2019 Seminars
Spring Semester
Location: Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center-Room 201 / Time: 4pm
*Unless otherwise noted
January 8
Yang Shi, PhD
Merton Bernfield Professor of Neonatology
C.H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard University
Epigenetic regulation and immune checkpoint blockade
Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu
January 15
Johan Auwerx, MD., PhD
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Systems genetics approaches to explore mitochondria and aging
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 22
Xing Zeng, PhD - Special Seminar
Research Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Molecular Basis of Sympathetic Innervation of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 29 - Special Seminar
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University
Neurobiology of instinctive social behaviors in mice
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 31 - Special Seminar
Hilla Weidberg, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Koch Institute
mitoCPR– a stress response that maintains mitochondrial homeostasis
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 12 - Special Seminar
Kristin Baldwin, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research
Investigator, Dorris Neuroscience Center
Adjunct Professor, UCSD Neuroscience
Reprogramming Development to Unveil Mechanisms of Cellular Diversity and Disease Risk
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 19
Philip Oberdoerffer, PhD
Investigator, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression
Head, Epigenetics of DNA Repair and Aging Section, NCI/CCR
“Epigenetic control of genome integrity: Implications for normal physiology and malignancy”
Hosted by Dr. Jean Gautier
February 28 - Special Seminar
Jesse M. Engreitz, PhD
Junior Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows and Broad Institute
Activity-by-Contact model for enhancer specificity from thousands of CRISPR perturbations
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
March 19
William Joiner, PhD - Cancelled
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego
Integration of circadian timekeeping and sleep need in a newly identified synaptic circuit
Hosted by Dr. Michele Shirasu-Hiza
April 9
Jody Rosenblatt, PhD
H. A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair,
Professor, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Epithelial cell extrusion and its misregulation in disease
Hosted by Dr. Benjamin Ohlstein
April 16
Andre Nussenzweig, PhD
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
DNA End Resection in homologous recombination
Hosted by Dr. Zhiguo Zhang
April 23
Bruno Reversade, PhD
Professor and Research Director, Laboratory of Human Genetics and Embryology
KOC University, Turkey, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands, IMB & IMCB, A*STAR, Singapore
R(e)SPONDIN’ to WNT signaling for organogenesis
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
May 7
Christopher M. Counter, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine
“Codon bias: the silent secret of RAS oncogenes”
Hosted by Dr. Christine Iok Chio
May 14
Mijo Simunovic, PhD
Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows and The Rockefeller University
Synthetic human embryology: engineering models of the human embryo to understand early human development
Hosted by Dr. Eric Schon
May 28
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief, division of Genetics in Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego
Convergent pathways in neurodegeneration: from polyglutamine disease targets to broad-based therapeutic opportunities
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
Fall Semester
Location: Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center-Room 201 / Time: 4pm
October 29
Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor-Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
“Skeletal/mesenchymal stem cells: How much do we know about them?
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
November 12
Sarah Zanders, PhD
Assistant Investigator
Vice Dean-The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology-The University of Kansas School of Medicine
Wtf drives infertility
Hosted by Dr. Rodney Rothstein
November 19 - Special Seminar
Valerie Horsley, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Dermatology
Yale University
Digging Deep: Adipocytes in tissue repair and remodeling
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
November 26 - Special Seminar
Thomas Zwaka, MD, PhD
Professor-Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Embryogenesis and Pluripotency: Mechanism and Mechanics of Cellular Conflicts”
Hosted by Dr. Laura Johnston
December 3 - Special Seminar
Alberto Ciccia, PhD
Assistant Professor-Department of Genetics and Development & Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Hosted by Genetics and Development Department
December 10
Bill Joiner, PhD
Associate Professor-Department of Pharmacology
University of California, San Diego | UCSD
“Integration of circadian timekeeping and sleep need in a newly identified synaptic circuit”
Hosted by Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza
December 17
Vlad Denic, PhD
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
“Membrane protein insertion by the peroxisomal matrix importomer”
Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz