Course Description
Please join the FAES Academic Programs team on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 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 October 6, 2025.Note you will have to register through Teams to join this event.
Join us on October 7 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:
FAES Educational Webinar Series: Through the Looking Glass: Choosing Optimal Imaging Strategy for Imaging Live Animals and Tissues
September 18, 2025 from 12 – 12:30PM ET
Location: Live Online
Speaker: Olena Kamenyeva, Ph.D., Staff scientist, Biological Imaging Facility, RTB, NIAID (BIOC 036)
Intravital imaging is a powerful technique that allows real-time visualization of cellular and molecular processes within living organisms at high spatial and temporal resolution. Its necessity for biomedical research lies in its unique ability to bridge the gap between in vitro findings and physiological relevance in vivo. Multiple strategies are available for researchers to image live organisms. Intraviatal microscopy (IVM) allows imaging live animals on organism level, while live tissue sectioning (LTS) permits imaging cell responses at an organ and tissue levels. Based on our extensive experience in imaging human pathogens in various animal models we suggest an algorithm for choosing an optimal imaging strategy for specific biomedical projects.
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Virtual Information Session: FAES Fall Programming
October 1, 2025 from 12:00pm – 12:30pm 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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Science Insight Series: Antibody Engineering in Medicine: Phage Display and Nanobodies
October 2, 2025 from 11:45 – 1:00PM ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Mitchell Ho, Ph.D.
This lecture will introduce phage display technology and its application in developing nanobodies. Phage display is a high-throughput, cost-effective method for drug discovery. The Ho Lab at the NCI has constructed nanobody phage display libraries derived from sharks and camels, which possess unique features valuable for developing therapeutics to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and other human illnesses.
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Science Insight Series: Organoids and Organotypic Slice Cultures: A New Way to Tackle Human-Specific Pathology in AD/ADRD?
November 13, 2025 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.
