2019 Seminars Series
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
Host: Dr. Chao Lu
January 15 - Johan Auwerx, MD., PhD
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Systems genetics approaches to explore mitochondria and aging
Host: 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
Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty
January 29 - Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, PhD - Special Seminar
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University
Neurobiology of instinctive social behaviors in mice
Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty
*January 31 - Hilla Weidberg, PhD - Special Seminar
Hammer Building-Room 401 at 2:30pm
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Koch Institute
mitoCPR– a stress response that maintains mitochondrial homeostasis
Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty
February 12 - Kristin Baldwin, PhD - Special Seminar
Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research
Investigator, Dorris Neuroscience Center
Adjunct Professor, UCSD Neuroscience
Reprogramming Development to Unveil Mechanisms of Cellular Diversity and Disease Risk
Host: 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”
Host: Dr. Jean Gautier
*February 28 - Jesse M. Engreitz, PhD - Special Seminar
VEC- Room 201 at 3:30pm
Junior Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows and Broad Institute
Activity-by-Contact model for enhancer specificity from thousands of CRISPR perturbations
Host: 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
Host: Dr. Jean Gautier
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
Host: 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
Host: 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
Host: 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
Host: 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”
Host: 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
Host: 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
Host: Dr. 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?
Host: 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
Host: 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
Host: 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”
Host: 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
Host: 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”
Host: 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”
Host: Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz