Gulf Coast Consortia

GCC Mental Health Research Workgroup Retreat
2019-03-20 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Devika Subramanian, Professor Computer Science, Rice University
2019-03-22 16:00 - 17:00 | BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

Mark Sansom, Professor Biochemistry, U. of Oxford, UK
2019-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

GCC Translational Pain Research 9th Annual Symposium
2019-04-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Linda Watkins, Professor Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder Joint speaker GCC Translational Pain Research Conference
2019-04-12 16:00 - 17:00 | BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
“Listening” and “Talking” to Neurons: Non-neuronal Cells Amplify Pain and Drug Reward

4th Annual Small Animal Imaging Facility Spring Symposium
2019-04-16 10:00 - 15:30 | Texas Childrens Hospital, 6621 Fannin St, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

Ned Wingreen
2019-04-23 14:30 - 15:30 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) – 10th Floor, 6500 Main Street, 10th Floor, Room 1060A/B, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

GCC Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
2019-05-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Structural Biology Annual Symposium
2019-05-04 10:00 - 19:00
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Cryo-EM Data Processing Workshop
2019-05-06 10:00 - 2019-05-09 19:00 | University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, Texas, 77555, United States
The 4-day satellite Cryo-EM Data Processing Workshop (May 6-9, 2019) will focus on EMAN2, SPHIRE, CHIMERA, COOT and PHENIX. This marks the rebirth of a long series of EMAN2 workshops previously hosted by the NCMI in Houston over the last 20 years and this year will be hosted by the SCSB at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston.

GCC Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Kickoff Mini-Symposium
2019-05-06 19:00 - 2019-05-07 18:59 | Bioscience Research Collaborative, 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
The newly reorganized Innovative Drug Discovery and Development (IDDD) Consortium (formerly Chemical Genomics) invites you to join us for the kick-off of our new program and focus on supporting therapeutics advancement from discovery, through development, and to the clinic. The mini-symposium will host national and local entrepreneurs who have started companies, advanced their academic discoveries into the clinic, developed business strategies and/or invested in pharma. The event will begin at 8:45 am (breakfast at 8:15), and topics that will be discussed in the morning sessions include 1) What are investors and/or pharma looking for in therapeutics? 2) How do they identify a good drug candidate? 3) What does it take to develop a successful therapeutic? 4) What can go wrong (challenges)? and 5) thoughts on and advice for moving academic discoveries into the clinic. The lunch session will feature short introductions to the shared cores within the GCC IDDD network, and will be followed by onsite visits to several of the cores (transportation provided for those who sign up). You will also hear more about the future of IDDD including a workshop/seminar series that will begin in June.
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Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop,
2019-05-15 09:00 - 17:00

Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop
2019-05-15 10:00 - 19:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Drug Discovery in Africa
2019-06-05 09:30 - 11:00 | Vitrual Access, United States
Drug discovery research in Africa has lagged that carried out in the more developed nations of the world. Africa is often described as the “next frontier” in the global economy, yet a crippling disease burden continues to choke economic growth on the continent. It is thus vital for Africans to contribute to finding solutions to their health problems, which are not just African health problems but human health problems. Historically Africa has benefited immensely from medicines discovered and developed elsewhere. It is time for Africa to reciprocate and in the process contribute to the creation of science jobs in Africa as well as confront afro-pessimism and debunk the myth that Africa is not, and cannot be, a source of health innovation.

Residential School on Medicinal Chemistry and Biology in Drug Discovery (ResMed)
2019-06-09 09:30 - 2019-06-23 11:00 | Drew University, 36 Madison Ave, Madison, New Jersey, 07940, United States
ResMed is a week-long graduate/professional-level course providing an accelerated program for medicinal chemists, biologists and other industrial and academic scientists who choose to broaden their knowledge of the drug discovery and development process. The course concentrates on the fundamentals of drug discovery spanning initial target validation through clinical development. The course is taught by distinguished faculty from industry and academia and provides ample opportunity for discussion and networking.

Registration Deadline: 31 March 2019Contact Name: Neal ConnorsContact E-mail: resmed@drew.eduContact Number: (973)408-3794

Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Round Table Series Kickoff
2019-06-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) Room 1003, 6500 Main Street, Room 1003, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Please plan to join us for the first of our new monthly program focused on drug development topics and resources. This interactive series kickoff will be focused on the importance of the Target Product Profile (TPP) and considerations for its development for therapeutics projects. Speakers leading this discussion will include Brett Cornwell, Executive Director for Texas A&M Technology Commercialization and Philip Jones, VP, Therapeutics Discovery, MDA Cancer Center; and Head, Drug Discovery, Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS). The event will take place at 4 pm in the Bioscience Research Collaborative, room 1003. A networking reception will follow.

MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine 2019 Joint Symposium: DRUG DEVELOPMENT
2019-06-20 10:00 - 19:30 | MD Anderson Onstead Auditorium 6, 6767 Bertner Ave, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Keynote Speaker – Roy S. Herbst, MD. PhD, Chief of Medical Oncology and Associate Director for Translational Research, Yale Cancer CenterSpeakers Include: Yannick Bulliard, Immatics; Eric Chang, BCM; Diana Chow, Univ of Houston; Teemu Junttila, Genentech; Albert Koong, MDACC; Yan Lan, EMD Serono; Tim Palzkill, BCM; Katharina Schlacher, MDACC; Nicholas Simmons, BCM; Vivek Subbiah, MDACC; Yuting Sun, MDACC; Trey Westbrooke, BCM; Nicholas Young, BCM

Scientific Data Integrity Workshop
2019-07-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) Room 1003, 6500 Main Street, Room 1003, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
One in the series of the GCC Rigor and Reproducibility (RR) Program targeted modules, this workshop is designed to cover fundamental elements necessary to help assure the quality and integrity of data derived from research studies. The workshop will review best practices for documentation of research activities, data capture, data (and document) management, and introduce risk mitigation strategies to enhance study reproducibility. A combination of mini lectures, case studies, and group exercises will comprise the activities. Knowledge gained will allow attendees to implement lessons learned within their research environment as elements of a quality system or internal to an individual research project. BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 1003, 6500 Main St 10 am -2:30 pm. Limited to the first 50 registrants.

If it has reached capacity, please choose to be placed on the waitlist from the registration page.

Reproducible Research (RR) with R and RStudio Workshop
2019-07-30 09:00 - 15:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) Room 1003, 6500 Main Street, Room 1003, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
First in the series of the GCC Rigor and Reproducibility (RR) Program targeted modules, this workshop will: 1) discuss examples motivating the shift to RR; 2) survey the simple nature of the most common problems; 3) discuss organizing data as projects; 4) use Rstudio, knitr, and rmarkdown to illustrate the use of literate programming to interleave text describing the analyses with the code producing the results; 5) use Rstudio, devtools, and roxygen2 to construct a basic R package; 6) survey other commonly used tools and give pointers to how they might be used and where to learn more. This course will take place from presumes some working knowledge of R. Attendees are requested to bring laptops with recent versions of R and Rstudio installed, as well as the R packages knitr, rmarkdown, devtools, roxygen2, and RTools (this last is for Windows PCs; it’s required to compile R packages). fun. BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 1003, 9 am – 3 pm. Limited to the first 25 registrants.

If it has reached capacity, please choose to be placed on the waitlist from the registration page.

Keck Seminar, Marcie O'Malley
2019-09-06 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Marcie O’Malley, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University will present Enhancing Human Performance with Wearable Haptics.

Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Texas 2019
2019-09-11 10:00 - 2019-09-15 19:00 | Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

Keck Seminr, Vasanthi Jayaraman
2019-09-13 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will present Allostery at the Single Molecule Level .

Systems Biology for Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Symposium
2019-09-18 08:30 - 18:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
We invite you to join us for this exceptional Symposium, co-sponsored by the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the Systems Biology Center at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences. In addition to an exceptional lineup of speakers, the goals of the Symposium are to provide opportunities to 1) showcase promising uses of systems biology approaches in clinical infectious diseases, 2) foster inter-disciplinary interaction between computational biologists with bench and clinical researchers, and 3) to incentivize innovative science to answer pressing questions in infectious diseases.

Keck Seminar, Yubin Zhou
2019-09-20 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Associate Professor, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University will present OptogenetIc Engineering for Biomedical Applications.

Keck Seminar, Dan Frigo & Leah DiMascio
2019-09-27 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Dan Frigo, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center will present Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable in Science .

Dr. Leah DiMascio, Chief Operating Officer, MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. will present From Bench to Business: Forcing Your Foot through the Door .

Rigor and Reproducibility
2019-10-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
1st place winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Innovations in Research and Research Education Award, this exciting workshop brings together highly acclaimed experts in rigor and reproducibility in research topics including data analysis, experimental design, resource sharing, publication and reporting, and more. With speakers and facilitators from all 7 of our GCC institutions, this interactive workshop has proven to be very effective as well as a lot of fun. BioScience Research Collaborative, 6500 Main St, Event Space, 9:30 am-3 pm. If registration is full, you can choose to be added to the waitlist from the registration page.

29th Annual Keck Research Conference, Precision Environmental Health: Integrating Environmental Sciences, Genomics, and Data Science to Advance Human Health
2019-10-11 08:30 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
“Precision Environmental Health: Integrating Environmental Sciences, Genomics, and Data Science to Advance Human Health.” This conference focuses on interdisciplinary bioscience and will include talks from internationally recognized experts in the broad area of environmental health sciences. Confirmed speakers include Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; James Eberwine, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, UPenn; Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, Professor, Director of Translational Research, UC San Diego and Debra Laskin, PhD, Professor and Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rutgers University.
Conference chair: Cheryl Walker, PhD, Director, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine. Co-chair: Craig Hanis, Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, UTHealth.
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Keck Seminar, Amy Franklin
2019-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Amy Franklin,Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will present Cognitive Informatics: Usability, Work-flow, and Decision Support .

1st Annual GCC Translational Imaging Symposium
2019-10-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Confirmed speakers include Alan Koretsky, NINDS; Janet Eary, NCI Cancer Imaging Program; Angelique Louie, UC Davis; John Gore, Vanderbilt University; John Hazle, MDA; Mostafa Waleed Gaber, BCM; Masoud Motamedi, UTMB; Refaat Gabr, UTHealth; Jim Bankson, MDA; Robia Pautler, BCM; Ponnada Narayana; UTHealth, Omid Veiseh, Rice; and Badri Roysam, UH.

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Single Cell Omics Colloquium
2019-10-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
