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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Magee-Womens Research Institute Work-in-Progress Conference & Seminar Series: "Phenotype-based drug discovery in vivo using novel zebrafish models"
Magee-Womens Research Institute, Conference Center, 1st Floor Edward A. Burton, MD, DPhil, FRCP
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UPCI Basic & Translational Research Seminar Series - UPCI Retreat Poster Winners
HCC Cooper Conference Center Abigail Overacre, BS; Elise Fouquerel, PhD; Yvonne Eaglehouse, PhD, MPH; Catherine Walsh, MS
Pharmacy
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar
'03 hall (456 Salk Hall) Dexing Zeng, PhD
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"The power of statistics in making sense of biomedical omics data"
Rangos Research Conference Center Wei Chen, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

HLTH SCI
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Clinical Oncology and Hematology Grand Rounds - Emerging Non-Factor Therapeutics for Hemophilia
Hillman Cancer Center, Ground Floor, Cooper Conference B & C Margaret Ragni, MD, MPH
Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Therapeutic Approaches to Neurodegenerative Diseases"
1104 Scaife Hall Joachim Herz, M.D.
HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Literature Mining: InfoBoosters, Molecular Databases, & F1000Workspace
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Ansuman Chattopadhyay
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Health Sciences Diversity "Diversity in Practice" Speaker Series
Thomas Starzl Biomedical Science Tower, Room S120 Gysella Muniz Pujalt, MD

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Stanford Video on Presenting
GI Admin. Office - M2 Conference Room Dhiraj Vadav, MD, MPH
HLTH SCI
7:00 AM - 8:00 PM
1st International Lobular Breast Cancer Symposium
September 29: Herberman Conference Center at UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Second Floor Keynote Speaker: Patrick Derksen, PhD
Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mechanisms of Vinculin Activation, Motility and Force Transmission
6014 BST3 Sharon Campbell, Ph.D.
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Psychological and CV Risk Factor Changes during Menopause: Do They Matter for Coronary Heart Disease?
G23 Parran Hall Auditorium Karen A. Matthews, PhD
Medicine
12:00 PM
Leveraging Cognitive Science for Robotic “Brains”
Carnegie Mellon University / 328 Mellon Institute Patryk Laurent, Ph.D.

Friday, September 30, 2016

HLTH SCI
8:00 AM - 1:45 PM
1st International Lobular Breast Cancer Symposium
Cooper Classrooms in The Hillman Cancer Center Keynote Speaker: Mitchell Dowsett, PhD, FMedSci
HLTH SCI
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
The application of high throughput technology for microbiome studies
407A/B BAUM, Offices at Baum, 5607 Baum Blvd. Barbara Menthe, PhD
HLTH SCI
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Painless PubMed
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 1 Michele Klein Fedyshin
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UPSOM Academy of Master Educators First Annual Med Ed Day
Scaife Hall Lecture Room 5 and 11th Floor Scaife Hall, UPMC Conference Center
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Data Curation and Version Control
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Pascale Gaudet
Medicine
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
SOM Academy of Master Educators First Annual Med Ed Day
11th Floor Scaife Hall Keynote Speaker: Steven L. Kanter, MD

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Pharmacy
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar
Moses Turkle Bility, PhD

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Genome Navigation: UCSC Genome Browser
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Ansuman Chattopadhyay
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“Role of the nuclear lamina in development
6014 BST3 Quasar S. Padiath, MBBS, PhD

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Critical Review of a Manuscript Description of Common Statistical Terms
GI Admin. Office - M2 Conference Room Benjamin Click, MD
Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
John L. Woolford, Ph.D.
6014 BST3 John L. Woolford, Ph.D.
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Creativity Crisis
GSPH, G23 Parran Hall Auditorium, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Stimulating Pittsburgh Research in Geroscience (SPRIG) Work Group Seminar Series: "PIF1 Helicase Ablation Causes Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency and Obesity"
1595 Biomedical Science Tower Conference Room Frances Belmonte, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Painless PubMed
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 1 Linda Hartman

Friday, October 7, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Pharmacologic Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders
WPIC Auditorium Jody B. Glance, MD and Julie A. Kmiec, DO
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Digital Health & mHealth Research: Design and eConsent Best Practices
Scaife Hall, Auditorium 6 Jeremy Block, PhD, MPP
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ontologies
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Conference Room B Michel Dumontier

Monday, October 10, 2016

Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wisdom of the Crowd or Tyranny of the Mob?
Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, 5607 Baum Blvd, Fourth Floor, Room 407A/B, Pgh, PA 1 5206 Jonathan H. Chen, MD, PhD
Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
“Wisdom of the Crowd or Tyranny of the Mob? Data-Mining Electronic Health Records for Clinical Decision Support”
Department of Biomedical Informatics, 5607 Baum Blvd, Fourth Floor, Room 407 A/B Jonathan H. Chen, MD, PhD

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Pharmacy
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar
Gavin Arteel, PhD
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Painless PubMed
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 1 Mary Lou Klem

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CCM Grand Rounds (AKI Symposium Series) - Sean Bagshaw, MD, MSc, FRCPC
TBD Sean Bagshaw, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Germline Implications of Somatic Tumor Profiling"
1104 Scaife Hall Mark E. Robson, M.D.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Randomized Control Trial
GI Admin. Office - M2 Conference Room Elyse Johnston, MD
Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas E. Smithgall, Ph.D.
6014 BST3 Thomas E. Smithgall, Ph.D.
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Epi in Action! Student Poster Presentation Symposium
O’Hara Student Center Dining Room
HLTH SCI
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Julia Dahm

Friday, October 14, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
TBA
WPIC Auditorium Susan J. Lieff, MD
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Provenance
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Conference Room B Zachary Ives

Sunday, October 16, 2016

HLTH SCI
6:00 AM - 1:30 PM
321 Ride
Heinz Field Quay

Monday, October 17, 2016

HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Painless PubMed
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 1 Rebecca Abromitis

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
“The Art of War: Deciphering the ecology and evolution of nature's antibiotic factories”
Department of Biomedical Informatics, 5607 Baum Blvd, Fourth Floor, Classroom 407 A/B, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Erik S. Wright, MS
Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CCM Research Conference (Distinguished Alumnus Series) - Mark W. Hall, MD, FAAP, FCCM
TBD Mark W. Hall, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Medicine
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Non-death functions of apoptosis factors in healthy and degenerating neurons
S100 Biomedical Science Tower J. Marie Hardwick, PhD
HLTH SCI
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
PowerPoint for Conference Posters
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Julia Dahm

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CCM Grand Rounds (Distinguished Alumnus Series) - Mark W. Hall, MD, FAAP, FCCM
TBD Mark W. Hall, MD, FAAP, FCCM
HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Stuart Rowe Research Lectures
UPMC Presbyterian, Suite B-400 Various presenters
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Stuart Rowe Lecture
UPMC Presbyterian, Suite B400 Andres Lozano, MD, PhD

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - Friday, October 21, 2016

HLTH SCI
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Science 2016—Game Changers
Alumni Hall and Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center Free and Open to the Public

Thursday, October 20, 2016

HLTH SCI
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
EndNote Basics
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Pat Weiss
Medicine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Rescheduled to January 19, 2017 - Chad M. Rienstra, Ph.D.
6014 BST3 Chad M. Rienstra, Ph.D.
HLTH SCI
11:00 AM
CRISPR Systems and the Future of Genome Engineering
Alumni Hall Jennifer Doudna, PhD
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Addressing Breast Cancer Disparities
GSPH, G23 Parran Hall Auditorium, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM
Circuits and Circuit Disorders: Approaches to Neuromodulation
Alumni Hall Mahlon DeLong, MD

Friday, October 21, 2016

HLTH SCI
11:00 AM
Making Science Policy at the White House
Alumni Hall Jo Handelsman, PhD
Medicine
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
TBA
WPIC Auditorium Anissa Abi-Dargham, MD
HLTH SCI
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Metadata Standards
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Conference Room B Susanna-Assunta Sansone
HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Discovery of New Chemistry and Biology from the Microbial World
Science Lecture Hall, Alumni Hall Xinyu Liu, PhD
HLTH SCI
4:00 PM
Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs
Alumni Hall Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

HLTH SCI
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Gene Regulation: TRANSFAC, NextBio, ENCODE
Scaife Hall, Falk Library, Classroom 2 Ansuman Chattopadhyay
HLTH SCI
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Scientific Publication Process: An Editor’s Perspective
S100 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower Brooke LaFlamme, PhD