YSM Events
Experts on melanoma, cardiovascular genomics, and adoptive cell therapy are among those giving talks next week. Other events coming up in May include a symposium on Parkinson’s disease, Student Research Day, and a webinar series on child mental health.
Announcements
Featured Speakers
Yale Only Laura Ranum, PhDNeuroscience Seminar Series: “Repeat Associated Non-AUG (RAN) Proteins in Rare and Common Neurologic Diseases: Molecular Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities”
At the University of Florida, Laura Ranum’s team focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms and developing therapies for repeat expansion disorders and other neurodegenerative diseases. Her lab discovered Repeat Associated Non-AUG (RAN) translation, a novel process that results in the production and accumulation of toxic proteins in patient tissues, including the brain and central nervous system.Everyone Xiaodong Cheng, PhDYale Stem Cell Spring Seminar Series: "Factors Induce DNA Hypomethylation and Genome Instability"
Xiaodong Cheng, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focuses on defining the structural and biological effects of epigenetic modifications on DNA and histones.
Everyone Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhDYCSC Grand Rounds: "You Contain Multitudes – Somatic Mosaic Mutations in Neuropsychiatric Disorders"
Yale Child Study Center
At Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Christopher Walsh's team is interested in identifying mutations and mechanisms that regulate the normal development and function of the human cerebral cortex. Recent interests of his lab include identifying somatic mutations in the human brain as a cause of some forms of autism and epilepsy.
School Only Iwei Yeh, MD, PhDDermatology Visiting Professor Lecture: "Nevi, Melanocytomas, and Melanomas: Updates and Implications for Clinical Practice"
Iwei Yeh, of the University of California, San Francisco, focuses on understanding the genetics of melanoma to improve treatment for advanced melanoma by studying the genetic changes that occur in melanocytic tumors, which start as benign moles or birthmarks and develop into melanoma.Everyone Linnea M. Baudhuin, PhDLab Med Grand Rounds "Advancing Personalized Medicine with Cardiovascular Genomics”
Linnea Baudhuin, of the Mayo Clinic, studies genomic medicine as it relates to inherited cardiovascular disorders, pharmacogenomics, gene- and genotype-based clinical management, and advanced genomic testing, including next-generation sequencing.
Everyone Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChBYale Cancer Center Grand Rounds/Richard Frisbee III Memorial Lectureship: "Cell Therapies for Blood Cancers—Beyond Conventional CAR-T"
Catherine Bollard, of the George Washington University and Children's National Hospital, is a hematologist, immunologist, and immunotherapist who leads clinical and research efforts to fight cancer and other inflammatory diseases by strengthening the immune system using adoptive cell therapy.
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Everyone Joseph J. Fins, MD, D. Hum. Litt. (hc), MACP, FRCP (London)
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Everyone Beth A. Malow, MD - Andrew S. Huhn, PhD, MBA
Upcoming Events
Department of Surgery Research Day 2024
Speakers: Robert A. Montgomery, MD, PhD, Peter J. Gruber, MD, PhD, Sara Isabel Pai, MD/PhD, Robert Becher, MD, MS, FACS, Jason Sheltzer, PhD
Surgery Grand Rounds: "The Story of an Unlikely Personal and Professional Transplant Odyssey"
Research Day
Speaker: Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, FACS
Nephrology Grand Rounds: "Research In Progress"
Speaker: Christine Bakhoum, MD, MAS
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds: Navigating New Frontiers in Management of Head and Neck Cancer
Speaker: Christine Chung, MD
Designing Effective Academic Posters (Online)
Speaker: Dana Haugh, MLS
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Chair's State of the Department Address"
Speaker: John Krystal, MD
Nephrology Noon Conference
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Baxter and Broadus Endocrine Grand Round Series
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: "Fancy Tools vs. Traditional Therapies in Treatment of Acute GI Bleeding"
Speakers: Lawrence Kogan, MD, Jeremy Puthumana, MD
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Speakers: Kayla Del Biondo, Kate Nyhan, MLS
Yale Cancer Biology Institute Seminar Series presents: Bing Zhang
Bing Zhang
The Yale Cellular, Molecular, and Quantitative Biology Training Program presents INSPIRE A series of talks for Yale graduate students
Career Options for Ph.D's in Science: Opening the Doors of Opportunity
Speaker: Melanie Sinche, M.Ed.
The Yale Citations: Spring Concert 2024
Graduate and Professional Student A Capella
Yale Cancer Answers: New Guidelines in the Management of Liver Cancer
Speaker: Tamar Taddei, MD
Radiobiology and Genome Integrity 04-29-2024
Functionality of BRCA2 reversion mutations derived from PARPi resistant ovarian cancer patients
Speaker: Gemma Moore, PhD
Neuroscience Seminar Series: “Repeat Associated Non-AUG (RAN) Proteins in Rare and Common Neurologic Diseases: Molecular Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities”
Speaker: Laura Ranum, PhD
Ask a Clinical Librarian (Online)
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Pancreatic Cancer Support Group"
Yale Stem Cell Spring Seminar Series: "Factors Induce DNA Hypomethylation and Genome Instability"
Speaker: Xiaodong Cheng, PhD
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
CIRA Early-Career Scientists Panel: "The Nuts and Bolts of NIH Review"
Speakers: Jaimie Meyer, MD, MS, FACP, LaRon Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, Jeffrey Wickersham, PhD
Microbiology Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research in Progress Seminar Series 2023-2024
Microbiology Weekly RIPS
Speakers: Euisoon Park, Andrew Verdegaal
Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP): "PET Imaging of Cyclooxygenases and Phosphodiesterases as Biomarkers of Inflammation and of cAMP Signaling"
Speaker: Robert Innis
Chagas Disease Alliance at Yale (CDAY) Seminar Series: Nicole del Castillo, MPH Candidate
Speaker: Nicole Del Castillo
VBT YCVRC Seminar Series presents "Generating Human Vascular Cells from Pluripotent Stem Cells to Study Vascular Development, Disease and Evolution” by Ang Lay Teng, PhD
Speaker: Ang Lay Teng, PhD
Pathology Research in Progress Talks
Cancelled: Genetics Clinical Grand Rounds
DIY Video Tutorials Part 5: Fine tuning and publishing (In-Person)
Speaker: Caitlin Meyer, MLS
Genetics Department Seminar Series: "The role of nuclear organization in transcription."
Speaker: Nadine Vastenhouw, PhD
Academic Work-in-Progress (AWIP)
Speaker: Emanuela Bruscia, PhD
Chair-Based Exercise
YCSC Grand Rounds: "You Contain Multitudes – Somatic Mosaic Mutations in Neuropsychiatric Disorders"
Yale Child Study Center
Speaker: Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Yale Cell Biology Seminar Series: "Design Principles of Living Membranes"
Speaker: Ilya Levental, PhD
Restorative Yoga with Ellen McNally hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Yale Cancer Center/Smilow North Haven Sponsor: "Patient and Family Support Group"
General Bereavement Support Group
Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds
Collaborative Intelligence for Cardiovascular Care: Applied AI is Hers
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
2024 Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) Presentations: Session 2 of 2
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Multiple Myeloma Support Group"
Rheumatology Grand Rounds: "Sarcoidosis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges"
Speaker: Catharine Arnold, MD
Dermatology Visiting Professor Lecture: "Nevi, Melanocytomas, and Melanomas: Updates and Implications for Clinical Practice"
Speaker: Iwei Yeh, MD, PhD
The Cingari Family Boutique Beyond Beauty Program
Location: Smilow Stamford/Longridge
Special Neuroscience Seminar: “Bridging Anatomy and Function: The Role of Bottlenecks in Cerebellum-like Structures.”
Speaker: Samuel Muscinelli, PhD
Genetics Research-In-Progress (RIP)
Speakers: Yasmeen Ajaj, Jenna Bergmann
Within-host evolution
Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology Chalk Talk
Speaker: Noah Wolcott Palm, 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
Pediatric Grand Rounds: Clinical Pathological Conference
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
POA Aging Seminar: "Words Matter – the role of language in promoting individualized care of older adults"
Speaker: Nancy Schoenborn, MD, MHS
Lab Med Grand Rounds "Advancing Personalized Medicine with Cardiovascular Genomics”
Speaker: Linnea M. Baudhuin, PhD
YSPH Dissertation Presentation
Justin Markowski, PhD Candidate
Speaker: Justin Markowski
Grey [Lit] Matters: What it is, Why you need it, and How to find it (Online)
Speaker: Courtney Hadley, MLS, BA
Yale Sleep Medicine Seminar "Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation"
Speaker: Vesna Buntak
PCCM Journal Club
Speaker: William Jackson
Yale PCCSM Grand Rounds CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE LECTURE SERIES: Post-Resuscitation Care of Patients Following Cardiac Arrest”
Speaker: Rachel Beekman, MD
Neuroendocrine Series: Unusual Sellar and Parasellar Masses
Speaker: Luisa Bernacet Rivera
PCCM Fellows Case Conference
Speaker: Ofure Akhiwu
Yale NLP/LLM Interest Group Talks
Strategy Imitation via Prompt Generation Without Parameter Tuning
Speaker: Tong Wang, PhD
Program for Biomedical Ethics Presents the Annual Thomas P. Duffy Lecture in Medical Ethics: "Disability Rights and Disorders of Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law and Medicine"
Speaker: Joseph J. Fins, MD, D. Hum. Litt. (hc), MACP, FRCP (London)
Discovering Data in PubMed & PubMed Central: Strategies for Successful Searches (Online)
Speakers: Kaitlin Throgmorton, Alexandria Brackett, MLIS, AHIP, MA
General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Karen Brown, MD, Deborah Rhodes, MD, FACP, Rita Amendola, APRN, “Care Pathways.”
GIM Grand Rounds: Karen Brown, MD, Deborah Rhodes, MD, FACP, Rita Amendola, APRN, “Care Pathways.”
Speakers: Karen Brown, PA-C, Deborah Rhodes, MD, FACP
Medical Grand Rounds: “Consult Conflict in Medicine”
Speaker: Gupreet Dhaliwal
Therapeutic Radiology Grand Rounds: "Pathological Determinants of Brain Metastasis Progression and Drug Resistance"
Speaker: Don Nguyen, PhD, BSc
Virtual Gentle Yoga hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Synapses Seminar Series: “Astrocytic Metabolic Control of Orexinergic Activity in the Lateral Hypothalamus Regulates Sleep and Wake Architecture.”
Speaker: Martina Chiacchiaretta, PhD
Yale PCCSM Weekly Research Conference "From Bench to Beside: Translational Practices to Ensure Effective AI in Medicine"
Speaker: Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS
Yale GIM Educational Strategies and Faculty Development Meeting: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
Speaker: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
Building Against Burnout Webinar
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Speakers: Ritche Manos Hao, MD, BS, Allen Hsiao, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, Brian Williams, MD
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Microbiology Graduate Program Seminar Series: Dr. Craig E. Cameron
Speaker: Dr. Craig E. Cameron
Pediatric Tumor Board / NHL & Leukemia Conference
Pharmacology Arnold D. Welch Lecture Series Presents: Dr. Shiva Malek (Novartis)
Diabetes Journal Club
Speaker: Oyunbileg Magvanjav
Cellular & Molecular Physiology Seminar Series:
"Synthetic Block Copolymer Membrane Stabilizers for Muscular Dystrophy"
Speaker: Joseph Metzger, PhD
Center for GI Cancers Seminar Series 2023-2024
Program for Humanities in Medicine: PHM Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest 2024 Awards Ceremony
Mindfulness meditation by New Haven Insight (via ZOOM)
Surgery Grand Rounds Stephan Ariyan MD Lectureship
"Multimodal, Non-narcotic Pain Management for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery"
Speaker: Linda G. Phillips, MD
Nephrology Grand Rounds: "SGLT2i Utilization in Kidney Transplant Recipients"
Speaker: Nora Hernandez Garcilazo, MD
IMP Thesis Defense Vadim Kurbatov "Mapping and Functional Characterization of HOX Gene Expression Patterns in Human Normal Tissue and Solid Tumors
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds/Richard Frisbee III Memorial Lectureship: "Cell Therapies for Blood Cancers—Beyond Conventional CAR-T"
Speaker: Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChB
9th Annual Sleep & Symptom Research Symposium
Speakers: Beth A. Malow, MD, Andrew S. Huhn, PhD, MBA
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: The Women's Mental Health Conference
Speaker: Nedra Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Nephrology Noon Conference
Speaker: Abinet Aklilu, MD, MPH
YES!: "Be an Upstander"
Speakers: Shaili Gupta, MBBS, Benjamin Mba, MBBS
Endocrinology Research in Progress
Speaker: Anup Parchure
Innovation Exchange: Divya Balaji Kamerkar
Speaker: Divya Balaji Kamerka
Find Literature (for Free) as a Yale Alum (Online)
Speaker: Kate Nyhan, MLS
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Baxter and Broadus Endocrine Grand Round Series
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: "Scope or Skip: The Gastric Metaplasia Surveillance Dilemma"
Speakers: Swathi Krishnan, MD, Shreyak Sharma
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Speakers: Kayla Del Biondo, Kate Nyhan, MLS
RSSP (Reproductive Sciences Seminar Program) by Miranda Mansolf and Nia Montero: "TBD"
Embracing Challenges and Opportunities: Perspective of Asian American Scholars
Speakers: Gang Chen, PhD, Haifan Lin, PhD
All DayThe Multidisciplinary Management of NET Disease: A One-Day Medical Conference
Presented by the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society
Speakers: Pamela L. Kunz, MD, Rebecca Vanasse-Passas, MD, Marie Robert, MD, Gabriela Spilberg, MD, Anil Nagar, MD
Brain Tumor Awareness in the Hispanic/Latino Community
An Interactive Radio Session About Brain Tumors in Spanish
Speakers: Elizabeth Claus, PhD, MD, Jose DeJesus, Mathew Krick, BS, MPH, Tony Rentas
Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation NET IMPACT Thrivership & Research Education Program
Speakers: Pamela L. Kunz, MD, Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH
Peter E. Schwartz, MD Discovery to Cure Beverly Levy Walk & Block Party
Yale Cancer Answers: Skin Safety for the Summer - What you need to know
Speaker: James Clune, MD
Second Annual Yale Parkinson's Disease Research and Clinical Care Symposium
Multi-session EventYale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Bladder Cancer Support Group"
Radiobiology and Genome Integrity: "Defining the Gap Vulnerability in BRCA Deficient Cells"
Speaker: Sharon B. Cantor, PhD
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: "Pancreatic Cancer Support Group"
Yale Stem Cell Spring Seminar Series: “Spliceosomopathies; The Search for Shared Molecular Mechanisms”
Speaker: Loydie Majewska, 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
Speakers: Tse-Yu Chen, Helen Stone
MB&B Seminar: “Genome Repair via the BRCA Tumor Suppressor Axis”
Speaker: Patrick Sung, DPhil