2020
March 24, 2020
Cynthia Kenyon, MD&
Annual benning Public Guest Speaker
6:30pm
Rice Eccles Sadium, 4th Floor
2019
January 8, 2019
Michael D. Stein, MD
Professor and Chair of Health Law, Policy and Management
Boston University School of Public Health
“TBA”
Hosts: Adam Gordon, Internal Medicine
Marcela Smid, Maternal Fetal Medicine
January 22, 2019
Bill Sugden, PhD
Professor of Oncology
American Cancer Society Research Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“How Epstein-Barr Virus and Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpesvirus Persist and Contribute to Lymphomas”
Host: David Grunwald, Human Genetics
February 12, 2019
Yoel Sadovsky, MD
Executive Director
Magee-Women’s Research Institute
University of Pittsburgh
“Placental Exosomes in Maternal-Placental-Fetal Communication”
Host: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, Pediatrics
February 26, 2019
Randy W. Schekman, PhD
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Laureate 2013
University of California Berkeley
“Sorting and Secretion of Small RNAs in Exosomes Produced in Cultured Human Cells”
Host: Diane M. Ward, Pathology
Benning Public Lecture
February 28, 2019
6:00 pm, Natural History Museum of Utah
Svante Pääbo, PhD
Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
“Archaic Genomics”
Host: Michael Varner, Obstetrics and Gynecology
March 12, 2019
Brian Burke, PhD
Professor and Research Director
A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
“TBA”
Host: Katie Ullman, Oncological Sciences
March 26, 2019
Sheena Josselyn, PhD
Senior Scientist
Professor of Physiology
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
“Making and Breaking Memories”
Host: Jason Shepherd, Neurobiology and Anatomy
April 9, 2019
Cam Patterson, MD, MBA
Chancellor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
“Academic Medical Centers are on the Edge (of Something)”
Host: Haibo Wang, Ophthalmology
April 23, 2019
Marc Kirschner, PhD
Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
“Size Control in Mammalian Cells”
Host: Kristen Kwan, Human Genetics
May 14, 2019
Janis Weis, PhD
Professor of Pathology
University of Utah
“Lessons from Experimental Lyme Disease: Infection-Induced Collateral Damage Underlies Pathogenesis”
Host: Anthea Letsou, Human Genetics
May 28, 2019
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University
“Antiviral Immune Response at Mucosal Surfaces”
Host: Nels Elde, Human Genetics