2021 Seminars
Spring Semester
January 19 - Special Seminar
Remo Sanges, PhD
Associate Professor of Applied Biology in the Neuroscience Department
SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
January 26
Katherine Yudeh King, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué
February 9
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Institute Member, Chemical Biology, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu
February 10 - Special Seminar
Binyam Mogessie, PhD
Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Principal Investigator, School of Biochemistry
University of Bristol
February 16 - Special Seminar
Elisa Laurenti, PhD
Principal Investigator
Department of Haematology, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute of the University of Cambridge
Hosted by Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué
February 18 - Special Seminar
Daniel Arango, PhD
Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute
February 23 - Special Seminar
Schraga Schwartz, PhD
The Robert Edward and Roselyn Rich Manson Career Development Chair
Weizmann Institute
Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz
March 9
Trey Ideker, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
Division Chief of Medical Genetics
University of California, San Diego
Hosted by Dr. Alberto Ciccia
March 16
Vijay G. Sankaran, MD, PhD
Interim Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital/Institute Physician;
Lodish Family Chair, Boston Children's Hospital;
Attending Physician, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders CenterAssociate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué
March 23
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD
Joseph Leidy Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Dr. Rodney J. Rothstein
March 30
Shannon McKinney-Freeman, PhD
Associate Member, Hematology Department, Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Hosted by Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué
April 13
David C. Page, MD
Member, Whitehead Institute
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hosted by Dr. Rodney J. Rothstein
April 20
Mikala Egeblad, PhD
Professor, Cancer Center Program Co-Leader at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Hosted by Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué
May 4 - CANCELLED
Stavros N. Stavropoulos, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza
June 1
Matthew S. Kayser, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Director, Psychiatry Residency Research Track (EPSP)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza
Fall Semester
September 7 - online
Nicholas Stavropoulos, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Langone Health
Hosted by Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza
September 14 - online
Carl Wu, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Hosted by Dr. Zhiguo Zhang
September 21
Matthew Vander Heiden, PhD
Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Biology, MIT
Hosted by Dr. Chai-Wei Cheng
September 28 - online
Eva Hoffman, PhD
Professor in Molecular Genetics
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen
Hosted by Dr. Lorraine Symington and Dr. Luke Berchowitz
October 12
Michael Rosenfeld, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of San Diego
Hosted by Dr. Yousin Suh
October 19
Jared Nordman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by Dr. Cathy Mendelsohn
November 9
Thomas Gregor, PhD
Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Hosted by Dr. Laura Johnston
November 16
Joshua Mendell, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by V. Alessandro Gennarino
December 7
Jennifer Gerton, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Stowers Institute
Hosted by Dr. Aaron Viny
December 14
Eric Wagner, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Hosted by V. Alessandro Gennarino