Course Description
Please join the FAES Academic Programs team on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 from 12pm to 12:30pm ET for a Virtual Information Session to learn more about our partnership with Hood College!
The link to attend the Information Session will be sent to you via email on January 20, 2026.Note you will have to register through Teams to join this event.
Join us on January 20 at 12pm for a virtual information session featuring Dr. April Boulton, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Learn about flexible graduate degrees at Hood College and how your FAES coursework can count toward a Hood College degree or certificate. Upon acceptance to Hood College's master’s or certificate programs in bioinformatics, health informatics, project management and other areas, students may submit their official FAES transcript for course-transfer review by the program director. Approved FAES courses can be combined to meet Hood College requirements. Final approval must be issued by program chair for any course transfer.
To read about our the Hood College Graduate School and our guest, Dr. April Boulton, please visit the Hood College web site.
Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
Virtual Information Session: FAES Spring Programming
January 15, 2026 from 1 – 1:30PM ET
Location: Online Synchronous
Join the FAES Academic Programs Team to learn more about our Fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program.
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FAES Educational Webinar Series: The Importance of Qualitative Research: Using Open Ended Questions to Define the Unknown
January 21, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET
Location: Live-Online
Speaker: Julia Langer, University of Grenoble Alpes, France (LEAD 520)
Effective research starts with asking the right people the right questions. This seminar explores how grounded theory and qualitative inquiry help researchers understand the broader story before narrowing their focus. Attendees will learn how effectively used qualitative research aides researchers to ask questions to efficiently understand the heart of their investigation.
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Science Insight Series: Retrotransposons and Retroviruses; DNA on the Move
January 22, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Henry Levin, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, NICHD, Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile forms of DNA that dominate the eukaryotic genome. With regulatory sequences and high copy numbers TEs form regulatory networks that drive genome evolution. Our use of high read sequencing has identified layered mechanisms of TEs that enhance survival when confronted with environmental stress.
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FAES Educational Webinar Series: Redefining Education: Microcredentials and the Rise of Skill-Based Learning
February 4, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET
Location: Live-Online
Speaker: Angela Cosani, Bioscience Core Skills Institute (BCSI) (BIOL 002)
Skill-based microcredentials are reshaping education and workforce development. In this session, the Bioscience Core Skills Institute explores how verified competencies provide clearer signals of learner readiness, support industry-aligned training, and better meet the needs of biomedical and biotechnology employers. Learn how microcredentials transform career pathways and help educators adapt curricula for emerging workforce demands.
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Organoids and Organotypic Slice Cultures: A New Way to Tackle Human-Specific Pathology in AD/ADRD?
February 24 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Elise Marsan, Ph.D., Investigator, Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias, NIA; Ph.D. from Sorbonne Universities; Neuroscientist
This talk presents human iPSC-derived multicellular organoids and organotypic slice cultures from primate brain as innovative models to study neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and related dementias. These systems enable investigation of primate-specific neurons and circuits, revealing cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in AD/ADRD-affected brain regions.
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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.
