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.
Seminar time is 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. EST unless otherwise noted.
Tod Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Palm Beach State College
Discover the Way a Biology Degree can guide your Career Path
Sponsored by: Michele Cavallo, Ph.D.
Andrew Eagle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
University of Texas at Dallas
Cocaine, Circuits, and Context: The Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex in Drug Behavior
Sponsored by: Paula Kurdziel, Ph.D.
Walter Moss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Roy J. Carver Department of Biophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
Iowa State University
Folding, Finding and Targeting RNA Structures
Sponsored by: Ilyas Yildirim, Ph.D.
Nicole L. Baganz, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Director, FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute
Director of Community Engagement & Programming
Director, ASCEND
Florida Atlantic University
Going Public: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Beyond the Microscope
Sponsored by: Cristina Fenollar, Ph.D.
Linda Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Wilkes University
Superfoods in Cancer and Obesity
Sponsored by: Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D.
Romina Uranga, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
New College of Florida
Adipocyte β-catenin and the Secret Signals of Fat
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Fabiana Sant’Anna Evangelista, Ph.D.
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Healthy Fat: How Exercise Modulates Adipocyte Function to Prevent Disease
Sponsored by: Claudia Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Megan Quinlan, Ph.D.
Scientist II, Gene Therapy Therapeutic Lead
Allen
Brain Institute
Precision Brain Cell Access: Enhancer-AAV Toolkit for Understanding and Treating Brain Disease
Sponsored by: Paula Kurdziel, Ph.D.
Carlo R. da Cunha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Northern Arizona University
When Birds Learn to Sing E Pluribus Unum
Sponsored by: Rodrigo De Oliveira Pena, Ph.D.
Wei Li, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Knights Templar Eye Foundation Presidential Chair in Ophthalmology
Baylor College of Medicine
Ligandomics: A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Discovery
Sponsored by: Claudia Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Mingfu Wu, Ph.D.
Professor, College of Pharmacy
University of Houston
Tunneling nanotubes regulate distant cell-cell compunctions during heart formation
Sponsored by: Srini Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Interested in giving a seminar? Please contact Dr. Shailaja Allani (561-799-8322, skesaraj@fau.edu)