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The Keck Seminar Series, begun in 1990, focuses on contemporary interdisciplinary science involving quantitative or computational, biomedical informatics and data science, bioinformatics, chemical, and/or physical approaches to biological and biomedical problems. The speakers, selected by a committee of GCC-supported trainees, are drawn from GCC institutions, and institutions nationwide. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Keck Seminar Series is also a 1-credit graduate course at Rice University, BIOC 592 Topics in Quantitative Biology & Biomedical Informatics. Trainees supported by the GCC are required to attend the seminars in person.

Keck Seminars are held every Friday during the academic year and begin promptly at 4pm in the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) building, located at 6500 Main St. @ University Blvd.

For questions, speaker suggestions, or to join our Keck Seminar planning committee email Vanessa Herrera or Jim Briggs.  If you would like to receive the Keck Seminar weekly reminder please email Dawn Koob. View a collection of past Keck Seminars here.

Keck Seminar Schedule

Spring 2020 Schedule

31 January 2020

Keck Seminar, Anne Churchland

Anne Churchland, Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in conjunction with GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (TCN) Conference Movements Decisions and Wholistic Behavior

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Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium
Houston, TX 77030 United States
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07 February 2020

Keck Seminar, Eric Wagner

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 […]

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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21 February 2020

Keck Seminar, Sheereen Majd

Sheereen Majd, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston Towards Nanomaterials Tailored for Delivery of Therapeutics

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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28 February 2020

Keck Seminar, Yubin Zhou

Yubin Zhou, Associate Professor, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Inst of Biosciences & Technology, Texas A&M University Optogenetic Engineering for Biomedical Applications

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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06 March 2020

Keck Seminar, Carmen Dessauer

Carmen Dessauer, Professor, Integrated Biology & Pharmacology, UT Health Science Center TBA

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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13 March 2020

Keck Seminar

To Be Announced

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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27 March 2020

Keck Seminar, Margaret Goodell

Margaret Goodell, Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine TBA

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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03 April 2020

Keck Seminar, 2019 Keck Annual Research Conference – Poster Winners

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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17 April 2020

Keck Seminar, Richard Baraniuk

Richard Baraniuk, Cameron Chair in Engineering, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistics, and Computer Science, Rice University TBA

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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24 April 2020

Keck Seminar

To Be Announced

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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Fall 2019 Schedule

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Spring 2019 Schedule

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Fall 2018 Schedule

07 September 2018

Margaret Cheung, Professor Physics, University of Houston

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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14 September 2018

Pratip Bhattacharya, Associate Professor Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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21 September 2018

Gang Bao, Professor Chemistry, Rice University NanoX Symposium Speaker

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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28 September 2018

Magnus Höök, Professor and Director Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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05 October 2018

GCC Regenerative Medicine Conference Speakers

John P. Cooke, M.D., PhDGeorge F. Muschler, M.D.

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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12 October 2018

GCC Neuroengineering Conference Speaker Huda Yahya Zoghbi, Professor Baylor College of Medicine

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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26 October 2018

Lucila Ohno-Machado, Professor of Medicine and Chair Department of Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego

GCC Keck Center Annual Research Conference Responsible Biomedical Data Sharing: Individual Privacy and Societal Benefit Trade-offs

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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02 November 2018

Deborah Rodrigues, Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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09 November 2018

B. Montgomery Pettitt, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Also, featuring Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry in Pharmacology and Toxicology Director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Orderly Signaling from Disordered Proteins

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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16 November 2018

John Mendelson, Ria Health Can Tech Treat Alcoholism – The Ria Technologically Enabled AUD Treatment Solution

GCC Alcohol and Addiction Research Conference Speaker

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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30 November 2018

Messenger Metabolites in the Longevity Regulation / Cultivating Relationships: Genetic Landscapes that Shape Microbiome Form and Function

Meng WangProfessor Baylor College of Medicine Messenger Metabolites in the Longevity RegulationBuck SamuelAssistant Professor Baylor College of Medicine Cultivating Relationships: Genetic Landscapes that Shape Microbiome Form and Function

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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Spring 2018 Schedule

26 January 2018

Stuart Geman, Professor Applied Mathematics, Brown University

(GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference)

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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02 February 2018

Dorit Donoviel, Director Translational Research Institute for Space Health

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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16 February 2018

David Reiner, Associate Professor Center for Translational Cancer Research, Texas A&M Health Science Center-IBT

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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23 February 2018

Gordon Mills, Co-Director Zayed Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy Professor and Chair, Systems Biology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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02 March 2018

Min P. Kim, Chief Division of Thoracic Surgery, Associate Professor, Surgery, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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09 March 2018

Kathleen Matthews, Stewart Memorial Professor BioSciences, Rice University

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Houston, TX 77030 United States
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23 March 2018

Theresa Koehler, Professor and Chair Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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06 April 2018

Alyssa Brewer, Associate Professor Cognitive Sciences for Hearing Research, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UC Irvine Translational Pain Research Conference Speaker

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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13 April 2018

Yu Liu, Assistant Professor Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston H19X Regulates Growth and Metabolism in Striated Muscles

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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20 April 2018

Marc Morais, Associate Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UT Medical Branch at Galveston Looking Under the Hood of a Viral dsDNA Packaging Motor

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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Fall 2017 Schedule

15 September 2017

Deqiang Sun, Assistant Professor Center for Epigenetics & Disease Prevention, Texas A&M Health Science Center, IBT

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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22 September 2017

Susan Galloway Hilsenbeck, Professor Smith Breast Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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29 September 2017

Jordan Miller, Assistant Professor Bioengineering, Rice University

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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06 October 2017

Stanley Watowich, Associate Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UT Medical Branch at Galveston

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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13 October 2017

Olivier Lichtarge, Professor Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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03 November 2017

Robert Balster, Professor Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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10 November 2017

Junghae Suh, Associate Professor Bioengineering, Rice University

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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17 November 2017

Elebeoba E. May, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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01 December 2017

Alison Bertuch, Associate Professor Pediatrics-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine Incorporating Principles of Rigor and Reproducibility in Biomedical Research

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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