Research Seminars

2024-25 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES SPEAKERS

1. Gina Lewin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

September 10, 2024

2. Batbileg Bor, PhD

Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

September 24, 2024

3. Ryan T. Demmer, PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

October 8, 2024

4. Seunghee Cha, DDS, PhD

Professor, Department of DN-Oral Medicine

Director – Center for Orphaned Autoimmune Disorders

College of Dentistry, University of Florida

October 22, 2024

5. Cristiane Miranda Franca, DDS, PhD

Assistant Professor – Department of Restorative Dentistry

Oregon Health & Science University, School of Dentistry

November 12, 2024

6. Rajesh Khanna, PhD

Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

University of Florida

December 10, 2024

7. Robert Schroth, DMD, MSc, PhD

Professor, and Clinician Scientist - Department of Preventive Dental Science

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

January 14, 2025

8. Richard Schneider, PhD

Professor, Department of Orthopedics Surgery

School of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

January 28, 2025

9. Dorota Kopycka-Kedzierawski, DDS, MPH

Professor, Department of Dentistry

Eastman Institute for Oral Health

University of Rochester Medical Center

February 11, 2025

10. Conrado Aparicio, Ph.D., MScEng

Vice-rectorate for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

University International of Catalunya, Barcelona

February 25, 2025

11. Malcolm Snead, DDS, PhD

Professor – Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC

University of Southern California

March 11, 2025

12. Melinda Larsen, PhD

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

University of Albany

March 25, 2025

13. Stella Alimperti, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

April 08, 2025

14. Joshua J. Emrick, DDS, PhD

Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics

University of Michigan School of Dentistry

April 22, 2025

15. Hae Lin Jang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

May 13, 2025

16. Umesh Deshmukh, Ph.D.

Professor, Arthritis and Clinical Immunology

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

May 27, 2025