The Women’s Brain Initiative is pleased to announce the WBI Seminar Series. Seminars are normally held from 4:00 — 5:00pm in the Marshall Wolf Conference Center, 3rd floor of the Hale Building for Transformative Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (60 Fenwood Road), unless otherwise noted. A reception will follow each seminar. Attendance is encouraged from across the Longwood and Harvard communities, and beyond. For more information, contact: Aaron Brown: abrown101@bwh.harvard.edu
2020 Seminar Series
Save the dates!
January 7, 2020, 4 – 5pm, reception to follow
C. Neill Epperson, MD
- Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Interests: Sex hormones & psychiatric conditions
January 22, 2020, 4 – 5pm, reception to follow
Steve Kanes, MD, PhD
- Chief Medical Officer, Sage Pharmaceuticals
- Interests: Development of Zulresso, postpartum depression and clinical trials
February 24, 2020, 4 -5pm, reception to follow
Allan Basbaum, PhD
- Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco
- Interests: Pain and mechanisms resulting in persistent pain
May 13, 2020, 4 -5pm, via zoom
Benjamin Neale, PhD
- Director, Genetics – Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute
- Associate Professor, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, MGH
- Interests: Genes do not predict same-sex sexual behavior
June 8, 2020, 4 – 5pm, via zoom
Roberta Brinton, PhD
- Director, UA Center for Innovation in Brain Science, University of Arizona Health Sciences
- Interests: Alzheimer’s, the aging female brain & therapeutics
September 14, 2020, 4 – 5pm, via zoom
Steven McCarroll, PhD
- Dorothy and Milton Flier Associate Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Member, Broad Institute
- Interests: Genetics of brain disorders
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September 30, 2020, 4 – 5pm, via zoom
Eric Nestler, MD, PhD
- Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs and Director of the Friedman Brain Institute
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Interests: Sex differences in the molecular mechanism of depression & addiction
Postponed
Nirao Shah MD, PhD
- Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Neurobiology, Stanford University
- Interests: How genes, neurons & experience regulate gender differences in behavior, etc.
- Dr Shah’s talk was scheduled for April 6 but was postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic. He looks forward to visiting BWH in person when circumstances permit
Past Seminar Series
HELD December 18, 2018
Deborah Clegg, PhD
- Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Talk Title: The Role of Sex and Gender in Metabolic Health and Function
HELD JANUARY 7, 2019
Michelle Mielke, PhD
- Mayo Clinic – Rochester
- Sex-specific differences in risk and progression of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
HELD FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Scott Russo, PhD
- Mount Sinai Health System
- Immune Mechanisms of Depression
HELD MARCH 28, 2019
Catherine Woolley, PhD
- Northwestern University
- Latent Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Neuromodulation
HELD APRIL 30, 2019
Andrea Gore, PhD
- University of Texas – Austin
- Hormonal effects on brain, impact of endocrine disruptors
HELD JUNE 24, 2019
David C. Page, MD
- Whitehead Institute, MIT and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Evolution and function of sex chromosomes
The Women’s Brain Initiative Seminar Series will continue to identify and schedule relevant speakers over the next several years. We welcome suggestions about future topics and speakers. Please contact Kate Burdick (kburdick1@bwh.harvard.edu) or Charles Jennings (Cgjennings@bwh.harvard.edu).