2022 Seminars

2022 FALL Schedule

Seminars are held in HSC 401, unless otherwise noted.

 

September 27

Michael Hall, PhD
Head of Research Group, University of Basel
The Center for Molecular Life Sciences

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty

October 4

Wei Li, PhD
Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics; Division of Computational Biomedicine, Biological Chemistry
School of Medicine
UC Irvine

Hosted by Dr. Alessandro Gennarino

 

October 11

Ari Melnick, MD, PhD
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine/Pharmacology; Director, Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences
Laurel Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology in Honor of Morton Coleman, M.D, Weill Cornell Medicine
 

Hosted By Dr. Chao Lu

October 18

Marco Sardiello, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis

Hosted by Dr. Alessandro Gennarino

October 20 - Special Seminar @3:00pm in HHSC- Lower level 1- Room 110

Shawna Buttery, PhD

Lead Editor at Cell Press for STAR Protocols

Hosted by Dr. Alessandro Gennarino

October 25

Michael Kharas, PhD
Cancer Biologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Hosted by Dr. Aaron Viny

November 1

Bing Ren, Ph.D
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
UC San Diego

Hosted by Dr. Zhiguo Zhang

November 15

Feng Yue, PhD
Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis
Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Pathology
Northwestern University

Hosted by Dr. Zhiguo Zhang

November 29

Kathryn E. Wellen, PhD
Professor of Cancer Biology
Associate Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Investigator, Penn Epigenetics Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Vice Chair of the Department of Cancer Biology, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu

Special Seminar -Wednesday, December 7th @11:30am - HHSC- Room 312 

Elsy C. Buitrago Delgado, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar Hanna H. Gray Fellow (HHMI)

California Institute of Technology

Special Seminar -Wednesday, December 7th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312 

Jonathan Strecker, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Special Seminar -Thursday, December 8th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 305

Qin Li, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford University School of Medicine

Special Seminar -Monday, December 12th  @10:00am - HHSC- Room 305

Ashley Solmonson, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program

Children’s Medical Center Research Institute

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Special Seminar -Monday, December 12th  @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 305

Michael S. Haney, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Stanford School of Medicine

Special Seminar -Tuesday, December 13th  @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312

Sarah E. Hill, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Institutes of Health (NINDS/NIH)

Bethesda, MD

Special Seminar -Tuesday, December 20th  @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312

Glennis A. Logsdon, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Genome Sciences

University of Washington

 

Spring 2022 Seminars

January 4 @4:15 pm -Virtual Seminar

Igor Landry Bado, PhD

Instructor, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


January11 @ 4pm -Virtual Seminar

Roarke A. Kamber, PhD

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Genetics, Stanford University

Hosted by Gerard Karsenty

January 25 @4pm- Virtual Seminar


Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Developmental Biology Program

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


February 1 - Virtual Seminar

Bin Tian, PhD 
The Wistar Institute
Professor and Program Co-Leader, Gene Expression & Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center; Co-director, Center for Systems & Computational Biology
Hosted by Alessandro Gennarino


Thursday, January 3 @3:30pm- Virtual Seminar

Elizabeth Ann Pollina, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


February 8 - Virtual Seminar
Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
MIT/Biology
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


February 22 @4pm - Virtual Seminar

Débora R. Sobreira, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Human Genetics

The University of Chicago

Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


March 15 - Virtual Seminar
Rebecca Heald, PhD 
Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
UC Berkeley
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


March 22 - VEC Room 401
Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Professor
Northwestern Medicine/Feinberg School of Medicine
Hosted by Christine Chio


March 29 - VEC Room 401
Jane Skok, PhD
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation
Oncology/Dept. of Pathology
NYU Langone Health
Hosted by Aaron Viny


April 5- VEC Room 401
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Director of Translational Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


April 12 - Virtual Seminar
Hei Sook Sul, PhD
Professor
Calloway Chair in Human Nutrition
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
UC Berkley Research
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


April 26 - VEC Room 401
Brian Strahl, PhD
Oliver Smithies investigator, Professor and Interim Chair
UNC School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Hosted by Chao Lu


Thursday, April 28 VEC Room 201 @11:30AM
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children's Health;
Vice Dean for Children's Services and Executive Director of Cedars - Sinai Guerin Children's Adjunct Professor
University of California San Francisco
Hosted by Kelley Yan and Gerard Karsenty
Co-sponsored by Columbia Stem Cell Initiative


May 10 - VEC Room 401
Dan Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


May 17 - VEC Room 201
Jonathan Weissman, PhD
Professor of Biology, MIT; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hosted by Alberto Ciccia


May 24 - VEC Room 401
Orna Cohen-Fix, PhD
Senior Investigator
Intramural Research Program/NIH
Hosted by Rodney Rothstein


June 7 - VEC Room 401
Tessa Montague, PhD
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, Columbia University
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty