Student Seminar Series
Our Student Seminar Series gives our students and postdocs an opportunity to share their work with peers.
Fall 2024 & Spring 2025
Fridays at 12:00pm in the Hammer Building Auditorium, Room 301, for 3rd years and up.
*Pizza is provided by the Department.
September 13 - Thomas Wood
“The retrotransposon-derived capsid genes PNMA1 and PNMA4 maintain reproductive capacity”
Berchowitz Lab
October 11 - Simon Park
“Understanding Functional Sequence Features of an Intrinsically Disordered Region”
Berchowitz Lab
November 8 - Harrison Cullen
“Expression of Endogenous Retroviruses across the Cell Cycle”
Goff Lab
December 13 - Maggie Kane
“The Role of NBR2, a lncRNA, in Human Ovarian Aging”
Suh Lab
Spring 2025
January 24 - Julia Mo
“Cellular response at the fringe of ligament regeneration in zebrafish”
Smeeton Lab
January 31 - Ross Munce
"Teashirt is required in neuroblasts for proper neural development and locomotion in Drosophila"
Mann Lab
February 21 - Jared Gatto
“Molecular Mechanisms Driving Lipid Metabolic Changes Induced by Time-Restricted Feeding”
Shirasu-Hiza Lab
March 14 - Troy Anderson
"Identifying transcriptional drivers of progenitor differentiation in ligament regeneration"
Smeeton Lab
March 21 - Brooke Dirvin
"Investigating the Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Basal Cell Identity"
Cardoso Lab
April 4 - Emilia Weihenig
"Investigating gene regulatory networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder"
Sternberg Lab
April 11 - Edan Mortman
"The role of dual functioning RNA in transposon maintenance and proliferation"
Baldwin Lab
April 18 - Giorgia Merolli
"Devising scalable strategies to optimize validation and discovery of gene-disease associations leveraging clinical gene panels"
Tarjinder Lab
April 25 - Sabrina Phanor
"Deciphering the role of Pumilio 2 in a neurological disease"
Gennarino Lab
May 2 - Varun Sahu
"Identifying metabolic driven cell states in Squamous Cancers"
Lu Lab
May 9 - Max Cabaj
"Pum1 and Parkinson's disease: post-transcriptional regulation of alpha-synuclein"
Gennarino Lab
May 23 - Morgan Zvezdov
"Defining Calcium and Phosphate Homeostasis"
Karsenty Lab
May 30 - Savannah McBride
TBD
Glasgow Lab
June 6 - Shira Eisman
TBD
Mace Lab
June 13 - Corey Hansen
TBD
Simunovic Lab
June 20 - Nadja Zhakula
“Investigating vulnerabilities associated with chromosome arm aneuploidy in cancer”
Berchowitz Lab
June 27 - Andrés Martínez-Muñiz
“Functional Characterization of USP18 Mutations in Type I Interferonopathies”
Shirasu-Hiza Lab