Health Professionals Lab Research

Seminar Series

The Legacy Research Institute sponsors a seminar series on topics that focus on the areas of scientific investigation in progress within the Legacy system.

All seminars are scheduled for 4 p.m–5 p.m., unless otherwise noted and held in the G2 conference room (G Level) at the Legacy Research Institute. Everyone from Legacy and the local bioscience community is invited to attend.    

 Date  Speaker  Affilation      Title
Mar 14, 2013      Jodie Moreau, PhD          Tufts Univ.         Hard, soft and everything in between: tailored silk scaffolds for tissue repair
Feb. 7, 2013   Jonathan Geiger, PhD          Univ. of N. Dakota Endolysosomes may be responsible for Alzheimer's like pathology in people living with HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorder
Jan. 17, 2013        Shucui Jiang, MD, PhD  McMaster Univ. The neurotrophic role of extracellular guanosine
Dec. 13, 2012  Phillip Copenhaver, PhD      OHSU  Neurodegeneration using moth brain models 
Oct. 25, 2012  Catherine Morgans, PhD  OHSU  Auto-antibodies against TRPM1/3 in melanoma associated retinopathy 
Oct. 23, 2012  Sherri Jones, PhD  Univ of Nebraska  Functional and structural aging of the peripheral vestibular system 
Sept. 27, 2012     Allson Coffin, PhD  Washington State Univ., Vancouver Prevention of hearing loss: hair cell dealth and protection in the zebrafish lateral line.
Sept. 20, 2012     Jonathan (Lin) He, PhD                  Univ. of Houston
College of Optomentry    
Physiologic aspects of human and monkey ocular accommodation
Sept. 6, 2012   Detlev Boison, Haiying Shen, Kirin Akula               LRI Journal Club on the Ketogenic Diet

Aug. 2, 2012

Hongzhe Li, PhD OHSU Intra-cochlear trafficking of aminoglycosides and their modification by sound.
July 12, 2012 Jeffrey Kiel, PhD UTexas HSC, SA Ocular blood flow and  intraocular pressure, which is the dependent variable?
June 21, 2012   Uwe M. Rudolph, MD, PhD Harvard University Beyond classical benzodiasepines: Novel therapeutic, potential of GABAa receptor subtypes.
June 7, 2012 Michael Farwell, MD Columbia University Epilepsy: Imaging findings in adult and pediatric patients
May 17, 2012

Mark Wainwright, MD Phd; H.R. Rainaivo, PhD

 

Northwestern University Mechanisms of albumin-induced glial activation
March 22, 2012 Pierre
Van Rysselberghe, JD
Kolisch Hartwell Patenting life science inventions
March 15, 2012 Vivek Unni, MD, PhD OHSU  I'll have a side of synuclein with thatcheeseburger: Can Parkinson's Disease be caused by the transmission of protein seeds?
Jan. 19, 2012  Nandor Ludvig, MD, PhD NYU Subdural Pharmacotherapy Device (SPD) for the treatment of cerebral cortical disorders
Jan. 5, 2012  Detlev Boison, PhD Legacy Research Institute  Adenosine: a novel regulator of DNA methylation in epilepsy
 Dec. 8, 2011  Shaban Demirel, PhD Legacy Research Institute  Predicting deterioration of visual function in glaucoma
Nov. 23, 2011  Andrew Anderson, PhD University of Melbourne Using saccadic decision-making to how we get back on track after the unexpected occurs
Nov. 3, 2011  David L. Kaplan, PhD Tufts University  Bioengineered silk proteins as new biomaterials
 Oct. 6, 2011  Don Hood, PhD Columbia University  Glaucomatous damage of the macula through comparisons of behavior (visual field tests) and anatomy (OCT images)
Sept. 15, 2011  James Armitage Monash University  Developmental origins of obesity-related hypertension