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Translational Research Seminar Series

The Translational Research Seminar Series highlights research from Kansas City area institutions. These seminars are intended to provide an avenue for meaningful discussions and collaborations that move foundational science discoveries into practice more quickly and efficiently for the benefit of human health. Held during the academic year, the seminars are co-organized and attended by researchers from the Stowers Institute, Children’s Mercy, the University of Kansas Medical Center, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Seminars are currently offered in hybrid format. For more information and the virtual attendance link, please contact TranslationalResearchSeminar_u@stowers.org.

Past Translational Research Seminar Series Events

May 232023

Translational Research Seminar Series

Using Astyanax mexicanus as a model to investigate altered glucose metabolism

4:00 pm | Ansa Cobham, Ph.D. | Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Children's Mercy Research Institute and Teams Livestream

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Colorful graphic depicting a genomic sequence

May 232023

Translational Research Seminar Series

Nutrition before and after cancer treatments: Current evidence and emerging approaches to improve outcomes

4:00 pm | Jill Hamilton-Reeves, Ph.D., R.D., C.S.O. | University of Kansas Medical Center

Children's Mercy Research Institute and Teams Livestream

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Colorful graphic depicting a genomic sequence

Mar 302023

Translational Research Seminar Series

Neuroscience Drug Discovery in Ophthalmology

4:00 pm | Peter Koulen | University of Missouri – Kansas City

Webinar

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Mar 302023

Translational Research Seminar Series

Pomacea canaliculata: a new research organism to study camera eye regeneration

4:00 pm | Alice Accorsi | Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Webinar

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Dec 012022

Translational Research Seminar Series

Understanding the dynamic roles for RNA Polymerase I subunits in embryonic development and disease

4:00 pm | Kristin Watt, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Trainor Lab, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Virtual Teams Meeting

Dec 012022

Translational Research Seminar Series

POLR1C-related disorders: Applying new technologies, dynamic analysis and expanding the clinical spectrum

4:00 pm | Isabelle Thiffault, PhD Director of Translational Genetics – Clinical lab, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

Virtual Teams Meeting

Sep 292022

Translational Research Seminar Series

Bench to Bedside and Back Again

4:00 pm | Scott Weir, PharmaD, PhD

Development of KU-Invented Fosciclopirox for the Treatment of Solid Tumor Cancers and Hematologic Malignancies.

May 102022

Translational Research Seminar Series

Role of genetic interaction between ciliary paralogs, Thm2 and Thm1, in postnatal skeletogenesis

Erin Bumann, DDS, PhD (UMKC) & Pamela Tran, PhD (KUMC)

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