Course Description
Please join the FAES Academic Programs team on July 16, 2026 from 12 to 12:30PM ET for a Virtual Information Session to learn more about our fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program!
The Teams link for the Information Session will be sent to you via email on June 16, 2026..
View the recording of our previous Virtual Information Session!
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Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
FAES Science Insight Series: Microscopic Imaging of the Retina in Patients Using Adaptive Optics
July 21, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Johnny Tam, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, NEI
Adaptive optics is a technology used in modern large astronomical telescopes for correcting aberrations in earth’s atmosphere. In this talk, I will describe how adaptive optics has transformed the field of retinal imaging, with examples of new clinical insights from studying patients with rare diseases at the NIH Clinical Center.
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FAES Educational Webinar Series: What You Can Discover with Single-Cell Sequencing: A Field Guide to scRNA-seq Applications
July 22, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET
Location: Live-Online
Speaker: Rajee Ganesan, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University (BIOF 555, BIOF 556)
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized the study of genomics. Here, we
discuss just a few applications of scRNA-seq downstream analysis, ranging from identifying cell-type-specific gene expression to uncovering regulatory evolution across species. We'll show how to use the bioinformatics pipeline established in BIOF 555/BIOF 556 as the foundation for answering large-scale biological questions. Whether you're interested in disease, development, or evolution, learn how to turn single-cell datasets into meaningful biological insights!
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FAES Science Insight Series: From Snapshots to Signals: Using AI to Personalize Addiction Care
August 6, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Brenda Curtis, Ph.D., Chief, Technology and Translational Research Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Addiction risk changes between clinic visits, but care systems often detect relapse, craving, and treatment disengagement only after they occur. This talk explores how artificial intelligence, digital phenotyping, smartphone sensing, and language analysis can help identify changing risk states earlier and support more timely, personalized, and ethically bounded addiction care.
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The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at NIH seeks to foster education and research in the biomedical sciences by providing instruction at the cutting edge of biological science and its evolving applications. Our goals also include responding to the educational and cultural needs of the NIH community and projecting FAES educational assets globally. All courses and workshops are open to the public. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS FAES admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.
