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.
Vishal Gohil, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Mitochondrial Copper Biology: From Yeast Genetics to Menkes Disease Therapeutics
Sponsored by: Randy Blakely, Ph.D.
Tod Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Palm Beach State College
Discover the Way a Biology Degree can guide your Career Path
Sponsored by: Michelle Cavallo, Ph.D.
Raul Perez-Olle, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs,
Imvax, Inc.
Cancer & Immunotherapy
Sponsored by: Miguel Lopez-Toledano, Ph.D.
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
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Cesar Augusto Celis Ceballos, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences, Pena Lab
Florida Atlantic University
Widespread co-release of glutamate and GABA throughout the mouse brain
Sponsored by: Rodrigo De Oliveira Pena, Ph.D.
Ivan Isaac Riveros
Ph.D. Student in the Bin Zhang Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Unlocking Potential at FAU: How Research Changed and Shaped My Path to MIT
Sponsored by: Ilyas Yildirim, Ph.D.
Arunodoy Sur, Ph.D.
Technology Licensing Officer
Division of Research and Economic Development
Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Technology Transfer - A Career Path for Science Ph.D.s
Sponsored by: Rodrigo De Oliveira Pena, Ph.D.
Sergei Nechaev, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
University of North Dakota School of Medicine
Unexpected connections of gene transcription machinery to epigenetic alterations in cancer cells
Sponsored by: Lucia Carvelli Ph.D.
Jung Hwan Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
University of Nevada, Reno
Refractory to Sigma P, yippee likes Synapses
Sponsored by: Simon Pieraut, Ph.D.
Giuseppe Sautto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Florida Research & Innovation Center
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Analysis of de novo and pre-immune antibody repertoire to next-generation influenza vaccines
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Michaela Gack, Ph.D.
Director and Chair
Florida Research & Innovation Center
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Innate and Intrinsic Immunity to Virus Infection – From Molecular Discoveries to Therapeutics Design
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Interested in giving a seminar? Please contact Dr. Shailaja Allani (561-799-8322, skesaraj@fau.edu)