CMBB Seminar Series

Florida Atlantic’s CMBB Biotech Bridge Seminar Series, supported by the Davimos Foundation, offers a lineup of esteemed speakers from industry and academia to share insights and real-world experience. Each speaker is open to Q & A and dialog with the audience. The seminar series welcomes faculty, students, and the community to FAU’s Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses during the fall and spring semesters. Presentations are also available online.

Fall 2024

August 19
Tod Fairbanks, Ph.D.

Tod Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Palm Beach State College

Discover the Way a Biology Degree can guide your Career Path

Host: David Binninger, Ph.D.

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August 26
Joao Pedro Saar Werneck de Castro

Joao Pedro Saar Werneck de Castro
Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

Innovative approach to study human thyroid and pancreatic islets physiology in vivo

Host: Claudia Rodrigues, Ph.D.

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September 9
Kim Blackwell

Kim Blackwell
Professor and Chair, Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Iowa

Signaling Pathways underlying Striatal Synaptic Plasticity

Host: Rodrigo Pena, Ph.D.

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September 16
Robert McDougal, Ph.D.

Robert McDougal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health Informatics Division of Biostatistics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Program in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
Wu Tsai Institute

Host: Rodrigo Pena, Ph.D.

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September 23
 Raul Perez-Olle, M.D., Ph.D.

Raul Perez-Olle, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs,
Imvax, Inc.

Cancer & Immunotherapy

Host: Miguel Lopez-Toledano, Ph.D.

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September 30
Dmitriy Minond, Ph.D.

Dmitriy Minond, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
and Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research
Nova Southeastern University

Targeting ADAM10 in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Host: Mare Cudic, Ph.D.

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October 7
Harald Sitte, Ph.D.

Harald Sitte, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychopharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology
Medical University
Vienna, Austria

Novel Psychoactive Substances: Exploiting Rogue Chemicals as Therapeutic Scaffolds

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October 14

Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D., M.S., M.B.A.
Director, Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, NCI, NIH
Former Assistant Director, Strategic Health and Cancer Science
The White House

Charting a Federal Career in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology

Host: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.

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October 21
Mariana Tomazini Pinto, Ph.D.

Mariana Tomazini Pinto, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Barretos Câncer Hospital, Brazil

Genomic and Epigenomic approaches in the search for molecular biomarkers in Pediatric Germ Cell Tumors

Host: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.

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October 28
Na Jin Seo, Ph.D.

Na Jin Seo, Ph.D.
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
Health Research Scientist, Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System Charleston, SC

New Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Treatment Technologies – Neural Mechanisms and Clinical Trials

Host: Mahsa Ranji, Ph.D.

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November 4
Alessandro Usiello, Ph.D.

Alessandro Usiello, Ph.D.
Professor in Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, The University of Campania, L. Vanvitelli, Caseta, Italy
Principal Investigator, Translational Neuroscience Lab, CEINGE, Biotecnologie Avanzate Franco Salvatore, Naples, Italy

The D-side of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Host: Srini Subramaniam, Ph.D., (UF-Scripps)

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November 18
Kate Detwiler, Ph.D.

Kate Detwiler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University

The role of hybridization in evolution: New insights from primate genomics

Host: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D

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Past Seminars

Interested in giving a seminar? Please contact Dr. Shailaja Allani (561-799-8322, skesaraj@k-ashizawa.com)

Additional Information
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