Seminar Series
CS MOTT CENTER MONTHLY SEMINAR SERIES
Zoom Meeting
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Upcoming Seminars 2021
| October 20 | Patty Yuhas Kieleszewski, PhD Associate Director, Contract Administration Wayne State University Sponsored Program Administration |
| December 8 | Mike R. Wilson, PhD NCI K99 Postdoctoral Fellow Michigan State University |
| January 19 | Indira U. Mysorekar, PhD Wagner Endowed Professor Chief of Basic and Translational Research and Vice Chief, Section for Infectious Diseases, Vice Chair for Research Group, Margaret M and Albert B Alkek Department of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine |
| February 23 | Chas Easley, PhD Associate Professor Graduate Program Coordinator Environmental Health Science College of Public Health Environmental Health Science and Regenerative Bioscience Center University of Georgia |
Past Seminars
| January | "The cGAS-STING Pathway and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of Ovarian Cancer" Madhuri Koti, DVM, MV.Sc, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Deparments of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology Cancer Biology and Genetics Division, Queen's Cancer Research Institute Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada "Delivery of an Anti-inflammatory Drug Using Extracellular Vesicles to Reduce Infection-Associated Fetal Inflammatory Response and the Risk of Preterm Birth" Ramkumar Menon, M.S., Ph.D. Professor Dept of OB-GYN/Cell Biology The University of Texas Medical Branch @ Galveston |
| February | "Protection and Preparation: Molecular Multitasking to Achieve Cervical Remodeling Through Pregnancy" Mala S. Mahendroo, Ph.D. Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas "The Progenesis Study" Roohi Jeelani, M.D., FACOG. Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist, Director of Research and Co-Director, Fertility Preservation and Ovarian Aging Center of Excellence at Vios Fertility Institute |
| March | "Environmental Factors and Maternal-Child Health in Metropolitan Detroit" Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Henry Ford Health System Department of Public Health Sciences 1 Ford Place, 5C |
| April | "Principles of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Targeting in Mouse and Rat Models" Thomas Saunders, Ph.D. Research Professor Transgenic Animal Model Care University of Michigan |
| May | Jaeyon Kim, D.V.M., Ph.D. Indiana University School of Medicine Yaddanapudi Ravindranath, M.B., B.S. |
| June | Charlie Fehl, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Wayne State University |
| June | Britany Affolter-Caine, Ph.D. URC Executive Director Michigan's University Research Corridor |
| September | Sorin Draghici, Ph.D. Director, James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute College of Engineering Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor, Department of Computer Science Director of the Intelligent Systems and Bioinformatics Laboratory Wayne State University |
2020
| January | "Stopping Pre-Term Labor by Electrical Inhibition of the Myometrium" Frederick Naftolin, M.D., Ph.D. Research Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine Course Director, Human Reproduction Director, Reproductive Biology Research New York University, Langone Health |
| February | "MNRR1, a Moonlighting Target for Mitochondrial Heterosplasmy" Siddesh Aras, MBBS, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics Wayne State University School of Medicine, Center of Molecular Medicine and Genetics |
| March - September | Cancelled Due to Covid-19 |
| October | "Molecular Insights into Regulation of Early Lineage Formation and Pluripotency in Preimplantation Embryos" Jason Knott, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Animal Science Michigan State University |
| November | "Post-copulatory Genetic Matchmaking – Towards a Deeper Understanding of Fertilization and Infertility" Jukka Kekalainen, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Eastern Finland |
| December | "Placental Small Extracellular Vesicles in Maternal-Fetal Communication and Pregnancy Health" Yoel Sadovsky, M.D. Executive Director, Magee-Womens Research Institute, Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair of Women's Health Research, Distinguished Professor of OB-GYN, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Vice Chair (research), Department of OBG-YN and Reproductive Sciences, Associate Dean, Women's Health Research and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Magee-Womens Research Institute |
The seminars are currently held virtually due to COVID-19. Please contact alyssa.alday@wayne.edu for more information.