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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.

Please note the remaining Keck Seminars will be moving to complete remote delivery for the remainder of the spring semester. Seminars will be held from 4-5pm CST Fridays, as usual. To watch the livestream seminar, go to Zoom link. Click “Join a Meeting”. Enter the meeting ID 481 691 1620. Meeting Password is now required to join, use “GCC”, all caps. IMPORTANT – Mute your microphone. There will be Q&A session at the end, and you can submit any questions using the ‘Chat’ feature. 

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

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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, Samuel Shelburne

Samuel Shelburne, MD, PhD, Deputy Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Impact of Large Scale DNA Sequencing […]

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

CANCELLED: Keck Seminar, Carmen Dessauer

Carmen Dessauer, Professor, Integrated Biology & Pharmacology, UT Health Science Center Spatial Constraints of Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling

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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 Going Off the Deep End with Deep Learning To watch the livestream seminar, […]

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24 April 2020

Keck Seminar, Lance Black

Lance Black, TMCx will present The Ampersand (&): Bridging the Communities of Research & Development through Innovation To watch the livestream seminar, go to Zoom link. Click “Join a Meeting”. Enter […]

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Fall 2019 Schedule

06 September 2019

Keck Seminar, Marcie O’Malley

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

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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13 September 2019

Keck Seminr, Vasanthi Jayaraman

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

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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20 September 2019

Keck Seminar, Yubin Zhou

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

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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27 September 2019

Keck Seminar, Dan Frigo & Leah DiMascio

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 […]

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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18 October 2019

Keck Seminar, Amy Franklin

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 .

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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25 October 2019

Keck Seminar, Timothy Palzkill

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.

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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01 November 2019

Keck Seminar, Rebecca Richards-Kortum

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

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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08 November 2019

Keck Seminar, Hans S. Keirstead

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).

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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15 November 2019

Keck Seminar, H. Courtney Hodges

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.

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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22 November 2019

Keck Seminar, Preethi Gunaratne

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

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BRC Room 280, 6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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Spring 2019 Schedule

25 January 2019

George Phillips, Professor BioSciences, Rice University

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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01 February 2019

Surya Ganguli, Assistant Professor Applied Physics, Stanford University

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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15 February 2019

David Mayerich, Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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22 February 2019

Yu Shen, Professor Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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01 March 2019

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Professor Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State Univ.

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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08 March 2019

Irina Serysheva, Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UT Health Science Center at Houston

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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22 March 2019

Devika Subramanian, Professor Computer Science, Rice University

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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05 April 2019

Mark Sansom, Professor Biochemistry, U. of Oxford, UK

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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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12 April 2019

Linda Watkins, Professor Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder Joint speaker GCC Translational Pain Research Conference

“Listening” and “Talking” to Neurons: Non-neuronal Cells Amplify Pain and Drug Reward

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BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium, 6500 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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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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BioScience Research Collaborative Room 280 (2nd Floor), 6566 Main St
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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09 March 2018

Kathleen Matthews, Stewart Memorial Professor BioSciences, Rice University

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Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC), 6500 Main Street, Auditorium
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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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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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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