Seminar Schedule

Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

  

The COM Research Seminar series is designed to serve all graduate student, post-doc and faculty researchers in the College of Medicine and/or affiliated with the IDP.  An outstanding menu of speakers is being recruited, representing a broad range of interests.  Speakers are encouraged to pitch their talks to a broad audience without compromising detail or rigor.  We hope that all faculty, post-docs & graduate students will make an effort to incorporate this event into their regular weekly schedule of activities.  Faculty members interested in meeting individually with guest speakers should contact the speaker’s host.

FALL 2011

DATE

SPEAKER

SEMINAR TITLE
Aug 29
11:30
G301		 Career Development Seminar
Colin Sumners, PhD, Professor, Physiology & Functional Genomics
Jennifer Sasser, PhD, Post-Doc, Physiology & Functional Genomics
Hosted by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education
 “Careers in Academic Research”
“Taking the next step: What to expect as a Post-Doc”
Sept 28
11:30
C1-9		 Career Development Seminar
Linda Harris PhD, Associate Director of Academic Programs at St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis TN
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)		  ”What to look for when searching for a post doctoral fellowship; a perspective from St. Jude Children’s Research  Hospital”
Oct 28
11:30
C1-15		 Career Development Seminar
Laura Eloyan, MBA, Global Recruitment Specialist, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control
Hosted by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education		  ”Opportunities in Global Heath with CDC”
Nov 15
4:00
CRGC Auditorium		 Research Seminar
Dr. Mark Young, Professor of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at Montana State University
Hosted by the students of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Advanced Program
Sponsored by the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology		  ”Viruses from extreme thermal environments”
Nov 16
CGRC 451A/B
11:30		 Career Development Seminar 
Patti Breedlove, Associate Director, Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator
Hosted by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education		  ”Finding Jobs in the Local Biotech Industry”
 Dec  Career Development Seminar  
     

SPRING 2012

DATE

SPEAKER

SEMINAR TITLE
Jan. 12
4:00
C1-7		 Research Seminar

Eric Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H, Director Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Assoc. Prof. of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University

 “The battle for metal between Bacterial pathogens and their hosts”
     
Feb 15
12:00
C1-4		 Career Development Seminar 
Victoria Hunter, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hosted & Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)		  ”Federal Career Opportunities at CDC”
Mar 30
11:30
C1-9		 Career Development Seminar 
Darren Phillips, Ph.D., Abbott
Hosted & Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)		  ”From a BSc to a career in drug discovery”
Apr 3
11:45
CGRC Auditorium		 Research Seminar
Rick Morimoto, Ph.D., Professor and Principal Investigator, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Hosted & Sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology		 “The stress of misfolded proteins in Biology, Aging and Disease”
Apr 26
4:00
G-101		 Research Seminar: Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Seminar Speaker
Eric Gaucher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology		  “Ancient Enzymes for Protein Engineering: Towards in Evolutionary Synthetic Biology”