Gulf Coast Consortia

3rd Annual Heart of a Woman Conference
2020-02-15 08:50 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
In women, the greatest cause of death is heart disease. Yet many women are unaware of its risk factors and the warning signs which differ from those of men.

Increased awareness is key to preventing heart problems, so Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women Clubs – Houston, affiliate of BPW International, are partnering to host “Heart of a Woman.”

This exciting conference is designed to educate women about the gender-specific symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and how women can proactively improve their own heart health. In addition, guest speakers representing science, medicine, and government will discuss their roles in addressing gender discrepancies in cardiovascular care for women.

For more information and registration: events.houstonmethodist.org/how

461 HOW Brochure Dec11Download

Heart of a Woman AgendaDownload

MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine 2020 Joint Symposium Cancer Therapeutics
2020-02-13 08:00 - 16:00
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Click Here

Call for Abstracts MDA-BCM Joint Symp 2020Download

Fannin Innovation Open House
2020-02-12 18:00 - 20:00
Fannin Innovation Studio is a life science and medical device development
group located in Houston’s Highland Village area. We manage and develop a
rapidly growing portfolio of therapeutic and medical device technologies.

Open House FlyerDownload

Keck Seminar, Eric Wagner
2020-02-07 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Eric
Wagner, UTMB
Associate

Eric Wagner, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

Regulated Destabilization of Paused RNA Polymerase II:
The Value of a Pair of Scissors

Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Consortium Round Table Workshop
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC) Room 1003, 6500 Main Street, Room 1003, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Drs. Andy Phillips (C4 Therapeutics) and Michael “Mick” Soth (MD Anderson IACS) will speak on Targeted Protein Degradation and Targeting Glutaminase Addition in Cancer: Development of a GLS1 Inhibitor, respectively. Seating is limited to 70, so be sure and register early where you will also have the opportunity to include your questions for the interactive discussion session that will follow the presentations.

Keck Seminar, Anne Churchland
2020-01-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Anne Churchland, Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in conjunction with GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (TCN) Conference

Movements Decisions and Wholistic Behavior

Translating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: From Neuroimaging in Depression to a Potential Treatment for Cannabis Use Disorder
2020-01-31 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Gregory Sahlem, MD. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina

Behavioral Science Research News Hour
2020-01-31 10:00 - 11:00
Dr. Lisa M. McTeague, PhD from Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine

Topic: Impairments in Cognitive & Emotional Processing in Mental Illness: Evidence of Transdiagnostic Neurocircuit Substrates

17th Annual Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference
2020-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Confirmed speakers include Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Tahra Eissa, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ann Hermundstad, Janelia Research Campus; Alex Huk, UT Austin; Jeffery Magge, Baylor College of Medicine; Thomas McHugh, Riken Center for Brain Science and Ken Miller, Columbia University. Stay tuned for updates.

NeuroNex Workshop
2020-01-30 09:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Co-sponsored by the GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Consortium, this workshop will take place in the BioScience Research Collaborative, Room 280. Stay tuned for more info.

Featuring:

Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor

Ken Miller, Columbia University

Alex Huk, University of Texas at Austin

Ann Hermundstad, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI

Agenda:

9-10:25 Alex Huk (University of Texas at Austin)On Continuous Visually-guided Behavior

10:25 – 10:50 break

10:50 – 12:15 Ken Miller (Columbia University)

12:15 – 1:15 lunch

1:15 – 2:40 Ann Hermundstad (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI)Normative Approaches for Understanding Adaptive Neural Coding

2:40 – 3:05 break

3:05-4:30 Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor)New Methods for Connecting Neural Activity to Behavior

4:30 – 5 panel discussion

How to Get Started in AI
2020-01-29 13:00 - 15:00 | MD Anderson, Faculty Center Tower (FCT), Floor 3, Rooms 2 & 7, United States
Presented by the Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program. Interactive workshop to increase awareness of available Artificial Intelligence resources.

Speakers: Dr. Carlos Cardenas Department of Radiation Physics

Brian Anderson Department of Imaging Physics

To RSVP, email
igctr@mdanderson.org

Pain and Brain Health Seminar Series Laboratories of Neuroimmunology
2020-01-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Zayed Building, Floor 2, room Z2.4040, United States
Using a mouse model to investigate cognitive deficits in leukemia survivors treated with chemotherapy

Teresa M. Reyes, Ph.DAssociate Professor Department of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati of Ohio

3rd Annual Texas Medical Center Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Stewardship
2020-01-22 07:00 - 2020-01-24 15:45 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
We invite you to REGISTER early for this exciting conference. Confirmed speakers include Helen Boucher, Tufts University; William Shafer, Emory University; David Greenberg, UT Southwestern; Ryan Shields, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Werth, University of Washington; David van Duin, University of N. Carolina; Vance Fowler, Duke; Sara Cosgrove, Johns Hopkins; Victor Nizet, University of California San Diego; Edgar Sherman, Emory;Ying Taur, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Andy Koh, UT Southwestern; Cindy Sears, Johns Hopkins; Marion Kainer, Tennessee Dept. of Health; Chanu Rhee, Harvard Medical School; Kim Blumenthal, Harvard Medical School; Lilian Abbo, University of Miami; Anna Konovalova, UTHealth; Anthony Flores, UTHealth; Natasha Kirienko, Rice University; Gerald Bills, UTHealth; Ashok Chopra, UTMB; Julian Hurdle, IBT; Lynn Zechiedrich, BCM; Adriana Rosato, HMRI; Eric Brown, UTHealth; Sheldon Kaplan, TCH; Sam Shelburne, MDA; Isaam Raad, MDA; Luis Ostrosky, UTHealth; Luis Vega, UTHealth; Jourdan Andersson, BCM; Kevin Garey, UH; Christy Su, Memorial Hermann; Ed Septimus, Harvard and TAMU; Chase Janak, HMRI; Mandelin Cooper, HCA Healthcare; Dan Musher, BCM; Carol Baker, UTHealth; Flor Munoz, TCH; and Robert Atmar, BCM. For more information and sponsorship opportunities, see CONFERENCE WEBSITE.

Chemical, Physical, and Structural Biology Seminar Series
2020-01-17 15:00 - 17:00
Speakers: Dr. Nieng Yan , Dr. Yifan Cheng

Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club
2020-01-17 09:00 - 12:00
Welcome back to the Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club! This week we will meet on January 17th at 9am in room S553 at Baylor College of Medicine. You can also join remotely using this link: https://bcm.zoom.us/j/108762860

As NeuroNex Trainee presentations, Cody Baker and Alex Kunin will present their work.

Title for Cody: Nonlinear stimulus representations in neural circuits with approximate excitatory-inhibitory balance.

Title for Alex: Network architecture and computation.

We are also calling for volunteers to present in future journal clubs. If you are interested, please feel free to sign up in the following link directly or contact me (Yicheng Fei, yf17@rice.edu): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150UlqytnPUi_NaR8xbM37rTEZlJ5-uI0JLTOvBuB6W8/edit?usp=sharing

GCC Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Consortium Round Table Workshop Series
2020-01-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Drs. Ross Chambers (Integral Molecular) and Zhiqiang An (UTHealth) will speak on Overcoming the challenges of antibody discovery against multipass membrane proteins, and Antibody Drug Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities, respectively.

Research Mentor Training Workshop for Faculty
2019-12-13 09:30 - 15:00

Jr. Faculty "This is How..."
2019-12-13 08:00 - 17:00
“This is How I Started My Career as a Physician Scientist”

Held at UTHealth

Research Mentor Training Workshop for Postdocs and Research Staff,
2019-12-11 09:30 - 15:00

GCC Regenerative Medicine and Single Cell Omics Cross-Consortia Networking Colloquium
2019-12-09 15:30 - 18:30 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Please join us for this cross-consortia networking event where we will pilot our brand new collaborator matching platform. This will be a great tool even beyond the event for finding new collaborators and enabling them to find you. We also invite you to submit a profile slide in advance and give a short elevator-pitch style introduction if you have not already done so. The profile slide can be accessed here. The event will take place in BRC 1003 from 3:30-6 pm. Registration.

Keck Seminar, Gordon Hager
2019-12-06 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Gordon Hager, Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute

New Emergent Properties of Transcription Factor Dynamics in the Mammalian Nucleus

Special seminar prior to Dec. 6 Keck Seminar: Ways to Leverage Skills Towards a Career in Science Management
2019-12-06 14:45 - 15:45

IDDD Round Table Workshop on Computational Drug Discovery and Lead Optimization
2019-12-05 15:00 - 18:00
We invite you to join us for the December Roundtable Workshop which will highlight the use of computational approaches for drug discovery and lead optimization. Additionally, you will learn about new available resources in this area as well as latest advances in the field. Confirmed speakers Matt Repasky, VP of Life Sciences Products, Schrodinger; Jason Cross, MD Anderson Institute of Applied Cancer Science (IACS); and Stan Watowich, UTMB. When you register, you will have the opportunity to submit questions that you would like for the speakers to address during the interactive round-table discussion that will follow their presentations.

Emerging Trends in Cellular and Molecular Biophysics Conference
2019-12-03 08:30 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative, 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Confirmed Speakers:

Grant JensenInvestigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Biology and BiophysicsCalifornia Institute of Technology

Elizabeth GoldsmithPatti Bell Brown ProfessorUT Southwestern

More info can be found on conference website.

Keck Seminar, Preethi Gunaratne
2019-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Preethi Gunaratne, Director, University of Houston-Sequencing & Gene Editing Core, Moores Professor, Biology & BiochemistryRemote Sensing Precancerous Lesions and Metastatic Progression through Early Detection using Single Cell Sequencing

Keck Seminar, H. Courtney Hodges
2019-11-15 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. H. Courtney Hodges,Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine will present Regulation of Chromatin State in 3D Tissue.

3rd Annual Junior Faculty Extravaganza
2019-11-13 14:00 - 17:00
This year’s raffle winners: Laura Smith Callahan, George Golovko, Kamil Khanipov, Elizabeth Zuniga-Sanchez, Paul Derry, Daniel Kiss, and Hui Zhao

Regenerative Medicine Symposium
2019-11-08 08:30 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
We invite you to join us for this exciting symposium that will focus on latest advances in regenerative medicine research, including recent and ongoing clinical trials. Confirmed speakers include Hans Keirstead, AIVITA; Edward Wirth, BioTime, Inc.; Joshua Hare, University of Miami; Cindy Farach-Carson, UTHealth; Frank McKeon, University of Houston; Robert Krencik, Houston Methodist; and Ying Liu, UTHealth.

Registration

Keck Seminar, Hans S. Keirstead
2019-11-08 04:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Hans S. Keirstead, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AIVITA Biomedical will present Clinical and Commercial Application of Scaled Human Stem Cell Derivatives (Keynote Lecture, GCC Regenerative Medicine Conference).

IDDD Round Table Workshop on Emerging Screening Technologies for Drug Discovery
2019-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Confirmed speakers include Lisa Marcaurelle, Director of Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline and Damian Young, Baylor College of Medicine. When you register, you will have the opportunity to submit questions that you would like for the speakers to address during the interactive round-table discussion that will follow their presentations. Registration will be limited to 70.
