Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series
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
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
See: Previous Seminars