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COVID-19: Immunity, Vaccines, Epidemiology

Webinar

WEBINARSponsored by the new GCC Cluster for Immunology, the focus of this event is to generate awareness among TMC investigators of emerging immunology-related COVID research projects.  A primary intent of […]

IDDD Roundtable Workshop “Starting a Biotech Company”

WEBINARSponsored by the GCC Innovative Drug Discovery and Development (IDDD) Consortium, this workshop will first focus on considerations for academics who are thinking about starting companies.  During the first session, […]

Pain 2020 Workshop

Webinar

Webinar Development of Highly Selective A3AR Agonists for Neuropathic Pain Daniela Salvemini, St Louis University  Resolution of Neuropathic Pain and Oxidative Stress via Activation of Nrf2Peter Grace, MD Anderson Cancer Center  Role of […]

COVID-19 COV-IRT Virtual Symposium

Updates on current COVID-19 Research The second virtual symposium presented by the COVID-19 International Research Team Moderator: Dr. Leo Elworth, Rice UniversityHosts: Dr. Todd J. Treangen, Rice University & Dr. […]

#PAIN2020 WORKSHOP

Brain Circuits and Pain WelcomeAnnemieke Kavelaars, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Ted Price, PhD, UT Dallas 1:00  Cell Therapy for the Treatment of CIPN   Cobi Heijnen, MD Anderson […]

IDDD Round Table Workshop on Lessons in Biotech Leadership

This Roundtable Workshop will focus on useful/essential traits for successfully leading a biotech company that are often different from the skills/traits of successful academics.  Additionally, attendees will receive insights on […]

Keck Seminar, Stephen S. Laurie, PhD

Stephen S. Laurie, PhDSenior Scientist, SANS Discipline Lead, KBR, NASA Johnson Space Center Swelling in the Eye on ISS

Neurotherapeutics Workgroup Mini Symposium

We invite you to join us for this Mini-Symposium that will take place via Zoom on September 16 from 1-4 pm CST.  This event will kick off future virtual workgroup activities including sub workgroups […]

Keck Seminar, Caroline Ajo-Franklin, PhD

Caroline Ajo-Franklin, PhDProfessor, BioSciences Rice University Engineering Electronic Actuation and Sensing into Microorganisms Using Synthetic Biology

Keck Seminar, Joan E. Nichols, PhD

Joan E. Nichols, PhD, Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine, UTMB Big or Small, Simple or Complex:How 3D Human Engineered TissueModels can be used to Study HumanTissue Responses

Keck Seminar, Jean Fan, PhD

Jean Fan, Assistant Professor,Dept. BiomedicalEngineering, John HopkinsUniversity Computational Methods forAnalyzing Spatially-resolved SinglecellTranscriptomics Data

Monthly Seminar Series on Antibiotic Resistance

Presented by CARMiG, Gulf Coast Consortia, and The ASM-TMC Chapter Dr. Edward Septimus will present, "Sepsis 2020 from the Infectious Diseases Perspective". Conference held via Zoom

October 8: 1st Annual GCC Single Cell Omics Symposium

Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, United States

Confirmed Speakers: Stephen Quake, Orit Rosenblatt, Lukas Simon, Koichi Takahashi, Nick Navin, Navin Varadarajan, Courtney Hodges, Ruli Gao More information can be found on the symposium website.

Keck Seminar, Ricardo Azevedo, PhD

Ricardo Azevedo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston Sex and The Origin of Species

Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop

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 […]

CMB Weekly Seminar

Our inaugural CMB Weekly Seminar will feature George Phillips from Rice University via Zoom. More information coming soon.

Recurring

AI in Healthcare Meet and Greet

We invite you to join us for the series of monthly AI in Healthcare Cluster Meet-and-Greet events that will take place via Zoom.  The goal of the Meet-and-Greet meetings is […]

#Pain2020 Workshop, Neuroimmune Mechanisms in Pain

The 4th workshop in the #pain2020 series, focused on Neuroimmune Mechanisms in Pain, will take place on October 16, 1:00-2:00pm CDT. Attendees will have the opportunity to post questions directed to […]

Keck Seminar, Barbara Trautner, MD, PhD

Barbara Trautner, MD, PhD, Professor and Director, Clinical and Health Services Research Imprecision Medicine: TheChallenges in Diagnosis, Treatment,and Antibiotic Stewardship for UTI

Hot Topics in Imaging

This series sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster will feature Dr. Md. Abul Hassan Samee from Baylor College of Medicine who will present From Protein-DNA Binding to Spatial Transcriptomics: Machine Learning Models of Transcriptional […]

Keck Seminar, Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSEProfessor, Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine and The Reynolds and Reynolds Professorship in Clinical InformaticsUT Health Science Center Houston

IDDD Round Table Workshop, Academic Industry Partnerships

This workshop will present opportunities for academic researchers to partner with two different industry partners. Speakers include Dr. Fiona Mack, Head of JLabs@TMC and Sushmita Lahiri, External Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim. Stay […]

November #Pain2020 Workshop: Headache and Migraine

Headache and Migraine Welcome: Annemieke Kavelaars, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin  1:00pm The Role of HDAC6 and the Cytoskeleton in Chronic Migraine-associated PainZachariah Bertels, University […]

Keck Seminar, Nicholas Navin, PhD

Nicholas Navin, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Dept. of Genetics, Division of Basic Science Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer Evolution Through the Lensof Single Cell Genomics

Keck Seminar, Keegan Korthauer, PhD

Keegan Korthauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of British Columbia 11 20 20 Keegan Korthauer Mining the epigenome: computational tools to interpret DNA methylation data

Recurring

Research Mentor Training Workshop for Faculty

*This event takes place on three consecutive Wednesdays. We ask that you commit to all three sessions.* This evidence-based workshop is designed for faculty to develop skills and insight in mentoring postdocs […]

Rigor & Reproducibility Workshop

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 […]

2nd Annual Cellular and Molecular Biophysics Conference

Confirmed speakers include Ilya Finkelstein, Univ. of Texas; Vasanthi Jayaraman, UT Health Science Center at Houston; Hong Wang, North Carolina State Univ.; David Baker, Univ. of Washington; Serena Nik-Zainal, Univ. […]

Single Cell Omics Panel Discussion

Sponsored by the GCC Single Cell Omics Cluster, the first discussion will take place from 2:00-3:00pm CST and will provide a brief introduction to single cell technologies and local core resources. […]

CMB Weekly Seminar

Travis Moore, UT Health Science Center Houston

IDDD Round Table Workshop: Computer-Aided Drug Discovery

We invite you to register for the first of our 2021 GCC IDDD Roundtable Workshops that will focus computer-aided drug discovery and will highlight the computational resources of our local TMC Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT).  The workshop […]

4th Annual TMC Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Conference

Confirmed speakers include Robert Bonomo, Case Western; Robert Britton, BCM; Henry Chambers, UCSF; Anrea Cruz, BCM; Scott Flanders, Univ. of Michigan; Vance Fowler, Duke; Danielle Garsin, UTHealth; Tom Giordano BCM; Matt Goetz, UCLA/VA; Blake Hanson, UTHealth; Lee Harrison, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Robert Jenq, MD Anderson; Anthony Maresso, BCM; William […]

Neuronex Workshop

Agenda: 10 - 11 Fabio Anselmi 11 - 12 Bobby Kashturi 12 - 1 break 1 - 2 Daniela Witten 2 -3 Jonathan Cohen

18th Annual Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference

Confirmed speakers include Fabio Anselmi, Baylor College of Medicine; Cameron Buckner, Univ. of Houston; Jonathan Cohen, Princeton Univ.; Chong Xie, Rice Univ.; Daniella Witten, Univ. of Washington; Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London; and Bobby Kasthuri, Univ. of […]

GCC Mental Health Monthly Seminar

Matters of the Heart: Contributions of Psychoneuroimmunology to Spousal Bereavement Chris Fagundes, Rice University

Keck Seminar, Wenyi Wang, PhD

Tumor cell total mRNA expression shapes the molecular and clinical phenotype of cancer Wenyi Wang, PhDProfessor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Link to […]

CANCELLED: Hot Topics in Imaging Seminar Series

Due to power outages, the GCC Hot Topics in Imaging Seminar originally scheduled for February 17, has been postponed. This series is sponsored by the GCC Translational Imaging Cluster. Check back each month […]

POSTPONED: Keck Seminar, M. Neal Waxham, PhD

*Due to blackouts, Dr. Waxham's talk will be rescheduled* M. Neal Waxham, PhDWilliam M. Wheless III, Professor In Biomedical Sciences, Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston […]

Keck Seminar, George Golovko, PhD

George Golovko, PhDAssistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCSMB), University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Link to register for […]

CMB Weekly Seminar

Nirakar Sahoo, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Keck Seminar, Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhD

Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Cryo-EM structures of ribosome complexes reveal new insights into bacterial translation initiation […]

Keck Seminar, Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhD

Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Pediatric-Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Picking sides: competition and cooperation in human nasal microbiota Link to register for this […]

Keck Seminar, Junghae Suh, PhD

From Academia to the Deep End of Industrial Drug Discovery Research Junghae Suh, PhDVice President, Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen Inc. Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcuqvrzsuEtEyxRL90DF9QmPYQdn574ym Click here […]

Keck Seminar, Robert Tillman, PhD

Robert Tillman, PhDFaculty Development Specialist National Research Mentoring Network Master Facilitator LinkedIn: Where Your Network Works Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfu2trzMtGdHAgDYyvSVKobyfrrUEfo7I   Click here to download flyer

Keck Seminar, Greg Cuny, PhD

Designing RIPK2 kinase inhibitors for blocking NOD cell signaling Greg Cuny, PhDAssociate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcuCvrD8qG9OqRHW72vI-CyYx1XYuF6PU Click here […]

Future of Immunology Conference

Confirmed speakers include Dario Vignali, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Linda Saif, The Ohio State Univ.; Bali Pulendran, Stanford Univ.

Keck Seminar, Margie Moczygemba, PhD

Margie Moczygemba, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, IBT, Texas A&M University Automated high-throughput flow cytometry-based assays for cancer drug discovery Link to register for the talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApdeuurzsvE9HLe-oMaBtM2PV7arUYtGKg 

2nd Annual Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Conference

Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, United States

Please save the date for this exciting conference and stay tuned for speaker updates.  James Inglese, NIH/NCATS is confirmed. More information can be found on the conference website.

May #Pain2021 Workshop

Genetics of Pain Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Moderator: Kyle Baumbauer, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center  1:00pm Genomic Instability and Host-microbiome Interactions in the Bowel: Implications […]

Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop

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 […]

GCC Mental Health Research Junior Faculty Seminar

Bryan Denny, Rice Univ., will present Examining the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation Training: Behavioral, Linguistic, and Neural Evidence and Douglas Engelke, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston, will present A Hypothalamic-thalamostriatal […]

June #Pain 2021 Workshop

Genetic Interrogation of Spinal Cord Circuits Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterModerator: Helen Lai, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern 1:00pm Wired for Touch: The Role of Social Touch in […]

#Pain2021 July Seminar- Pain Neuroimaging

1:00pm Using Functional MRI to Study Brain Mechanisms Underlying Sex and Age Differences in an Animal Model of Chronic Osteoarthritis Pain Joyce Da Silva, University of Maryland Baltimore 1:15 pm […]

Keck Seminar, Jane Grande-Allen, PhD

Jane Grande-Allen, PhDProfessor, Bioengineering, Rice University Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology

September #Pain2021 Workshop

 Pain in Clinical Populations Moderator: Stacey Gorniak, PhD, Univ. of Houston Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 1:00pm Cognition, Expectations, and Risk for Chronic Pain Simon Haroutounian, Washington […]