Pathways to Excellence Seminars - 2018
Pathways to Excellence Seminar Presentations
For information about this seminar series, please contact Dr. Feng Tao (ftao81@tamu.edu).
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February 15th, 2018
Danieli Rodrigues, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas
Multifaceted Roles of Material and Environmental Factors Toward Dental Implant Performance
February 21, 2018
Hubert Amrein, BS, PhD
Director of Faculty Development
Texas A&M Health Science Center
How Do Animal Bodies Detect and Discriminate Different Chemical Signals That "Flood" the Olfactory and Taste Organs?
February 28th, 2018
Andreea Trache, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas
Micromechanical Functional Measurements in Live Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy
March 28th, 2018
Larry Suva, PhD
Department Head
Professor
Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University
Gene Editing in Sheep: A Novel Rare Disease Platform
April 14th, 2018
Sean Morrison, PhD
Professor
Director of the Children's Medical Center for Research Institute
UT Southwestern
The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche
April 16th, 2018
Gerhard Weber, PhD
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Vienna
An Early Bird in Human Evolution: Misliya, the First Modern Human Outside Africa
April 17th, 2018
Alice Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopedics
Ichan School of Medicine
Mount Sinai
Regulation of Tendon Cell Fate During Healing
April 25, 2018
Henry Kronenberg, MD
Chief, Endocrine Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
PTH/PTHrP Receptor Signaling in Bone
May 2nd, 2018
Joseph Stains, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Microtubules Tune Mechanotransduction Through NOX2 and TRPV4 to Decrease Slerostin Abundance in Osteocytes
May 9th, 2018
Brooke Russell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M University
Designing Collagen: TAMU and ECM Technologies
July 3rd, 2018
Jun Wang, DDS, PhD
Candidate for Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University School of Dentistry
Applications of Genetically Engineered Animal Models in Studying Mineralized Tissues
August 15, 2018
Helen Lu, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY
Engineering Tendon - Bone Integration
August 29th, 2018
Alexander Robling, PhD
Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Career Scientist
Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Wnt Signaling in Osteocytes: Regulation of Bone Metabolism and Mechanical Signaling
September 12th, 2018
John Chirgwin, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology & Oncology
Indiana School of Medicine
Ex-Vivo Organ Co-Culture Assays (EVOCA) for Improved Screening of Agents Against Cancer in Bone: Studying the Role of Osteocyte FGF23
September 19th, 2018
Yi-Xian Qin, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Director of Orthopedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory,
Stony Brook University
Mechanical Dynamics Induced Fluid Flow as a Means of Mitigation of Bone Loss and Regulation of Regeneration
September 26th, 2018
Uriel Zapata, PhD
Associate Professor
Universidad EAFIT
Medellin, Colombia
Building an Animal Model for Cleft Palate Reconstruction
October 3, 2018
Becca Peixotto, PhD
Director and Research Scientist of the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey
Perot Museum
Dallas, TX
Homo Naledi and Adventures in Human Research — a South African Saga
October 10, 2018
Yun Guan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Department of Neurological Surgery
John Hopkins University
MrgC, a Novel Target for Pain Inhibition of Morphine Analgesia
October 24, 2018
Lindan You, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
University of Toronto
Bone Cell Cross Talk Under Mechanical Loading
November 6, 2018
Sang-Jin Suh, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Department of Biological Sciences
Auburn University
Microbiology Faculty Candidate
A Multipronged Approach to Combat Bacterial Pathogens
November 12th, 2018
Jeremy Ellermeier, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Science
Southeast Missouri State University
Microbiology Faculty Candidate
Gene Regulation in Salmonella and Bacterial Colonization in Pathogenesis
November 28, 2018
Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Immune Therapy, Cancer, and Pain