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

Kelly Marie Girskis

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Christopher Walsh, Department of Pediatrics

Dissertation Title: What Makes Us Human?: Evolution of the Human Genome, Species-Specific Gene Regulation, and the Development of the Human Cerebral Cortex

Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Seminar: 12:30 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

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

Donglim Park

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Virology

Dissertation Advisor: James DeCaprio, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Oncogenes Generate Targetable Synthetic Lethality

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 350
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA  02115

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

Gregory Steven Bryman

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Michael Do, Department of Neurology

Dissertation Title: Cellular Biophysics Underlying the Initiation of High-Acuity Vision

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Seminar: 1:30 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115
 

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

Huaiying Wang

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Pascal Kaeser, Department of Neurobiology

Dissertation Title: Molecular Mechanisms for Active Zone Assembly at Vertebrate Synapses

Dissertation Defense, Monday, April 22, 2019
Seminar: 9:00 AM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

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

Xiaoyi Wang

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Virology

Dissertation Advisor: Danesh Moazed, Department of Cell Biology

Dissertation Title: DNA maintainer dependent epigenetic inheritance of gene silencing and histone H3K9 methylation

Dissertation Defense, Monday, April 22, 2019
Seminar: 10:00 AM
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Center
Room 250
260 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

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

Ryan Patrick Kuzmickas

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

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Karen Cichowski, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Therapeutic Targeting of Chromatin Modifiers in Advanced Prostate Cancer 

Dissertation Defense, Monday, April 22, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 457
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Ryan Patrick Kuzmickas (BBS)

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

Guadalupe Jannet Jasso

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Immunology

Dissertation Advisor: Ramnik Xavier, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Regulatory processes in mucosal homeostasis

Dissertation Defense, Monday, April 22, 2019
Seminar: 12:30 PM
Broad Institute
Serengeti Building
Room 600
415 Main Street
Cambridge, MA   02142

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

Abbe Rose Clark

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

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Anna Greka, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Single-Cell Transcriptional Landscape of the Kidney Filter in Health and Disease

Dissertation Defense, Monday, April 22, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Educational Center
Room 227
260 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Abbe Rose Clark (BBS)

This session is intended for students considering application to medical school in the United States.  In this interactive session, participating students will benefit not only from the advice of MD admissions professionals and committee members but also from students who have been admitted to Harvard Medical School.

Participating panelists:

Melissa Friedman, M.A., Director of Admissions at Harvard Medical School

Danial J. Ceasar, HMS MD candidate, Pathways Admissions Committee Member

Josie Fisher, HMS/HKS MD-MPP Candidate, Pathways...

Read more about Applying to Medical School: A Panel and Q&A session with Admissions Decision-Makers and Current MD students (for HMS master's students)

Women of Color Symposium
April 27th, 12:30-6:30 PM
Registration closes on Monday, April 15th, 2019

Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Womxn of Color Collective and the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard, will be hosting a Womxn of Color Symposium on April 27th 2019 (Saturday) from 12:30-6:30PM. As in previous years, this symposium promotes solidarity and fellowship across all womxn of color communities at Harvard, by creating a space for community building, personal and collective learning, and restorative practice.

Register ... Read more about Harvard Women of Color Symposium Registration Deadline (Event April 27th)

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

Sachin Patel

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

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Fernando Camargo, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Dissertation Title: Characterizing the developmental origins and clonal organization of the hematopoietic system

Dissertation Defense, Friday, April 19, 2019
Seminar: 9:30 AM
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 350
77... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Sachin Patel (BBS)

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

Fadi John Najm

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

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Bradley Bernstein, Department of Pathology

Dissertation Title: Combinatorial Genetic Screening in Cancer

Dissertation Defense, Friday, April 19, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Broad Institute
75-A Yellowstone
Room 2001
415 Main Street
Cambridge , MA  02142

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

Waradon Sungnak

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Immunology

Dissertation Advisor: Vijay Kuchroo, Department of Neurology

Dissertation Title: Ontogeny, Function and Regulation of Follicular T Cells

Dissertation Defense, Friday, April 19, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Building C
Cannon Room
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115
 

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

David Benjamin Gootenberg

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Virology

Dissertation Advisor: Douglas Kwon, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: HIV-associated Gut Microbiome Differences and Immune Activation are Dependent on Host Context

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Building C
Cannon Room
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  01225

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

Kamil Slowikowski

Ph.D. Candidate in the Biomedical Informatics

Dissertation Advisor: Soumya Raychaudhuri, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Transcriptomics of the synovium in rheumatoid arthritis

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Countway Library 
Lahey Room
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA  02115