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Pathways to Excellence Seminars - 2021

Pathways to Excellence Seminar Presentations

For information about this seminar series, please contact Dr. Feng Tao (ftao81@tamu.edu).

Schedules and speakers for the 2021 presentations will be posted on this page as the information becomes available.

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January 6, 2021
Eva Liu, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Molecular Basis of Complications of X-Linked Hypophosphatemia (XLH)

January 13, 2021
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
Professor of Orofacial Sciences & Pediatrics, Schools of Dentistry & Medicine
Larry L. Hillblom Distinguished Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies
Charles J. Epstein Professor of Human Genetics
Chair, Division of Craniofacial Anomalies
Chief, Division of Medical Genetics
Director, Program in Craniofacial Biology
Interim Director, Institute for Human Genetics
University of California, San Francisco
Development, Renewal and Plasticity of Oral and Dental Tissues

March 17, 2021
Teresita Bellido, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
Role of Osteocytes in Bone Biology and Pathophysiology

March 24, 2021
Robb Krumlauf, PhD
Investigator & Scientific Director Emeritus, Stowers Institute, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Professor of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical School
Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence & Kansas City, KS
The Functional Evolution of Hox Proteins

April 14, 2021
Vicki Rosen, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Developmental Biology
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
BMP2 Regulation of the Periosteal Skeletal Stem Cell Niche

June 23, 2021
Yang Chai, DDS, PhD
University Professor, University of Southern California
George and MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Biology, University of Southern California
Director, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB), Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Associate Dean of Research, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
A Biological Solution for Skull, Brain, and Cognitive Abnormalities in Craniosynostosis

June 30, 2021
Sasanka S. Chukkapalli, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Understanding the Cellular and Molecular Dynamics in Oral Diseases

October 6, 2021
Benjamin Morpurgo, PhD
Executive Director
Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine
TIGM: Transgenic Mouse Resources and Services for the Texas A&M College of Dentistry

October 13, 2021
Jill Helms, DDS, PhD
Professor
Department of Surgery
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford University
Regenerative Dental Medicine

October 20, 2021
Dana Gaddy, PhD
Professor
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences Department
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University
Modeling Hypophosphatasiain the Sheep: More Than a Bit Long in the Tooth!

November 10, 2021
Melissa Grunlan, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Self-Fitting, Shape Memory Scaffolds for Bone Defect Repair

November 17, 2021
Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
In Vivo Neurobiology Group
Neurobiology Laboratory
NIH/NIEHS
Spectrally Resolved Fiber Photometry for Multi-Component Analysis of Brain Circuits