Science in Seattle

Seminar: Dr. Mary Mullins
2021-06-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Professor, Vice Chair, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology
Chair, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology graduate program
Assistant Dean for Junior Faculty Advancement
University of Pennsylvania
“BMP morphogen gradient formation, interpretation, and signaling mechanism”

Webinar Series: The Microbiome and Antibiotics
2021-06-01 17:00 - 18:00
WHEN
Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 5 – 6 p.m.

Monthly on the 1st Tuesday of the month starting March 2, 2021 through July 6, 2021

DESCRIPTION

Join William DePaolo, PhD, immunologist and intestinal microbiome specialist, Division of Gastroenterology, UW Medicine, for a five part seminar series on the microbiome. All seminars will be via Zoom at 5:00 PM (PT) on the first Tuesday of the month. This is a free series and you are welcome to attend all or just one but, you must register to receive the Zoom link and passcode.
*Please note that a new Zoom passcode will be sent out prior to each talk.*
March 2 – Different diets
April 6 – Lifestyle
May 4 – COVID19
June 1 – Antibiotics
July 6 – Over-the-counter-drugs & probiotics
Register for one or all talks, here.
Questions? Email Amy Parker, ‘Parker,’ at aparker@medicine.washington.edu
PDF flyer

EVENT TYPES
Lectures/Seminars

EVENT SPONSORS

LINK
www.depaololab.com…

AIDS@40: Remembering & Renewal
2021-06-02 08:00 - 17:00
une is the 40th anniversary of the first Centers for Disease Control & Prevent (CDC) report on what would come to be known as AIDS and the start of the HIV pandemic. Over four decades, the global struggle to contain HIV has seen the best and worst of human nature, and it seems as if its many lessons are being slowly forgotten.
Join us on June 2, as we remember those we’ve lost to HIV and honor those who work tirelessly in response to the epidemic. And we will celebrate the strength and resilience of people who have been living with HIV for decades, and from their example renew ourselves and our vision to end HIV for everyone everywhere.

Fred Hutch President and Director Dr. Tom Lynch will moderate a conversation with Drs. Larry Corey, George W. Counts and Stephaun Wallace, and three local HIV long-term survivors who’ve had lasting impact on the way HIV is addressed in their community: Bill Hall, Pat Migliore and Tony Radovich.
They will be joined by Jason Plourde and Rosette Royale of The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway, who are using public artwork and technology to create a place for remembrance and reflection in Seattle about the AIDS epidemic.

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Date:
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Start Time:
11 a.m. PDT

Location:
Virtual

Cost:

Fatal Invention: Re-Creating Race in the Genomic Era
2021-06-02 15:00 - 16:00
The mapping of the human genome in 2003 confirmed that race is not written in our genes. As Dorothy Roberts explains, race is a social category that was invented to support an unjust political hierarchy. Yet we are witnessing the re-creation of race in biological terms using cutting-edge genomic science and biotechnologies, such as race-specific medicines and ancestry tests, that incorporate false assumptions of racial difference at the genetic level.
Speaker or Presenter Dorothy Roberts, J.D.
Location Virtual via BlueJeans
Host Fred Hutch Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

New Faces Seminar: Dr. Rachel Bender-Ignacio
2021-06-03 15:30 - 16:00
Start Date and Time
June 3, 2021 – 3:30pm

End Date and Time
June 3, 2021 – 4:00pm

Speaker: Rachel Bender-Ignacio, MD, MPH
Affiliation: University of Washington
Talk Title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, associated immune activation , and risk of acquiring HIV
Zoom – https://washington.zoom.us/j/91256320491

Rachel Bender Ignacio is an infectious disease physician-scientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, where she recently was named the Director of the UW AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. She completed medical school and an MPH in epidemiology at the UW. She trained in Internal Medicine at at Mass General Hospital/Harvard and was briefly on faculty there prior to returning to UW for Infectious Diseases fellowship. The majority of her patient care and research has been focused on HIV, co-infections, and malignancies, specifically on the intersection with co-infections, immune activation, and HIV outcomes Dr. Bender Ignacio is currently a Director on the HIV Medicine Association Board. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has also taken on significant leadership on COVID-19 treatment research, including serving as the Medical Director of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Center at the Fred Hutch, and as a protocol lead of the international ACTIV-2 study (riseabovecovid.org). The work discussed today is the result of a recently completed CFAR New Investigator Award, granted in 2018.

CFAR Seminar: Dr. Nicole Doria-Rose
2021-06-03 16:00 - 17:00
Start Date and Time
June 3, 2021 – 4:00pm

End Date and Time
June 3, 2021 – 5:00pm

CFAR Seminar Speaker: Nicole Doria- Rose, PhD
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Talk Title: HIV Neutralizing Antibody CAP256V2LS: From Sorting B Cells To Filling Vials
Zoom – https://washington.zoom.us/j/91256320491

Nicole Doria-Rose, PhD is Chief of the Humoral Immunology Core at the Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. She obtained her PhD from Cornell University in 1998 followed by post-doctoral work at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute and the Department of Pathobiology at UW. Her research focus is the identification and characterization of broadly neutralizing antibodies from HIV-infected patients, with an emphasis on patients followed from the time of infection. She developed a high-throughput method for culturing and screening single B cells for antibody discovery, and with this method her team isolated the most potently HIV-neutralizing antibody yet known. At the Vaccine Research Center, she leads a program that evaluates the immune responses to HIV-1 infection and to novel immunogens, and investigates the clinical use of broadly neutralizing antibodies for prevention of HIV-1. She also led a team to develop a neutralization assay for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and provided data in support of the mRNA vaccines now in use worldwide.

GU Oncology Seminar Series
2021-06-03 17:00 - 18:00
The Genitourinary (GU) Oncology Seminar Series offers a weekly seminar featuring lectures by Fred Hutch, UW, and external scientists to share their latest developments and recent research. This series is hosted jointly by the PNW Prostate SPORE, Program in Prostate Cancer Research (PPCR), and Bladder Cancer Group (BCG).
Livestream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85023704247
Feedback form for speaker: https://ppcrspore.formstack.com/forms/ppcr_feedback
View past seminar recordings

Date:
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Start Time:
5 p.m. PDT

Host or Sponsor:
Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE

Location:
Virtual

Speaker or Presenter:
Michael Haffner, MD, PhD

Contact Information:
PPCR_SPOREadmin@fredhutch.org

2021 IPCR Symposium
2021-06-05 09:00 - 12:00
Each year, the IPCR brings together experts in multiple field to discuss the latest breakthrough in the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer. This half-day, virtual is filled with scientific insights and projections, discussions on technology and patient care, reviews of the latest scientific innovations and landmark research projects changing how scientists view this disease.
Participants will have an insider’s perspective on the development of new answers for those affected by the disease.

Date:
Saturday, June 05, 2021

Start Time:
9 a.m. PDT

Host or Sponsor:
Institute of Prostate Cancer Research

Location:
Virtual

Cost:

Free

Contact Information:
ppcr_sporeadmin@fredhutch.org

Allen Institute Distinguished Seminar Series: Dr. Gaspar Jékely
2021-06-10 09:30 - 10:30
We are interested in how whole-body neural circuits coordinate the movement of an animal body. To understand this, we study the experimentally accessible and small larval stages of the marine annelid Platynereis. The nereid has recently emerged as a powerful new experimental system for neural circuits and development. With serial electron microscopy, we have reconstructed the entire nervous and effector systems of the larva. Through activity imaging, behavioural experiments, transgenes and CRISPR manipulations we can link genes to neurons and behaviours. In the talk I will discuss the coordination of locomotor cilia, the startle circuit and the postural control system of the larva. The nereid is an ideal system for connectome mapping and experiments and offers a fresh perspective on how the brain coordinates an entire body.
Gaspar Jékely is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Exeter, which he joined in 2017. He studied Biology and obtained his PhD in 1999 at the Eötvös Loránd Universities in Budapest. He then worked as a postdoc at the EMBL, Heidelberg in the laboratory of Pernille Rorth and then Detlev Arendt. Between 2007-2017 he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. His research interests include the structure, function and evolution of neural circuits in marine ciliated larvae and the origin and early evolution of nervous systems. Since 2019 he is a Wellcome Trust senior investigator. More information is available on his lab website.

GU Oncology Seminar Series
2021-06-10 17:00 - 18:00
The Genitourinary (GU) Oncology Seminar Series offers a weekly seminar featuring lectures by Fred Hutch, UW, and external scientists to share their latest developments and recent research. This series is hosted jointly by the PNW Prostate SPORE, Program in Prostate Cancer Research (PPCR), and Bladder Cancer Group (BCG).
Livestream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85023704247
Feedback form for speaker: https://ppcrspore.formstack.com/forms/ppcr_feedback
View past seminar recordings

Date:
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Start Time:
5 p.m. PDT

Host or Sponsor:
Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE

Location:
Virtual

Speaker or Presenter:
Christopher, MD, PhD

Contact Information:
PPCR_SPOREadmin@fredhutch.org

Dr. Temple Grandin with Dr. Jim Heath
2021-06-10 18:00 - 19:00
In the hundreds of walks that you’ve taken this past year, to get out of the house and flee from screens, have you noticed things around you that you have questions about but don’t have the tools to answer? Maybe you’ve wondered how exactly that mushroom got there or thought again about the mysterious migratory patterns of birds. Join New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned scientist and autism spokesperson Dr. Temple Grandin to hear about her newest book The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World. Indulging our curiosity about the natural systems at work around us, Dr. Grandin will introduce us to scientists from fields of study such as geology, astrophysics, and oceanography to explain how they research their own curiosities and what tools we can use to discover more ourselves. Bring the whole family and learn many ways you can conduct scientific research together!
Following her presentation, Dr. Grandin will join ISB President Dr. Jim Heath for a conversation and will answer questions from the audience.
Dr. Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of twelve books on autism and animal behavior, including the national bestsellers Calling All Minds, Thinking in Pictures, and Animals in Translation. Dr.Grandin was inducted in the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2018 she was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National Public Radio, and 20/20. The 2010 HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.
Dr. Jim Heath is a chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology. He also has the position of Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA, and he has directed the National Cancer Institute-funded NSB Cancer Center since 2005.
