YSM Events
Next week’s events include a talk by the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a lecture by Yale’s Marcella Nunez-Smith on her career as a health equity researcher, and a workshop on obesity research.
Announcements
Featured Speakers
Everyone Steven Vokes, PhDYale Stem Cell Center Seminar Series: "Timing is everything: interpreting Hedgehog signaling responses”
Steven Vokes, of the University of Texas at Austin, investigates how transcriptional repressors, especially those underlying Hedgehog signaling, interface with chromatin to regulate gene expression.
Everyone Michael Buszczak, PhDGenetics Department Seminar Series: “Ribosome Biogenesis in Development and Disease”
At UT Southwestern Medical Center, Michael Buszczak and his team seek to gain new insights into germ cell biology, and how mRNA translation and ribosome biogenesis influence development and disease.Yale Only Feng Zhang, PhDTranslational Science Seminar Series: "Exploration of Biological Diversity"
Exploration of Biological Diversity
Feng Zhang, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focuses his research on the discovery of novel biological systems and processes, uncovering their mechanisms, and developing them into molecular tools and therapies to study and treat human disease. Professor Zhang pioneered the development of genome editing tools for use in eukaryotic cells—including human cells—from natural microbial CRISPR-Cas9 systems.https://yale.zoom.us/j/95177959715 Meeting ID: 951 7795 9715Yale Only Alice Ting, PhDYale Cell Biology Seminar Series: "Engineering Proteins to Map and Manipulate Protein and Cellular Networks"
At Stanford University, Alice Ting's team works to develop and disseminate transformative technologies for probing molecules and functional networks at both the sub-cellular and multi-cellular level, leveraging her laboratory’s unique strengths in protein engineering, directed evolution, proteomics, chemical synthesis, computational design, and microscopy.
Yale Only Rick Woychik, PhDYSPH Dean's Lecture: "Planning Future Directions for Environmental Health Sciences"
Dr. Rick Woychik, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Rick Woychik is director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. In these roles, he oversees federal funding for biomedical research to discover how the environment influences human health and disease.Option to join via Zoom Webinar. Please RSVP.
Everyone Douglas B. White, MD, MASYale PCCSM Weekly Research Conference: "The Challenges of Testing Complex Behavioral Interventions in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"
Douglas White directs the University of Pittsburgh Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness. His research program encompasses both empirical research on and normative ethical analysis of surrogate decision making for patients with life-threatening illness.
Mark Your Calendar
Everyone Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Everyone Anna Reisman, MD
Everyone Lisa Morrissey - Susan Bysiewicz - Jennifer Wang, MS - Hannah Beath - Kat Sisler - Jared Ulmer - Goudarz Molaei - Kai Chen, PhDRegistration is required:Everyone Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD - Nancy J. Brown, MD - Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD - Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD - Michelle Van Name, MD - Mireille Serlie, MD, PhD - Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM - Margaret McGovern, MD, PhDHybrid Event: TAC Auditorium and via ZoomEveryone Darin Latimore, MD - Robert Post - Beverley Sheares, MD, MS
Upcoming Events
Urology Grand Rounds: "Kidney Cancer: Unmasking the Myths"
Urology Grand Rounds
Speaker: Alexander Kutikov, MD
Yale Eye Center Grand Rounds 3.1.24
Speaker: Bennie Jeng, MD
Surgery Grand Rounds
Pediatric Bariatric Surgery by the Numbers Lessons Learned Over Two Decades of Treatment & Research
Speaker: Thomas H. Inge MD, PhD
Orthopaedics Grand Rounds "Surgical Treatment of Severe Deformities. Selection of Approach and Techniques"
Speaker: Speakers to be announced.
Nephrology Grand Rounds: "The Art of Assessing Fluid Imbalance"
Speaker: Laura Aponte Becerra
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds: "The New Role(s) of Surgery After Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy for Cancer"
Speaker: Charles Balch, MD
What does it mean to publish 'open access'? (Online)
Speaker: Kayla Del Biondo
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Engaging Partners and Building Networks for Implementation in Health and Human Service Systems"
Speaker: Alicia C. Bunger, PhD, MSW
YES!: “Teaching in the Ambulatory Setting”
Speaker: Jennifer Rockfeld, MD
YSPH Biostatistics Seminar: “A Flexible Generative AI Framework for High-dimensional Data Analysis”
Speaker: Qiao Liu, Ph.D.
Innovation Exchange: "SalivaDirect: From Lab to Community"
Speaker: Anne Wyllie, PhD
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: 'Reproducibility in Research"
Speaker: Michael H Nathanson, MD, PhD
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Speakers: Kayla Del Biondo, Kate Nyhan, MLS
RSSP (Reproductive Sciences Seminar Program) - Dr. Lauren Biwer
Speaker: Lauren A. Biwer, PhD
Ask a Clinical Librarian (Online)
Speaker: Alyssa Ann Grimshaw, MLIS, MBA
Yale Cancer Answers: Palliative Care in the ICU
Speaker: Kathleen Akgün, MD, MS
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Bladder Cancer Support Group"
Radiobiology and Genome Integrity
A new role for BLM helicase in alternative end-joining
Speaker: Connor McBrine
Yale Cancer Biology Institute Faculty Candidate Seminar: Norihiro Goto
Norihiro Goto, MD, PhD
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Pancreatic Cancer Support Group"
Yale Stem Cell Center Seminar Series: "Timing is everything: interpreting Hedgehog signaling responses”
Speaker: Steven Vokes, PhD
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Microbiology Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research in Progress Seminar Series 2023-2024
Microbiology Weekly RIPS
Speaker: Rebecca Colón Ríos
Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP): "Neural Pathways to Spiritual Therapeutics"
Speaker: Michael Ferguson
Perspectives of Women in Science Lecture: "Reflections on Two Decades as a Health Equity Researcher"
Speaker: Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Managing Citations and Manuscripts with EndNote (Online)
Pathology Research in Progress Talks
Bioinformatics workshop series: 5. Streamlining RNAseq Analysis with the YCGA Pipeline (In-Person)
Speaker: Francesc Lopez-Giraldez, PhD, BS
Genetics Clinical Grand Rounds: “From targeted capture to clinical whole exome; next-generation sequencing continue to improve molecular diagnosis and guide patient's management.”
Speaker: Zakia Abdelhamed
Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism (YMSM) presents: Genetic and Optic Dissection of Neuron-Metabolism
Speaker: Dong Kong
Genetics Department Seminar Series: “Ribosome Biogenesis in Development and Disease”
Speaker: Michael Buszczak, PhD
YSPH Biostatistics Seminar: “Imputation-based Q-learning for optimizing dynamic treatment regimes with right-censored survival and competing risk outcomes”
Speaker: Abdus S. Wahed, Ph.D.
Translational Science Seminar Series: "Exploration of Biological Diversity"
Exploration of Biological Diversity
Speaker: Feng Zhang, PhD
Academic Work-in-Progress (AWIP)
"Early nutritional targets in preterm infants of mothers with diabetes in pregnancy”
Speaker: Catherine O'Neill Buck, MD
Personal Librarian Office Hours (In-Person)
Speaker: Courtney Hadley, MLS, BA
Chair-Based Exercise
YCSC Grand Rounds: "Thinking About My Sister’s Brain"
Yale Child Study Center
Speaker: Anna Reisman, MD
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Lung Cancer Support Group"
Yale Cell Biology Seminar Series: "Engineering Proteins to Map and Manipulate Protein and Cellular Networks"
Speaker: Alice Ting, PhD
Restorative Yoga with Ellen McNally hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Yale Center for Immuno-Oncology Seminar (presented as part of the Human and Translational Immunology Seminar Series): "Understanding and overcoming resistance to systemic therapies in lung cancer"
Speaker: Katerina Politi, PhD
Yale Cancer Center/Smilow North Haven Sponsor: "Patient and Family Support Group"
Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds
Speakers: Maxwell Eder, MD, Gregory Rubinfeld, MD, FACP
Department of Surgery Faculty Meeting
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
Smilow Shares with Primary Care
Lung Cancer Screening
Speakers: Jill Banatoski, MD, Justin D. Blasberg, MD, MPH, FACS, Lynn Tanoue, MD, MBA
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Breast Cancer Support Group"
Rheumatology Grand Rounds
CancelledThe Cingari Family Boutique Beyond Beauty Program
Location: Smilow Guilford/Shoreline Medical Center
Getting Started with Python: An Introduction to Programming (Python, Part 1)
Speaker: Kaitlin Throgmorton
Genetics Research-In-Progress (RIP)
Speakers: Pieter Martino, Zhenhao Fang
EMD Seminar Series: Courtney Yuen, "Achieving equity and patient-centeredness in TB diagnostic services"
Speaker: Courtney Yuen
The Virtual 2024 Connecticut Symposium on Climate Change and Health: "Preparing for a Healthy Connecticut in the Face of Climate Change"
Speakers: Lisa Morrissey, Susan Bysiewicz, Jennifer Wang, MS, Hannah Beath, Kat Sisler
YSPH Dean's Lecture: "Planning Future Directions for Environmental Health Sciences"
Dr. Rick Woychik, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Speaker: Rick Woychik, PhD
Yale Cancer Center: "Support Group for Prostate Cancer"
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
Early Onset Cancers Caregiver Support Group
Early Onset Cancers Caregiver Support Group
Lab Med Grand Rounds: "MicroRNAs: An old dog learns new tricks”
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Kleaveland
POA Aging Seminar: "Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: Evidence for a Geriatric Syndrome and Clinical Implications"
Speaker: Scott Bauer, MD, ScM
Pediatric Grand Rounds
Can Targeting DNA Repair and Metabolic Pathways Offer Novel Treatment Approaches For Solid Tumors?
Speaker: Juan Vasquez, MD
Grey [Lit] Matters: What it is, Why you need it, and How to find it Online
Dean's Workshop: "Y-Weight: New Frontiers in Obesity Research at Yale"
Speakers: Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD, Nancy J. Brown, MD, Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD, Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD, Michelle Van Name, MD
Yale Sleep Medicine Seminar "Normal Variants in Sleep"
Speaker: Chloe Deng, DO
Yale PCCSM Grand Rounds "Integrating Palliative Care and Critical Care in ICUs"
Speaker: Douglas B White, MD
Neuroendocrine Series: Board Review: Reproductive Endocrinology
Speaker: Anika K. Anam, MD
PCCM Fellows Case Conference
Speaker: Vruksha Cabral
Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics Program Seminar: "Consideration of Limitations on Speech in the Academic and Clinical Setting"
Speakers: Darin Latimore, MD, Robert Post, Beverley Sheares, MD, MS
Smilow Shares: World Lymphedema Day
Updates on Lymphedema: Diagnosis, Treatments & Surgery
Speakers: Haripriya Ayyala, MD, Janet Freedman, MD, Heather Studwell, MS, OT/L, MBA, CLT-LANA
General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Nada Derar, MD, "Genetics Referrals: Deciphering the Pathway to Precision Care.”
GIM Grand Rounds Nada Derar, MD, “Genetics Referrals: Deciphering the Pathway to Precision Care.”
Speaker: Nada Derar
Medical Grand Rounds: “Patient and Providers Navigating the Obesity Epidemic”
Speaker: Evan Angelus, MD
Virtual Gentle Yoga hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
The Very Basics of the Unix Command Line (In-Person)
Speakers: Lei Wang, Justin DeMayo
Immunobiology Seminar Series: "Early life imprinting of intestinal tolerance"
Speaker: Chrysothemis Brown, MD, PhD
Managing Citations and Manuscripts with EndNote (Online)
Speaker: Melissa C Funaro, MLS, MS
Medical Student Council Perspectives on Medicine: "Pitfalls – Clinical, Research, Education, Life"
Speaker: Charles Duncan, MD, FAANS
Yale PCCSM Weekly Research Conference: "The Challenges of Testing Complex Behavioral Interventions in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"
Speaker: Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
Yale GIM Research in Progress Meeting: "A Mixed Methods Investigation of Multilevel Influences on Diverse Participation in Early Phase Cancer Clinical Trials"
Re: Yale Cancer Center Research
Speaker: Jessica Lewis, PhD, LMFT
Pathology -2023-24 USCAP Abstract Presentations
Speakers: Haiying Zhan, MD, PhD, Xi Wang, MD, PhD, Na Niu, MD, PhD, Vijay Antony, MBBS, MD
Pharmacology Seminar Series presents: Cryo-EM structures reveal the secrets of actin monomer addition/dissociation at the ends of the actin filament
Speaker: Roberto Dominguez, Ph.D.
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Diabetes Journal Club
Speaker: Mary Windham, MD, PhD
VBT YCVRC Seminar Series presents "Genetic and Cellular Determinants of Coronary Artery Disease Risk"
Speaker: Clint L. Miller, PhD
Center for GI Cancers Seminar Series 2023-2024
Medicine and Public Policy: "What Do You Need to Know About Public Health Policies in 2024?"
An Evening with Senator Dr. Saud Anwar
Speaker: State Senator Saud Anwar, MD
Mindfulness meditation by New Haven Insight (via ZOOM)
17th Annual Interdisciplinary 2024 Prostate Cancer Congress
New York GU
Speakers: Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, Maha Hussein, MD, FACP, Leonard G. Gomella, MD, FACS, Peter A Humphrey, MD, PhD
All DayUrology Grand Rounds: Bloodborne Pathogens
Urology Grand Rounds
Speaker: Scott Roberts, MD
Surgery Grand Rounds William Glenn Lectureship
Evolution of Heart Valve Surgery: From Gibbon to Ross
Speaker: Vaughn A. Starnes MD
Nephrology Grand Rounds
Speaker: Saad Alshihri
Early Development in Autism with Suzanne Macari, PhD
Science of Autism Series
Speaker: Suzanne Macari, PhD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Integration of Addiction Treatment in Mental Health Care"
Speakers: Srinivas Muvvala, MD, MPH, Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH
Nephrology Noon Conference: Journal Club
Speakers: Adrian Llama, Nazanin Vaghari Mehr
Endocrinology Clinical Dilemma
Fellow's Case Presentation
Speaker: R Sena Turk Yilmaz
Health Psychology Virtual Forum
Speakers: William Becker, MD, Sara N Edmond, PhD, R. Ross MacLean, PhD, Declan Barry, PhD
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Baxter and Broadus Endocrine Grand Round Series
" Integrating AI into closed-loop insulin delivery: progress and pitfalls."
Speaker: Sam Royston
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: "Achieving Diversity in Fellowship Training and in the Delivery of Care in GI/Hepatology
Speaker: Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Speakers: Kayla Del Biondo, Kate Nyhan, MLS
Department of Cell Biology “Beyond-the-Bench” Seminar “Navigating the Future of Scientific Publishing with Cell Press
Speaker: Dr. Steve Mao
RSSP (Reproductive Sciences Seminar Program) by Kerri St Denis
The Infinite Strength Metastatic Breast Conference for Women, Children, and Caregivers
Speakers: Roberta Lombardi, Tara Sanft, MD, Lillie Shockney RN, BS, MAS, HON- ONN-CG, Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, Dr. Neil lyengar
2024 Tri-State Blood Cancer Conference: Knowledge is Power
A Leukemia and Lymphoma Society event
Speaker: Francine Foss, MD
Yale Cancer Answers: From Fatal to Fearless - A Journey with Multiple Myeloma
Speakers: Natalia Neparidze, MD, Kathy Giusti
Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Meeting 2023 - 2024
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
Neuroscience Seminar Series: "Modulation of NMDAR-Mediated Synaptic Transmission."
Speaker: Andres Villu Maricq, MD, PhD
Yale Cancer Biology Institute Faculty Candidate Seminar: Afroditi Petsakou
Afroditi Petsakou, PhD
Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: Pancreatic Cancer Support Group
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Microbiology Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research in Progress Seminar Series 2023-2024
Microbiology Weekly RIPS
Speaker: Thomas Hart
Acting Together to Address Cultural Dilemmas in the Clinical Setting
"Navigating Boundaries and Empathy from Patients with Similar Race/Ethnicity"
Speakers: Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, Steve Sust, MD, Jessica Ouyang, MD, Neha Sharma, DO, Myo Thwin Myint, MD