Keck Seminar

Anthony Flores, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, UT Health Science Center at Houston Title: Tales From The Bench And Bedside: A Career In The Study Of Pathogenic Streptococci

Nasos Dousis, PhDDirector of Protein and RNA Engineering, Tessera Therapeutics Title: There and Back Again: Curing Disease Via the Central Dogma

Jason Eriksen, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Studies, UH College of Pharmacy Title: Fit Body, Fit Brain: The Surprising Science of Exercise and Alzheimer’s Disease

Felicia Skelton, MD Assistant Professor, H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine Title: Advocating for People with Disabilities through Health Services Research

Holly Beale, PhDLead Computational Biologist, Genomics Institute, Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, UC Santa Cruz Title: Genomics of Charismatic Megafauna

This year’s conference focuses on major advancements in structural biology with a specific emphasis on innovations in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). It brings together experts in the field  under one […]

Weiyi Peng, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston Title: Overcome Immune Resistance by Targeting Tumor Intrinsic Pathways

Jonathan King, PhD Professor, Biology, Trinity University Title: Examination of the Interplay between Membrane Tension and the Tight Junction Protein, ZO-1 Zonula occluden-1

Daniel Promislow, PhD Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Department of Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine Title: A Systems Biology Perspective on Genetic Variation and Aging

Truc Cecilia T. Tran, PharmDAssistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Research Institute Title: Daptomycin Resistance: The Tale of Three Mechanisms

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

Damian Young, PhDAssistant Professor, Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Connecting a Passion for Chemistry and a Desire to Develop New Medicines

Neal Waxham, PhDProfessor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston Cryo-EM As A Tool to Investigate Membrane Architecture At the Nanoscale

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

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 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, […]

Kathryn Patras, PhDAssistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Group B Streptococcus and the Vaginal Microenvironment

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

Ana María Cárdenas, PhDR&D Associate Director, Solution Analysis, Becton Dickinson (BD) From Local to Global Impact With a Non-Linear Career

Dima Suki, PhDProfessor, Neurosurgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Ethical Considerations in Research

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Career Symposium for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, featuring a keynote address on biomedical science careers of the future and break-out discussion groups with former Keck Center trainees. 

This annual conference recognizes the collaborative research conducted by predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees of the Keck Center. To celebrate the Keck Center’s 30th anniversary,  the conference will feature outstanding speakers, Keck alums […]

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

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

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

Dr. Marcie O’Malley, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University will present Enhancing Human Performance with Wearable Haptics.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will present Allostery at the Single Molecule Level .

Associate Professor, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University will present OptogenetIc Engineering for Biomedical Applications.

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 […]

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 .

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.

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

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).

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.

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