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SUMMARY:Faculty Council Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Council Annual Meeting\nTuesday\, March 7 | 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nCollege of Medicine faculty are invited to join us for the largest college-wide\, faculty meeting on March 7. Hear from Faculty Council standing committee chairs\, senators\, and a representative from the executive cabinet. Faculty in attendance will weigh in and vote on faculty governance and have an opportunity to engage in dialogue and ask questions. After the meeting\, there will be a group photo. \nWhere \nThe meeting will be offered in person at SAC 147 or virtually via Zoom. \nRSVP \nSubmit your RSVP here. \nDeadline to RSVP \nIf you plan to attend in person and would like to receive a boxed lunch\, please RSVP by February 28. \nResources \n\nAccess the College of Medicine’s bylaws here.\nReview the bylaws timeline and College of Medicine committees here.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/faculty-council-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
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SUMMARY:TMP Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine & Physiology \nBuilding Safer Learning Spaces: Humanistic and Trauma-Informed Approaches in Anatomy Education\nFebruary 4\, 2026\n10:00–11:00 a.m. PST\nSAC 147 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 945 5662 2957\nPasscode: 723698 \n \nSpeaker\nJessica Byram\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Indiana University School of Medicine\, Indianapolis\, IN \nJessica Byram\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy\, Cell Biology\, and Physiology and Assistant Director of the Phase 1 Curriculum at Indiana University School of Medicine\, Indianapolis\, IN. She is the director of the Anatomy & Physiology Education Track PhD Program. She teaches histology\, embryology\, and gross anatomy to undergraduate\, graduate\, and medical students. Her research interests include professional identity formation across the medical education spectrum and the integration of non-traditional discipline-independent skills into anatomy education. \nThis seminar will explore innovative approaches to integrating humanistic and trauma-informed principles into gross anatomy education. We will explore how integrating pathology and histopathology into anatomy curricula can deepen students’ understanding of disease and foster professional identity formation. Additionally\, we will discuss the challenges learners face in the anatomy laboratory\, particularly when prior trauma intersects with dissection experiences\, and how trauma-informed medical education (TIME) strategies can create safer\, more supportive learning environments. Attendees will gain insights into curricular design that promote empathy and clinical relevance while addressing the emotional complexities of anatomy education.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-020326/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nFrom Sleep Oscillations to Learning: Insights from Phase-Locked Acoustic Stimulation\nMarch 10\, 2026\n12:10 – 1:00 p.m. PDT\nSAC 147 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 950 1476 4671\nPasscode: 341571 \nSpeaker\nReto Huber\, PhD\nProfessor\, University of Zurich\, Zurich\, Switzerland \n \nDr. Huber’s lab has long and outstanding expertise in sleep and signal analysis with a focus on high density electroencephalography (EEG) in combination with other neuroimaging techniques (MRI\, NIRS). His research currently focuses on the application of these techniques in pediatric populations with the goal to gain insights into the relationship between brain maturation and sleep in health and disease. Most recently\, they established closed-loop auditory stimulation using high-density EEG in their lab to investigate causal relationships between neuronal patterns and behavioral outcome. \nTalk Abstract\nWe investigate the relationship between sleep oscillations and learning-related processes using a targeted perturbation approach. Brief\, non-arousing acoustic stimuli are delivered in a phase-locked manner to key non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep oscillations\, enabling selective modulation of slow waves\, sleep spindles\, and their hierarchical coupling. This approach provides mechanistic insights into how these oscillations are generated and how they support learning and memory consolidation. We further translate these findings to clinical contexts\, for example by examining how alterations in sleep electrophysiology contribute to disease mechanisms in pediatric epilepsy. \nQuestions? Contact Michelle Sanchez at michelle.r.sanchez@wsu.edu.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-seminar-031026/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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SUMMARY:TMP Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine & Physiology \nBig Data Visualization and Mouse Models of Cancer\nMarch 17\, 2026\n12:10 – 1:10 p.m. PDT\nSAC 147 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 982 4105 6768\nPasscode: 760156 \nSpeaker\nEric C Holland\, MD\, PhD\nProfessor of Neurological Surgery\, University of Washington School of Medicine\nSenior Vice President and Director Human Biology Division\, Fred Hutch\nMember Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center (IIRC)\, Fred Hutch\nEndowed Chair in Cancer Biology\, Fred Hutch\nPigott Family Endowed Chair \nDr. Eric Holland is a world-renowned physician-scientist who combines compassionate patient care with exacting laboratory research to discover more effective treatments for brain tumors. As a neurosurgeon\, Dr. Holland specializes in caring for patients with glioblastomas\, aggressive cancers that are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults. One of Dr. Holland’s many accomplishments is the development of mouse models of brain cancers\, which researchers use to unravel tumor biology and test new therapies. His landmark work with mouse models also revealed that glioblastoma is not one but several diseases\, a finding that is a first step toward tailoring treatment to individual tumors. Dr. Holland also studies the environment immediately surrounding tumor cells and how that “neighborhood” influences tumor formation and growth. \nTalk Abstract\nWe have used RNA seq of large numbers of clinically annotated tumors to generate dimension reduced reference landscapes. These landscapes show clusters of similar tumors (subtypes) that have specific outcomes and biology based on their expression patterns. Mouse models of tumor subtypes genetically driven by the mutations found in human tumors recapitulate the expression patterns of the human diseases\, and can be landed on the human reference landscapes.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-031726/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
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SUMMARY:TMP Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine & Physiology \nEnterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans Inter-Kingdom Interactions\nApril 14\, 2026\n12:10– 1:10 p.m. PDT\nSAC 147 or Zoom\nAbstract Presentation\nThe microbiome comprises not only bacteria but also fungi\, parasites\, and viruses that can have profound biological effects on one another and on the host. Here\, I will describe our work looking at interactions between the fungus Candida albicans and the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis\, two opportunistic pathogens that share host niches in both commensal and diseased states. We discovered that these two bugs inhibit each other’s pathogenicity and will describe our studies elucidating the secreted molecules that mediate these effects\, as well as our efforts to apply this knowledge to develop new anti-infective therapeutics. \n\nSpeaker\nDanielle A. Garsin\, PhD\nProfessor; McGovern Medical School part of UTHealth-Houston\nThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics \nDr. Garsin is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Garsin received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University and her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. Dr. Garsin is interested in microbial pathogenesis\, gene regulation\, host-microbe\, and microbe-microbe interactions. One NIH-funded research focus is on the roles and regulation of ethanolamine utilization in bacteria. Another concerns the biology of the immune responses elicited in the model host\, Caenorhabditis elegans. Finally\, Dr. Garsin studies the interactions between Enterococcus faecalis and the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans; the discovery that the microbes inhibit each other’s virulence has led to the development of molecules with anti-infective therapeutic potential. Dr. Garsin has received many commendations for excellence in research and education. She earned an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease\, a UT System STAR award\, the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award in multiple years\, and was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy for Microbiology. She has served the scientific community as a permanent member of the Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology (PCMB) and Innate Immunity and Inflammation (III) NIH review groups and as an editor of PLOS Genetics and mBio.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/tmp-seminar-series-041426/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
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SUMMARY:SPRC Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center \nLunar Modulation of Sleep\nApril 15\, 2026\n10:15–11:15 a.m. PDT\nSAC 147 or Zoom\nMeeting ID: 960 0142 1805\nPasscode: 855095 \nTalk Abstract\nThroughout evolution and history\, humans have progressively isolated themselves from natural cycles through built environments that isolate them from the external environment. Key to this isolation is our ability to manipulate artificial light and extend our activity into the nighttime. However\, recent studies from our laboratory show that both the sun and the moon continue to shape our daily sleep even in highly urbanized communities. I will present data from human and non-human primates that provide evidence for the synchronization of sleep with both the solar day and the lunar month; surprisingly\, synchronization with the lunar cycle is not explained by moonlight but instead by its gravitational pull. \nSpeaker\nDr. Horacio de la Iglesia\, PhD\nProfessor\, Department of Biology\, University of Washington \nDr. Horacio de la Iglesia finished his undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Buenos Aires\, Argentina. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, where he studied the neuroanatomical interactions between the master circadian clock of mammals and the brain centers that control reproduction. Dr. de la Iglesia continued his research on the neural control of circadian rhythms as a Post-doctoral Fellow and as an Instructor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School\, while he was also an Instructor at Harvard University. He joined the University of Washington Department of Biology in 2003. In 2025\, he became a member of the WA State Academy of Science.
URL:https://medicine.wsu.edu/news/event/sprc-seminar-041526/
LOCATION:SAC 147\, 600 N Riverpoint Blvd\, Spokane\, WA\, 99202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sleep and Performance Research Center,Translational Medicine and Physiology
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