G&D Department Seminar Series
Our seminar series features a diverse range of distinguished speakers from our community and from leading institutes around the world. Tuesdays at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
2025 Spring Semester
Seminars will be held from 4-5pm, unless otherwise stated.
January 14 - HSC 312
Neville Sanjana, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
NYU Arts & Science
"New frontiers in pooled genetic screens: Identifying essential long noncoding RNAs using RNA-targeting CRISPRs and addressing variant-to-function challenges in human genetics"
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
January 21 - HSC 312
Petr Cejka, PhD
Recombination Mechanisms Group Leader
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland
"Understanding mechanisms of genome stability maintenance through biochemical reconstitution experiments"
Co-hosted by Drs. Lorraine Symington, Rodney Rothstein, Alberto Ciccia
January 28 - HSC 312
Matthew Greenblatt, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences
"A new diveristy in skeletal stem cells"
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 4 - HSC 312
Nadya Dimitrova, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Genetics
Yale University
"Long noncoding RNAs: strength in numbers"
Hosted by Dr. Philippe Batut
February 11 - HSC 312
Marek Mlodzik, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"New insights into Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity and Wnt/beta-catenin signaling: from genetic screens to functional integration"
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 25 - HSC 312
Sue Biggins, PhD
Director, Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
"Chromosome Inheritance during Cell DIvision"
Co-hosted by Drs. Luke Berchowitz and V. Alessandro Gennarino
March 4 - HSC 312
Yusuf A. Hannun, MD
Director & Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine
Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University
"Neutral Sphingomyelinase 2 and Ceramide Signaling at the Plasma Membrane; Back to the Future"
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
March 25 - VEC 201
Robert Welner, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicine - Hematology & Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hosted by Dr. Aaron Viny
April 1 - HSC 301
Gary Ruvkun, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
April 8 - HSC 301
Flora Vaccarino, MD
Harris Professor in the Child Study Center
Department of Nueroscience, Yale University
Hosted by Dr. Kristin Baldwin
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