2022 Seminars
2022 FALL Schedule
Seminars are held in HSC 401, unless otherwise noted.
September 27
Michael Hall, PhD
Head of Research Group, University of Basel
The Center for Molecular Life Sciences
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. 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. Alessandro Gennarino
October 20 - Special Seminar @3:00pm in HHSC- Lower level 1- Room 110
Shawna Buttery, PhD
Lead Editor at Cell Press for STAR Protocols
Hosted by Dr. 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
Special Seminar -Wednesday, December 7th @11:30am - HHSC- Room 312
Elsy C. Buitrago Delgado, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar Hanna H. Gray Fellow (HHMI)
California Institute of Technology
Special Seminar -Wednesday, December 7th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312
Jonathan Strecker, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Special Seminar -Thursday, December 8th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 305
Qin Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University School of Medicine
Special Seminar -Monday, December 12th @10:00am - HHSC- Room 305
Ashley Solmonson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Special Seminar -Monday, December 12th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 305
Michael S. Haney, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine
Special Seminar -Tuesday, December 13th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312
Sarah E. Hill, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health (NINDS/NIH)
Bethesda, MD
Special Seminar -Tuesday, December 20th @4:00pm - HHSC- Room 312
Glennis A. Logsdon, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Spring 2022 Seminars
January 4 @4:15 pm -Virtual Seminar
Igor Landry Bado, PhD
Instructor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
January11 @ 4pm -Virtual Seminar
Roarke A. Kamber, PhD
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
January 25 @4pm- Virtual Seminar
Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Developmental Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
February 1 - Virtual Seminar
Bin Tian, PhD
The Wistar Institute
Professor and Program Co-Leader, Gene Expression & Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center; Co-director, Center for Systems & Computational Biology
Hosted by Alessandro Gennarino
Thursday, January 3 @3:30pm- Virtual Seminar
Elizabeth Ann Pollina, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
February 8 - Virtual Seminar
Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
MIT/Biology
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz
February 22 @4pm - Virtual Seminar
Débora R. Sobreira, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Genetics
The University of Chicago
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
March 15 - Virtual Seminar
Rebecca Heald, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
UC Berkeley
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz
March 22 - VEC Room 401
Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Professor
Northwestern Medicine/Feinberg School of Medicine
Hosted by Christine Chio
March 29 - VEC Room 401
Jane Skok, PhD
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation
Oncology/Dept. of Pathology
NYU Langone Health
Hosted by Aaron Viny
April 5- VEC Room 401
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Director of Translational Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
April 12 - Virtual Seminar
Hei Sook Sul, PhD
Professor
Calloway Chair in Human Nutrition
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
UC Berkley Research
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty
April 26 - VEC Room 401
Brian Strahl, PhD
Oliver Smithies investigator, Professor and Interim Chair
UNC School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Hosted by Chao Lu
Thursday, April 28 VEC Room 201 @11:30AM
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 Kelley Yan and Gerard Karsenty
Co-sponsored by Columbia Stem Cell Initiative
May 10 - VEC Room 401
Dan Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Hosted by Luke Berchowitz
May 17 - VEC Room 201
Jonathan Weissman, PhD
Professor of Biology, MIT; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hosted by Alberto Ciccia
May 24 - VEC Room 401
Orna Cohen-Fix, PhD
Senior Investigator
Intramural Research Program/NIH
Hosted by Rodney Rothstein
June 7 - VEC Room 401
Tessa Montague, PhD
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, Columbia University
Hosted by Gerard Karsenty