Gulf Coast Consortia

Single Cell Omics Panel Discussion, Single Cell Technologies in Immunology
2021-07-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Panelists: Jin Wang, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Linghua Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Navin Varadarajan, Univ. of Houston

#Pain2021 July Seminar- Pain Neuroimaging
2021-07-16 13:00 - 14:00
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 Brain Reward Activity and Circuits in Fibromyalgia Katherine Martucci, Duke University

1:30pm Neural Mechanisms of Temporomandibular Disorders

Massieh Moayedi, University of Toronto

1:45pm Neural Markers of Risk and Resilience to Pain

Tim Salomons, Queen’s University

Keck Seminar, Jane Grande-Allen, PhD
2021-09-10 16:00 - 17:00
Jane Grande-Allen, PhDProfessor, Bioengineering, Rice University

Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology

September #Pain2021 Workshop
2021-09-17 13:00 - 14:00
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 Univ.

1:15pm Approaches for Classification of Patients’ Pain after Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

Georgene Hergenroeder, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

1:30pm Advancing Development of Novel Immunotherapy for Peripheral Neuropathy

Karin High, Univ. of New Mexico

1:45PM Targeting EphB1 Receptors for Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: A Step Closer to The Clinic

Enas Kandil, Univ. of Texas Southwestern

Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Damian Young, PhD
2021-09-17 16:00 - 17:00
Damian Young, PhDAssistant Professor, Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

Connecting a Passion for Chemistry and a Desire to Develop New Medicines

3rd Annual GCC Mental Health Research Symposium: Neurobiology and Translational Psychiatry
2021-09-21 08:50 - 17:00
Sponsored by the GCC Mental Health Research Consortium, this event will take place virtually, September 21, 2021. We are delighted to feature Keynote, Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director, National Institute for Mental Health as well as experts from across the Houston/Galveston area. We hope that you will join us for this exceptional opportunity to meet new colleagues and forge new collaborations in mental health research.

Keck Seminar, Neal Waxham, PhD
2021-09-24 16:00 - 17:00
Neal Waxham, PhDProfessor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston

Cryo-EM As A Tool to Investigate Membrane Architecture At the Nanoscale

AI in Healthcare Panel Discussion
2021-09-29 14:00 - 15:00
Training Clinicians to Use Artificial Intelligence

Panelists:

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH: Senior Vice President, Research & Policy, American Board of Family Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care

Steven Lin, MD: Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine – Primary Care and Population Health; Executive Director, Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team

Jaqueline Kueper: PhD Candidate in Epidemiology and Computer Science, Western University; TechForward Fellow in AI, College of Family Physicians of Canada

Moderator:

Winston Liaw, MD, MPH: Chair of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston, College of Medicine

AI in Healthcare Seminar
2021-10-06 13:00 - 14:00
Bibb Allen, MD FACRChief Medical Officer ACR Data Science InstituteDiagnostic Radiologist

Dr. Allen is a diagnostic radiologist with the Birmingham Radiological Group and is in community practice at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. He is Chief Medical Officer of the ACR Data Science Institute and a past president of the American College of Radiology. He is a former chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors and also has extensive experience in the socioeconomic issues of radiology as they relate to coding, the valuation of physician work and practice expense. He is a strong proponent of the ACR’s Imaging 3.0 initiative to ensure radiologists hold a key role in evolving health care delivery and payment models, as well as quality patient care. Dr. Allen earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He did his residency training at the University of Alabama Hospitals and the Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama and abdominal imaging fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. He has been active with the ACR for over 20 years and has served as a Councilor, member of the Council Steering Committee, Chair of the Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC) Network, ACR representative to the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (the RUC) and Chair of the Commission on Economics.

Evaluating And Monitoring Artificial Intelligence For Clinical Practice: Is FDA Clearance Enough?

The pace of regulatory clearance of artificial intelligence algorithms continues to accelerate, and in diagnostic radiology numerous AI algorithms are becoming available for use in clinical practice. However, end-users of AI in radiology should be aware that AI algorithms may not work as expected when used beyond the institutions where they were trained, and model performance may degrade over time. In this presentation the reasons why regulatory clearance alone may not be enough to ensure AI will be safe and effective in all radiological practices will be reviewed and strategies available resources for evaluating prior to clinical use and monitoring performance of AI models to ensure efficacy and patient safety will be discussed.

2nd Annual GCC Single Cell Omics Symposium
2021-10-07 09:00 - 17:00
Featuring keynote speakers: Nir Yosef, Univ. of California Berkeley and Matt Spitzer, Univ. of California San Francisco/Teiko Bio. Other confirmed speakers: Rui Chen, Baylor College of Medicine; Andrew Futreal, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Shaoheng Liang, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Ivan Rosas, Baylor College of Medicine; Julea Vlassakis, Rice Univ.; and Runmin Wei, MD Anderson Cancer Center. This conference will take place virtually via the interactive Brella conferencing platform

Keck Seminar, Bradley McConnell, PhD, FAHA, FCVS
2021-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
Bradley McConnell, PhD, FAHA, FCVSProfessor, Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston

Toward Understanding Heart Disease: Cardiac Signaling Mechanisms, Reprogrammed Cardiac Conduction Cells, and the UH-HEART Training Program

Mental Health Postdoc Seminar
2021-10-11 13:00 - 14:15
nvestigating the Role of GFRAL in Cancer-related Fatigue

Brandon Chelette, PhD

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Intersecting Alterations of GSK3 Inhibition and Neuronal Cytoskeleton Proteins in Neurons from Patients with Schizophrenia

Jessica Di Re, PhD

UT Medical Branch at Galveston

Last Decade and 2020: Trends in Black Suicide Rates and Research

Judy Hong, PhD

UT Health Science Center Houston

C1q Deletion Exacerbates Learned Helplessness Behavior and Induces Changes in Microglia and Astrocyte Activities in Mice

Amit Madeshiya, PhD?

UT Health Science Center Houston

Neuron–Microglia Interaction in Type 1 Interferon-mediated Chronic Stress-induced Behavioral Deficits

Ashutoshv Tripathi, PhD

UT Health Science Center Houston

Single Cell Omics Panel Discussion: Single Cell Multiomics, from Experiment to Analysis
2021-10-13 15:00 - 16:30
This panel will discuss Single Cell Multiomics, from Experiment to Analysis.

Panelists:

Spence Fast, 10xGenomics

Rui Chen, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jared Burks, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Ken Chen, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A.

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-10-15 09:00 - 10:00
Lili Zheng will present on topic: “Statistical Connectomics”

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After the meetings we summarize our discussion and post it here: http://xaqlab.com/neurotheory-blog. Take a look and you can see our past topics.

October #Pain2021 Workshop
2021-10-15 13:00 - 14:00
Musculoskeletal Pain

Welcome: Peter Grace, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Moderator: Jun-Ho La, PhD, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

1:00pm Risk Factors for the Development of Pain in Children Chelsea Kaplan, Univ. of Michigan

1:15pm Neuroimmune Signatures in Human Chronic Pain Marco Loggia, Harvard Univ.

1:30pm Passive Transfer of Fibromyalgia David Andersson, King’s College London

1:45pm Insights Into a Role for IL-5 in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Widespread Pain: A Back- Translational Approach Ericka Merriwether, New York Univ.

Keck Seminar, Carmen Dessauer, PhD
2021-10-15 16:00 - 17:00
Carmen Dessauer, PhDProfessor and Vice-Chair, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston

Nanometric Targeting and Function of Adenylyl Cyclase in Heart

Keck Center Annual Research Conference
2021-10-22 08:00 - 17:00
Keck Center Annual Research ConferenceSee website for talk titles and agenda

Theme: Infectious Diseases: Emerging Threats and Emerging Technologies

Chairs: Theresa Koehler, PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth

Sam Shelburne, MD, PhD, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Infection Control, and Employee Health, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Keynote speakers:– Ellen Hallem, PhDProfessor of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles– Deborah Hogan, PhDProfessor of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine– Peter Kasson, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia– Gerald Keusch, MDProfessor of Medicine, Associate Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University– Jonathan Livny, PhDSenior Research Scientist, Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-10-22 09:00 - 10:00
Presenter TBA

Keck Seminar, Kathryn Patras, PhD
2021-10-29 16:00 - 17:00
Kathryn Patras, PhDAssistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine

Group B Streptococcus and the Vaginal Microenvironment

GCC Translational Imaging Conference:Future Trends in Quantitative and Theranostic Imaging
2021-11-02 09:00 - 17:00

Keck Seminar, Andrew Routh, PhD
2021-11-05 16:00 - 17:00
Andrew L. Routh, PhDAssistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, UT Medical Branch at Galveston

RNA Recombination in SARS-CoV-2

Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Ana María Cárdenas, PhD
2021-11-12 16:00 - 17:00
Ana María Cárdenas, PhDR&D Associate Director, Solution Analysis, Becton Dickinson (BD)

From Local to Global Impact With a Non-Linear Career

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-11-19 09:00 - 10:00
Krešo Josić and Mst Afroja Akter will present on

“The interplay between randomness and structure during learning in RNNs”

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After the meetings we summarize our discussion and post it here: http://xaqlab.com/neurotheory-blog. Take a look and you can see our past topics.

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Keck Seminar, Dima Suki, PhD
2021-11-19 16:00 - 17:00
Dima Suki, PhDProfessor, Neurosurgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Ethical Considerations in Research

3rd Annual GCC Cellular and Molecular Biophysics Conference
2021-11-30 09:00 - 17:00 | BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St, Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Confirmed speakers include: Werner Braun, UTMB; Josephine Chu Ferreon, BCM; Sherry Gao, Rice Univ.; Yang Gao, Rice Univ.; Joshua Mendell, UT Southwestern; Monte Pettit, UTMB; Robert Raphael, Rice Univ.; Michael Sheetz, UTMB; Marvin Tanenbaum, Hubrecht Institute; Yuhong Wang, Univ. of Houston.

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-12-03 09:00 - 10:00
Akash Umakantha (CMU) will present on

“Bridging correlations and dimensionality reduction”

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Keck Seminar, Julian Hurdle, PhD
2021-12-03 16:00 - 17:00
Julian Hurdle, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A&M Health Science Center

Evolution of antibiotic resistance in C. difficile drives new drug discovery

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-12-10 09:00 - 10:00
Yizhou Chen

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After the meetings we summarize our discussion and post it here: http://xaqlab.com/neurotheory-blog. Take a look and you can see our past topics.

Email mailto:kresimir.josic@gmail.com for zoom link

Neurotheory Journal Club
2021-12-17 09:00 - 10:00
Stelios Papadopoulos

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After the meetings we summarize our discussion and post it here: http://xaqlab.com/neurotheory-blog. Take a look and you can see our past topics.

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5th Annual Texas Medical Center Antimicrobial Resistance & Stewardship Conference
2022-01-19 07:30 - 2022-01-21 17:00
