Fall 2021 CMBB Lecture Series

Mondays 3:30 – 4:50pm via ZOOM

Date Guest Speaker Title of Lecture Host Tod Fairbanks, Ph.D. Discover the Way a Degree Can Aug 30 Professor of Biology David Binninger, Ph.D. Guide Your Career Path Palm Beach State College Sept 6 Labor Day (University Closed) Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D., MS, MBA Charting a Federal Career in Molecular Sept 13 Senior Scientific Officer Shailaja Allani, Ph.D. Biology and Biotechnology National Cancer Institute, NIH Jordan Merritt, Ph.D. Malaria and the Immune System: Sept 20 Assistant Director for Partnership Programs Shailaja Allani, Ph.D. What we did, now it’s your Turn! Florida Atlantic University Raul Perez-Olle, M.D., Ph.D. Miguel Lopez-Toledano, Sept 27 Vice President, Medical Affairs Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Ph.D. MacroGenics, Inc.

Saumya Ramanathan, Ph.D. Tumor Specific Antigens (TSA): Letting Oct 4 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Shailaja Allani, Ph.D. Cells go unchecked Fisk University Claudia de Oliveira Rodrigues, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms of Oct 11 Associate Professor of Biomedical Science Howard Prentice, Ph.D. anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity Florida Atlantic University Michael Stabin, PhD, CHP Clinical Utility of Radiation Dosimetry Oct 18 Physicist Instructor, NVS/Dade Moeller Gregg Fields, Ph.D. in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Richland, WA James Foster, Ph.D. Regulation of the Dopamine Assistant Professor Transporter by Palmitoylation: Oct 25 Randy Blakely, Ph.D. School of Medicine and Health Sciences Potential roles in ADHD and University of North Dakota methamphetamine addiction

Yangmei Li, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Design and Identification of Novel Nov 1 Mare Cudic, Ph.D. College of Pharmacy Inhibitors targeting DEAD-Box Protein 3 University of South Carolina William G. Kelly, Ph.D. Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nov 8 Professor, Department of Biology Transgenerational “Memory” in C. Lucia Carvelli, Ph.D. Emory University elegans Anne Stone, Ph.D. Tracking a Killer, using ancient DNA to Regents’ Professor Nov 15 understand the Evolutionary History of Kate Detwiller, Ph.D. School of Human and Social Change