MESH Research Seminar Series

The USC MESH Academy Virtual Research seminar series was created to provide a forum to highlight USC research (COVID- and non-COVID-related research), catalyze potential collaborations across USC, and support research continuity.

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  • USC COVID-19 Biorepository – August 13, 2020

    Speakers:
     April Armstrong, MD, MPH , Associate Dean, Clinical Research; Professor, & Vice Chair, Dermatology; Director, Clinical Trials & Outcomes Research, Dermatology; Director, Psoriasis Program, Dermatology; Director, Clinical Research, CTSI

    W. Dean Wallace, MD, Professor, Pathology (Clinical Scholar)

    Neil Bahroos, MD, Associate Professor of Research, Preventive Medicine; Chief Research Informatics Officer, Keck Medicine of USC; Keck School of Medicine

  • COVID-19 Preclinical Research Capabilities – April 17, 2020

    Speakers:
    Tom Buchanan, MD, Professor of Medicine; Vice Dean for Research, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director of the CTSI; Co-Director, Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute; Endocrine Division Chief in the Department of Medicine;

    Michele Kipke, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar), Keck School of Medicine of USC; Vice-Chair of Research at CHLA, Amy Ryan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Jae Jung, PhD, Chair of Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director of USC Institute of Emerging Pathogens, Keck Medicine of USC

  • COVID-19 Diagnostic Tools at CHLA – May 1, 2020

    Speakers:
    Alexander R. Judkins, MD, FCAP, FRCP (Edin), Department Head and Pathologist-In-Chief, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Medicine (CPM), Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA); Attending Physician, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA); Vice Chair, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Professor of Pathology (Clinical Scholar), Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Jennifer Dien Bard, PhD, D(ABMM), F(CCM), Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA); Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Xiaowu Gai, PhD, Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Personalized Medicine (CPM), Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA); Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Maurice (Mo) O’Gorman, PhD, MSc, D(ABMLI), MBA, Chief of Laboratory Medicine; Director of Clinical Lab; Director of Diagnostic Immunology and Flow Cytometry Laboratory; Professor of Pathology (Clinical Scholar), Keck School of Medicine of USC

  • Social and Behavioral Science Related to COVID-19 – May 8, 2020

    Speakers:
    Jennifer B. Unger, PhD, Professor of Preventive Medicine; Associate Training Director, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Genevieve Dunton, PhD, MPH, Professor of Preventive Medicine & Psychology, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Adam M. Leventhal, PhD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC

  • Staying Current During a Pandemic: Keck’s Evidence- Based COVID-19 Summary – May 22, 2020

    Speakers:
    Michael Hochman, MD, Associate Professor Of Clinical Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Jeniffer Kim, PhD, Research Manager, USC Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation;

    Rishi Mehta, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator), Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Carolyn Kaloostian, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine (Clinician Educator), Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Carol Peden, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology; Director, Center for Health Systems Innovation (CHSI), Keck School of Medicine of USC

  • Select COVID-19 Research Highlights – May 29, 2020

    Speakers:
    Weiming Yuan, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Ya-Wen Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC;

    Justin Ichida, PhD, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC

  • BSL3 Program Resources Available to USC Faculty – June 12, 2020

    Speaker:
    Lucio Comai, PhD, Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Director of BSL-3 Laboratory, Keck School of Medicine of USC

  • Testing, Testing, Testing: Importance of Accurate Assays to Diagnose SARS CoV-2 and Study Pathogenesis – June 19, 2020

    Speakers:
    Andrea Kovacs, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Preventive Medicine; Director, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Center for Infectious Diseases and Virology; Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Keck Medicine of USC

    Alison Bearden, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; Pediatrics (Part Time), Keck School of Medicine of USC, Olivier Pernet, PhD, Senior Research Assistant, Peds/ County Maternal Child AIDS

    Julia Fink, MPH, Specialized Laboratory Technician, David Lee, PhD Student; Research Assistant, Peds/Cnty Maternal Child AIDS

  • Lymphocyte Subset Counts in COVID-19 Patients: A Meta-Analysis – July 16, 2020

    Speaker:
    Maurice (Mo) O’Gorman, MBA, MSc, PhD, D(ABMLI), Chief, Laboratory Medicine; Pathology and Pediatrics, CHLA; Professor, Pathology; Professor, Pediatrics, KSOM

  • Location, Location, Location: Using the Spatial Sciences to Connect Health and Place Over the Life Course – July 30, 2020

    Speaker:
    John Wilson, PhD, Founding Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute; Professor, Sociology; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Computer Science; Architecture; Preventive Medicine

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Development: Current Status and Future Directions– September 17, 2020

    Speaker:
    Wayne C. Koff, PhD, President & CEO, Human Vaccines Project

  • Delivering nanomedicine to the kidneys – September 24, 2020

    Speaker:
    Eun Ji Chung, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early Career Chair, USC

  • Organs-on-a-Chip – October 8, 2020

    Speakers:
    Megan McCain, PhD, Chonette Early Career Chair; Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

    Shannon Mumenthaler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

    Keyue Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Turning Threats into Opportunities

    Speakers:
    Ali Gholamrezanezhad, MD, FEBNM, DABR, Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

    Bhushan Desai, MBBS, MS, Assistant Professor of Research Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

    Brandon K.K. Fields, BA, BM, Medical Student, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Our latest seminar

  • The New Forensic Genetics: A Case Study in Genetic Privacy

    Speaker:

    Michael “Doc” Edge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Quantitative and Computational Biology Section

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