May 2023

QCRG AViDD Happy Hour with Hudak and Wankowicz

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Please join us for a QCRG AViDD Happy Hour, where you will hear two 5-minute flash talks from the new AViDD Program Manager and a recipient of a QCRG AViDD project award! Complimentary beer, wine, and bites will be served.



Jason Hudak - AViDD Program Manager



Stephanie Wankowicz - recipient of QCRG AViDD Mentored Project Award

Stabilization of Protein-Protein Interactions; from the fundaments of supramolecular chemistry to new opportunities in drug discovery, a QBI Seminar with Luc Brunsveld

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

QBI presents Luc Brunsveld, a Full Professor of Chemical Biology at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is a chemical biologist focusing on the understanding and modulation of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), particularly Nuclear Receptors and 14-3-3 proteins. His group is embedded in the interdepartmental Institute of Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Zooming in on the coronavirus replication organelle with correlative light and electron tomography methods, a QBI Seminar with Bram Koster

Monday, May 22, 2023 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

QBI presents Abraham (Bram) Koster, a chair and full professor on ultrastructural and molecular imaging at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in physics (particle optics, systems and signals) at Delft University in the Netherlands in 1989. His work on the beam-tilt measurement of defocus has become part of many electron tomography data collections systems worldwide.

QCRG AViDD Happy Hour Featuring Award Recipients

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Please join us for a QCRG AViDD Happy Hour, where two recipients of QCRG AViDD project awards will give five-minute flash talks featuring research from their current AViDD research plans. Complimentary beer, wine, and bites will be served.



Margaux Pinney: recipient of QCRG AViDD Developmental Research Project Award



Taha Taha: recipient of QCRG AViDD Mentored Project Award

Correlates of Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines, a QBI/GIVI Online Seminar with Dan Barouch

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

The QBI & Gladstone Institute Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series presents Dan Barouch, Ph.D., the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is a member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, and part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery.