Student Seminar Series
3rd-year students and up
Fridays at 12:00pm
Hammer Health Sciences Center
701 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, in Room 305
*Pizza is provided by the Department.
September 25 - Simon Park
“Understanding the Roles of Aggregation-Prone Regions”
October 23 - Emilia Weihenig
“TBD”
October 30 - Americo Casas
“TBD”
November 6 - Harrison Cullen
“TBD”
November 13 - Safiyah Ali
“TBD”
December 4 - Morgan Zvezdov
“TBD”
December 11 - Maggie Kane
“TBD”
December 18 - Luis Angel Padilla Santiago
“TBD”
Spring 2026
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
Tuesday, April 21 @12pm- Jared Gatto Thesis Defense Seminar -HHSC Room 301
Cyclic Fasting drives metabolic and physiological changes in Drosophila Melnogaster
Shirasu-Hiza Lab
April 24 - Megan Rabon
Polyamines regulate cell fate by altering the accessibility of histone tails
May 1 - Varun Sahu - tbd
May 8 - Sierra Ball - tbd
Thursday, May 14 @1:00pm - Julia Mo -Thesis Defense Seminar - HHSC Room 301
Legumain-mediated ECM remodeling and control of protease activity during adult zebrafish ligament regeneration
Smeeton Lab
Thursday, May 14 @1pm - Isabella Canal Delgado- Dissertation Defense - VEC Room 201
Nutritional and Metabolic Biology PhD Program
"A Brain-Bone Axis Orchestrates Motor Coordination Throughout Life"
Karsenty Lab