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 4pm unless otherwise noted.

2023 SPRING Schedule

Seminars are held in VEC 201, unless otherwise noted.


January 10, 2023

Dieter Egli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Developmental Cell Biology
in Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Hosted by Cathy Mendelsohn


January 30, 2023- Special Seminar

Location: Hammer Building, 701 West 168th Street, 3rd floor- Room 312

Time: 4:15pm

Kynon Benjamin, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Lieber Institute for Brain Development

Department s of Neurology and Psychiatry, John Hopkins University

 


January 31, 2023- Special Seminar

Location: Hammer Building, 701 West 168th Street, 3rd floor- Room 312

Time: 4:00pm

Graham Erwin, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Genetics, Stanford Cancer Institute


February 7, 2023
Xiang Zhang, PhD
Interim Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center;
William T. Butler, M.D., Endowed Chair for Distinguished Faculty,
Baylor College of Medicine;
Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty


February 21, 2023
Cassandra Extavour, PhD
Timken Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


February 28, 2023

Alain Nicolas, PhD
Research Scientist CNRS, IRCAN,
University Nice-Côte d'Azur, France

Hosted by Rodney Rothstein


Monday, March 6, 2023 - SPECIAL SEMINAR

David W. Sanders, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Chemical and Biological Engineering Department

Princeton University

Hosted by the Genetics and Development Department


March 7, 2023

Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Chairman of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute;
Associate Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital
Hosted by Chao Lu


March 14, 2023
Bill Lowry, PhD
Associate Director of Education and Technology Transfer
UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center;
Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

Hosted by Emmanuelle Passegue
 


March 21, 2023
Lynne Maquat, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics 
and Director, Center for RNA Biology
University of Rochester

Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


March 28, 2023 - HSC 312

Jonathan Whetstine, PhD
Professor and Director
Cancer Epigentic Institute
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Hosted by Aaron Viny


April, 11, 2023

Steve Henikoff, PhD
Professor
Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Hosted by Zhiguo Zhang


April 25, 2023

Anne Villeneuve, PhD
Professor
Developmental Biology and Genetics
Stanford University

Hosted by Luke Berchowitz


May 2, 2023 - HSC 312

Eric Pietras, PhD
Associate Professor
Medine - Hematology
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Hosted by Emmanuelle Passegue


May 9, 2023

Stephen Tapscott, MD, PhD
Professor
Human Biology Division
Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Hosted by Laura Johnston


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