Departmental Seminar: Bridget Williams-Simmons, PhD
2020-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Office of Science Policy and Communications
Career Focus: Joined NIAAA in 2007 as a Health Scientist Administrator in the Science Policy Branch (SPB), where she worked on a wide range of science policy topics. The Office of Science Policy and Communications is responsible for science policy, planning, evaluation and reporting functions for NIAAA; and the preparation of briefing materials on alcohol research. Additionally, the office coordinates all media relations, produces materials for scientific and lay audiences, and acts as the public face of the institute. During her tenure in SPB, she served as NIAAA’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Coordinator as well as NIAAA lead on a number of other significant trans-NIH projects. Prior to her recent appointment, Dr. Williams-Simmons served as Chief of SPB.

Fusion Seminar: Carlos Patino Descovich & Melissa Plooster
2020-11-09 12:00 - 13:00

Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium
2020-11-11 13:00 - 14:30
The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community.
The second in the R3 series, “Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies,” will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1–2:30 p.m. Scholars from across UNC, including Business and Communications, will share their work addressing issues of language, representation, cultural appropriation, and decontextualization of Black and Brown labor as it appears through a variety of media.

Fusion Seminar: Stephen Serafin & Priya Hibshman
2020-11-16 12:00 - 13:00

Departmental Seminar: Rita L. Strack, PhD
2020-11-23 12:00 - 13:00
Senior Editor
Nature Methods
Career Focus: Joined Nature Methods in November 2014, where she handles imaging, microscopy and probes, along with protein and RNA biochemistry content. While studying at the University of Chicago, she worked with Benjamin Glick and Robert Keenan to engineer improved variants of the red fluorescent protein DsRed, and studied the chemical mechanism of chromophore formation in DsRed. She continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow in Samie Jaffrey’s laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she developed fluorescent reporters for live-cell imaging of RNA such as Spinach2.

Fusion Seminar: Zayna King & Amanda Smith
2020-11-30 12:00 - 13:00

Departmental Seminar: Liqun Luo, PhD
2020-12-07 12:00 - 13:00
Ann and Bill Seindells Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences
Stanford University
Research Focus: Dr. Luo is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He studies the logic of brain wiring using genetic tools. His lab has developed mosaic marking systems in flies and mice and used them to study how signals are transduced from cell surface receptors to the cytoskeleton, how neuronal processes are pruned, and how neural circuits are organized and built.

Fusion Seminar: Julie Necarsulmer and Cole Edwards
2021-02-01 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Sam Honeycutt and Baggio Evangelista
2021-02-08 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Danielle Buglak and Natalie Tanke
2021-02-22 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Rhianna Lee and Laura McCormick
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Dan Michaud and Hernan Mendez
2021-03-08 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Kshitij Sharma
2021-03-15 12:00 - 13:00

CANCELLED: Departmental Seminar: Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD
2021-03-22 12:00 - 13:00
Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: stem cells, differentiation & growth, liver regeneration
Host: Dr. Natasha Snider

Departmental Seminar: Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD
2021-03-29 12:00 - 13:00
Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
Perelman School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Focus: mechanobiology, heart failure, cytoskeleton
Host: Dr. Michael Bressan

Departmental Seminar: Brielle Ryan Ferguson, PhD
2021-04-12 12:00 - 13:00
Brielle Ryan Ferguson, PhD
HHMI Gilliam Sponsorship
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology
Stanford University
Research Focus: neuroscience; attention impairments across disease states
Host: Dr. Kathleen Caron

Departmental Seminar: Gia Voeltz, PhD (CBP Research Day)
2021-04-16 12:00 - 13:00
Gia Voeltz, PhD CBP Research Day
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Boulder
Research Focus: endoplasmic reticulum proteins, organelle development
Host: Dr. Damaris Lorenzo

Departmental Seminar: David Castillo-Azofeifa, PhD
2021-04-19 12:00 - 13:00
David Castillo-Azofeifa, PhD
HHMI Gilliam Sponsorship
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Research Focus: stem cells, gastrointestinal biology, epithelial biology
Host: Dr. Kathleen Caron

Departmental Seminar: Jeff Carroll, PhD
2021-04-26 12:00 - 13:00
Jeff Carroll, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Western Washington University
Research Focus: Huntington’s Disease research and advocacy
Host: Dr. Sarah Cohen

(Postponed) Fusion Seminar: Keith Breau and Rani Richardson
2021-05-03 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Pu Zhang and Kayleigh Voos
2021-05-10 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Nate Nelson-Maney and Pierre N'Guetta
2021-05-17 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Allison Skinkle, Whitney Bell and Ismael Gomez
2021-05-24 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Reggie Edwards and Chris Ho
2021-06-07 12:00 - 13:00

Fusion Seminar: Rani Richardson and Selena Romero
2021-08-16 12:30 - 13:30

Fusion Seminar: Keith Breau and Abby Cleveland
2021-08-23 12:30 - 13:30

Departmental Seminar: Roberto Weigert, PhD
2021-08-30 12:30 - 13:30
Roberto Weigert, PhD (Via Zoom)
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology
National Institutes of Health

Research Focus: neutrophils in action during inflammation in vivo
Host: Kshitij Sharma

Departmental Seminar: Marcos Frank, PhD
2021-09-27 12:30 - 13:30 | G202 MBRB, 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill
Marcos Frank, PhD
Professor/Chief Scientific Officer, Gleason Institute for Neuroscience
Washington State University

Research Focus: neural development, sleep, synaptic plasticity, glia
Host: Dr. Graham Diering

Fusion Seminar: Molly Kulikauskas and Priya Hibshman
2021-10-04 12:30 - 13:30

Departmental Seminar: Elizabeth Ransey, PhD (Joint w/ Neuroscience)
2021-10-11 12:30 - 13:30 | G202 MBRB, 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill
Elizabeth Ransey, PhD (Joint w/ Neuroscience)
HHMI Gilliam Sponsorship
Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University

Research Focus: behavioral medicine, neuroscience
Host: Drs. Kathleen Caron, Mark Zylka, Ben Philpot
