Seminars

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 DiasBrazilian 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 - POSTPONED
    Brian Aguilera  (Kurpios Lab) - Pitx2 regulated epithelial homeostasis and function in the postnatal intestine
  • December 11
    Jillian Breault  (Sevier Lab) - Structure and function of a BiP ATPase mutant
    Matt Zanotelli (Cerione Lab) - Sustained AKT and mTOR/S6K activity by Dock7 in the survival of cancer cells
  • December 18 - NO WIP - Winter Break
  • December 25 - NO WIP - Winter Break
JANUARY 2024
  • January 1 - NO WIP - Winter Break
  • January 8
    Jacqueline Ehrlich  (Kawate Lab) - Structural investigations of Pannexin gating
  • January 15 - NO WIP - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
  • January 22
    Sumanth Mosale  (Sardana Lab) - Understanding Membrane Protein Quality Control Mechanism at Lysosomes
    Sam Deck  (Cerione Lab) - Advancements in our Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of K-Ras Activation Using Novel X-Ray Crystallography Approaches
  • January 29 - NO WIP - BBS Recruitment
FEBRUARY 2024
  • February 5
    Alexandra Hommer  (Sevier Lab) - Cellular Targeting and Functions for the Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases (MSRs)
    Saul De La Pena (Cerione Lab) - Unraveling the Biology and Structure of Rhodopsin and its Effectors in the Presence of its Native Lipids
  • February 12
    Libby Huang (Kurpios Lab) - Reconstructing the origin and assembly of villus smooth muscles
    Justin Tapper (Adler Lab) - Developing transgenic strategies in planarians
  • February 19
    Sarah Codd (Kawate Lab) - Elucidating the structure and function of TTYH1 using C. elegans as a model organism
    Bill Katt  (Cerione Lab) - Progress in Pooches: MEK Inhibitors to Treat Canine Oral Cancers
  • February 26
    Jade Bowerman  (Sardana Lab) - Investigation of factors regulating AP-1 function in intra-Golgi recycling
    Kayleigh Morrison  (Hollopeter Lab) - The Curious Case of a Two-Faced Protein Domain
MARCH 2024
  • March 4
    Isabel Delo  (Adler Lab) - Investigating the role of Smad4-2 in neural feeding circuit regeneration
    Julia Zhu (Sardana Lab) - Uncovering Novel Functions of the Disease-associated Protein Cystinosin using Yeast as a Model
  • March 11
    Jacob Neumann (Cerione Lab) - Determining how survivin influences metabolic reprogramming in pancreatic cancer
    Shun Enomoto (Cerione Lab) - Determining how embryonic stem cell derived extracellular vesicles delay senescence