Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series

Seminars and Events

Seminars are hosted on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. (unless otherwise noted).

2022 - 2023 Seminars

March 14, 2023

Speaker: Santos Franco, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver

Title: "Glia Cell Fates in Brain Development and Disease" (PDF)

Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


March 21, 2023

» Seminar has been CANCELLED!

Speaker: Edward M. Levine, Ph.D., William A. Black Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University

Title: "Resolving genetic networks that regulate progenitor properties during early mouse retinal development"

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


April 4, 2023

Speaker: Edward N. Pugh Jr., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

Title: "How water movement in the eye enables Optical Coherence Tomography Optoretinogram (OCT-ORG) to measure phototransduction in rod and cone photoreceptors in vivo" (PDF)


April 11, 2023

Speaker: Derek S. Welsbie, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Board Certification in Ophthalmology, Fellowship in Glaucoma, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Title: "Kinase multitargeting for glaucoma neuroprotection" (PDF)

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


May 9, 2023

Speaker: Carol Schuurmans, Ph.D., Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Title: "Identifying novel gene regulatory interactions that govern neocortical development" (PDF)

Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


May 16, 2023

Speaker: Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Title: "Genetic reprogramming to prevent blindness" (PDF)

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


November 7, 2023

Speaker: Phyllis R. Robinson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Title: "Melanopsin from Molecule to Behavior" (PDF)

Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 26, 2022

Speaker: Andres M. Lebensohn, Ph.D., Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Title: “New regulation in WNT/β-catenin signaling – probing beyond the core signaling module through haploid genetic screens” (PDF)

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


September 13, 2022

Speaker: Rachel W. Kuchtey, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Title: "The Fibrillin-1 and LOXL1 Nexus in Glaucoma" (PDF)

Host: Sara Thomasy, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, School of Medicine


September 27, 2022

Speaker: Mustafa Aydogan, Ph.D., Assistant Professional Researcher, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Title: “Cytoplasmic divisions without nuclei” (PDF)

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


October 18, 2022

Speaker: Audrey Bernstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Upstate Medical University

Title: "How Changes in Intracellular Proteostasis lead to Pathological Scarring" (PDF)

Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


November 15, 2022

Speaker: Heidi Hehnly, Ph.D., Department of Sciences & Mathematics, Syracuse Upstate Medical College (SUNY)

Title: "Mechanisms coordinating lumen and cilia formation in vivo" (PDF)

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy


December 6, 2022

Speaker: Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology

Title: "Non-canonical function of folate receptor 1 during neural tube formation" (PDF)

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy