Distinguished Visiting Scholars Series
The Distinguished Visiting Scholars Series brings nationally and internationally renowned experts to Roanoke to explore such topics as memory formation, the development of childhood obesity, the mechanisms of chronic pain, and the biology of the criminal mind. Each expert will present two free seminars—a Thursday evening public lecture and a Friday afternoon research seminar.
“The Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute is bringing some of the world’s leading medical researchers and scientific thought leaders to Roanoke as part of our mission to engage the community in the excitement and promise of scientific research,” says Michael Friedlander, PhD, executive director of the institute and host of the seminar series. "We’re absolutely delighted to be able to share the insights of such highly sought after experts in such a range of fascinating topics. We're also very proud to introduce these speakers to the new partnership that Virginia Tech and the Carilion Clinic have forged for bringing the future of medical science to the Roanoke region."
Download a PDF of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Series for Fall 2011 through Spring 2012
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Ron Davis, PhD
Professor and Chair of the Scripps Research Institute Department of Neuroscience, Jupiter, Florida
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Matt Wachowiak, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine and The Brain Institute of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Robert Kimberly, MD
Howard L. Holley Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Autoimmunity Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
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Grant Jensen, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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Melanie Ohi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Adele Diamond, PhD
Canada Research Chair Professor in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Jan-Åke Gustafsson, MD, PhD
Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Director of the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, University of Houston
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Susan Amara, PhD
Thomas Detre Professor of Neuroscience and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; President of the Society for Neuroscience
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Max D. Cooper, MD
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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Robert Gereau, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology; Chief, Basic Science Division, Washington University Pain Center, St. Louis, Missouri
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John Scott, PhD
Edwin G. Krebs - Hilma Speights Professor of Cell Signaling and Cancer Biology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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Timothy J. Mitchison, PhD
Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Leonard Epstein, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Buffalo, New York
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Adrian Raine, DPhil
Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology and Chair of the Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Leslie Ungerleider, PhD
Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Sarah Lisanby, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Richard Gibbs, PhD
Wofford Cain Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Director, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Harel Weinstein, DSci (Cancelled)
Maxwell Upson Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, Director of Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Tri-institutional Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, Sloan-Kettering and Rockefeller University
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Amy Wagers, PhD
Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Principal Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center; Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
