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Events for June 2023
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28	29	30	31	1 Stephen Johnson Lecture: Jessica Tollkuhn (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) – “Hormonal regulation of gene expression defines sex-variable biology” On June 1, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Named/Annual Lectures Neuroscience and Society: Sex and gender “Hormonal regulation of gene expression defines sex-variable biology” The Stephen Johnson Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Department of Genetics.… View Full Details for Stephen Johnson Lecture: Jessica Tollkuhn (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) – “Hormonal regulation of gene expression defines sex-variable biology” Aging Club: Jason Colasanti (Apte lab, WashU Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) – “The role of miR-34a in age-related macular degeneration” On June 1, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “The role of miR-34a in age-related macular degeneration” The Aging Club gathers bi-weekly to discuss WIPs and recent papers in… View Full Details for Aging Club: Jason Colasanti (Apte lab, WashU Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) – “The role of miR-34a in age-related macular degeneration” HYBRID BIG Center WiP: Kirill Shumilov (Friess lab, WashU Pediatrics) – “The Gut Microbiota Modulates Oligodendrogenesis and Remyelination after Traumatic Brain Injury” On June 1, 2023 at 4:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “The Gut Microbiota Modulates Oligodendrogenesis and Remyelination after Traumatic Brain Injury” Hosted by the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia… View Full Details for HYBRID BIG Center WiP: Kirill Shumilov (Friess lab, WashU Pediatrics) – “The Gut Microbiota Modulates Oligodendrogenesis and Remyelination after Traumatic Brain Injury”	2 HYBRID Neurology Grand Rounds: Rano Chatterjee (WashU Neurology) – “Stroke Thrombectomy 2023 – Expanding Horizons” On June 2, 2023 at 7:45 am Posted in Grand Rounds Upcoming “Stroke Thrombectomy 2023 – Expanding Horizons” Hosted by the Department of Neurology Full schedule, Neurology Grand Rounds For inquiries contact Stephanie… View Full Details for HYBRID Neurology Grand Rounds: Rano Chatterjee (WashU Neurology) – “Stroke Thrombectomy 2023 – Expanding Horizons” Systems Journal Club: Zahra Dhanerawala (Han lab, WashU Neuroscience) – “Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis” On June 2, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis” NOTE location Schneider, et al. Nature volume 617, pages360–368 (2023) The Systems… View Full Details for Systems Journal Club: Zahra Dhanerawala (Han lab, WashU Neuroscience) – “Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis” Thesis Defense: Matthew Cruz (Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Structural Biology) – “Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments” On June 2, 2023 at 1:00 pm Posted in Thesis Defenses Upcoming “Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments” Thesis lab: Gaya Amarasinghe (WashU Pathology &… View Full Details for Thesis Defense: Matthew Cruz (Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Structural Biology) – “Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments”	3
4	5 HYBRID Special Hope Center/Neurology Seminar: Collin Nadarajah (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology), Megan Bosch (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – Presentations by winners of the 2023 Hope Center Awards On June 5, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming Presentations by winners of the 2023 Hope Center Awards: Collin Nadarajah: “An astrocyte BMAL1-BAG3 axis protects against alpha-synuclein and tau… View Full Details for HYBRID Special Hope Center/Neurology Seminar: Collin Nadarajah (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology), Megan Bosch (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – Presentations by winners of the 2023 Hope Center Awards	6 HYBRID Klippel Honorary Lecture: Michael Wilson (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) – “What your psychiatrist (and regulatory types) aren’t telling you: Solutions for suicidal patients in your ED” and “Diseases that kill in your psychiatric ED” On June 6, 2023 at 10:00 am Posted in Named/Annual Lectures Upcoming “What your psychiatrist (and regulatory types) aren’t telling you: Solutions for suicidal patients in your ED” “Diseases that kill in… View Full Details for HYBRID Klippel Honorary Lecture: Michael Wilson (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) – “What your psychiatrist (and regulatory types) aren’t telling you: Solutions for suicidal patients in your ED” and “Diseases that kill in your psychiatric ED” Shreffler Lecture: Aaron Gitler (Stanford University) – “Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease” On June 6, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Named/Annual Lectures Upcoming “Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease” The 25th Annual Donald C. Shreffler Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Department… View Full Details for Shreffler Lecture: Aaron Gitler (Stanford University) – “Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease” VIRTUAL Knight ADRC Seminar: Joyce (Joy) Balls-Berry (WashU Neurology) – “The Impact of Racism on Alzheimer Disease” On June 6, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Neuroscience and Society: Race, equity and social justice Upcoming “The Impact of Racism on Alzheimer Disease” Hosted by the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (Knight… View Full Details for VIRTUAL Knight ADRC Seminar: Joyce (Joy) Balls-Berry (WashU Neurology) – “The Impact of Racism on Alzheimer Disease” Thesis Defense: Amanda Jo Wright (Social and Personality Psychology Program) – “Modeling Variability in Personality Development: Quantifying, Explaining, and Examining the Predictive Utility of Person-Specific Variance around Personality Trajectories” On June 6, 2023 at 1:00 pm “Modeling Variability in Personality Development: Quantifying, Explaining, and Examining the Predictive Utility of Person-Specific Variance around Personality Trajectories” Thesis lab:… View Full Details for Thesis Defense: Amanda Jo Wright (Social and Personality Psychology Program) – “Modeling Variability in Personality Development: Quantifying, Explaining, and Examining the Predictive Utility of Person-Specific Variance around Personality Trajectories” Hope Center Axon Injury and Repair Group: Stefanie Geisler (WashU Neurology) – “DRG response in Bortezomib-induced neuropathy” On June 6, 2023 at 4:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “DRG response in Bortezomib-induced neuropathy” Rescheduled from May 2, 2023 The Hope Center Axon Injury & Repair Group meets on the… View Full Details for Hope Center Axon Injury and Repair Group: Stefanie Geisler (WashU Neurology) – “DRG response in Bortezomib-induced neuropathy” HYBRID Stein Installation Ceremony: Christina Gurnett (WashU Neurology) – “Genetic Testing Conundrums and the 2.1 Million Dollar Gene Therapy” On June 6, 2023 at 5:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Genetic Testing Conundrums and the 2.1 Million Dollar Gene Therapy” Hosted by the WashU School of Medicine. Dean David H. Perlmutter,… View Full Details for HYBRID Stein Installation Ceremony: Christina Gurnett (WashU Neurology) – “Genetic Testing Conundrums and the 2.1 Million Dollar Gene Therapy”	7 CANCELLED – Neuroscience Seminar: Elizabeth Heller (University of Pennsylvania) – “Epigenetic editing for the study of addiction” On June 7, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars “Epigenetic editing for the study of addiction” Hosted by the Department of Neuroscience Full schedule, Neuroscience seminars For inquiries contact… View Full Details for CANCELLED – Neuroscience Seminar: Elizabeth Heller (University of Pennsylvania) – “Epigenetic editing for the study of addiction” HYBRID St. Louis Children’s Hospital Neuroscience Grand Rounds: Sonal Bhatia (Medical University of South Carolina/Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital) – “Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric EEG” On June 7, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Grand Rounds Neuroscience and Society: Race, equity and social justice Upcoming “Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric EEG” Hosted by the St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH) and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research… View Full Details for HYBRID St. Louis Children’s Hospital Neuroscience Grand Rounds: Sonal Bhatia (Medical University of South Carolina/Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital) – “Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric EEG” HYBRID RAD + CRM Research Forum: Cuicui Wang (WashU Orthopaedic Surgery), Gareth Chapman (Kroll lab, WashU Developmental Biology) On June 7, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming Cuicui Wang: “Fracture Nonunion: A New Model and Mechanistic Insights”Gareth Chapman: “Using an Epigenetic Atlas to Define Cis Regulatory Elements… View Full Details for HYBRID RAD + CRM Research Forum: Cuicui Wang (WashU Orthopaedic Surgery), Gareth Chapman (Kroll lab, WashU Developmental Biology) Master’s Defense: Kayla Hensley (Aging and Development Program) – “How prefixation, onset length, and coda length determine lexical stress assignment when reading aloud” On June 7, 2023 at 1:00 pm Posted in Thesis Defenses Upcoming “How prefixation, onset length, and coda length determine lexical stress assignment when reading aloud” Thesis lab: Rebecca Treiman (WashU Psychological… View Full Details for Master’s Defense: Kayla Hensley (Aging and Development Program) – “How prefixation, onset length, and coda length determine lexical stress assignment when reading aloud”	8 HYBRID Special Vision Science Seminar: Neal Peachy (Case Western Reserve University) – “Electroretinography in Mouse Models” On June 8, 2023 at 10:00 am Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Electroretinography in Mouse Models” Hosted by the John F. Hardesty, MD Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences For inquiries contact… View Full Details for HYBRID Special Vision Science Seminar: Neal Peachy (Case Western Reserve University) – “Electroretinography in Mouse Models” Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Health) – “Tormenting Genomes” On June 8, 2023 at 10:30 am Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Tormenting Genomes” NOTE day Hosted by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Full schedule, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics seminars… View Full Details for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Seminar: Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Health) – “Tormenting Genomes” Glia Journal Club: Crystal Song (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – “Multi-modal control of dendritic cell functions by nociceptors” On June 8, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “Multimodal control of dendritic cell functions by nociceptors” NOTE location, FLTC 205 Hanč, et al. Science. 2023 Mar 31;379(6639):eabm5658. The… View Full Details for Glia Journal Club: Crystal Song (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – “Multi-modal control of dendritic cell functions by nociceptors” HYBRID Behavior Journal Club: Katherine McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics) – “Neurobehavioral sex-related differences in Nf1+/− mice: female show a ‘camouflaging’-type behavior” On June 8, 2023 at 2:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Neuroscience and Society: Sex and gender Upcoming “Neurobehavioral sex-related differences in Nf1+/− mice: female show a ‘camouflaging’-type behavior” Santos, et al. Biology of Sex Differences, volume 14,… View Full Details for HYBRID Behavior Journal Club: Katherine McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics) – “Neurobehavioral sex-related differences in Nf1+/− mice: female show a ‘camouflaging’-type behavior”	9 HYBRID Neurology Grand Rounds: Wendy Assael, Amy Lin, Arjun Padalia, Arup Sarma (WashU Neurology) Systems Journal Club: Moran lab (WashU Biomedical Engineering) VIRTUAL Hope Center Lipid Metabolism Group: Jiyeon Lee (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology) – “Microglial REV-ERBα regulates inflammation and lipid droplet formation to drive tauopathy” On June 9, 2023 at 2:30 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “Microglial REV-ERBα regulates inflammation and lipid droplet formation to drive tauopathy” Hosted by the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders The… View Full Details for VIRTUAL Hope Center Lipid Metabolism Group: Jiyeon Lee (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology) – “Microglial REV-ERBα regulates inflammation and lipid droplet formation to drive tauopathy”	10
11	12 VIRTUAL Neural Circuits Club: Alex Legaria (Kravitz lab, WashU Psychiatry) CIMED EXCITE Seminar: Stephan Pless (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) – “Not alone: Two examples of ion channels forming protein complexes to modulate cellular excitability” On June 12, 2023 at 1:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Not alone: Two examples of ion channels forming protein complexes to modulate cellular excitability” Hosted by the Center for the… View Full Details for CIMED EXCITE Seminar: Stephan Pless (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) – “Not alone: Two examples of ion channels forming protein complexes to modulate cellular excitability”	13 Thesis Defense: Jad Belle (Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program) – “A subset of senescent myofibroblasts orchestrates immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer” On June 13, 2023 at 9:30 am Posted in Thesis Defenses Upcoming “A subset of senescent myofibroblasts orchestrates immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer” Thesis lab: David DeNardo (WashU Medicine) For inquiries contact Christy… View Full Details for Thesis Defense: Jad Belle (Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program) – “A subset of senescent myofibroblasts orchestrates immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer” HYBRID MIR /PRTC Research Seminar: Remco Bastiaannet (Johns Hopkins University) – “The immunomodulatory and bystander effects in alpha-emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy – From observation to quantitative response prediction” On June 13, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “The immunomodulatory and bystander effects in alpha-emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy – From observation to quantitative response prediction” Hosted by the Mallinckrodt… View Full Details for HYBRID MIR /PRTC Research Seminar: Remco Bastiaannet (Johns Hopkins University) – “The immunomodulatory and bystander effects in alpha-emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy – From observation to quantitative response prediction” HYBRID Knight ADRC Seminar: John Morris (WashU Neurology) – “Annual State of the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC)” On June 13, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Annual State of the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC)” Hosted by the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer Disease… View Full Details for HYBRID Knight ADRC Seminar: John Morris (WashU Neurology) – “Annual State of the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC)” HYBRID Drews Installation Ceremony: Gregory Van Stavern (WashU Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) – “Evolution of Neuro Ophthalmology into 21st Century…and Beyond!” On June 13, 2023 at 4:30 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Evolution of Neuro Ophthalmology into 21st Century…and Beyond!” Hosted by the WashU School of Medicine. Dean David H. Perlmutter, MD cordially… View Full Details for HYBRID Drews Installation Ceremony: Gregory Van Stavern (WashU Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) – “Evolution of Neuro Ophthalmology into 21st Century…and Beyond!”	14 VIRTUAL Developmental Neuroimaging Talk: Shelby Leverett (Rogers lab, WashU Psychiatry) VIRTUAL Psychiatry Guest Lecture: Charles Lynch (Weill Cornell Medicine) – “Precision Mapping and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Individual-Specific Functional Brain Networks” On June 14, 2023 at 11:00 am Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Precision Mapping and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Individual-Specific Functional Brain Networks” Hosted by the Department of Psychiatry For inquiries contact… View Full Details for VIRTUAL Psychiatry Guest Lecture: Charles Lynch (Weill Cornell Medicine) – “Precision Mapping and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Individual-Specific Functional Brain Networks”	15 Aging Club BIG Center WiP: Logan Page (Dang lab, WashU Neurology) Anesthesiology Research Seminar: Claudia Moreno (University of Washington) – “Slowing down as we age: Effects of aging in the function of voltage-gated calcium channels in the cardiac pacemaker” On June 15, 2023 at 4:00 pm Posted in Department/Center/Program Seminars Upcoming “Slowing down as we age: Effects of aging in the function of voltage-gated calcium channels in the cardiac pacemaker” NOTE… View Full Details for Anesthesiology Research Seminar: Claudia Moreno (University of Washington) – “Slowing down as we age: Effects of aging in the function of voltage-gated calcium channels in the cardiac pacemaker”	16 HYBRID Neurology Grand Rounds Systems Journal Club: Monosov lab (WashU Neuroscience)	17
18	19 HYBRID Pediatric Neurology Research Working Group: Mai Dang (WashU Neurology) Thesis Defense: Patrick DeSouza (Computational and Systems Biology Program) – “Mutant-specific analysis of tumor cell heterogeneity in glioblastoma” On June 19, 2023 at 12:00 pm Posted in Thesis Defenses Upcoming “Mutant-specific analysis of tumor cell heterogeneity in glioblastoma” Thesis lab: Albert Kim (WashU Neurosurgery) For inquiries contact Christy Durbin. View Full Details for Thesis Defense: Patrick DeSouza (Computational and Systems Biology Program) – “Mutant-specific analysis of tumor cell heterogeneity in glioblastoma” Thesis Defense: Ankita Chadda (Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology Program) – “UvrD1 helicase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is activated by multiple unique mechanisms” On June 19, 2023 at 1:00 pm Posted in Thesis Defenses Upcoming “UvrD1 helicase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is activated by multiple unique mechanisms” Thesis lab: Eric Galburt (WashU Biochemistry and Molecular… View Full Details for Thesis Defense: Ankita Chadda (Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology Program) – “UvrD1 helicase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is activated by multiple unique mechanisms”	20 VIRTUAL Knight ADRC Seminar – “Title IX”	21 HYBRID CNND Basic Science Meeting: Abigail Vanderheiden (Klein lab, WashU Medicine) MIND Meeting: Regina Clemens (WashU Pediatrics)	22 Glia Journal Club	23 HYBRID Neurology Grand Rounds	24
25	26 Thesis Defense: Lingzhen Kong (Molecular Cell Biology Program) Genetics Special Seminar: Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute of Science) – “Pan-cancer analysis of intra-tumor heterogeneity” HYBRID Rapid Antidepressants Journal Club: Candace Lewis (Arizona State University) – “Harnessing the malleable epigenome in the pursuit of healing” On June 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm Posted in Journal Clubs/Research interest groups Upcoming “Harnessing the malleable epigenome in the pursuit of healing” NOTE date The recent development of novel, fast acting, and durable… View Full Details for HYBRID Rapid Antidepressants Journal Club: Candace Lewis (Arizona State University) – “Harnessing the malleable epigenome in the pursuit of healing”	27	28	29 Aging Club BIG Center WiP: Dana Shaw (Mokalled lab, WashU Developmental Biology)	30	1

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