RECOVER Study on Long COVID: Virtual Town Hall Recap
ISB hosted a virtual event to share updates on the ongoing RECOVER study, a national NIH-funded initiative to understand and address Long COVID.
Events Archive
Get caught up on ISB events.
ISB makes many of our events available on our YouTube channel. We have also collected and organized these events below.
Dr. Sean Gibbons with former research associate Kat Ramos at ISB. Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures.
Previous Events
ISB-Developed MetaboCore Offers Precision Cancer Care Faster Than Ever
Dr. Wei Wei has developed a promising new companion diagnostic tool called MetaboCore to help physicians quickly select the most effective systemic therapy for each cancer patient.
A Gut Feeling: Microbes and Their Impacts on Our Minds
There has been an explosion of research into the two-way communication between the gut microbiota and the brain. This year, ISB hosted a virtual microbiome series dedicated to exploring the gut-brain axis.
ISB-Town Hall Events
Hack Your Health: An Evening with Anjali Nayar and Dr. Sean Gibbons
Netflix’s “Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut” is a documentary that merged gut microbiome experts, four individuals – including a well-known hot dog eating champion – facing personal battles with gastrointestinal health, and a unique, effective visual method of “showing” the gut microbiome in action.
Revolutionizing Healthcare: Exploring the Age of Scientific Wellness for Optimal Health and Disease Prevention
In their new book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and In Your Hands,” Drs. Lee Hood and Nathan Price introduce a new way of thinking about healthcare – a focus on preventing diseases and optimizing overall wellness.
Ginny Ruffner and Dr. Jim Heath Explore the Intersection of Art and Science
Renowned artist Ginny Ruffner and ISB President Dr. Jim Heath delivered a lecture at Town Hall Seattle about the intersection of art and science. They spoke about how creation stories tie scientists and artists together, and how their approaches are both similar and different from that point on.
Research Roundtable Events
ISB-Developed MetaboCore Offers Precision Cancer Care Faster Than Ever
Dr. Wei Wei has developed a promising new companion diagnostic tool called MetaboCore to help physicians quickly select the most effective systemic therapy for each cancer patient.
My Digital Gut: Making Nutrition and Healthcare Personalized, Predictive, and Preventive
Dr. Sean Gibbons is creating a new precision nutrition platform called My Digital Gut that leverages the gut microbiome to make nutrition and healthcare personalized, predictive, and preventive. In an ISB Research Roundtable presentation, Gibbons spoke about My Digital Gut and other microbiome-related projects studied in his lab.
Breakthrough T Cell Discovery Has Huge Potential for Engineering Custom Immune Responses
In a breakthrough discovery that changes how we understand T cells and with implications of how we can better engineer custom immune responses to fight disease, Institute for Systems Biology researchers showed that the different disease-fighting functions of different T cells are determined by the genetically encoded T-cell receptor sequence that are unique to those cells.
Courses and Symposia
A Gut Feeling: Microbes and Their Impacts on Our Minds
There has been an explosion of research into the two-way communication between the gut microbiota and the brain. This year, ISB hosted a virtual microbiome series dedicated to exploring the gut-brain axis.
Celebrating Professor Shmulevich’s Life and Scientific Contributions
ISB hosted a full-day symposium – titled Resonance – celebrating the life and scientific contributions of Professor Ilya Shmulevich, who passed away in April 2024 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
Systems Biology of Aging Virtual Workshop
ISB hosted the Systems Biology of Aging Virtual Workshop in May 2024 for graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators, industry scientists, and educators. The course provided practical tools for performing multi-omic systems biology analyses to advance the study of aging.
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