2024 Marion Hines Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Kristen M. Harris, PhD
The University of Texas, Austin
September 18, 2024
4:00 pm
Whitehead Auditorium
Dr. Kristen M. Harris is a distinguished neuroscientist and cell biologist who is Director of The Laboratory of Synapse Structure and Function and has made seminal contributions to understanding the structural basis of learning and memory, synapse development, and the ultrastructure of synaptic plasticity using in vivo and in vitro preparations, hippocampal slice physiology, serial section transmission electron microscopy, and 3D reconstruction.
Talk Title: "Synapse Specific Structural Plasticity Protects and Refines Local Circuits During Long-term Potentiation"
A career development panel was included in the events.
*This lectureship is supported in part by Emory School of Medicine's Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
2022 Marion Hines Memorial Lecture
Presented by the Department of Cell Biology as Part of the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium in Neurogenetics
November 30, 2022:
9 am-12:30 pm WHSCAB AUD:
Location: Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB) Auditorium
11:30 AM | Lecture by Susan L. Ackerman, PhD
Steven W. Kuffler Chair in Biology
Professor, Neurobiology
Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego
2:30 - 4:00 PM | Career Development Panel Discussion Moderated by Susan L. Ackerman, PhD
Location: Emory School of Medicine Building, Room 110 (100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322)
Panelists:
Amy Y. Chen, MD, MPH, FACS, FACE
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Otolaryngology
Vice Chair, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Department of Otolaryngology
Director of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology
Gina Northington, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Urogynecology
Division Director and Fellowship Director, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Leila Rieder, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Joanna Wardwell-Ozgo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Cell Biology