2020 Seminars

Spring Semester

 

February 11
Xiaolan Zhao, PhD
Professor of Department of Molecular Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

"Genome guardians enable faithful genome duplication and cell cycle progression"

Hosted by Dr. Lorraine Symington


March 3
Kara Bernstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"RAD51 paralog function in DNA damage tolerance"

Hosted by Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza


March 24 - CANCELLED
Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine;
adjunct professor of biology, University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences;
and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Hosted by Dr. Yousin Suh


April 7 - CANCELLED
Jared Nordman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in Department of Cell and Development Biology
Vanderbilt University

"Developmentally programmed changes in gene copy number: Insights into metazoan chromosomal fragility and DNA replication control"

Hosted by Dr. Cathy Mendelsohn


April 14 - CANCELLED
David J. Glass, MD

Vice President of Research Aging/Age-Related Disorders
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Head, Postdoctoral Fellow Program-Regeneron, Senior Lecturer, Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty


April 21 - CANCELLED
Joshua Mendell, MD, PhD

Professor of Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino


May 5 - CANCELLED
Alea Mills, PhD

Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu


May 26 - CANCELLED
Navdeep Chandel, PhD

Professor - Department of Medicine and Cell Biology
Northwestern University

Hosted by Dr. Christine Iok Chio


Fall Semester

 

September 15 - Special Seminar
Giovanni D'Angelo, PhD

Professor
EPFL's School of Life Sciences, Lausanne

Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino


September 22
Filippo G. Giancotti, MD, PhD
Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research and Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology
Scientific Director, David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of GU Cancers
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty


September 29 - Special Seminar
Ralf H. Adams, PhD

Managing Director in the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at Max-Planck
Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty


October 6
David J. Glass, MD
Vice President of Research Aging/Age-Related Disorders
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty


October 13 - Special Seminar
Sérgio de Almeida, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Lisbon

Hosted by Dr. Rodney J. Rothstein


October 20
Stephen Liberles, PhD
Professor and HHMI Investigator in the Cell Biology Department
Harvard Medical School

Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty


November 10
Thomas Duchaine, PhD
Associate Director Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Professor
Department of Biochemistry at McGill University

Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino


November 24
Francesca Cole, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz


December 1
Davide Ruggero, PhD
Professor of Urology
University of California, San Francisco

Hosted by Dr. Iok In Christine Chio


December 8
Emily Bernstein, PhD
Professor of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology, Co-leader of the Cancer Mechanisms Research Program
The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu


December 15
Paula E. Cohen, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics
Associate Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Cornell University

Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz