Seminars
This pages lists our BMS seminar series for the semester and for previous semesters.
BMS seminars are held in-person, on Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Below, we also listed other seminars of interest.
BMS Seminar Series - Spring 2025
Thursday, January 16, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"STICs Make Tumors Nervous: the impact of cancer precursors on the TME"
Franklin Payne Professor of Pathology
Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Dr. Alexander Nikitin
Thursday, February 20, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Discovering the Motors and Brakes of Evolution"
Assistant Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Hosted by: Dr. Brandon Hedrick
Thursday, March 20, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Identifying Genetic Risk Factors for Gastric Cancer in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model"
Jacquelyn Evans, PhD
BMS Faculty Spotlight
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Thursday, April 17, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Bird and Bat Skeleton Evolution; the Bones of What We Believe"
Andrew Orkney, PhD
BMS Postdoc Spotlight
Postdoctoral Associate
Hedrick Lab
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Thursday, May 15, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"mRNA Translation in Cancer Etiology"
Professor and Associate Director
Human Biology Division
Professor
Clinical Research Division
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Hosted by: Dr. Praveen Sethupathy
Thursday, June 19, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Size Matters Not? Rethinking the Link Between Sex Differences in Chromosome Axis Length and Crossover Number in Mouse Meiosis"
Tegan Horan, PhD
BMS Postdoc Spotlight
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cohen Lab
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
BMS seminar series - Archives
Fall 2024
Thursday, September 19, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Yarnell Lecture Hall 4
"Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins"
Harmit Malik, PhD
Co-sponsored with Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center (CoRe)
Professor and Associate Director
Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Hosted by: Anna Wood and Dr. Paula Cohen
Thursday, October 17, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Bat flight with cold wings: biomechanics and thermoregulation in flying bats"
Thursday, November 21, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Dissecting and targeting cancer plasticity"
Gastrointestinal Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by: Dr. Anushka Dongre
Thursday, December 19, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Amino acid and one-carbon metabolism homeostasis in health and disease"
Assistant Professor
Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
Hosted by: Dr. Praveen Sethupathy and Donald Long
Spring 2024
Thursday, January 18, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Unveiling the Intersection of Lipid Metabolism, Immune Modulation, and Therapeutic Opportunities in Non-Small Cell Lung Adenocarcinoma"
Glenn E. Simmons Jr., PhD
BMS Faculty Spotlight
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Thursday, February 15, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Examining the unconventional role of ANG-Tie2 signaling in pancreatic CAF/ECM unit function"
Thursday, March 21, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 2
"Riding a wave, going down a slope - collective stem cell behaviors during skin regeneration"
Professor
Department of Developmental & Cell Biology
University of California Irvine
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew White
Thursday, April 18, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Systems Pharmacology and Machine Learning Identifies Druggable Cancer Cell-stroma Interactions"
Associate Professor
Human Biology Division
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Hosted by: Dr. Praveen Sethupathy
Thursday, May 16, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Common genetic variation in dogs regulates gene expression and breed-specific phenotypic variation"
Postdoctoral Fellow
Comparative Genetics Section
National Institutes of Health
Hosted by: Dr. Adam Boyko
Thursday, June 20, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lecture Hall 3
"Persistent genomic instability affects mammalian placenta development"
Munisha Mumingjiang, PhD
BMS Postdoc Spotlight
NYSCF Druckenmiller Postdoc Fellow - Schimenti Lab
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Fall 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 12:15 - 1:15pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Targeting Hypoxia-Adenosinergic Immune-Suppression to Reprogram the Tumor Microenvironment and Improve Cancer Immunotherapy"
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Northeastern University
Hosted by: Dr. Anushka Dongre
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 12:15 - 1:15pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Precision Medicine in Ovarian Cancer: Targeting Phosphate Dysregulation"
Research Scientist
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Hosted by: Dr. Praveen Sethupathy
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 12:15 - 1:15pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Variation in Human Sexually Dimorphic Phenotypes May Be More Affected by Culture Than Genetics"
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Genetics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Dr. Brandon Hedrick
Thursday, December 14, 2023 - 12:15 - 1:15pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Epigenetic alterations promote pancreatic cancer progression and metastasis"
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of California - Davis
Hosted by: Dr. Andrea Flesken-Nikitin
Spring 2023
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lecture Hall 5
"Nerve-mediated (Re)generation of the salivary gland: from bench to bedside"
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell & Tissue Biology
University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by: BMS Seminar Committee and the Cornell University Stem Cell Program
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lecture Hall 3
"A Balancing Act: Regulating RNA Translation for Cancer Progression"
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Hosted by: BMS Seminar Series Committee
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Regeneration of the Uterus"
Assistant Professor
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Hosted by: BMS Seminar Committee and the Cornell University Stem Cell Program
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Investigating Simple Breed Stereotypes and Genetically Complex Traits in Thousands of Pet Dogs"
Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 12:00 - 1:00pm
Lecture Hall 3
"Genotoxic aldehydes in cancer and aging"
Assistant Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Hosted by: Paul Soloway
Fall 2022
Tuesday, September 20 - 4:00 - 5:00pm
Lecture Hall 5
"Diet-induced Plasticity in the Hypothalamus as a Causal Factor for Obesity"
Associate Professor
Evnin Family Chair in Alzheimer's Research
The Jackson Laboratory
Hosted by: Dr. John Schimenti
Spring 2022
Tuesday, April 19th - 4:00 - 5:00pm
Lecture Hall 1
"Functional Annotation of Cancer-Specific Enhancer Elements at Single-Cell Resolution"
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hosted by: Dr. Praveen Sethupathy
Tuesday, April 26th - 2:00 - 3:00pm
Virtual Event
"Introduction to the Respiratory System"
Associate Professor of Anatomy
School of Veterinary Medicine
Texas Tech University
Thursday, April 28th - 12:30 - 1:15pm
Virtual Event
"The science of who we are: studying structure and function of people in the veterinary profession"
Courtesy Clinical Associate Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Other seminars of interest
R3 Group (DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination) Seminar Series
Stem Cell Seminar Series
Center for Vertebrate Genomics (VERGE) Seminar Series
Life Sciences Lecture Series
Biomedical and Biological Sciences Signature Series (BBS3)
Annual Kristy Richards Memorial Lecture - 2024
Distinguished Lecture in Cancer Biology
CoRe Seminar Series
Tri-Repro Symposium