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: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Raul Perez-Olle, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs,
Imvax, Inc.
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Pharma, and Life Sciences
Sponsored by: Miguel Lopez-Toledano, 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 Ferrer, Ph.D.
Ugo Coppola, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
Florida Gulf Coast University
Conserved transcriptional networks orchestrate cardiac development in chordates
Sponsored by: Laura Fontenas, Ph.D.
Oscar Rivera, MSc
Ph.D. Candidate, Integrative Biology
Affiliate Faculty, Wilkes Honors College
Florida Atlantic University
Pharmacological Sensitization to Oxidative Stress Enhances Anticancer Efficacy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Henrique von Gersdorff, Ph.D.
Professor and Senior Scientist The Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Songs cost more than silence: Mechanisms of energy-efficient synapses and spikes in avian cortical neurons
Sponsored by: Rodrigo Pena, Ph.D.
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Keshav Singh, Ph.D.
Joy and Bull Harbert Endowed Chair
Professor of Genetics, Dermatology and Pathology
Founding Editor in Chief, Mitochondrion Journal
Department of Genetics, Heersink School of Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Powering Through Time: The Role of Mitochondria in Healthy Aging and Longevity
Sponsored by: Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
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Eric M. Parise, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Science
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute
Florida Atlantic University
Elucidating the Role of the Brain’s Extracellular Matrix in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Sponsored by: Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D.
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Amarylis Wanschel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
High Point University
Estrogen and Nitric Oxide in Atherosclerosis: Mechanisms of Vascular Protection
Sponsored by: Claudia Rodrigues, Ph.D.
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Lorena Areal Dunn, Ph.D.
Research Associate and Sessional Instructor
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
University of Manitoba
Developmental Plasticity of the Mouse Serotonergic System Arising from the ADHD and Autism-Associated DAT Val559 Mutation
Sponsored by: Paula Gajewski, Ph.D.
ZoomInterested in giving a seminar? Please contact Dr. Shailaja Allani (561-799-8322, skesaraj@fau.edu)