We’re delighted to welcome everyone for the sixth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health center symposium, which this year will be run in tandem with a partner Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center workshop. Of the many health-relevant aspects of microbiome science, its role in cancer has become particularly critical. Not only is it one...
Invited Speaker: Christina Towers, Ph.D.
This beginner workshop is an introduction to the inference and analysis of gene regulatory networks (GRN) using the network zoo (https://netzoo.github.io), a menagerie of network biology methods. Participants will learn: Tutorials will be hosted on the cloud and available to run on a local computer without installing any software or writing any code. The instructors...
Richard Siegrist will chair.
Red Cross blood drive hosted by the HMS Departments of Genetics, Immunology, and Microbiology. Why we donate: The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood...
With: Zunwei Chen, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zunwei will introduce the role of EVs in neurotoxicity caused by heavy metal cadmium exposure using human in vitro neuronal cells with a focus on novel microvesicles ARMMs and the underlying mechanisms. He will then explore the potential of EVs as therapeutical application targeting neurodegenerative diseases.
Xiuwei Zhang Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Cell dynamics across various time scales and spatial coordinates In biological processes like development and disease progression, cells differentiate into various cell types. At the time scale of cell divisions, lineage tracing technologies make it possible to reconstruct the cell division...
The Armen H. Tashjian, Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research was established to recognize scholars early in their careers who are pursuing novel areas of discovery in endocrine and related areas of research. This year’s recipient will be selected from nominees who are postdoctoral fellows or research associates with an appointment at the Harvard...
Imran Ullah, PhD Research Associate Wirth lab TALK TITLE: "Artemisinin resistance mutations in Pfcoronin impede hemoglobin uptake" Christian K.O. Dzuvor, PhD Research Fellow Corbett lab TALK TITLE: "Rational Design of Endemic Coronavirus Nanoparticle Vaccines" This seminar is a hybrid format. Please join us in FXB 301 if you want to watch the event together and...
Join the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative for an event focused on the public health impact of the current crisis in Gaza through the lens of a report developed by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Dr. Checchi and Dr. Abukmail from the author team...
We’re still at it. Even in this most challenging of times, we’re still striving to connect, hold space for trauma and healing, and forge paths forward together. Join your Longwood community members as we gather to strengthen our campus connections. Building on restorative practices, we’ll explore themes of community, self-care, and identities. Space is limited...
