COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine emphasizes the dissemination of scientific knowledge into the community. Faculty members of the Institute actively participate in local and national scientific lectures. These lectures address a wide range of audience including students, industry and local administration personnel, club and foundation members and members of the community. The series during the past two years included the following lectures:

• Chamber of Commerce TechCouncil Technology Briefing, Winston-Salem
• Greater Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting
• Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurial Network’s Triad Life Sciences Conference, Greensboro
• Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology Class, Elon University
• North Carolina Tissue Engineering Interest Group, Research Triangle Park
• Annual Biotech Conference, Raleigh, NC
• Canadian vaccine and Biodefense Mission to North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC
• Regenerative Medicine Interest Group, Asheboro
• Rotary Clubs of Clemmons, Greensboro and High Point
• Kulynych Reception, Grandfather Mountain
• Kiwanis Club, Greensboro
• Kilpatrick Stockton Attorney Dinner, Winston-Salem
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Greensboro, Piedmont and Cincinnati Chapters
• Mini-Med School at BestHealth in Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem
• Old Hickory Council Boy Scouts of America, Winston-Salem
• Wake Forest University Molecular Medicine Graduate Program
• Wake Forest University MD/PhD Student Association
• 20th Annual Medical Student Research Day, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Wake Forest University/Chamber of Commerce BioSummer Laboratories for Learning Program
• University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School
  
  

As part of the Institute’s educational mission, Institute faculty also participate in teaching activities throughout the Triad Region. Guest lectures and scientific demonstrations are given at all academic levels, including K-12, community colleges, and other universities. Informing the public and educating students about regenerative medicine is an important public service provided by the scientists and clinicians at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Dr. Mark Van Dyke, Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, teaches a group of second grade students at Sherwood Forest Elementary in Winston Salem about matter.

Dr. Shay Soker, Associate Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, hosting a visit of 7th grade students from Bna’i Shalom Day School in Greensboro, NC. The students visited the lab and learned about the new technologies in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. They rotated in groups between four stations, and in each station they met one of the lab members who explained and demonstrated a specific laboratory technique. In the tissue culture station the students learned how to isolate cells from tissues and how to grow them in the lab. In the histology station, the students learned how to process a tissue for microscopic examination in order to evaluate its structure. In the electron microscope station, the students saw a presentation of an electron microscope capable of magnifying very small objects, such as hair, up to 2000-fold. In the muscle physiology station, the student learned about a system that could measure muscle activities such as relaxation and contractility.