Boston University Medical Campus
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (Evans Center)

“Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the spread of knowledge, freedom and democracy inspired Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece of modern design of the Gateway Arch”

Mission Statement

The goal of the Evans Center is to promote growth and discovery in emerging interdisciplinary biomedical research and educational areas by providing faculty affiliated with the Department of Medicine and with various schools, departments and centers at Boston University a dynamic, interdisciplinary organizational structure, which allows investigators with different areas of expertise to collectively address mechanisms of disease, and to facilitate new training opportunities.

Overview

Faculty affiliated with the Evans Center hold academic appointments with different departments. The Center provides opportunities for collaborations within Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs) organized around foci of common research interests. The extraordinary strength in biomedical and physical sciences at Boston University, and the support and development of the ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to both research and training in biomedical research. Basic science discovery promoted by ARCs are also available to the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and to other centers for collaborative translational applications.

You Are Invited

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THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES:

Jointly Sponsored by The Evans Center & The Department of Biochemistry

Spring 2012 Seminar Theme: Mitochondria: Engines of Life, Drivers of Disease

(All talks are in Keefer Auditorium, E111, 3pm)

March 27, 2012,
David G. Nicholls, Ph.D.
Professor of Mitochondrial Physiology, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, and Visiting Professor, University of Lund, Sweden
Title of talk: “The Bioenergetics of Mitochondria in the Cell”
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April 3, 2012
Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Title of talk: “Energyomics-Energenomics: A Mitochondrial Etiology of Complex Diseases”
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April 10, 2012
Richard Youle, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Chief Biochemistry Section, NIH, NINDS, Bethesda, MD
Title of talk: “Mitochondrial Quality Control and Parkinson’s Disease”

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Current ARC Meetings

Calcium Signaling, 1-2 meetings per month, please watch for the dates

Protein Trafficking, 2nd Monday of each month, 9:30-10:30am, L311

BU iPS Cell Bank/Regenerative Medicine, 1st Tuesday of each month, 9-10am, R3