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