University Lecture Series – Fall 2018

The University Lecture Series (ULS) brings prominent scientists and speakers to UT Southwestern Medical Center to enhance the intellectual climate of the Medical Center community.

Time: 4 p.m. Wednesdays
Location: D1.600 Zale Lecture Hall

For more information, call 214-648-0734
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Date	Speaker	Title	Sponsor
09/05	No Lecture-Holiday Week
09/12	Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. HHMI, Vaccine Center Director Professor, Microbiology and Immunology Emory University	“T Cell Exhaustion and PD-1 Directed Immunotherapy”	Yang Xin Fu, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Immunology
09/19	Catherine Dulac, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator Higgins Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University	“Neurobiology of Parenting Behavior”	Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Cell Biology
09/26	Michael Rape, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator K. Peter Hirth Chair of Cancer Biology Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology University of California, Berkeley	“Ubiquitin Signaling in Neuronal Development and Disease”	Carla B. Green, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience
10/03	Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D. Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry and Bioengineering Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology	“Enzymes by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life”	David L. Garbers Memorial Lectureship David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
10/10	TBA
10/17	Stephen Quake, Ph.D. Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering Co-President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Professor of Applied Physics Stanford University	TBA	Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
10/24	Douglas R. Lowy, M.D. Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology NIH Distinguished Investigator Head, Signaling and Oncogenesis Section Deputy Director National Cancer Institute	“Vaccination and Screening to Control Cervical Cancer and Other HPV-associated Diseases”	Douglas R. Lowy, M.D. Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology NIH Distinguished Investigator Head, Signaling and Oncogenesis Section Deputy Director National Cancer Institute
10/31	Yifan Cheng, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco	“Single particle cryo-EM of TRP channels”	Ryan Hibbs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
11/07	Helen Hobbs, M.D. Professor and Director Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development, Internal Medicine & Molecular Genetics UT Southwestern Medical Center	“Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter”	Center for Translational Medicine Robert D. Toto, M.D. Associate Dean of Clinical Science
11/14	Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D. Director and Investigator for NIBS (National Institute of Biological Sciences) Beijing, China	“Programmed Cell Death In Aging and Diseases”	The Fouad A. and Val Imm Bashour Distinguished Lectureship in Physiology Duojia Pan, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Physiology
11/21	No Lecture-Holiday Week
11/28	No Lecture-Holiday Week
12/5	Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Medicine Karolinska Institute, Sweden	“Missing Self”-Recognition to NK Cells-Based Immunotherapy in Human Hematological Malignancies”	The Dr. Michael Bennett Lecture in Immunopathology James S. Malter, M.D. Professor and Chair of Pathology
12/12	Jef K. De Brabander, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry Julie and Louis Beecherl, Jr., Chair in Medical Science UT Southwestern Medical Center	TBA	Philip Thomas, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology
12/19	David E. Reich, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator, Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School	“Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past”	David W. Russell, Ph.D. Vice Provost, Dean of Research and Maria Chahrour, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neuroscience/Psychiatry
12/26	No Lecture-Holiday Week

Ralph DeBerardinis, Ph.D., Chair
University Lecture Series 2018–2019