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
2018
September 25, 2018
Bioscience Symposium and Don Summers Memorial Lecture
7:00 pm, Marriott University Park Hotel
Jim Wells, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
“Attacking the Cell Surfaceome in Cancer”
Host: Michael Kay, Biochemistry
October 9, 2018
Dana Carroll, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
University of Utah
“The Impact of Biology on Genome Editing”
Host: Wes Sundquist, Biochemistry
October 23, 2018
David Huang, MD, PhD
Peterson Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Casey Eye Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
“Optical Coherence Tomography: Imaging Structure and Function”
Host: M. Elizabeth Hartnett, Ophthalmology
December 11, 2018
Tayyaba Hasan, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (Harvard-MIT)
Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
“Infrared Light Activation in Biomedical Applications”
Host: Paul Sigala, Biochemistry