DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Himanish Basu

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Thomas Schwarz, Department of Neurology

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms regulating movement and distribution of neuronal mitochondria

Dissertation Defense, Monday, January 6, 2020
Seminar: 1:30 PM
Harvard Medical School
Building C
Cannon Room
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston,...

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Momchil Slavchev Tomov

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Samuel Gershman, Department of Neuroscience

Dissertation Title:Structure learning and uncertainty-guided exploration in the human brain

Dissertation Defense, Monday, December 16, 2019

Seminar: 4:00 PM

Harvard University

William James Hall

Room 105

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge ,...

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Rupesh Shailesh Patel

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Stephen Elledge, Department of Genetics

Dissertation Title: Biological Insights into Senescence and Cancer

Dissertation Defense, Monday, December 16, 2019

Seminar: 1:00 PM

Harvard Medical School

New Research Building

...

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Rebecca Mieko Gibbs

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Lee Rubin, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Dissertation Title: Targeting muscle stem cells for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy

Dissertation Defense, Thursday, December 12, 2019

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Harvard University...

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Dominick Amaral Matos

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Lee Zou, Department of Pathology

Dissertation Title: ATR Protects the Genome against R loops through a MUS81-Triggered Feedback Loop

Dissertation Defense, Thursday, December 12, 2019

Seminar: 2:00 PM

Massachusetts General Hospital

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

 

Aleksandr Rayshubskiy

 

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

 

Dissertation Advisor: Rachel Wilson, Department of Neurobiology

 

Dissertation Title: Neural control of steering in walking Drosophila

 

Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Seminar: 12:00 PM

Harvard University

Goldenson Building

Room 122...

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DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

 

Maria Lissitsyna Bloom

 

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

 

Dissertation Advisor: Sandeep Datta, Department of Neurobiology

 

Dissertation Title:Defining Molecular Principles of Sensory Neurons in the GCD Olfactory System

 

Dissertation Defense, Monday, November 18, 2019

Seminar: 12:30 PM

Harvard Medical School

Goldenson...

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Peter N Bowers

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

Dissertation Advisor: John Rosowski, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Dissertation Title: Characterization of bone-conduction mechanisms in chinchilla using in vivo measurements and impedance models

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Seminar: 2:30 PM
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Meltzer Auditorium, 3rd Floor
243 Charles Street
Boston, MA  02114

[2:30 pm - 3:25 pm]

Reboot: Breath and Meditation Workshop

This workshop is a total well-being approach to managing stress through SKY meditation. Participants will be guided through evidence-based breathing techniques for relaxation. After these initial relaxation techniques, the course leader will guide participants through a 20-minute meditation, with time for reflection afterwards.

[3:30 pm - 4:25 pm]

Ergonomics - The Benefits of Proper Posture

Join Malia Koppin...

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Seminar description

Are you ready to take the next step with your finances as a graduate student or postdoc? Do you want to learn how to allocate your money more optimally, break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck, build up savings, and/or begin investing? This seminar teaches graduate students who receive stipends and postdocs how they can develop positive lifelong financial habits and increase their net...

Read more about Charting Your Course IV, Part 2: The Graduate Student's Guide to Personal Finances [WORKSHOP + SOCIAL RECEPTION]

 

Chemical Biology PhD Program

Harvard University

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Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

 

Jeffrey Raymond Haswell

 

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

 

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

 

Dissertation Advisor: Frank Slack, Department of Pathology

 

Dissertation Title: Genome-wide CRISPR interference screen identifies long non-coding RNA loci required for differentiation and pluripotency

 

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[2:30 pm - 3:25 pm] Meet the Individual Development Plan (IDP)

Speaker: JIm Gould, Ph.D. (HMS/HSDM Office of Postdoctoral Fellows)

The Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a mentoring tool that links research goals with career development and progress towards independence. It is meant to foster an ongoing and recurring discussion that involves evaluation, goal setting and feedback with input from both postdoc and faculty mentor.  The NIH encourages trainees to make Individualized Development Plans to help them prepare for academic and...

Read more about Charting Your Course III, Part 1: Navigating Graduate School -- Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and Making the Most of Your Rotations

The Program in Graduate Education (PGE) is pleased to host an open forum to discuss resilience and overcoming failure, featuring the following speakers:

Dr. Emma Dench

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics

Dr. Cassandra Extavour

Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Dr. Rachel Wilson

Martin Family Professor of...

Read more about Charting Your Course III, Part 2: CV of Failures - A Scientist's Guide to Resilience (EPISODE 2: Dean Emma Dench, Professor Cassandra Extavour, and Professor Rachel Wilson)