
Dissertation Seminar: Plant dietary diversity promotes early-life microbiome maturation
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Monday, March 17, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Teresa McDonald

From Complete Genomes to Pangenomes: Expanding Our Understanding of Human Haplotype Variation
Sponsor(s):
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Biomedical Engineering (BME), Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Computer Science, Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), Precision Genomics Collaboratory, School of Medicine (SOM), and University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Monday, March 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Karen Miga, PhD

Dissertation Defense: Wenxi Xiao: Peri-Head Distance Coding in the Mouse Brainstem
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Monday, March 17, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wenxi Xiao

From Gambits to Assurances: Game-Theoretic Integration of Safety and Learning for Human-Centered Robotics
Sponsor(s):
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), Biomedical Engineering (BME), Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Duke Materials Initiative, and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Haimin Hu

Immunology Seminar Series - Filip Swirski, PhD: "Impact of Lifestyle factors on Brain-Body Communication"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Filip Swirski, PhD

Neurobiology Invited Seminar: Ethan Goldberg (rescheduled): "Spike generation and propagation in GABAergic interneurons in health and disease"
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Ethan Goldberg

Dissertation Seminar: Dietary Genomics As A Complementary Tool In Childhood Malnutrition Intervention
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
MSRB 3, 1125
Ammar Aqeel

CEE Seminar - Biofilm viscoelasticity promotes persistence
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Erin Gloag, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech.

Cracking the Code: Insights into Computing Education Postdoc Experiences
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online

Cracking the Code: Insights into Computing Education Postdoc Experiences
Sponsor(s):
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online

Theology Underground: The Theology of Lorraine Hansberry
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Rev. Racquel Gill and Rev. Mia McClain

MEMS Seminar: Bobby Noble (EPRI), "Decarbonization Pathways - How Dispatchable Gas Turbines Are Critical for Our Energy Trilemma."
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bobby Noble

Research in Progress: Karim Abdelaal
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Karim Abdelaal & Jeff RussKarim Abdelaal

Joint NC BERD Seminar: Leadership Skills
Sponsor(s):
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, BERD Core, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
12:25 pm - 1:25 pm
Virtual
Jamy Ard, PhD

Dissertation Defense: Tiffany Ko: “Regulation of olfactory epithelial cell fate by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2”
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Tiffany Ko

Book Forum: Marisol Negrón
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Marisol Negrón

Women in Energy: Panel Discussion & Networking Reception
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and EDGE: Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Kirby Reading Room, Fuqua School of Business
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Mobility network approaches for studying neighborhood inequality and change.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Jennifer Candipan - Brown University

DQC Seminar Series: 3D printed ion traps for quantum computing
Sponsor(s):
Duke Quantum Center
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Kristi Beck, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Duke CTPM Seminar Series - TBA
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Thursday, March 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
MSRBIII, Room 1125 and Via Zoom

BME Distinguished Seminar Series Kickoff with David Mooney
Sponsor(s):
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Thursday, March 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
David Mooney

“Can we personalize nutrition? The who, what, where and when of the NIH Nutrition for Precision Health Research Consortium”
Sponsor(s):
Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Thursday, March 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Leanne Redman, Ph.D.

Geographies of Resilience: Community-Driven Archiving for the Preservation of Penan Cultural Heritage
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Nicholas School of the Environment, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Friday, March 21, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. Shorna Allred

CCN Colloquium: "Advancing Health Science Despite the Psychological Quirkiness of Researchers"
Friday, March 21, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Kevin Weinfurt, Ph.D. (Duke University)

The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; the Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
Sponsor(s):
Philosophy
Friday, March 21, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Eric Schwitzgebel

Beautiful World, Where Are You? An Undergraduate Roundtable Conversation about Life in a Crisis
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, March 21, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Chandler Fry (Piedmont Community College) and Maci Mize (NC State), organizers

NCJSS welcomes Yemina Hadad
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 23, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Yemina Hadad
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DMI Seminar Presented by Arrelaine Dameron
Sponsor(s):
Duke Materials Initiative
Monday, March 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Arrelaine Dameron

Eco-Evolutionary Interactions of Bacteria, Phages, and Antibiotics within Cholera Patients
Sponsor(s):
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), Duke Microbiome Center, Immunology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), School of Medicine (SOM), and University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Monday, March 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jesse Shapiro, PhD

Concert & Discussion: Chords Behind the Bars - Songs from Sednaya Prison in Syria, 1980s-1990s
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Arts, Office of Global Affairs, and Provost's Office
Monday, March 24, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Health Equity and Upstander Workshop
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
8:00 am - 11:30 am
IPE Building Room 3280ABC
Erica Taylor, MD, MBA; and Melissa Segal, LCSW

Immunology Seminar Series - Bahareh Ajami, PhD: "Peripheral Blood and Microglia: Shared Stories in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Beyond"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Bahareh Ajami, PhD

Ruth K. Broad Seminar: Rod MacKinnon: Higher Order Transient structures and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Rod MacKinnon

Human Rights in Practice: Building a Human Rights Economy
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frank J. Gavin
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DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof Mariana Rossi
Sponsor(s):
Duke Materials Initiative, Biology, Biomedical Engineering (BME), Cell Biology, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Physics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Trinity College
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Mariana Rossi

FIP seminar: "Expansion Microscopy Demystified"
Sponsor(s):
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Xiaoyu Shi, Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine

An Experience in Interdisciplinary Health Systems Strengthening: Neurosurgery and Neurorehabilitation
Sponsor(s):
Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Research in Progress: Zijian 'Zack' Zhang & John Amodeo
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zack Zhang & John Amodeo
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Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Searches: A Toolkit for Educators and Leaders
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
IPE Building, 311 Trent Dr.
(multiple)

BERD Seminar: Project Oriented Workflows in R
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual
Shannon Pileggi, PhD
“Shaked in sorow and anguish and tribulation”: Holy Church in Crisis in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
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Damon Wilson
Sponsor(s):
American Grand Strategy (AGS), Hart Leadership Program, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Political Science, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Damon Wilson

Team Dynamics Workshop
Thursday, March 27, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
IPE Building Room 3280ABC
Mira Brancu, PhD

Interview Ready: Tools and Techniques for the Non-Academic Job Search
Thursday, March 27, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Online
Dara Wilson-Grant: Associate Director at the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Dissertation Seminar
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Thursday, March 27, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hannah Schmidt

Challenges and solutions to the plastic waste pandemic
Sponsor(s):
Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEHP) and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, March 27, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Grainger Hall room 1112 and Panopto
Jason Somarelli, PhD, Duke University

DQC Seminar Series: Quantum channel capacities
Sponsor(s):
Duke Quantum Center
Thursday, March 27, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Peter Shor, MIT

Addressing Extreme Heat through Faithful Community Resilience
Thursday, March 27, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Engineering AI for Surgery: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Friday, March 28, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Wikinson 021
Daniel A Hashimoto, MD MSTR

The Cognitive Foundations of Number
Sponsor(s):
Psychology and Neuroscience
Friday, March 28, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Steven T. Piantadosi

The Ethics of Memory with David Treuer, Ryan Falcioni, and Bz Zhang
Sponsor(s):
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Native American Studies Initiative (NASI)
Friday, March 28, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Ruth K. Broad Seminar: Doris Tsao: Representing the visual world
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Doris Tsao

CEE Seminar - Biological phosphorus removal through the lens of microbial ecosystems biology
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Katherine D. McMahon, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin

"The Will's Freedom in Piers Plowman"
Sponsor(s):
Philosophy
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
4:40 pm - 7:10 pm
Robert Pasnau

Being Michelle
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Duke Disability Alliance (DDA)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

MEMS Seminar: Omar Farha (Northwestern), "Smart and Programmable Sponges: from Basic Science to Implementation and Commercialization"
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Omar Farha

FIP Joint Student Seminar: 1st Talk "Auto-Aligning Handheld Optical Coherence Tomography Probe for Pediatric Retinal Imaging" and 2nd Talk "Investigation of carbon-based black pigments with pump-probe microscopy"
Sponsor(s):
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Amit Narawane, BME PhD Candidate and Heidi Kastenholz, Chemistry Phd Candidate, Duke University

Joint NC BERD Seminar: Analysis Of A Discrete Outcome
Sponsor(s):
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, BERD Core, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual
Hannah Ainsworth, PhD
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