Venue: Room 705, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Li Tang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Venue: Qizhen Hall, Yuanzhengqizhen Hotel, Zijingang CampusSpeaker:Joachim Frank is the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.Photo: A. Mahmoud

Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Ye Grace Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Chang’s Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine

Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker:Zhihong Chen, Instructor, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University

Venue: Room 205, Administrative Building, School of Medicine, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Timothy K. Lu, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MITProf. Lu received his undergraduate and M.Eng. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thereafter, he obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and Ph.D. from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Program. Prof. Tim Lu joined MIT as Assistant Professor at the Department. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2010 and obtained a joint appointment at the Department of Biological Engineering in 2012.

Venue: Room 2201, The Second Affiliated Hospital of ZJU School of MedicineSpeaker: Wenyi Wei, Ph.D & Professor Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Venue: Zijingang Hall, 3th floor, Alumni Center, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Daniel Kastner, scientific director of National Human Genome Research Institute.Dr. Daniel Kastner obtained his A.B. summa cum laude in philosophy from Princeton University and a Ph.D. and M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. After completing an Internal Medicine residency and chief residency also at Baylor, Dr. Kastner moved to the NIH in 1985. He completed clinical Rheumatology training in the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), and then rose through the NIAMS faculty ranks to become NIAMS Clinical Director from 2005 to 2010. From 2008 to 2011 he was also the first NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Clinical Research. Since late 2010 he has served as Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Throughout his career at the NIH Dr. Kastner's research has focused on using genetic and genomic strategies to understand inherited disorders of inflammation, often stimulated by patients seen at the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Kastner's laboratory identified the gene mutated in familial Mediterranean fever by positional cloning, discovered the genetic basis for a second recurrent fever syndrome they named TRAPS (TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome), and made seminal genetic discoveries that establish other distinct illnesses as disorders of the IL-1 pathway, thus helping to define the role of IL-1 in human biology and establishing the conceptual basis for therapeutic trials with IL-1 inhibitors. More recently his laboratory has utilized genomic approaches in genetically complex disorders, such as Behçet's disease, and Dr. Kastner continues to maintain a very active clinical research program. His group also proposed the now widely accepted concept of autoinflammatory disease to denote disorders of innate immunity. Dr. Kastner has won a number of awards and honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2012.

Venue: Room 225, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Northwestern University

Venue: Room 228, Tin Ka-ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Adam R. Nelson, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.