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.
Gabriela Rodriguez Fuentes, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Chemistry
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
From Tacos to the Lab: Using onions for the assessment of citogenotoxicity in water
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Manjeet Kumar, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering Core
Florida Research Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida
Integrating bioinformatics & Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methods to discover Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) in health and disease
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Adele Stewart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Dopaminergic neuroprotection by the novel dopamine transporter modulator RGS6
Sponsored by: Cristina Fenollar, Ph.D.
David Cinalli, Ph.D.
Director, Mobile Minds Program
Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Programming
Stile-Nicholson Brain Institute
Florida Atlantic University
Neuroscience Outreach in Education - Inspiring the Next Generation
Sponsored by: Cristina Fenollar, Ph.D.
Laura Maria Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Microbial Assemblies Lab
School of Architecture
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Florida Atlantic University
Microbial Assemblies for the Built Environment
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Daniel C. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Co-Director UK-ADRC REC
Robert P & Mildred A. Moore’s Alzheimer’s Research Endowed Chair
Department of Neuroscience
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA)
College of Medicine
University of Kentucky
Reframing Tauopathy Mechanisms Through the Lens of Citrullinated Tau
Sponsored by: Srini Subramniam, Ph.D.
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Kimberly Alonge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Evelyn F. and William M. McKnight Brain Institute
Associate Director, Center for Advanced Spatial Biomolecule Research (CASBR)
University of Florida
Hypothalamic extracellular matrices protect against obesity
Sponsored by: Simon Pieraut, Ph.D.
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Matthew J. Robson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences - James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy
Neuroscience Graduate Program – College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Hitting on Serotonin (5-HT): The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on 5-HT Neurotransmission
Sponsored by: Paula Kurdziel, Ph.D.
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Iyer Harini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences
Rice University
Decoding Neuro-Immune Interactions in Development and Disease
Sponsored by: Erik Duboue, Ph.D.
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Lyonna Parise, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Science
Schmidt College of Medicine
Florida Atlantic University
TBD
Sponsored by: Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D.
ZoomDr. AJ Robison
Professor of Physiology
Michigan State University
Transcriptional Control of Neuronal and Immune Cell Activity
Sponsored by: Paula Kurdziel, Ph.D.
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Nicole L. Baganz, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Director, FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute
Director of Community Engagement & Programming
Director, ASCEND
Going Public: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Beyond the Microscope
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
ZoomInterested in giving a seminar? Please contact Dr. Shailaja Allani (561-799-8322, skesaraj@fau.edu)