2019 Seminars Series

Spring Semester

Location: Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center-Room 201   / Time: 4pm

*Unless otherwise noted

January 8 - Yang Shi, PhD  

Merton Bernfield Professor of Neonatology

C.H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard University

Epigenetic regulation and immune checkpoint blockade

Host:  Dr. Chao Lu

January 15 - Johan Auwerx, MD., PhD

Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Systems genetics approaches to explore mitochondria and aging

Host:  Dr. Gerard Karsenty

January 22 - Xing Zeng, PhD - Special Seminar

Research Fellow

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

Molecular Basis of Sympathetic Innervation of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

January 29 - Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, PhD - Special Seminar

Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University

Neurobiology of instinctive social behaviors in mice

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

*January 31 - Hilla Weidberg, PhD - Special Seminar

Hammer Building-Room 401 at 2:30pm

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Koch Institute

mitoCPR– a stress response that maintains mitochondrial homeostasis

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

February 12 - Kristin Baldwin, PhD - Special Seminar

Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research
Investigator, Dorris Neuroscience Center
Adjunct Professor, UCSD Neuroscience

Reprogramming Development to Unveil Mechanisms of Cellular Diversity and Disease Risk

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

February 19 - Philip Oberdoerffer, PhD 

Investigator, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression

Head, Epigenetics of DNA Repair and Aging Section, NCI/CCR

“Epigenetic control of genome integrity: Implications for normal physiology and malignancy”

Host:  Dr. Jean Gautier

*February 28 - Jesse M. Engreitz, PhD - Special Seminar

VEC- Room 201 at 3:30pm

Junior Fellow

Harvard Society of Fellows and Broad Institute

Activity-by-Contact model for enhancer specificity from thousands of CRISPR  perturbations

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

February 19 - Philip Oberdoerffer, PhD 

Investigator, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression

Head, Epigenetics of DNA Repair and Aging Section, NCI/CCR

Host:  Dr. Jean Gautier

March 19 - William Joiner, PhD- Cancelled

Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego

Integration of circadian timekeeping and sleep need in a newly identified synaptic circuit

Host:  Dr. Michele Shirasu-Hiza

April 9 - Jody Rosenblatt, PhD

H. A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair,
Professor, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah

Epithelial cell extrusion and its misregulation in disease

Host:  Dr. Benjamin Ohlstein

April 16 - Andre Nussenzweig, PhD

Jennie Smoly Caruthers Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

DNA End Resection in homologous recombination

Host:  Zhiguo Zhang

April 23- Bruno Reversade, PhD

Professor and Research Director, Laboratory of Human Genetics and Embryology

KOC University, Turkey, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands, IMB & IMCB, A*STAR, Singapore

R(e)SPONDIN’ to WNT signaling for organogenesis  

Host: Gerard Karsenty

May 7 - Christopher M. Counter, PhD 

Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine

“Codon bias: the silent secret of RAS oncogenes”

Host: Dr. Christine Iok Chio

May 14- Mijo Simunovic, PhD

Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows and The Rockefeller University

Synthetic human embryology: engineering models of the human embryo to understand early human development

Host: Eric Schon

May 28 - Albert La Spada, MD, PhD

Professor and Chief, division of Genetics in Department of Pediatrics

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego

Convergent pathways in neurodegeneration: from polyglutamine disease targets to broad-based therapeutic opportunities

Host: Dr. Alessandro Gennarino


Fall Semester

Location: Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center-Room 201   / Time: 4pm

October 29- Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD

Assistant Professor-Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry

University of Michigan School of Dentistry

“Skeletal/mesenchymal stem cells: How much do we know about them?

Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty

November 12 - Sarah Zanders, PhD

Assistant Investigator

Vice Dean-The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology-The University of Kansas School of Medicine

Wtf drives infertility

Host:  Dr. Rodney Rothstein

November 19 - Special Seminar - Valerie Horsley, PhD

Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Dermatology

Yale University

Digging Deep: Adipocytes in tissue repair and remodeling

Host:  Dr. Gerard Karsenty

November 26 - Special Seminar - Thomas Zwaka, MD, PhD

Professor-Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Embryogenesis and Pluripotency: Mechanism and Mechanics of Cellular Conflicts”

Host: Dr. Laura Johnston

December 3 - Special Seminar - Alberto Ciccia, PhD

Assistant Professor-Department of Genetics and  Development & Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Host: Genetics and Development Department

December 10 - Bill Joiner, PhD

Associate Professor-Department of Pharmacology

University of California, San Diego | UCSD

“Integration of circadian timekeeping and sleep need in a newly identified synaptic circuit”

Host: Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza

December 17 - Vlad Denic, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard University

“Membrane protein insertion by the peroxisomal matrix importomer”

Host:  Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz