Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyFall 2025 Seminar Series

Defense AnnouncementGraduate Program in Life SciencesProgram in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Novel Approaches to the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose

“Recalibrating Normal: Race-Neutral Spirometry and Its Impact on Occupational Health and Disability Assessment”

Speaker: Heather E. Moss, MD, PhDTopic: Vision in MS: An Update

TOPIC: \"Cytokine and lipid mediators in host resistance to pulmonary infections\". SPEAKER: Dr. Katrin Mayer-Barber

TOPIC: Finding Practical Applications for Single Cell Proteomics by Mass Spectrometry | SPEAKER: Benjamin C. Orsburn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Medical Biology, University of Pittsburgh

This session will provide strategies for increasing writing productivity, with a focus on making writing part of your workday.

TOPIC: Mapping divergent molecular trajectories of lung disease with network models | SPEAKER: Kate Shutta, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Ryan M. Pearson, PhD, Presents:“Nanoparticle Immunoengineering at the UMSOP Bio- and Nano-Technology Center”

“Single-cell sequencing and spatial transcriptomics revealed insights into the prenatal e-cigarette exposure-induced abnormal brain development”

This session will provide strategies for effective literature searches, including AI Tools.

26th Annual James P. Keogh, M.D. Occupational Medicine Memorial Lectureat Medicine Grand Rounds“Physician Cure Thyself: Exploring Health System Workers\' Mortality in Mexico”

Speaker: Jing Wu MD.,PhD.Acting Deputy ChiefNeuro-Oncology Branch NCI, NIHTopic: TBD

TOPIC: \"Immune circuitries maintaining dermis resident macrophages as a replicative niche for Leishmania\" SPEAKER: Dr. David Sacks

During this session, early career faculty will gain insight into how NIH research applications are scored and reviewed, including a “mock study section” discussion of a grant application. 

TOPIC: Metastatic cancer immunology at single-cell resolution | SPEAKER: CHRIS MCGINNISPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of PathologyStanford University

Please join Dean Mark T. Gladwin as he delivers the 2025 State of the School Address.

EVENT: Faculty Development Workshop | SPEAKER: Rod Taylor, MD

Save the date for the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health\'s 32nd annual guest lectureship, as part of its annual Frontiers in Vaccinology program.