara Bio USA, Inc.

Host: Center for Genetic Medicine NUSeq Core

Thursday, December 8

10:00 a.m. | "The PI 3-Kinase and AKT Signaling Pathway in Biology and Disease: From Discovery to Therapeutics"

Alex Toker, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Chief, Division of Signal Transduction
Associate Director, Cancer Research Institute
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Investigator, Ludwig Center at Harvard
Harvard Medical School

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Friday, December 9

Noon | "Visualizing drug actions on dendrites: From ketamine to psilocybin"

Alex Kwan, PhD
Associate Professor   
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University

Host: Department of Neuroscience 

Wednesday, December 14

10:00 a.m. | SQE Lecture Series

Vijay Ramani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology
University of California San Francisco

Host: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics

*3:30 p.m. | "Immunodominant epitopes in apolipoprotein B in cardiovascular disease"

Klaus Ley, MD
GRA Bradley Turner Eminent Scholar Chair in Immunology
Professor of Physiology
Co-Director, Immunology Center of Georgia
Augusta University

Host: Center for Human Immunobiology

Friday, December 16

Noon | "Expanding access to a behavioral intervention for managing chronic pain: Development and investigation of online pain coping skills training"

Christine Rini, PhD
Director, Cancer Survivorship Institute
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Center for Translational Pain Research