Gulf Coast Consortia

How to Get Started in AI
2020-01-29 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Keck Seminar, Rebecca Richards-Kortum
2019-11-01 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Professor of Bioengineering, Rice UniversityDesigning and Scaling New Technologies to Improve Newborn Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

ADME: Lead Characterization and Optimization
2019-10-29 10:30 - 19:00 | Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Keck Seminar, Timothy Palzkill
2019-10-25 16:00 - 17:00 | BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St., Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Dr. Timothy Palzkill, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine will present Molecular Basis of β-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance.

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

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.

Registration

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 .

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.
Conference Website

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.

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 .

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.
