2020 Seminar Series
Spring Schedule
February 11 - Xiaolan Zhao, PhD
Professor of Department of Molecular Biology -Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Genome guardians enable faithful genome duplication and cell cycle progression
Host: Dr. Lorraine Symington
March 3 - Kara Bernstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
RAD51 paralog function in DNA damage tolerance
Host: Dr. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza
CANCELLED- March 24 - Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; adjunct professor of biology, University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences; and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Host: Yousin Suh, PhD
CANCELLED- April 7 - Jared Nordman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in Department of Cell and Development Biology-Vanderbilt University
Developmentally programmed changes in gene copy number: Insights into metazoan chromosomal fragility and DNA replication control
Host: Dr. Cathy Mendelsohn
CANCELLED-April 14 - David J. Glass, MD
Vice President of Research Aging/Age-Related Disorders- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Head, Postdoctoral Fellow Program-Regeneron, Senior Lecturer, Cell Biology-Harvard Medical School
Host: Dr. Gerard Karsenty
CANCELLED- April 21 - Joshua Mendell, MD, PhD
Professor of Department of Molecular Biology-UT Southwestern Medical Center
Host: Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
CANCELLED-May 5 - Alea Mills, PhD
Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Dr. Chao Lu
CANCELLED-May 26 - Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Professor - Department of Medicine and Cell Biology-Northwestern University
Host: Dr. Christine Iok Chio
Fall 2020 Schedule
*September 15 at 12pm - Giovanni D'Angelo, PhD
Professor at EPFL's School of Life Sciences, Lausanne
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
September 22 - Filippo G. Giancotti, MD, PhD
Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research and Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology
Scientific Director, David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of GU Cancers
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
*September 29 at 11am - Ralf H. Adams, PhD
Managing Director in the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
October 6 - David J. Glass, MD
Vice President of Research Aging/Age-Related Disorders at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
*October 13 at 12pm - Sérgio de Almeida, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Lisbon
Hosted by Dr. Rodney J. Rothstein
October 20 - Stephen Liberles, PhD
Professor and HHMI Investigator in the Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Dr. Gerard Karsenty
November 10 - Thomas Duchaine, PhD
Associate Director Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University
Hosted by Dr. V. Alessandro Gennarino
November 24 - Francesca Cole, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz
December 1 - Davide Ruggero, PhD
Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by Dr. Iok In Christine Chio
December 8 - Emily Bernstein, PhD
Professor of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology, Co-leader of the Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hosted by Dr. Chao Lu
December 15 - Paula E. Cohen, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics
Associate Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Cornell University
Hosted by Dr. Luke E. Berchowitz