HUMGEN 630: Co-sponsored by the Genetics Training Program (GTP) and the Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB).
Fall and Winter terms, 1 credit each.
In this short course, GTP and CMB students invite outstanding internal and external scientists to give a seminar and to formally and informally interact with students.
The topic of the Fall 2024 Short Course, sponsored by Cellular and Molecular Biology, is “AI in Action: Applications in Cellular and Molecular Biology."
Seminars are open to the University Community
Fall 2024: AI in Action: Applications in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Sriram Chandrasekaran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
- Introductory Lecture: "Drug Discovery Using Systems Biology and Mechanistic AI"
- 3:00 p.m.
- South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Zijun (Frank) Zhang, Ph.D., Director of Clinical AI at Natera
- "Fine-Tuning Language Models for Genome Understanding"
- 3:00 p.m.
- South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- David Shackelford, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
- "Spatial Mapping of Organelle Architecture and Communication in Lung Cancer"
- 3:00 p.m.
- South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- "Learning Cellular Mechanisms by Interpretable AI"
- 3:00 p.m.
- South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Feng Guo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
- "Intersection of Brain Organoid, AI, and Medicine”"
- 3:00 p.m.
- South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
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Winter 2024: As the Ribonucleotide Turns: How Cells Exert Control, Ride Out Genomic Instability, and Gain Immunity
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- Lyle Simmons, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
- Introductory Lecture: "Genome Instability Caused by Persistent RNA-DNA Hybrid Formation"
- 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Francesca Storici, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
- "RNA's Transformative Impact: Shaping DNA Metabolism in the Genome"
- 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- Hai Dang Nguyen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota
- "Understanding and Targeting R-Loop Response Pathways in Cancers"
- 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Nicholas Ingolia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- "Global Analysis of the Networks Controlling mRNA Translation and Decay"
- 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 1 - 3330 Auditorium
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Wendy V. Gilbert, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Yale University
- "Decoding the Untranslated to Engineer Next-Generation mRNA Medicines"
- 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall
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Fall 2023: Adapting to a Changing World: Sustainability in a Biological Context
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
- Introductory Lecture, Marcy Balunas, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan
"In a Changing World: Interrogating Specialized Metabolite Production in Host-Microbe Symbioses" - 3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
- Joanna Lee, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Biochemical & Cellular Pharmacology at Genentech
"Towards Sustainability in Drug Discovery: Development of a High-Throughput 3D Culture Model of Immune Excluded Tumor Microenvironments"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
Friday, October 6, 2023
- Heather Olins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Biology Department at Boston College
"Sustainability as a Key Component of Biology Education"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
- Evan Appleton, Ph.D., Head of Stem Cell Biology / Reprogramming & Principal Scientist at Colossal Biosciences
"Stem Cells for Conservation and De-Extinction"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- Chris Hernandez, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Director, Health Innovations Via Engineering center at UCSF
"Using Biology to Advance Engineering and Sustainability: Engineered Living Materials"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
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Winter 2023: Against the Grain: Peculiar Twists in the Central Dogma
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
- Hayley McLoughlin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology & Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
- Introductory Lecture: "Antisense Oligonucleotides in Ataxia: Elucidating Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities"
- 3:00 p.m., MSII - North Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
- Glenn Telling, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology & Director of the Prion Research Center, Colorado State University
- "Transgenic Mouse Models to Investigate Mechanisms of Prion Replication and Strain Variation"
- 3:00 p.m., MSII - North Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
- Francine Perler, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Perls of Wisdom Biotech Consulting
- "Serendipity Reveals Novel Processes: Intein Discovery, Function, and Applications"
- 3:00 p.m., MSI - M5330
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
- Laura Ranum, Ph.D., Director, Center for NeuroGenetics & Kitzman Family Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
- "Repeat Associated Non-AUG Proteins in Neurologic Disease: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities"
- 3:00 p.m., MSII - North Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
- Stephen Goff, Ph.D., Higgins Professor Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
- "Retroviral Replication: Breaking Most of the Rules"
- 3:00 p.m., MSII - North Lecture Hall
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Fall 2022: The Cellular Basis of Medical Revolutions
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
- Introductory Lecture, Jonathan Sexton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan
"Morphologic Single-Cell Profiling, Organoids and Drug Repurposing" - 3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M5330
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Jesse Bloom, Ph.D., Professor, Basic Sciences Division and Herbold Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutch
"Interpreting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
3:00pm, Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95906439845
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
- Jing-Ke Weng, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Core Member, Whitehead Institute, Mass. Institute of Tech. (MIT)
"Harnessing plant metabolism for new catalysts, medicines, and materials"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: MSI - M5330
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
- Carmela Sidrauski, Ph.D., Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Mechanisms and pathophysiology of the Integrated Stress Response"
3:00pm, Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95177822795
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
- Tanya Parish, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Hospital
"TBD"
3:00pm, In-Person Location: MSI - M5330
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Winter 2022: Mechanistic Insights into DNA Replication: The Beauty is in the Details
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
- Introductory Lecture, Thomas E. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics
"The Relationships Between Replication Stress, Repair and Rescue Mechanisms, and Mutation"3:00pm
Location: North Lecture Hall - MSII or ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/99503863764 passcode: 174146
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
- Thomas A. Kunkel, Ph.D., DNA Replication Fidelity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"The Generation and Repair of Eukaryotic Nuclear DNA Replication Errors"
3:00pm
Location: ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/99503863764 passcode: 174146
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
- Supriya Prasanth, Ph.D., Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Mechanisms of Genome Inheritance"
3:00pm
Location: West Lecture Hall - MSII or ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/99503863764 passcode: 174146
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
- Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University
"RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome"
3:00pm
Location: ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/99503863764 passcode: 174146
Tuesday, April 19 2022
- Mary Lilly, Ph.D., Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
"The Essential Roles of Stress Response Pathways in Meiosis and Gametogenesis"
3:00pm
Location: West Lecture Hall - MSII or ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/99503863764 passcode: 174146
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Fall 2021: Multi-omics in Unique Model Systems
Friday, September 17, 2021
- Introductory Lecture, Carole Parent, Ph.D., Professor of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
"Dictyostelium discoideum as a model system to study chemotaxis" - 3:00pm, In-Person Location: Med Sci I, Room M3330
Friday, October 1, 2021
- Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
"Defining transitions in a parasitic life cycle"
3:00pm, Passcode: 558741 Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92611749823
Thursday, October 7, 2021
- Gilles Laurent, Ph.D., Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
"What can we learn about brain function by studying reptiles and cephalopods?"
10:00am, Location: Passcode: 254888 Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99243045579
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
- Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Understanding the sources of regenerative capacity in animals"
3:00pm, Passcode: 473243 Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98060943083
Monday, November 15, 2021
- Karen Maruska, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"Visual-acoustic communication in a cichlid fish: genes, brains, and behavior."
3:00pm, Passcode: 441875 Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95785393440
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Winter 2021: The Intricacies of Transcription:
Coordinating Multiple Layers of Gene Regulation
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
- Introductory Lecture, Kenneth Cadigan, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan LSA
"Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeats" - 3:00pm, ZOOM https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94509280988
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
- Stephen Montgomery, Ph.D., Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Common and Rare Regulatory Variation in Genetic Disease"
3:00pm, ZOOM https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94509280988
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
- Karen Adelman, Ph.D., Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
"Regulating Transcription and Coding and Non-Coding RNA Loci"
3:00pm, Location: ZOOM https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94509280988
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
- Hernan Garcia, Ph.D., Departments of Genetics, Genomics, & Development and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
"Dissecting Transcriptional Dynamics in Development One Burst at a Time"
3:00pm, ZOOM https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94509280988
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
- Cari Vanderpool, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois
"Cryptic Prophage-Encoded Regulators of Bacterial Metabolism and Growth"
3:00pm, ZOOM https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94509280988
Fall 2020: Seeing is Believing: Advancing Research with Scientific Microscopy
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
- Introductory Lecture, Melanie Ohi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology and Life Science Institute, University of Michigan
“Seeing is Believing: The Power of Microscopy in the Biological Sciences”
9:30am, Bluejeans Mtg., https://bluejeans.com/791630062
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
- Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago.
"Biophysical Control of Epithelial Architecture and Dynamics"
3:15pm, Bluejeans Mtg., https://bluejeans.com/307078354
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
- Edward Boyden, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
“Tools for Analyzing and Controlling Biological Systems”
3:00pm, Bluejeans Mtg., https://bluejeans.com/966346744
Tuesday, October 29, 2020
- Julie Canman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University
"Title of Talk - TBD"
3:00pm, Bluejeans Mtg., https://bluejeans.com/467324338
Friday, November 13, 2020
- Michael Angelo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University
"Linking Single Cell Function to Tissue Structure in Human Health and Disease with Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging"
3:00pm, Bluejeans Mtg. , https://bluejeans.com/254475047
Winter 2020: Centromeres, Telomeres, and Transposable Elements, Oh My!
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
- Introductory Lecture, Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan LSA
"Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeats" - 3:00pm, Location WLH Med Sci II
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
- Amanda Larracuente, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Rochester
"Retroelements: Conserved Features of Drosophila Centromeres"
3:00pm, Location WLH Med Sci II
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
- Joseph Peters, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
"Variant CRISPR/Cas-enabled Transposition Systems in Natural and Programed Genome Modification"
3:00pm, Location: REMOTE ATTENDANCE ONLY
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - CANCELLED
- Gary Karpen, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
"Interrogating Roles for Liquidity in Nuclear Organization and Function"
3:00pm, Location WLH Med Sci II
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - CANCELLED
- Julie Cooper, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
"Centromeres Impersonating Telomeres, and Other Forms of Deception at the Chromosome End"
3:00pm, Location WLH Med Sci I
Fall 2019: Messing with the Messenger: The Role of RNA Modification in Biology
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
- Introductory Lecture, Mats Ljungman, Ph.D., Professor of Radiation Oncology and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan
“The Epitranscriptome”
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Thursday, October 24, 2019
- Brenda Bass, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Utah
"C. elegans ADARs Antagonize Silencing of Cellular dsRNAs by the Antiviral RNAi Pathway"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
- Kate Meyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine
“Detecting m6A and Its Role in RNA Regulation”
3:00pm, M3330, Med Sci I
Thursday, November 7, 2019
- Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, The Eugene Bell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago
"Generation of Plasticity in the Cephalopod Brain by Editing mRNA"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Thursday, November 14, 2019
- Stacy Horner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
"m6A at the Virus-Host Interface"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Winter 2019: Contain Your Cells: Regulatory Design by Chromatin Organization and Phase Separation
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
- Introductory Lecture, Kaushik Ragunathan, Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
“Phase Separation as an Organizing Principle of Cellular Function”
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall - Med Sci II
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
- Victor Corces, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Emory University
"Mechanisms of Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity in Mice"
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall - Med Sci II
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
- Karen Reddy, Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins Medicine
"The Nuclear Lamina and Dynamic 3D Genome Organization"
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall - Med Sci II
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
- Geeta Narlikar, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
"Phase-Separation and Allostery in Heterochromatin Regulation"
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall - Med Sci II
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
- D. Allan Drummond, Ph.D., Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, University of Chicago
"Stress or Signal? Rethinking the Cellular Response to Heat Shock"
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall - Med Sci II
Fall 2018: Bedside to bench: Personalized Medicine through Basic Science
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
- Introductory Lecture, Zhong Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan
“Connecting Epigenetics and Tissue Engineering in Heart Protection and Regeneration”
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Thursday, September 27, 2018
- Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
"Engineered T cell therapy for Cancer and Beyond"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
- Ali Khademhosseini, PhD Levi Knight Chair, Professor of Bioengineering, Radiology, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA
“Emerging Organ Models and Organ Printing for Regenerative Medicine”
3:00pm, 3695 North Lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
- David Lillicrap, MD, FRCPC, Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queens University
"Advances in the care of Inherited Bleeding Disorders through the Application of Molecular Science"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Thursday, October 25, 2018
- Stephen F. Badylak DVM, PhD, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Deputy Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
"Matrix Directed Cell Signaling for Regenerative Medicine Applications"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Winter 2018: Host-pathogen interactions: innate immunity and beyond
Thursday, February 22, 2018
- Introductory Lecture, Mary O'Riordan, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
"Cells on fire: turning stress into inflammation"
3:00pm, South Lecture Hall
Monday, March 5, 2018
- Nels Elde, Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah
"Evolutionary innovations from biological collisions"
3:00pm, North Lecture Hall
Thursday, March 15, 2018
- Blossom Damania, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Modulation of cell signaling pathways by an oncogenic human herpesvirus"
3:00pm, North Lecture Hall
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
- Sara Sawyer, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, BioFrontiers Institute
"Spillover: how viruses adapt at the animal - human interface"
3:00pm, West Lecture Hall
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- Brian Lazzaro, Ph.D., Cornell Institute for Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease, Departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
"Immune depression by mating and reproduction in Drosophila"
3:00pm, North Lecture Hall
Fall 2017: You’re one in a million: techniques and applications of emerging single cell technologies
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
- Introductory Lecture, Sue Hammoud, Ph.D., Departments of Human Genetics & Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
- Long Cai, Ph.D., Research Professor in Biology, California Institute of Technology
“Spatial genomics: single cell in situ transcription profiling and lineage analysis”
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Discussion: 4:00pm, 2813 Med Sci II
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
- Alex Shalek, MA, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, MIT School of Science
"Approaching the immune system as an interacting ensemble of cells"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Discussion: 4:00pm, 3813 Med Sci II
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
- Bjorn Kafsack, Ph.D., MHS, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College
"One is the loneliest number: single cell exploration of sexual commitment in malaria parasites"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Discussion: 4:00pm, 3813 Med Sci II
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
- Nick Navin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Delineating tumor evolution with single cell genomics"
3:00pm, M3330 Med Sci I
Discussion: 4:00pm, 3813 Med Sci II
Winter 2017: SEQ-ing the truth: leveraging functional genomics to gain insights into mechanisms of neurological disease
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
- Introductory Lecture, Kenneth Kwan, Ph.D., Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School
"Genetics, genomics, and modeling; studying neurological diseases in the age of NGS"
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
- Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Molecular networks of cognition"
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
- Andrew McCallion, Ph.D., McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Exploring the cellular context of risk variants: neurological disorders, non-coding variation and cellular heterogeneity"
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
- Gary Bassell, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
"Messenger RNA transport, local translation, and Fragile X syndrome"
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
- Hugo Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D., Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics & Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
"Flies as a diagnostic tool for human disease in the Undiagnosed Disease Network and for deciphering pathogenesis"
Fall 2016: Make yourself at home: how cells and organisms adapt to and define their micro-environments
Thursday, September 22, 2016
- Introductory Lecture, Marina Pasca di Magliano, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
- Erika Matunis, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Stem cell dynamics in the Drosophila testis"
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
- Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Exploiting exosomes biology for diagnosis and treatment of cancer"
Thursday, November 10, 2016
- Lea Goentoro, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
"Self-repairing symmetry in jellyfish"
Thursday, November 17, 2016
- Zena Werb, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
"Understanding cancer, metastasis and the tumor microenvironment in the age of single-cell genomics"
Winter 2016: Chromosome biology: exploring the impacts of genome architecture
February 25, 2016
- Jacob Mueller, Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School
“Two faces of the X chromosome: applications to chromosome structure and function”
March 8, 2016
- Mohamed Noor, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Duke University
“Recombination rate influences adaptation and speciation: studies in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group”
March 29, 2016
- Houra Merrikh, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, University of Washington
“Replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria”
April 5, 2016
- Beth Sullivan, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
“Epigenetic basis of chromosome inheritance in humans”
April 12, 2016
- Douglas Koshland, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
“The good, the bad, and the ugly of chromosome structure”
Fall 2015: Engineering biology from proteins to patients
October 29, 2015
- Nina Lu, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
“Engineering biology: from proteins to patients”
November 5, 2015
- Jaquin Niles, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Designing and integrating synthetic biology tools to study malaria”
November 12, 2015
- Salil Lachke, Ph.D., University of Delaware
“iSyTE: an integrative approach to study gene function in eye development”
November 19, 2015
- Chris Voigt, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Cello: a programming language for cells”
December 10, 2015
- Timothy K. Lu, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Engineering living cells for human health applications”
Winter 2015: Manipulating genomes: applications for basic science and disease
February 26, 2015
- Thomas Saunders, Ph.D., University of Michigan
"Introduction: principles of genome editing"
March 03, 2015
- Paula Cannon, Ph.D. , University of Southern California
"Giving HIV the [zinc] finger: targeted nucleases and precision gene therapy"
March 17, 2015
- Dirk Hockemeyer, Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley
"Elucidating telomere function in human tumor biology"
March 27, 2015
- J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D. , Harvard Medical School
"Targeted genome and epigenome editing using CRISPR and TALE technologies"
April 07, 2015
- Matthew Porteus, M.D., Ph.D. , Stanford School of Medicine
"Genome editing as a research and therapeutic tool"
Fall 2014: Movement: from molecule to man
September 23, 2014
- Kristen J. Verhey, Ph.D., University of Michigan
“Movement: from molecule to man”
September 30, 2014
- P. Hande Ozdinler, Ph.D., Northwestern University
"What do the upper motor neurons tell us about motor neuron diseases: let's listen to what they have to say"
October 9, 2014
- Keith Burridge,Ph.D., University North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“From cell adhesion and mechanotransduction to Rho GTPases”
October 30, 2014
- Jan Lammerding, Ph.D., Cornell University
“Squish and squeeze: nuclear biomechanics and mechanotransduction in health and disease”
November 18, 2014
- Lee Sweeney, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
“Design and redesign of the molecular motor, myosin”
Winter 2014: Modern insights into evolutionary genetics
January 28, 2014
- Patricia Wittkopp, Ph.D., University of Michigan
"The genomic basis of regulatory evolution"
February 11, 2014
- Manyuan Long, Ph.D. , University of Chicago
"New genes as drivers of phenotypic and functional evolution"
March 25, 2014
- Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D. , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"Genetic conflicts: the usual suspects and beyond"
April 04, 2014
- Jeffrey Palmer, Ph.D. , Indiana University, Bloomington
"Mitochondrial sex: rampant horizontal gene transfer in mitochondrial genomes"
Fall 2013: Evaluation and development of molecular therapies for cancer
October 1, 2013
- Judith Leopold, Ph.D., University of Michigan
“The evolution of MEK inhibitors from early discovery to regulatory approval and beyond”
October 8, 2013
- Dane Compton, Ph.D., Dartmouth University
“Mechanisms of chromosomal instability in human cancer cells”
October 24, 2013
- Brian Ross, Ph.D., University of Michigan
“Imaging biomarkers of cancer treatment response”
November 12, 2013
- Frederic de Sauvage, Ph.D., Genentech Inc.
"Targeting the hedgehog pathway in cancer: from bench to clinic"
November 26, 2013
- Michael F. Clarke, Ph.D., Stanford University
“Translating basic science”
Winter 2013: Frontiers in gene regulation
January 23, 2013
- Scott Barolo, Ph.D., University of Michigan
"Gene regulation: why does it have to be so complicated?"
January 29, 2013
- Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. , The Rockefeller University
"The CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune system of bacteria: mechanism and applications"
February 20, 2013
- John Stamatoyannopoulos, M.D. , University of Washington
"Gene regulation and common disease"
March 19, 2013
- Karen Adelman, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: a window for opportunities"
Fall 2012: Wiring the nervous system in health and disease
September 25, 2012
- Brian Pierchala, Ph.D., University of Michigan
“Wiring the nervous system in health and disease”
September 27, 2012
- Florian Engert, Ph.D., Harvard University
“Sensory processing and motor control in the larval zebrafish”
November 13, 2012
- John Flanagan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
“Axon guidance and regeneration: transmembrane receptors and RNA-based regulation mechanisms”
November 27, 2012
- Zhigang He, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston
"Re-building neuronal circuits after CNS injury"
December 13, 2012
- Martine F. Roussel, Ph.D., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Univ of Tennessee
“Molecular networks and cell of origin of pediatric medulloblastoma”
