School of Medicine

Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyGPILS Seminar SeriesPhD Candidate Presentations

CARTI is seeking applications for the 2026 Clinical/Translational Research Training Track. Applications are due Monday, October 6, 2025, by 11:59PM EST

Save the Date!The Fourth Annual Alavi-Bradley Symposium on Molecular Imaging and Theranostics will be held on October 7, 2025.

2025 Julius Friedenwald Memorial Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds: “Immune Mechanisms at the Mucosal Frontline: Lessons in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”

Using Effort-Cost Decision-Making Frameworks to Better Understand Motivational Impairment in Psychiatric Disorders

This session will provide an overview of the various grant mechanisms available to researchers and offer practical guidance on how to apply.

Speaker: Mehraneh Khadjevand, MDTopic: Insight from Multisite Thalamic Recordings: Ictal Involvement of the Thalamus in Patients With Refractory Epilepsy

TOPIC: \"Mechanistic insights into the Gut Microbiome\'s Role in Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Efficacy\" SPEAKER: Mustafa Ozcam

Topic: Enhancing the Biological Properties of Bone AllograftsPresenter: Thomas Schubert, MD, PhD

During this session, participants will receive practical guidance on how to address reviewers’ comments in a constructive manner, whether revising a manuscript or resubmitting a grant proposal.

TOPIC: Host-microbiome interactions at the center of immune modulation| SPEAKER: NORBERTO GONZALEZ-JUARBE, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMD

This session will provide strategies to attract top students, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff to your program.

Join UMSOM for our annual Salsa Fiesta in honor of Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month

Strengthen your mentoring skills and support the success of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in this dynamic, interactive workshop. Facilitators:• Jenn Aumiller, PhD• Blessing Enekwe, PhD

Keynote Speaker: Resa Lewiss, MD, Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine, Brown University

TOPIC: A “virtual laboratory” for simulated experiments in cancer immunology | SPEAKER: PAUL MACKLIN, PhD, Professor, Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University

This seminar is designed for faculty, especially those new to industry funding, who want to explore industry collaborations as a pathway to support and expand their research.

Medicine Grand Rounds: “Inclusive and Affirming Health Care for the LGBTQI+ Community”

Speaker: Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhDTopic: Dravet syndrome: Mechanisms of epilepsy, cognitive dysfunction, and temperature sensitivity

TOPIC: \"Innate Immune surveillance in health and disease\" SPEAKER: Dr. Vijay Rathinam