Medicine Grand Rounds: 2026: The Changing Landscape of Infectious Diseases — a Duke Perspective
Friday, January 23, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Andy Alspaugh, MD; Alejandro Antonia, MD; and Ilan Schwartz, MD, PhD
Nephrology Grand Rounds
Sponsor(s):
Division of Nephrology
Friday, January 23, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
A Conversation with Marguerite Nguyen, Jane Harwell, and Joelle Troiano
Sponsor(s):
English
Friday, January 23, 2026
11:45 am
Marguerite Nguyen, Jane Harwell, and Joelle Troiano
CCN Colloquium: "Culture and Cognitive Science"
Friday, January 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dorsa Amir, Ph.D. (Duke University)
PCB Works in Progress
Friday, January 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Joshua Silva (Fox Lab) & Margaret Weber Barbier (Oliver Lab)
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer: Michelle Monje
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Friday, January 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Michelle Monje
Making Music and Molasses: Sticky Business
Friday, January 23, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Biddle Music Building 113A, Library Seminar
Cecil and Julie Gurganus
FHI, Graduate Working Groups | Negative Worldliness: Augusto Higa and the limits of celebratory, cosmopolitan models of World Literature
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 23, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
FHI Phd Lab, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, c104
Periodic Tables Science Cafe: How do lava flow fields grow? w/ Arianna Soldati
Sponsor(s):
Duke Initiative for Science & Society
Friday, January 23, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Arianna Soldati
Mapping the Human Regulome at Cell Type and Nucleotide Resolution
Sponsor(s):
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Biology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Neurobiology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine (SOM), and University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Monday, January 26, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jeff Vierstra, PhD
"Systemic Autoimmune Inflammatory Diseases and International Travel"
Sponsor(s):
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Duke Center for International Development (DCID), and Global Admin and Travel Support (GATS)
Monday, January 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Robert Rolfe
text+pix collective
Monday, January 26, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
CDS Library, W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC
Alexa Dilworh/Mesha Maren-Hogan
Hematology Case Conference:
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Anand Kornepati, MD, PhD (1st Yr Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, Duke University Medical Center); Ara Metjian, MD (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology)
Duke Pediatrics Grand Rounds – "Pediatric Renovascular Hypertension and Beyond – The Importance of Multidisciplinary Teams and Stakeholder Engagement"
Sponsor(s):
Department of Pediatrics
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Conference Room DHN 2002
Dawn Coleman, MD
Immunology Seminar Series - Ashley Harms, PhD: "The role of the immune system in alpha-synucleinopathies"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Ashley Harms, PhD
CANCELLED: Neurobiology Seminar: Neural circuits underlying a vocal innovation: insights from a singing mouse Arka Banerjee
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Arka Banerjee
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Joseph Torigian
Connecting Effective Teaching Practices and AI Education: Exploring the Open Questions
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Bill Shannon presents Interdisciplinary Artist Video Talk in Two Parts
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Bill Shannon
Climate Tech at Duke Showcase: A Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Duke Climate Commitment, Fuqua School of Business, Nicholas School-Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and Pratt School of Engineering
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Duke Anesthesiology Grand Rounds - TBA
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Leah Acker, MD, PhD
Pediatric Vascular Anomalies
Sponsor(s):
Department of Dermatology
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Virtual
Dr. María Garzón
ORBIT Hub: Winter School in Real-World Data Analytics
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
All Day
Monica Agrawal, David Carlson, Feng Gao, Ricardo Henao, Chuan Hong, Fan Li, Jay Lusk, Brian Mac Grory, Ryan McDevitt, Emily O'Brien, Dylan Thibault, Laine Thomas, Chengxin Yang, and Anqi Zhao
Disability and Inclusive Excellence: Definitions, Context, and Best Practices
Sponsor(s):
Office for Institutional Equity (OIE)
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
9:30 am - 11:30 am
TBD
Elizabeth Jones, PhD., Director for Education and Outreach
MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Laura McGill, "Engineering Challenges and Opportunities in National Security"
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Laura Mcgill
PE/PI Workshop: Paolo Agnolin (Princeton)
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Chemistry Defense: Jiaqi Zhu- "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Diastereo-, Enantio-, and Z/E- Selective Allylation and Alkylation of Azatrienes for the Preparation of Chiral Amine Derivatives"
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
French Family Science Center room 3225
Jiaqi Zhu
Joint NC BERD Seminar: So, You’ve Built an AI Tool: A Biostatistician’s Guide to Evaluation and Validation of AI-based Tools in Clinical and Translational Research
Sponsor(s):
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, BERD Core, and Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual
Tony Mangino, PhD
CAPER WIP - "Operationalizing Early Mortality Risk After Vasopressors: A Machine Learning Model With Threshold-Based Triage Performance"
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Via Zoom
Shane Harrington
Adventures in evolving toxicology testing: Omics, HTS, AI and whatever comes next
Sponsor(s):
Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEHP) and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Grainger Hall room 1112 and Panopto
Scott Auerbach, PhD, NIEHS
Can I buy you a drop? Alcohol and Cancer: Communicating the Risk
Sponsor(s):
Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEHP) and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Grainger Hall room 1112 and Panopto
Robert A. Roth, PhD, DABT, UNC Chapel Hill
Karen C. Wells Lecture: Addressing School Avoidance Across Disciplines and Systems
Sponsor(s):
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Neurology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Anthony Puliafico, PhD
Nuclear mechanobiology – from striated muscle disease to ultrarapid cellular mechanosensing
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jan Lammerding (Cornell)
Critical Care Grand Rounds - TBA
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Via Zoom
Bruce Derrick, MD
What Population-Wide Data and Our Future Health UK Reveal About Families, Health, and Bias
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Melinda Mills - University of Oxford and Nuffield College
Stories of Origins: Lygia Pape's Filmwork
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C104
Patricia de Andrade
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Academic Resource Center (ARC), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Brian Conlon, Ph.D.
Previewing 2026: The Global Economy and Challenges for the United States A Conversation with Nathan Sheets
Sponsor(s):
Economics
Thursday, January 29, 2026
5:00 pm
Do Trump's Tariffs Make Sense?
Sponsor(s):
Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE) and Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program (PPE)
Thursday, January 29, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
139 Social Sciences
Douglas A. Irwin
Freeing Joan Little: Gender, Incarceration, and Struggles for Justice
Sponsor(s):
History, Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, January 29, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Christina Greene; Shelagh Kenney; Adriane Lentz-Smith
Medicine Grand Rounds: Quality and Safety at Duke: The Integral Role of the Department of Medicine
Friday, January 30, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Mike Pignone, MD, MPH, MACP and Rich Shannon, MD
Nephrology Grand Rounds
Sponsor(s):
Division of Nephrology
Friday, January 30, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
CCN Colloquium: "When to Quit, When to Grit"
Friday, January 30, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Greg Samanez-Larkin, Ph.D. (Duke University)
Kamin Memorial Lecture - Dr. David Baker, Professor, University of Washington. "Design of new protein functions using deep learning"
Sponsor(s):
Biochemistry
Friday, January 30, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr. David Baker
Mini-Symposium: Faculty Practices
Sponsor(s):
Service-Learning Program
Monday, February 02, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Details will be shared with registrants
Profs an Liu, Katie Hyde, and Adam Rosenblatt
Immunology Seminar Series - Stuart Knechtle, MD: "Translational immunobiology lessons from large animal transplant models"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Stuart Knechtle, MD
Chemistry Defense: EJ McLaren: Copper-Catalyzed Electrophilic Amination of O-Acyl-N-Hydroxyamines with Alkenes for the Synthesis of Allylic Amines and Vicinal Diamines
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EJ McLaren
Outside of the Operating Room: How Orthopaedic Practice is Evolving
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
6:30 am - 7:30 am
IPE, 311 Trent Drive, Lecture Hall
Dr. Robin Kamal, MD
Duke Anesthesiology Grand Rounds
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Surgery Grand Rounds: Jeffrey P. Baker, MD, PhD
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Jeffrey P. Baker, MD, PhD
B&I Workshop: Steve Greene (NC State)
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
George W. Pearsall Lecture: Subra Suresh, "Deep Learning from Nature and Machines"
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Subra Suresh
RNHD | Stockwell: Ferroptosis and metabolism—mechanisms and therapeutic implications
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Brent R. Stockwell, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences; Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University; and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Neurobiology Student Seminar: Jillian Saunders
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Yes And!...Can Improv Help Us Navigate Uncertain Times?
Sponsor(s):
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and School of Medicine (SOM)
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tony Galanos & Dan Sipp
Joint NC BERD Seminar: Survival Analysis Methods
Sponsor(s):
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, BERD Core, and Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual
Mitchell Paukner, PhD
Pratt 2026 PhD Recruiting Visit - FEBRUARY
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering
Thursday, February 05, 2026
All Day
Microbial Modulation of Development and Chemical Resistance: Host-Microbiome Interactions Across Early Life and Evolutionary Timescales
Sponsor(s):
Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEHP) and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, February 05, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Grainger Hall room 1112 and Panopto
Emily Green, PhD candidate, Duke University
Critical Care Grand Rounds
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Thursday, February 05, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Via Zoom
The Future of Human-Robot Interaction
Thursday, February 05, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Kate Darling
Women’s Health Research Symposium
Sponsor(s):
School of Medicine (SOM), Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Research Career Development Programs
Friday, February 06, 2026
8:00 am - 1:15 pm
Medicine Grand Rounds: United Against Melanoma: Team-Based Care, Innovation, and Impact
Sponsor(s):
Department of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Medical Oncology, and Precision Genomics Collaboratory
Friday, February 06, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am
April KS Salama, MD, and Georgia M Beasley, MD
Nephrology Grand Rounds
Sponsor(s):
Division of Nephrology
Friday, February 06, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
CCN Colloquium: "Media and Morality – From Identifying Moral Representations in Narratives to Neural Signatures and Decoding of Moral Judgements."
Friday, February 06, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
René Weber, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
PCB Works in Progress
Friday, February 06, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Derek Zachman, MD, PhD (Hirschey Lab) & Paige Burrell, PhD (Kastan Lab)
Breaking Barriers, Building Bonds: 60 Years of Interfaith Dialogue After Nostra Aetate
Monday, February 09, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Technology and National Security Today: A Conversation with Kari Bingen
Monday, February 09, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Kari Bingen
Immunology Seminar Series - Claudia Jakubzick, PhD
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Claudia Jakubzick, PhD
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: How, and Why, We Connect: The Neurobiology of Adaptive, Multi-dimensional Social RelationshipsMichael Platt
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Michael Platt
A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Yukie Takeuchi (Art and Advertising Design History, Doshisha University)
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