The weekly Seminars in Biomedical Sciences attract renowned faculty from all over the world to present cutting-edge research related to human health and disease. The seminars are open to the entire community.
Supported in part by the Cancer Cell Map Initiative.
2021-22 Seminar Schedule
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.
Some (but not all) presentations may be available via livestream and recorded video. Links to the live stream and recorded video will be available in the sidebar at the start of each quarter.
September 29, 2021
“Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of a Pro-metastatic Gene”Yibin Kang, PhD
Princeton University
Host: Hani Goodarzi, PhD
virtual seminar
October 6, 2021
“Establishment and Maintenance of Neuronal Polarity”Kang Shen, PhD
Stanford University
Host: Xin Duan, PhD
October 13, 2021
“CAR T cells and Carbohydrates”Avery Posey, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Justin Eyquiem, PhD
October 20, 2021
“Bacterial regulation of vitamin A transport in the intestine”Lora Hooper, PhD
UT Southwestern
Host: Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD
virtual seminar
October 27, 2021
TBAShannon Turley, PhD
Genentech
Host: Ari Molofsky, PhD
November 3, 2021
“Molecular Mechanisms that affect Reproductive Outcomes”Darrell Kotton, MD
Boston University
Host: Tien Peng, MD
November 10, 2021
“Transposable element activation in neurodegenerative tauopathy'Bess Frost, PhD
UT San Antonio
Host: Eric Huang, MD, PhD
November 17, 2021
TBAGordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
Columbia University
Host: Todd McDevitt, PhD and Matt Kutys, PhD
virtual seminar
December 1, 2021
“Revisiting immune gateways to the brain”Johnathan Kipnis, PhD
Washington Univ
Host: Ari Molofsky, PhD
January 12, 2022
“Associative analysis in panels of inbred mice reveal novel sleep regulatory processes.”Ketema Paul, PhD
UCLA
Host: Louis Ptacek, PhD
January 19, 2022
“Biology of time: What drives sleep and other circadian rhythms”Stephen Liberles, PhD
Harvard University
Host: Julie Sneddon, PhD
January 26, 2022
“Host adaptations to microbial diversity”Sara Wickstrom, PhD
University of Helsinki
Host: Matt Kutys, PhD
Virtual Seminar at special time: 10:00-11:00am
February 2, 2022
“Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration”Pietro De Camilli, MD
Yale
Host: Rushika Perera, PhD
virtual seminar
February 16, 2022
“Epigenetic Drivers in Cancers with RB Loss”Erik Herzog, PhD
Washington University - St Louis
Host: Ying-Hui Fu, PhD
February 23, 2022
TBADavid Liu, PhD
Harvard, Broad Institute
Host: Zev Gartner, PhD
March 16, 2022
“Seeing the Light for Retinal Gene Therapy: From Fantasy to Reality”Daniel Mucida, PhD
Rockefeller University
Host: Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
March 30, 2022
TBAVictor Torres, PhD
NYU
Host: Seemay Chou, PhD
April 6, 2022
“Mechanisms of gastrulation: from zebrafish to human”Graça Raposo, PhD
Institut Curie
Host: Aparna Lakkaraju, PhD
virtual seminar at special time: 10:00-11:00am
April 13, 2022
TBAClaude Desplan, PhD
NYU
Host: Elphege Nora, PhD
April 20, 2022
“Genome Topology Controls The Timing Of Gene Activity During Development”Mike Levine, PhD
Princeton University
Host: Licia Selleri, PhD
April 27, 2022
TBAAshani T. Weeraratna, PhD
John Hopkins
Host: Rushika Perera, PhD
May 4, 2022
“Transposable elements and epigenome evolution”Ting Wang, PhD
Washington Univ - St. Louis
Host: Yin Shen, PhD
May 11, 2022
TBAGuillermo García-Cardeña, PhD
Harvard
Hosts: Matt Kutys, PhD
May 18, 2022
TBAFiona Powrie, PhD
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford UK
Host: Jason Cyster, PhD
virtual seminar at special time: 10:00-11:00am
May 25, 2022
"Cell fate determination in the vertebrate retina"Connie Cepko, PhD
Harvard
Host: Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD