Genetics Seminar
Will return in September
April 13, 2018 | Chulan Kwon, MS, Ph.D. | John Hopkins University
April 20, 2018 | Merry-Lynn McDonald, Ph.D. | University of Alabama at Birmingham
May 4, 2018 | Mikhail Alexeyev, Ph.D., I University of South Alabama
May 11, 2018 | Jiangbing Zhou, Ph.D. I Yale University
Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| 9/2/2016 | Margaret R. "Peggy" Wallace | Indiana University | Molecular and Cellular Studies of Neurofibromatosis 1 |
| 9/9/2016 | |||
| 9/16/2016 | Vidu Garg, MD | Nationwide Children's Hospital | Insights into the genetics of congenital heart disease: From human genetics to mouse models |
| 9/23/2016 | STATE DEPT MEETING | ||
| 9/30/2016 | |||
| 10/7/2016 | Jake Chen | Journal Club | |
| 10/14/2016 | IMMERSON COURSE | ||
| 10/21/2016 | |||
| 10/26/2016 | |||
| 11/4/2016 | Gabrielle Geddes, M.D. | Medical College of Wisconsin/ Children's Hospital of Wisconsin | Ciliopathies and Congenital Heart Disease |
| 11/11/2016 | Patty Sanderson | Journal Club | |
| 11/18/2016 | SCIENTIFIC RETREAT | ||
| 11/25/2016 | |||
| 12/2/2016 | Brian Spurlock | Journal Club | Mechanisms of Autophagy as discovered by Dr. Yoshinori Oshumi Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2016 |
| 12/9/2016 | Sophie Astrof, PhD | Thomas Jefferson University | Cell type-specific function of fibronectin in cardiovascular development |
| 12/16/2016 | |||
| 12/30/2016 | |||
| 1/6/2017 |
Li, Yi, PHD *This lecture will take place from 2 - 3 p.m. in the Finely Conference Room |
Baylor College of Medicine` | Unexpected players in cancer metastasis |
| 1/13/2017 | Joy Dean | Journal Club | |
| 1/20/2017 | |||
| 1/27/2017 | |||
| 2/3/2017 | Benjamin Tu, PhD | UT-Southwestern University | A metabolic vulnerability of tumors revealed by yeast |
| 2/10/2017 | |||
| 2/17/2017 | Jariya Upadiya | Journal Club | Fox transcription factors in cardiovascular development |
| 2/24/2017 | Barbara K Burton MD | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago | Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency |
| 3/3/2017 | RARE DISEASE SYMPOSIUM | ||
| 3/10/2017 | Dr. Kume Tsutomu | Northwestern University | Fox transcription factors in cardiovascular development |
| 3/17/2017 | Bruce Walcheck | University of Minnesota | Regulating Receptor Levels on Leukocytes to Improve Their Function During Disease |
| 3/24/2017 | Stephen Dalton | University of Georgia | “MYC coordinates metabolic control with pluripotent stem cell fate decisions” |
| 3/31/2017 | |||
| 4/7/2017 | Dr. David Gutmann | Washington Univ Neurofibromatosis Center | Neurofibromatosis: New Insights from an Old Gene |
| 4/14/2017 | Danny Welch, PhD | Univ of Kansas Medical Center | The forgotten genome: Surprising roles of mitochondria in cancer metastasis. |
| 4/21/2017 | Genetics Graduation - Robert Marion | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
| 4/28/2017 | Deborah Yelon | Univ of California San Diego | “Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Cardiac Architecture in Zebrafish” |
| 5/5/2017 | Dr. Prabhat Goswami | A redox cycle within the cell cycle: ring in the old with the new. | |
| 5/12/2017 | Deeann Wallis, PhD | Journal Club | |
| 5/19/2017 | IMMERSION COURSE | ||
| 5/26/2017 | Shizen (Emily) Wang, Ph.D | Seminar Series | “Cancer-derived extracellular miRNA in breast cancer metastasis”. |
| 6/9/2017 | Dr. Melissa Harris | Uncovering gene regulatory networks for somatic stem cell self-renewal. | |
| 9/29/2017 | Dr. Elizabeth Worthey | John Hartman | Preparing for the Precision Medicine Revolution: Transforming Whole Genome Sequencing Data into Clinically Actionable Knowledge |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 09/04/2015 | |||
| 09/11/2015 | |||
| 09/18/2015 | State Department Meeting | ||
| 09/25/2015 | |||
| 10/02/2015 | |||
| 10/09/2015 | |||
| 10/16/2015 | Journal Club- Justin Avery |
UAB | |
| 10/23/2015 | Dr. Sunjung Kim | Children's National Medical Center | "The Role of Tumor Suppressor genes in Central Nervous System (CNS) Disorder |
| 10/30/2015 | Deeann Wallis, Ph.D | Texas A&M University | "High-Throughput Differentiation and Screening of a Library of Mutant Stem Cell Clones Defines New Host-Based Genes Involved in Infection' |
| 11/06/2015 | Journal Club- Ved Prakash Mooga |
UAB | |
| 11/13/2015 | Areeg El-gharbawy | University of Pitsburg | |
| 11/20/2015 | |||
| 11/27/2015 | Thanksgiving holiday | ||
| 12/04/2015 | Journal Club- Akila Subramanium |
UAB | |
| 12/11/2015 | Joy Lincoln , Ph.D |
Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute | |
| 12/18/2015 | Stanley Lei Qi, PhD | Stanford University | |
| 12/25/2015 | Holiday | ||
| 01/01/2016 | Holiday | ||
| 01/08/2016 | |||
| 01/15/2016 | Day before MLK Weekend | ||
| 01/22/2016 | Journal Club - Kasturi Mitra, Ph.D |
UAB | |
| 01/29/2016 | Ivan Moskowitz, MD, PhD | University of Chicago | "Gene Regulatory Networks in Cardiac Development and Homeostasis" |
| 02/05/2016 | Mick Edmonds, PhD, MS | Vanderbilt University Medical Cente | |
| 02/12/2016 | Cancelled- Rescheduled for March 4. | ||
| 02/19/2016 | Toren Finkel | NIH | "Mitochondria and Aging" |
| 02/26/2016 | Joy Lincoln , Ph.D | Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute | "Exploring heart valve endothelial cell dynamics" |
| 03/04/2016 | Journal Club- Ashley Turner |
UAB | |
| 03/11/2016 | Stanley Lei Qi, PhD | Stanford University | "CRISPR/Cas9 for complex genome regulation and disease modeling" |
| 03/18/2016 | Journal Club- Austin Hamm |
UAB | |
| 03/25/2016 | Spring Break | ||
| 04/01/2016 | Spring Break | ||
| 04/08/2016 | Vishal Gohil | Texas A & M University | "Discovering novel mitochondrial disease genes by integrative genomics" |
| 04/15/2016 | Journal Club- Sean Santos |
UAB | |
| 04/20/2016 | Woojin An, Ph.D., | University of Southern California | “Chromatin dynamics and gene regulation” |
| 04/22/2016 | Todd Lowe, Ph.D. | University of California Santa Cruz | Unraveling the Complex Roles for 500+ Human tRNA Genes and their Ubiquitous Small RNA Fragments |
| 04/29/2016 | Maria Alejandra San Martin, PhD | Emory University | “Diverse roles of NADPH oxidases in the VSMC phenotype” |
| 05/06/2016 | Anil Shanker, PhD | Meharry Medical College School of Medicine | "Preventing Immune Escape Variants of Cancer" |
| 05/13/2016 | |||
| 05/20/2016 | Brian Kennedy, PH.D. / LRC-235 | Buck Institute for Aging | “The Age of Aging – Can We Intervene?” |
| 05/27/2016 | Jing Yang PhD | University of California, San Diego | "Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Carcinoma Metastasis" |
| 06/17/2016 | Journal Club- Anna Hurst |
UAB |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 09/12/2014 | Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, UAB | State of the Department Address |
| 09/19/2014 | No Seminar | ||
| 09/26/2014 | Rebecca Dodd, Ph.D. | Senior Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center | "New Mice for Old Questions: Modeling Soft-tissue Sarcoma" |
| 10/03/2014 | No Seminar | ||
| 10/10/2014 | Todd Nystul, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco | "To Be (Stem) or Not to Be: Polarity and pH Define Cell Fate in an Epithelial Stem Lineage" |
| 10/17/2014 | Becky Nagy, MD, LGC | Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University | "The Use of Next Generation Sequencing in Novel Gene Discovery: A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 10/24/2014 | Journal Club- Trevor Carden | UAB | |
| 10/31/2014 | Sean Wu, MD, Ph.D | Professor, Stanford University | "Molecular Regulation of Cardiac Development: Implications in Regenerative Therapy" |
| 11/07/2014 | Hudson Alpha Retreat- NO SEMINAR | N/A | N/A |
| 11/14/2014 | Journal Club-Anil Challa | UAB | |
| 11/21/2014 | Anil Challa, Ph.D | Instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| 11/28/2014 | Thanksgiving Holiday | N/A | N/A |
| 12/05/2014 | Hyeong-Reh Choi Kim, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Wayne State University | "A Novel Function of PDGF D in Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis: New Biology of an Old Growth Factor Family Member" |
| 12/12/2014 | No Seminar | ||
| 12/19/2014 | Journal Club- Warren L Simmons | UAB | |
| 12/26/2014 | Christmas Holiday | N/A | N/A |
| 01/02/2015 | New Years Holiday | N/A | N/A |
| 01/09/2015 | Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. | Professor and Chairman Dept. of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama | |
| 01/16/2015 | MLK Holiday | N/A | N/A |
| 01/23/2015 | William Pu, MD. | Harvard Medical School | |
| 01/30/2015 | Journal Club- Bob Kesterson | UAB | |
| 02/06/2015 | No Seminar | ||
| 02/13/2015 | No Seminar | ||
| 02/20/2015 | Journal Club- Wei Zhang | UAB | |
| 02/27/2015 | No Seminar | ||
| 03/06/2015 | Matt R. Kaeberlein, Ph.D. | University of Washington | |
| 03/13/2015 | Rocio Moran, MD | Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic | |
| 03/20/2015 | Journal Club-Haley D. Albright | ||
| 03/27/2015 | Spring Break | ||
| 04/03/2015 | Spring Break | ||
| 04/10/2015 | Bhupendra Singh, Ph.D. | Instructor, University of Alabama at Birminhgam | |
| 04/17/2015 | Randal Voss, Ph.D. | Professor, Biology, University of Kentucky | |
| 04/24/2015 | Day Before Commencement | ||
| 05/01/2015 | No Seminar | ||
| 05/08/2015 | Journal Club- Ying Peng | UAB | |
| 05/15/2015 | Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, UAB | |
| 05/22/2015 | No Seminar | ||
| 05/29/2015 | Journal Club- Justin Avery | UAB |