The Department of Molecular Medicine hosts seminars and research Work-in-Progress presentations throughout the year

Fall/Winter Seminar Series 2023
4:00 pm  (Mondays, unless otherwise noted)

OCTOBER

• October 3 (Tuesday) - Lecture Hall 4, BBS Signature Seminar Series
  Chris Hunter, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

  Parasite Partners: Unveiling Pathogen Latency with Transgenic Allies
  (hosted by Cindy Leifer)

NOVEMBER

• November 7 (Tuesday) - Lecture Hall 5, BBS Signature Seminar Series
  Michel Sadelain, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  CD19 CAR T cells: a Paradigm for the Living Drug Concept
  (hosted by James Cockey)

• November 13 (Monday) - Lecture Hall 3, Department Seminar Series
  Carrie Adler, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell
  Planarian Stem Cells: a Model for Limitless Regeneration and Renewal

DECEMBER

• December 5 (Tuesday) - Lecture Hall 4, BBS Signature Seminar Series
  Frank Slack, Institute for RNA Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

  Towards microRNA Therapeutics in Cancer
  (hosted by Praveen Sethupathy and Rosanna Ma)

• December 15 (Friday) - 3:00 pm, Lecture Hall 3, Special Welcome Back Seminar
  Sandra Martha Gomes Dias, Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio,CNPEM)
  Redefining Cellular Dynamics: The Unexpected Role of Glutaminase Filaments in Mitochondrial Fate
  (hosted by Richard Cerione)

2023/2024 Fall/Winter Department Work-In-Progress Series
4:00 pm Mondays Lecture Hall III, unless noted otherwise

OCTOBER 2023

• October 23
  Shi Feng  (Cerione Lab) - Is filament formation necessary to drive catalysis of glutaminase enzymes?
  Derek Wei (Hollopeter Lab) - How does APE-1 regulate the protein phosphatase GSP-2?
• October 30

  Anthony Bui  (Chappie Lab) - Structural characterization of non-canonical McrBC homologs provides insights into DNA binding
  Erika Beyrent (Hollopeter Lab) - How is the Inversin complex activated?

NOVEMBER 2023

• November 6
  Erik Henze  (Kawate Lab) - Untargeted secretomics reveals a novel set of Pannexin-1 signaling metabolite
  Jenn Roscoe (Sevier Lab) - Characterizing the role of the UPR during overly oxidizing ER redox conditions
• November 13 - No WIP - Department Seminar
• November 20 - No WIP - Thanksgiving Break

• November 27
  Rebecca Schmitt  (Cerione Lab) - Glioblastoma Resilience Through Dock7-Driven Survival and Plasticity
  Kuang-Tse Wang (Adler Lab) - Delineating how RoboA Regulates Stem Cell Differentiation

DECEMBER 2023

• December 4
  Brian Aguilera  (Kurpios Lab) - Pitx2 regulated epithelial homeostasis and function in the postnatal intestine
• December 11
  Jillian Breault  (Sevier Lab) - tba
  Matt Zanotelli (Cerione Lab) - tba
• December 18 - NO WIP - Winter Break
• December 25 - NO WIP - Winter Break

JANUARY 2024

• January 1 - NO WIP - Winter Break
• January 8
  Yangyang Liu (Cerione Lab) - tba
  Jacqueline Ehrlich  (Kawate Lab) - tba
• January 15 - NO WIP - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
• January 22
  Sumanth Mosale  (Sardana Lab) - tba
  Sam Deck  (Cerione Lab) - tba
• January 29 - NO WIP - BBS Recruitment

FEBRUARY 2024

• February 5
  Alexandra Hommer  (Sevier Lab) - tba
  Saul De La Pena (Cerione Lab) - tba
• February 12
  Libby Huang (Kurpios Lab) - tba
  Justin Tapper (Adler Lab) - tba
• February 19
  Sarah Codd (Kawate Lab) - tba
  Bill Katt  (Cerione Lab) - tba
• February 26
  Jade Bowerman  (Sardana Lab) - tba
  Kayleigh Morrison  (Hollopeter Lab) - tba

MARCH 2024

• March 4
  Isabel Delo  (Adler Lab) - tba
  Julia Zhu (Sardana Lab) - tba
• March 11
  Jacob Neumann (Cerione Lab) - tba
  Shun Enomoto (Cerione Lab) - tba