STEM lecture series SP 2018
S T E M
LECTURE SERIES S P R I N G 2 0 1 8 DAVE MOONEY
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences Bioengineered Cancer Therapies
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 at 7 PM Klebanoff Auditorium, Judge Science Center David Mooney is the Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute. His laboratory designs biomaterials to make cell and protein therapies effective and practical approaches to treat disease. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has won numerous awards, including the Clemson Award from the SFB, MERIT award from the NIH, Distinguished Scientist Award from the IADR, Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard College. His inventions have been licensed by numerous companies, leading to commercialized products, and he is active on industrial scientific advisory boards.
HANS DAM
Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut Arms Race Between Predator and Dangerous Prey in the Ocean
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7 PM
Klebanoff Auditorium, Judge Science Center Dr. Hans Dam is a biological oceanographer interested in the biology, ecology and evolution of planktonic organisms. Earlier in his career he investigated questions dealing with the role of planktonic organisms in biogeochemical cycles in the ocean, and the formation and fate of marine aggregates. Currently, his focus is on the evolutionary ecology of plankton, specifically on two topics: 1) Reciprocal adaptations between grazers and toxic microalgae. Dr. Dam’s group experimentally studies the evolution of grazer tolerance to neurogenic phytoplankton. He uses copepods, the most abundant animals on earth, and dinoflagellates, which are responsible for red tides in New England, to pursue these studies. 2) Copepod adaptation to climate change. Dr. Dam is interested in examining how copepods will respond to a green-house world (high temperature and high carbon dioxide). Dr. Dam, a native of Venezuela, received a B.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland before taking a faculty position at the University of Connecticut, where is currently a full professor. Dr. Dam is a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science, a sustaining fellow of the Association for the Study of Limnology and Oceanography, and an elected member of the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering, and the Connecticut Academy for Arts and Sciences. Dr. Dam has written nearly 90 scholarly research articles. In addition to his many research grants and awards, Dr. Dam has received grants that integrate educational and research activities from the National Science Foundation (CAREER award) and the Office of Naval Research (AASERT award). One of his proudest accomplishments is training of excellent graduate and undergraduate students.
LECTURE SERIES S P R I N G 2 0 1 8 DAVE MOONEY
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences Bioengineered Cancer Therapies
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 at 7 PM Klebanoff Auditorium, Judge Science Center David Mooney is the Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute. His laboratory designs biomaterials to make cell and protein therapies effective and practical approaches to treat disease. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has won numerous awards, including the Clemson Award from the SFB, MERIT award from the NIH, Distinguished Scientist Award from the IADR, Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard College. His inventions have been licensed by numerous companies, leading to commercialized products, and he is active on industrial scientific advisory boards.
HANS DAM
Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut Arms Race Between Predator and Dangerous Prey in the Ocean
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7 PM
Klebanoff Auditorium, Judge Science Center Dr. Hans Dam is a biological oceanographer interested in the biology, ecology and evolution of planktonic organisms. Earlier in his career he investigated questions dealing with the role of planktonic organisms in biogeochemical cycles in the ocean, and the formation and fate of marine aggregates. Currently, his focus is on the evolutionary ecology of plankton, specifically on two topics: 1) Reciprocal adaptations between grazers and toxic microalgae. Dr. Dam’s group experimentally studies the evolution of grazer tolerance to neurogenic phytoplankton. He uses copepods, the most abundant animals on earth, and dinoflagellates, which are responsible for red tides in New England, to pursue these studies. 2) Copepod adaptation to climate change. Dr. Dam is interested in examining how copepods will respond to a green-house world (high temperature and high carbon dioxide). Dr. Dam, a native of Venezuela, received a B.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland before taking a faculty position at the University of Connecticut, where is currently a full professor. Dr. Dam is a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science, a sustaining fellow of the Association for the Study of Limnology and Oceanography, and an elected member of the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering, and the Connecticut Academy for Arts and Sciences. Dr. Dam has written nearly 90 scholarly research articles. In addition to his many research grants and awards, Dr. Dam has received grants that integrate educational and research activities from the National Science Foundation (CAREER award) and the Office of Naval Research (AASERT award). One of his proudest accomplishments is training of excellent graduate and undergraduate students.
