CANCELLED - CNAS Seminar: Graduate education in the Biomedical Sciences: opportunities, preparation and training

CANCELLED - CNAS Seminar: Graduate education in the Biomedical Sciences: opportunities, preparation and training
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, February 24, 2017
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Speaker: Dr. Michael Grotewiel received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University after earning his B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Grotewiel received the NIH Research Career Development Award from 2001 to 2006 and the Outstanding Departmental Teaching Award in Health Sciences Education in 2007.

He is a member of the Genetics Society of America and the Research Society on Alcoholism. His laboratory uses the fruit fly to explore the molecular-genetic basis for behavior and disease. As a member of the VCU Alcohol Research Center, Dr. Grotewiel is principally interested in genes that influence ethanol (alcohol) intoxication in flies and how the human counterparts of these genes contribute to alcohol use disorder. Additionally, his laboratory is developing the fly as a model for identifying genes involved in mitochondrial disease/oxidative stress and for human diseases such as Wolfram syndrome.

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Open to public, alumni, current students, faculty, future students, staff
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