(l-r) Drs. Daniel Tyrrell, Kelly G. Ten Hagen, and Cristina Magi-GalluzziOn October 29, the Department of Pathology hosted its tenth annual Jay John Listinsky Lecture in Glycobiology featuring Kelly G. Ten Hagen, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and Chief, Associate Scientific Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health. Ten Hagen delivered the lecture “Mucins and O-Glycosylation in Health and Disease."
Ten Hagen received a bachelor’s degree in biology with a concentration in genetics and development from Cornell University in 1986 and earned a Ph.D. in genetics at Standford University in 1992. She received the Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology in 2023 and was selected for the Anita B. Roberts Lectureship in 2025. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Dr. Jay John Listinsky, an adjunct associate professor of pathology at UAB at the time of his untimely death in 2012, originally trained as a diagnostic radiologist but had a decades-long interest in fucosylated molecules and their overlapping physiologic properties. He collaborated with investigators in the Division of Anatomic Pathology for many years, which generated several novel manuscripts that added important data to the knowledge base of glycobiology. To further this work, his friends, colleagues, and family, spearheaded by his wife and UAB pathologist, Cathy, endowed this lectureship for future generations.