Keck Seminar

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