2021-2022 Seminars
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Joshua Gonzalez, PhD,
OFDIR Postdoctoral Fellow,
Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences,
OHSU
Title: “Autonomic Balance: How Fasting and Vaping Tilt the Scale”
Host: Nicole Bowles
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Cindy Perry, PhD, FNP-BC, FAHA
Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor,
School of Nursing,
OHSU
Title: "Promoting Physical Activity in Rural Communities"
Host: Brad Wipfli
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Glen Kisby, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
College of Osteopathic Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences
Title: “Western Pacific ALS/PDC: Will the real culprit stand-up!”
Host: Peter Spencer
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Zachary Nagel, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
Radiation Biology Environmental Health,
Harvard University
Title: "Measuring multi-pathway DNA repair landscapes to understand how human variation contributes to disease susceptibility"
Host: Caren Weinhouse
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Melissa Emery Thompson, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology,
Assistant Vice President for Research,
University of New Mexico
Co-director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project
Title: "Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Healthy Aging"
Host: Saurabh Thosar
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Jonathan S. Emens, MD, FABSM,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine,
Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine,
Affiliate Faculty, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences,
Staff Physician, VA Portland Health Care System
Title: “Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Rhythm Disorder: The Price of Electric Light”
Host: Steven Shea
April 6, 2022
Jingyi Qian, PhD
Instructor, Department of Medicine
Associate Physiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Associate Director of the Medical Chronobiology Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: "The interaction of the circadian system and physical activity on cardiometabolic outcomes"
Host: Andrew McHill
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Hiroko Kiyoshi-Teo, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor,
School of Nursing,
OHSU
Title: "Reducing fall risks in older adults in hospital and community using patient-centered communication approach: Motivational interviewing"
Host: David Hurtado
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Sayaka Inoue, PhD,
Scientific Research Associate
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
School of Medicine,
Stanford University
Title: “Neural basis underlying state changes in female social behaviors”
Host: Matt Butler
Friday, March 11, 2022
Elizabeth Holly, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Title: “Effects of stress and local striatal circuits on goal-directed behaviors”
Host: Matt Butler
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Christopher T. Minson, PhD
Kenneth and Kenda Singer Endowed
Professor of Human Physiology,
Department of Human Physiology,
University of Oregon
View Recorded Seminar
Title: “Get Out! Breaking out of our comfort zone to improve human health”
Host: Saurabh Thosar
Friday, March 4, 2022
Jordan Marrocco, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology,
Touro College and University System
New York, NY
Title: “Experiences nurturing the epigenome: allostatic circuits of the hippocampus”
Host: Matt Butler
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Xiaoting Wu, PhD,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Title: “5-HT in the medial septum regulates social memory”
Host: Matt Butler
Friday, February 25, 2022
Masatoshi Inoue, PhD,
Basic Life Research Scientist,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Title: “Understanding Social Circuit Dynamics in Autistic Model with Multiplexed Imaging and Control”
Host: Matt Butler
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Sharon Torigoe, PhD,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Lewis and Clark University
Title: "Mechanisms for Transcriptional Regulation in Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Host: Caren Weinhouse
Friday, February 18, 2022
Orna Issler, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Neuroscience Department,
Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai
Title: “The missing LINC Long non-coding RNA as key players in depression”
Host: Matt Butler
Friday, February 11, 2022
11:00AM - Noon
Daniel W Bayless, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
Title: “Sex on the brain: Sexually differentiated neural regulation of sex recognition and mating behavior”
Host: Matt Butler
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Morgan L Gustison, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Integrative Biology,
College of Natural Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
Title: “Strangers to partners: Neuro-behavioral signatures of pair-bonding”
Host: Matt Butler
February 2, 2022
Patrick McGowan , PhD
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Toronto Scarborough,
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Title: "Epigenetic Programming of the Response to Stress"
Host: Chuck Allen
January 5, 2022
Kimberly E. Beatty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Associate Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry,
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences,
OHSU School of Medicine, OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine, School of Medicine
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Genetically-encoded tags for correlated light and electron microscopy"
Host: R. Stephen Lloyd
December 1, 2021
Jenny Tung, PhD,
Associate Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology
Associate Professor, Biology,
Affiliate, Duke Population Research Institute and Center for Genomic and Computational Biology
Senior Fellow, Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Duke University
Title: "Social hierarchies, gene regulation, and health: lessons from our primate cousins"
Host: Caren Weinhouse
November 10, 2021
Francesca Luca, PhD,
Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Center For Molecular Medicine and Genetics,
Wayne State University
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Genetic, developmental and social factors in immune cell gene expression and health"
Host: Caren Weinhouse
November 3, 2021
Jessee Dietch, PhD
Assistant Professor,
School of Psychological Science,
Oregon State University
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Developing, Testing, and Launching CBTIweb: A web-based provider training in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia"
Host: Ryan Olson
October 27, 2021
Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, PhD
Associate Professor,
Director, Project Harvest,
Director, Gardenroots,
University of Arizona
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Participatory Research Methods to Address Layered Environmental Health Burdens and Mobilize Resilience"
Host: Nicole Bowles
October 13, 2021
Timothee Lionnet, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Cell Biology,
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Title: "Lighting up mechanisms of transcriptional dynamics and heterogeneity"
Host: Chuck Allen
October 6, 2021
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education,
Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine (General Medicine),
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Making Measurements Meaningful"
Host: David Hurtado, ScD
September 29, 2021
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center’s (OHWC) new cycle, 2021-2026
Hosts: Ryan Olson and Leslie Hammer
View Recorded Seminar
- Ryan Olson, PhD & Leslie Hammer, PhD
Co-Directors, Oregon Healthy Workforce CenterTitle: "OHWC Introduction"
- Nicole Bowles, PhD,
Assistant ProfessorTitle: "A natural experiment for the impact of schedules on sleep, health, and safety in firefighters"
- David Hurtado, ScD,
Assistant ProfessorTitle: "The Work-life Check-ins: A supervisor-driven intervention to reduce workers’ burnout"
- Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD,
Associate ProfessorTitle: "Development and validation of a Total Worker Health Climate Scale"
- Ryan Olson, PhD
Professor
Co-Director, Oregon Healthy Workforce CenterTitle: "Translating an intervention to address chronic pain among home care workers"
- Dede Montgomery, MS, CIH,
Senior Research AssociateTitle: "OHWC Outreach Core"
September 22, 2021
Ryan McGinnis, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
Deptartment of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering,
Assistant Director, Biomedical Engineering Program,
Director, M-Sense Research Group,
University of Vermont
View Recorded Seminar
Title: “Developing Digital Biomarkers, Phenotypes, and Therapeutics: The Future of Wearables for Improving Human Health"
Host: Steven A. Shea, PhD
September 8, 2021
Herman Pontzer, PhD,
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health,
Duke University
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Daily Energy Expenditure Across the Lifespan: Effects of Lifestyle, Age, and Evolution"
Host: Andrew McHill
September 1, 2021
Roman Baca, MFA
Co-founder, Artistic Director
Exit12 Dance Company
View Recorded Seminar
Title: "Choreographing War Stories to Provoke Healing, Peacebuliding, and Understanding"
Host: Krista Brockwood