2022 Seminars
Spring Semester
January 4 - Virtual
Igor Landry Bado, PhD
Instructor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 11 - Virtual
Roarke A. Kamber, PhD
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 25 - Virtual
Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Developmental Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 1 - Virtual
Bin Tian, PhD
Professor and Program Co-Leader, Gene Expression & Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center;
Co-director, Center for Systems & Computational Biology
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
January 3 - Virtual
Elizabeth Ann Pollina, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 8 - Virtual
Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
MIT/Biology
Hosted by Dr. Luke Berchowitz
February 22 - Virtual
Débora R. Sobreira, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
March 15 - Virtual
Rebecca Heald, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Hosted by Dr. Luke Berchowitz
March 22
Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Professor
Northwestern Medicine/Feinberg School of Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Christine Chio
March 29
Jane Skok, PhD
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation
Oncology/Dept. of Pathology, NYU Langone Health
Hosted by Dr. Aaron Viny
April 5
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Director of Translational Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
April 12 - Virtual
Hei Sook Sul, PhD
Professor
Calloway Chair in Human Nutrition
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkley Research
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
April 26
Brian Strahl, PhD
Oliver Smithies investigator, Professor and Interim Chair
Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu
April 28
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children's Health;
Vice Dean for Children's Services and Executive Director of Cedars - Sinai Guerin Children's Adjunct Professor
University of California San Francisco
Hosted by Dr. Kelley Yan and Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Co-sponsored by Columbia Stem Cell Initiative
May 10
Dan Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Hosted by Dr. Luke Berchowitz
May 17
Jonathan Weissman, PhD
Professor of Biology, MIT;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hosted by Dr. Alberto Ciccia
May 24
Orna Cohen-Fix, PhD
Senior Investigator
Intramural Research Program/NIH
Hosted by Dr. Rodney Rothstein
June 7
Tessa Montague, PhD
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow
Columbia University
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Fall Semester
September 27
Michael Hall, PhD
Head of Research Group,
The Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Basel
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. V. 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. V. Alessandro Gennarino
October 20 - Special Seminar
Shawna Buttery, PhD
Lead Editor
Cell Press for STAR Protocols
Hosted by Dr. V. 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
December 7 - Special Seminar
Elsy C. Buitrago Delgado, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar Hanna H. Gray Fellow (HHMI)
California Institute of Technology
December 7 - Special Seminar
Jonathan Strecker, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
December 8 - Special Seminar
Qin Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University School of Medicine
December 12 - Special Seminar
Ashley Solmonson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
December 12 - Special Seminar
Michael S. Haney, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine
December 13 - Special Seminar
Sarah E. Hill, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health (NINDS/NIH), Bethesda, MD
December 20 - Special Seminar
Glennis A. Logsdon, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington