Be sure to join us on Fridays for our department's seminar series at the Finley Conference Center (Room 270), where we will feature outstanding presentations focusing on various aspects of genetics research.
These sessions will take place at 10:15 a.m. (unless otherwise specified), and we certainly hope you can join us. We are currently taking a summer pause on seminars and plan to return in the fall.
Past Seminars
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2024-2025
Friday, September 20, 2024
Weidong Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, September 27, 2024
Nathaniel Robin, M.D.
Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, October 4, 2024
Anindya Dutta, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, October 11, 2024
Abid Khan
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of North Carolina
Friday, October 25, 2024
Joshua Snyder
Department of Surgery
Duke University
Friday, November 1, 2024
Hui-Ying Lim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, November 8, 2024
Zaili Luo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UAB Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Friday, November 15, 2024
Gerald Shadel, Ph.D.
Director
San Diego Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Friday, November 21, 2024
Li Lan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
Friday, November 22, 2024
Lee Zou, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University
Friday, December 6, 2024
Changsheng Zhao, M.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Friday, December 13, 2024
Joshua Tycko, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard University
Friday, January 17, 2025
Xuehua Zhong, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
Friday, January 24, 2025
Jeffery Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Virginia
Friday, January 31, 2025
Tiffany Amariuta, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine (Division of Biomedical Informatics)
University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Friday, February 7, 2025
Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Florida
Friday, February 14, 2025
Dan Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Friday, February 21, 2025
Haosheng Sun, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Friday, March 7, 2025
Sean (Sheng’en) Hu, Ph.D.
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Virginia
Friday, March 14, 2025
Jian Jin, Ph.D.
Department of Genome Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Friday, March 21, 2025
Daphna Bup, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Standford University
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thomas De Raedt, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
Friday, April 11, 2025
Bradley Yoder, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Friday, April 18, 2025
Jessica Tyler, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Friday, April 25, 2025
"Gene Therapy Approaches to Mitochondrial Diseases"
Carlos Moraes, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Miami
Friday, May 2, 2025
"Studying gene fusions emanating from orthogonal chromatin compartments reveals a novel mode of gene activation in cancer"
Murali Dharan Bashyam, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Oncology
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)
Friday, May 9, 2025
"Protein biogenesis in genes drive cardiac programming"
Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute
Friday, May 16, 2025
"V(D)J Recombination: from Lymphocyte Antigen Receptor Gene Assembly to Genome Stability"
Bo-Ruei Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Hematology and Oncology
UAB -
2023-2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology (CDIB)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, May 31, 2024
Sarika Srivastava, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, May 17, 2024
Christos Adamopoulos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Signaling
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Friday, May 10, 2024
Yan Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan
Friday, May 3, 2024
Konark Mukherjee, MBBS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Feb 16, 2024
"Genomic Diversity and Function of Human Centromeres"
Rafael Contreras-Galindo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Jan 12, 2024
"Hippo Signaling in Organ Size Control and Cancer”
Bo-Kuan Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Dec 15, 2023
"Blood Circulating Extracellular Vesicles and microRNAs in Brain Function and Behavior”
Shinichi Kano, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Dec 8, 2023
"Therapeutic Opportunities in the Electron Transport Chain”
Neil Pfister MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Dec 1, 2023
"Defining the Epigenetic Adapters of Cell Fate"
Coral Wille Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Nov 17, 2023
"An Application of Chromosome Microarray Analysis in Disease Biology and Advancements in NF1 Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Studies"
Yunjia Chen Ph.D., MBA, FACMG
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Nov 10, 2023
"Micobial Regualtion of Psychostimulant Abuse"
Angela Carter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Oct 27, 2023
"MAPK4, an Emerging Oncogenic driver to promote cancer ”
Feng Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Friday, Oct 20, 2023
"Novel Radiation Therapy at UAB”
Joel Pogue, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Oct 6, 2023
"Determining the Genetic Mechanisms of Aberrant Gene-expression Patterns in High-risk Neuroblastomas”
Arko Sen, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Sep 29, 2023
"Metabolism in Cancer and Immune Regulation”
Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D.
Professor of Department of Pathology
Duke University Medical Center
Friday, Sep 22, 2023
"Therapeutic Insights from Cancer Mutational Signatures”
Samuel Brady, Ph.D.
Assistant Member, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Friday, Sep 15, 2023
"Epitranscriptomics: RNA Modifications in Gene Regulation”
Zhangli Su, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham -
2022-2023
Friday, Aug 4, 2023
"nc886, a Multi-functional Noncoding RNA Implicated in Innate Immunity, Cancer, and More"
Yong Sun Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biomedical Science
Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy
National Cancer Center (Goyang, Korea)
Friday, July 7, 2023
"LCN2 Promotes Therapy Resistance and Tumor Progression in Colorectal Cancer"
Professor Sorab N. Dalal, Ph.D.
Cell and Tumor Biology, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC)
Tata Memorial Centre
Friday, June 30, 2023
"Mitochondria in Health and Disease"
Keshav K. Singh, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Pathology and Dermatology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, June 23, 2023
"A Decade of Dysmorphology and Discovery: Insights from Care4Rare Canada"
A. Micheil Innes, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
Department of Medical Genetic and Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Cumming School of Medicine
The University of Calgary
Friday, June 16, 2023
"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Immunosuppression in Cancer"
Xin Lu, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Notre Dame
Friday, June 9, 2023
"Telomere-Dependent lmmunosuppression within the Tumor Niche"
Shantanu Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Professor
Functional Genomics and Integrative Biology
CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Friday, June 2, 2023
"Roles of Alternative RNA Splicing in Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancers"
Xuesen Dong, MD, Ph.D.
Department of Urologic Sciences
The University of British Columbia
Friday, May 26, 2023
"SQSTM1/p62 Oxidation and Oxidative Stress Response"
Benyi Li, MD/Ph.D.
Professor of Urology
Department of Urology
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Friday, May 19, 2023
"LSDl-FOXAl: A New Epigenetic Complex in Cancer Development"
Changmeng Cai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy
University of Massachusetts Boston
Friday, May 12, 2023
"Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer Development and Therapy"
Rui Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine - Hematology & Oncology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, May 5, 2023
"Leveraging Bone-mediated Tumor Adaptation as a Therapeutic Strategy for Secondary Metastasis"
Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Apr 21, 2023
"The Functional Heterogeneity of Pancreatic Tumor Cells"
Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Apr 7, 2023
"Tumor Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants for Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness"
Li Xin, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative of Medicine
University of Washington
Friday, Mar 31, 2023
"Resistance to Targeted Therapy in HER2-positive Breast Cancer"
Bolin Liu, MDProfessor, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology
LSU Health New Orleans
Friday, Mar 17, 2023
"Modulating Chromatin Dynamics: A Promising Strategy for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention"
Manuel Rosa-Garrido, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Mar 10, 2023
"AKT Isoform-preferred Substrates as Drivers of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness"
Irwin Gelman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Oncology
Department of Cancer Genetics & Genomics
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Friday, Mar 3, 2023
"Personalized Prediction of Disease Risk and Targets based on the Full Genome Architecture"
Kuan-lin Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics
Mount Sinai Center for Transformative Disease Modeling
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Friday, Feb 24, 2023
"Weight Matters: Unraveling the Molecular Variations in Cancer Patients"
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Feb 17, 2023
"Circular RNAs: Biogenesis, Detection, Function and Role in Disease"
Andre Leier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Feb 10, 2023
"BETing on Reprogramming Stress"
Kejin Hu, MPhil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Feb 3, 2023
"Cardiogenomics: The Role of Medical Genetics in Evaluating Cardiovascular Disorders in Adults"
Ali Said Al-Beshri, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Jan 27, 2023
"Molecular Diagnosis for Neurofibromatosis: Past, Present and Future"
Yulong Fu, Ph.D., FACMG
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Medical Genomics Laboratory, Department of Genetics (UAB)
Friday, Jan 20, 2023
"Reshaping the Tumor-immune Landscape via Oncolytic Virotherapy"
Jianmei Leavenworth, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Jan 13, 2023
"Clinical Genetics in the Genomics Era: Medical Practice & Education"
Nathaniel H. Robin, MD
Professor and Director, Clinical Services
Department of Genetics
Friday, Dec 16, 2022
"Deciphering Host-microbial Functional Interactions Toward Effective Therapies and Symbiotics"
Tatiana T. Marquez Lago, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
School of Medicine (UAB)
Friday, Dec 9, 2022
"The Chromatin Remodeler HELLS: A New Regulator in DNA Repair, Genome Maintenance, and Cancer"
Wioletta Czaja, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
School of Medicine (UAB)
Friday, Nov 18, 2022
"AR Variant Biogenesis, PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity and Tumor Immunity in CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer"
Haokie Huang, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Basic Urologic Research, Co-Director of the Genitourinary Cancer Program
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Urology, Mayo Clinic
Friday, Nov 11, 2022
"The All of Us Research Program"
Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics
Associate Dean for Genomic Medicine, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine
Friday, Nov 4, 2022
"Correlation Between DNA Methylation Patterns, Gene Expression, and Human Heart Failure Etiologies"
Adam R. Wende, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Molecular and Cellular Pathology (UAB)
Friday, Oct 28, 2022
"Redox Regulation by Tryptophan Metabolism: An Emerging Mechanism for Adaptive Immunomodulatory Signaling"
Dario A. Vitturi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology (UAB)
Friday, Oct 21, 2022
"Targeting PI3K/AKT/PTEN Pathway in Cancer"
Jia Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics (UAB)
Friday, Oct 14, 2022
"Optimizing Metabolomic Detection of Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency, A Rare (But Likely Underdiagnosed) Disorder of Neurotransmitter Metabolism"
J. Daniel Sharer, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Director, Research
Department of Genetics (UAB)
Friday, Oct 7, 2022
"Interleukin-17 and Prostate Cancer"
Zongbing You, M.D., Ph.D
Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Friday, Sept 30, 2022
"Cellular Heterogeneity in Therapeutic Resistance and Disease Progression of Prostate Cancer"
Jiaoti Huang, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology
Duke University Medical Center
Friday, Sept 16, 2022
"Proteogenomics Opens New Frontiers in Cancer Systems Biology"
Chen Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics Research Division (UAB)
Friday, Sept 9, 2022
"TUBB4A Function and Mediated Signaling in Prostate Cancer"
Lizhong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
General Clinical Research Center (UAB)