Overview
The SF2UF Bridge to the Baccalaureate Program sponsors a lecture series where University of Florida scientists in the biomedical and behavioral sciences-related fields visit SF and share the myriad of research possibilities available at UF. The series runs parallel to the Entering Research course (ISC2931) during the fall and spring terms.
Spring 2020
All lectures are on Tuesdays from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
- Jan. 21 - Room P-131: Dr. Verlin Joseph, Graduate research assistant, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida. Title: Marijuana Use and Pain
- Jan. 28 - Room P-131: Ms. Alexandra Hernandez, Graduate research assistant, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida. Title: Why Do We Use Those Methods?
Fall 2019
- Oct. 1 - Room P-131: Ms. Lauren Roberts, Graduate research assistant, University of Florida. Title: For the Love of Pathogens!
- Oct. 15 - Room P-131: Dr. John Mendoza-Garcia, Lecturer, Department of Engineering Education, University of Florida. Title: Creating Engineering Solutions in Socio-technical Environments
- Oct. 29 - Room P-131: Ms. Leanne Dumeny, Graduate research assistant, MD/Ph.D. student, University of Florida. Title: Changing the Practice of Medicine: Why do an MD/Ph.D.?
- Nov. 5 - Room P-131: Dr. Jerry Johnston, Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Santa Fe College. Title: What Does a Turtle Ecologist Do?
Spring 2019
- Jan. 29 - Room P-131: Dr. Sharonda Harris, Postdoctoral associate in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida. Title: My Journey as a Research Scientist
- Feb. 26 - Room P-131: Dr. Chris Janelle, Associate Dean, College of Health and Human Performance, and Professor and Director of the Performance Psychology Laboratory, University of Florida. Title: A Moving Journey: Discovering How Emotions Affect Motor Performance
- April 9 - Room P-131: Dr. Vertigo Moody, Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Sciences, Santa Fe College. Title: Leadership in Higher Education
Fall 2018
- Sept. 11 - Room P-131, Dr. Jose Abisambra, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Lost in translation: Spanish, Science, and Passion
- Sept. 25 - Room P-131, Dr. Joseph Larkin, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida. Title: Developing Strategies to Prevent Autoimmunity
- Oct. 9 - Room P-131, Ms. Latoya Allen, Graduate Student, Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Relearning to Breathe After Spinal Cord Injury
- Oct. 16 - Room P-131, Dr. Samantha Wisely, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida. Title: Pathogen Pollution from Invasive Species
Spring 2018
- Jan. 23 - Room P-131, Dr. Nancy Denslow, Professor and Director of Aquatic Toxicology, Joint appointment College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiological Sciences and College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida. Title: Contaminants of Concern for Human and Environmental Health.
- Feb. 27 - Room P-131, Dr. Josephine Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Title: Cell Engineering and Biomaterial Strategies for Tissue Engineering.
- March 20 - Room P-131, Ms. Adania Flemming, Florida Museum of Natural History, Graduate Student, Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida. Title: My Journey to Fish, Life as a Naturalist!
- April 10 - Room P-131, Dr. Charles Baer, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida. Title: Understanding Variation in Genetic Variation
Fall 2017
- Sept. 26 - Room P-131, Dr. Peter Kima, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) at the University of Florida. Title: Home building issues: The development of a drug from basic studies to understand the construction of the Leishmania parasitophorous vacuole (Leishmania parasite’s home)
- Oct. 24 - Room P-131, Dr. Antonio Webb, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Title: Biodegradable Elastomers for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
- Nov. 14 - Room P-131, Dr. Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, Assistant Professor, Institute on Aging within the College of Medicine at the University of Florida Title: The Neuroscience of Pain
Spring 2017
- Jan. 31 - Room P-136, Dr. Laurence Morel, Professor; Director, Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Lupus Research at the University of Florida
- Feb. 14 - Room P-136, Dr. Martin Cohn, Professor Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Can we answer the big questions that we asked in preschool?
- March 14 - Room P-136, Dr. Naohiro Terada, Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Stem Cell Research in the Era of Personal Genomics
- April 4 - Room P-136, Dr. Habibeh Khoshbouei, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: How did I get here? My journey in academia and science
Fall 2016
- Oct. 18 - Room P-136, Dr. Christine Schmidt, Professor and Chair, J. Crayton Pruitt Family
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida. Title: Growing New Body Parts: Fact or Fiction?
- Oct. 25 - Room P-136, Dr. Kyle Allen, Assistant Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida. Title: A Hop, Skip, and a Jump: My journey into the science of motion
- Nov. 15 - Room P-136, Dr. Diego Rincon-Limas, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Title: Modeling human diseases in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Spring 2016
- Jan. 19 - Room P-136, Dr. Coy Heldermon, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UF&Shands Breast Center, medical oncologist. Title: Many Roads, One Goal!
- Feb. 23 - Room P-136, Dr. Linda Cottler, Dean’s Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Epidemiology. Title: Research in My Life
- April 5 - Room S-29/30 (next to the SF Bookstore), Dr. Habibeh Khoshbouei, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience. Title: "Methamphetamine Has a Long Lasting Effect on Your Brain"
- April 12 - Room S-29/30 (next to the SF Bookstore), Dr. Lori Knackstedt, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology. Title: "Using animal models to understand and treat psychiatric diseases"
Fall 2015
- Dr. Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Charles A. Stokes Term Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida. Title: Nanoscale Thermal Cancer Therapy Using Magnetic Nanoparticles
- Dr. Roger Fillingim, Professor, College of Dentistry, University of Florida. Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly