G&D Department Seminar Series

Our seminar series features a diverse range of distinguished speakers from our community and from leading institutes around the world.

Tuesdays at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.

March 17 - HSC 312
Cédric Blanpain, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Stem Cells & Cancer
Université Libre de Bruxelles

"Uncovering and targeting EMT tumor states"

Hosted by Dr. Gérard Karsenty

March 10 - HSC 312
Yibin Kang, PhD
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University

"Macrophage Niches in Development and Cancer: How Tumors Hijack Physiological Support Systems"

Hosted by Dr. Gérard Karsenty

February 10 - HSC 312
Michael Pacold, PhD
Director, Basic Science Research Department of Radiation Oncology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"An Unexpected Neurodevelopmental and Mitochondrial Journey Tracing Molecular Oxygen"

Hosted by Drs. Juan Schvartzman & Christine Chio

February 3 - HSC 312
Terence Capellini, PhD
Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

"Bipedalism in two steps: Dual developmental innovations underlie the human pelvis"

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty

January 20 - HSC 312
David Pellman, PhD
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

"Mechanisms driving the rapid evolution of genomes"

Hosted by Dr. Rodney Rothstein

January 13- VEC 201- Special Seminar

V. Alessandro Gennarino, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development, Department of Genetics and Development

“Where, when, and how much: understanding failures of proteostasis in human disease.”

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty