Student Seminar Series
Spring 2026
3rd-year students and up
Fridays at 12:00pm
Location: Hammer Health Sciences Center- 701 West 168th Street, Room 305
*Pizza is provided by the Department.
January 23 - Julia Mo
Beans and Fish: A recipe for ligament regeneration
January 30 - Emilia Weihenig
Investigating gene regulatory networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder
February 6 - Lindsey Starr
Disrupted glial-mediated synaptic refinement in Fragile X syndrome
February 13 - Ryan Kittle
A hierarchy of cis-acting sequence features governs transcription dynamics in early Drosophila embryos
February 20 - Edan Mortman
The role of dual-functioning RNA in transposon maintenance and proliferation
February 27 - Americo Casas
Antiviral immunity mediated by uncharacterized, group II intron-derived reverse transcriptases
March 6 - Brooke Dirvin
Investigating the Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Basal Cell Identity
March 13 - Morgan Zvezdov
Redefining mineral ion homeostasis
March 20 - Safiyah Ali
Investigating the role of AP-1 transcription factors during zebrafish ligament regeneration
March 27 - Sabrina Phanor
Haploinsufficiency of Pumilio2 causes neurodevelopmental disease with ataxia
April 3 - Madrikha Daphnee Saturne
Why NK cells? Differential replisome regulation in NK cells and T cells
April 17 - Luis Padilla Santiago
Targeting the most impactful genetic risk for Coronary Artery Disease
April 24 - Megan Rabon
Polyamines regulate cell fate by altering the accessibility of histone tails