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"Life in Flux: The Science of Autophagy"
Dartmouth Symposium for the Life Sciences
October 6, 2026
8am-4pm
Hanover Inn
Registration required. For details visit: https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/lss/
Dartmouth Symposium for the Life Sciences
October 6, 2026
8am-4pm
Hanover Inn
Registration required. For details visit: https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/lss/
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program
THESIS DEFENSE
Alexandrea Turnquist
“PⲒ3Kδ inhibition alters CD8 T cell differentiation and reprograms the tumor microenvironment following adoptive immunotherapy”
Thursday, October 8, 2026
11:00 A.M.
Auditorium G (DHMC)
Zoom
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/95812778930?pwd=4aTmdiQbz1Xfal8I5ibSWXXacZGalj.1
Meeting ID: 958 1277 8930
Passcode: 100826
Advisor: Edward Usherwood
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program
THESIS DEFENSE
Alexandrea Turnquist
“PⲒ3Kδ inhibition alters CD8 T cell differentiation and reprograms the tumor microenvironment following adoptive immunotherapy”
Thursday, October 8, 2026
11:00 A.M.
Auditorium G (DHMC)
Zoom
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/95812778930?pwd=4aTmdiQbz1Xfal8I5ibSWXXacZGalj.1
Meeting ID: 958 1277 8930
Passcode: 100826
Advisor: Edward Usherwood
David Mankoff, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Research, University of Pennsylvania
Presenting: Molecular Imaging as a Cancer Biomarker: From Concept to Practice
Vice Chair of Research, University of Pennsylvania
Presenting: Molecular Imaging as a Cancer Biomarker: From Concept to Practice
Christy Niemeyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology
University of Colorado Anschutz
School of Medicine
Aurora, CO
Host: Evelyn Turnbaugh
“Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 as a Driver of Pathological Glial Remodeling”
Monday, October 5, 2026 @ 3PM
Borwell 658W
In Person Only
Assistant Professor
Neurology
University of Colorado Anschutz
School of Medicine
Aurora, CO
Host: Evelyn Turnbaugh
“Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 as a Driver of Pathological Glial Remodeling”
Monday, October 5, 2026 @ 3PM
Borwell 658W
In Person Only
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program
THESIS DEFENSE
Evelyn Turnbaugh
“Etiology and prevention of cognitive dysfunction following neonatal herpes simplex virus infection”
Monday, October 5, 2026
11:30 A.M.
Auditorium G (DHMC)
Zoom
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99926069126?pwd=2jd4cSIBbN7LxPnO2vzXNr4NO9O5Pq.1
Meeting ID: 999 2606 9126
Passcode: 100526
Advisor: David Leib
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program
THESIS DEFENSE
Evelyn Turnbaugh
“Etiology and prevention of cognitive dysfunction following neonatal herpes simplex virus infection”
Monday, October 5, 2026
11:30 A.M.
Auditorium G (DHMC)
Zoom
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99926069126?pwd=2jd4cSIBbN7LxPnO2vzXNr4NO9O5Pq.1
Meeting ID: 999 2606 9126
Passcode: 100526
Advisor: David Leib
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Dartmouth Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Seminar
Presented By
Kristin Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Host: Alexandrea Turnquist
"Restoring Effective Antitumor Immunity in Ovarian Cancer"
Thursday, Oct. 8th, 2026
9:30 AM
ZOOM ONLY
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91984937815?pwd=U1fZzrhb0FAQKxypaoCbaSbsesF8aW.1
Meeting ID: 919 8493 7815
Passcode: 100826
Dartmouth Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Seminar
Presented By
Kristin Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Host: Alexandrea Turnquist
"Restoring Effective Antitumor Immunity in Ovarian Cancer"
Thursday, Oct. 8th, 2026
9:30 AM
ZOOM ONLY
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91984937815?pwd=U1fZzrhb0FAQKxypaoCbaSbsesF8aW.1
Meeting ID: 919 8493 7815
Passcode: 100826
Free and open to the public.
The Health Economics and Policy Lab at Dartmouth College is bringing together researchers, clinicians, and organization leaders to discuss pressing issues in health, health policy, and health economics. The symposium will feature five panels: 1) maternal health, disparities, and outcomes, 2) US prescription drug pricing, 3) social determinants of health and health safety nets, 4) substance use and mental health care in New England, and 5) primary care access and shortages. The event is designed for a broad audience, with a focus on welcoming students, faculty, local stakeholders, and others interested in these topics.
The Health Economics and Policy Lab at Dartmouth College is bringing together researchers, clinicians, and organization leaders to discuss pressing issues in health, health policy, and health economics. The symposium will feature five panels: 1) maternal health, disparities, and outcomes, 2) US prescription drug pricing, 3) social determinants of health and health safety nets, 4) substance use and mental health care in New England, and 5) primary care access and shortages. The event is designed for a broad audience, with a focus on welcoming students, faculty, local stakeholders, and others interested in these topics.
Discovery Science Seminar Series
Nadya Dimitrova, PhD
"Regulatory Long Noncoding RNAs Functions, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential in Cancer”
Monday, October 5, 2025 at 12noon
Kellogg 200
Host: Esteban Orellana
Nadya Dimitrova, PhD
"Regulatory Long Noncoding RNAs Functions, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential in Cancer”
Monday, October 5, 2025 at 12noon
Kellogg 200
Host: Esteban Orellana
The Department of Biomedical Data Science invites you to attend a seminar in person on Thursday, October 8 from 11:00-12:00pm at DHMC, Auditorium H with Xiao Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University.
Talk title: “Causal Machine Learning Methods to Assess Long-Term Impacts of Extreme Weather Events and Policies”
Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
The presentation will take place both in person at DHMC, Auditorium H (and via Zoom) and we encourage as many of you to attend in person as possible. Please write to biomedical.data.science@dartmouth.edu to request the Zoom login details.
Please see description below for more details.
Please invite your fellow faculty colleagues, research associates, graduate trainees, and post-docs!
Presentation Summary
Extreme weather events, including wildfires and tropical cyclones, are becoming more frequent and intense, yet substantial gaps remain in understanding how their health and social consequences evolve over multiple years in affected communities. This talk introduces covariate-balanced synthetic control, a new causal inference approach that connects synthetic control with covariate balancing methods and incorporates tailored balance conditions to accommodate high-dimensional pre-exposure covariates, improving the feasibility and computational efficiency of estimation in large-scale environmental data. Dr. Wu will illustrate the approach through two applications: an analysis of satellite-based fire activity across California forests from 2000 to 2021, which found that low-intensity fires substantially reduce the risk of subsequent high-intensity wildfires, and an analysis of U.S. tropical cyclones from 2005 to 2018, which characterized changes in social vulnerability.
Biography
Xiao Wu is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University and a Health AI Scientist at Meta. His research develops statistical, machine learning, and causal inference methods to address methodological challenges in health research, with particular emphasis on generating evidence and policy solutions to mitigate the health impacts of environmental and climate-related exposures. Dr. Wu is also interested in health technologies and AI evaluation for health applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University and completed a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, Dr. Wu has published in Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Planetary Health, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and his work has been featured by international media including The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and the Financial Times.
Talk title: “Causal Machine Learning Methods to Assess Long-Term Impacts of Extreme Weather Events and Policies”
Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
The presentation will take place both in person at DHMC, Auditorium H (and via Zoom) and we encourage as many of you to attend in person as possible. Please write to biomedical.data.science@dartmouth.edu to request the Zoom login details.
Please see description below for more details.
Please invite your fellow faculty colleagues, research associates, graduate trainees, and post-docs!
Presentation Summary
Extreme weather events, including wildfires and tropical cyclones, are becoming more frequent and intense, yet substantial gaps remain in understanding how their health and social consequences evolve over multiple years in affected communities. This talk introduces covariate-balanced synthetic control, a new causal inference approach that connects synthetic control with covariate balancing methods and incorporates tailored balance conditions to accommodate high-dimensional pre-exposure covariates, improving the feasibility and computational efficiency of estimation in large-scale environmental data. Dr. Wu will illustrate the approach through two applications: an analysis of satellite-based fire activity across California forests from 2000 to 2021, which found that low-intensity fires substantially reduce the risk of subsequent high-intensity wildfires, and an analysis of U.S. tropical cyclones from 2005 to 2018, which characterized changes in social vulnerability.
Biography
Xiao Wu is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University and a Health AI Scientist at Meta. His research develops statistical, machine learning, and causal inference methods to address methodological challenges in health research, with particular emphasis on generating evidence and policy solutions to mitigate the health impacts of environmental and climate-related exposures. Dr. Wu is also interested in health technologies and AI evaluation for health applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University and completed a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, Dr. Wu has published in Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Planetary Health, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and his work has been featured by international media including The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and the Financial Times.
Anesthetic Considerations for the Pediatric Patient
Stephanie Black, MD, Med
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Health
Stephanie Black, MD, Med
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Dartmouth Health
Stories from the Shadows: A Conversation with Street Medicine Doctor Jim O’Connell
What does a life devoted to profound service do to you both professionally and personally?
After four decades of delivering care to homeless persons in Boston, Dr. Jim O’Connell has inspired a generation of healthcare professionals to rethink the boundaries of compassion and reimagine what is possible. Dr. O’Connell will talk about his commitment to this vocational path and the stories that have changed him.
In this hybrid Bullock '65 Distinguished Speaker Seminar, join Dartmouth’s Dr. Manish K. Mishra and Prof. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song in conversation with Jim O’Connell, MD, as they mine the depths of a visionary doctor’s experience in practicing some of the most humanistic forms of medicine.
Registration required. https://dartgo.org/e57oct26
What does a life devoted to profound service do to you both professionally and personally?
After four decades of delivering care to homeless persons in Boston, Dr. Jim O’Connell has inspired a generation of healthcare professionals to rethink the boundaries of compassion and reimagine what is possible. Dr. O’Connell will talk about his commitment to this vocational path and the stories that have changed him.
In this hybrid Bullock '65 Distinguished Speaker Seminar, join Dartmouth’s Dr. Manish K. Mishra and Prof. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song in conversation with Jim O’Connell, MD, as they mine the depths of a visionary doctor’s experience in practicing some of the most humanistic forms of medicine.
Registration required. https://dartgo.org/e57oct26
OCTOBER 9, 2026
Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
About the Presentation: Most young people who self-injure never seek treatment, yet many turn to the internet for help. This talk presents an NIMH-funded research program designed to close this gap by developing and implementing digital interventions for adolescents and young adults who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). In partnership with Mental Health America, the nation’s largest mental health nonprofit, we co-designed these interventions for delivery on its website, which reaches millions of people each year. I will share lessons from our design and usability testing, results from a randomized controlled trial, and our development of an NSSI screener to connect visitors directly to care. The talk will close with future directions for delivering highly personalized interventions to this population through community-based organizations like MHA.
About the Presenter: Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is core faculty in the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) and affiliate faculty in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design. A digital mental health researcher with expertise in human-centered design, she develops, evaluates, and implements digital interventions for people who are underrepresented in traditional treatment, including young people who engage in self-harm. Her work is guided by a simple principle: meet people where they already are. That means implementing interventions through community-based organizations that people already trust, and in the online spaces where many young people who self-injure first look for information and support, often long before seeking formal care.
Dr. Kruzan completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in digital mental health at CBITs and holds a PhD in Communication from Cornell University, an MSW from The Ohio State University, and an MA in Communication from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
About the Presentation: Most young people who self-injure never seek treatment, yet many turn to the internet for help. This talk presents an NIMH-funded research program designed to close this gap by developing and implementing digital interventions for adolescents and young adults who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). In partnership with Mental Health America, the nation’s largest mental health nonprofit, we co-designed these interventions for delivery on its website, which reaches millions of people each year. I will share lessons from our design and usability testing, results from a randomized controlled trial, and our development of an NSSI screener to connect visitors directly to care. The talk will close with future directions for delivering highly personalized interventions to this population through community-based organizations like MHA.
About the Presenter: Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is core faculty in the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) and affiliate faculty in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design. A digital mental health researcher with expertise in human-centered design, she develops, evaluates, and implements digital interventions for people who are underrepresented in traditional treatment, including young people who engage in self-harm. Her work is guided by a simple principle: meet people where they already are. That means implementing interventions through community-based organizations that people already trust, and in the online spaces where many young people who self-injure first look for information and support, often long before seeking formal care.
Dr. Kruzan completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in digital mental health at CBITs and holds a PhD in Communication from Cornell University, an MSW from The Ohio State University, and an MA in Communication from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Auditorium E
Topic: Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: Stuck in the Past?
Speaker: Jared E. Quast, MD, Epileptologist, Assistant Residency Program Director, Neurology Department, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Topic: Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: Stuck in the Past?
Speaker: Jared E. Quast, MD, Epileptologist, Assistant Residency Program Director, Neurology Department, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center