Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series
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 AM (unless otherwise specified), and we certainly hope you can join us. Please take a look at our upcoming schedule for the Fall semester.
2024-2025 Seminar Series Schedule
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September 20, 2024
September 20, 2024
Weidong Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Host: Dr. Sarika Srivastava -
September 27, 2024
September 27, 2024
Nathaniel Robin, M.D.
Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
October 4, 2024
October 4, 2024
Anindya Dutta, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham -
October 11, 2024
October 11, 2024
Abid Khan
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of North Carolina (Zoom)
Host: Dr. Coral Wille -
October 25, 2024
October 25, 2024
Joshua Snyder
Department of Surgery
Duke University
Host: Dr. Deeann Wallis -
November 1, 2024
November 1, 2024
Hui-Ying Lim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of GeneticsHost: Dr. Sarika Srivastava
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November 8, 2024
November 8, 2024
Zaili Luo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UAB Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024
Gerald Shadel, Ph.D.
Director
San Diego Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Host: Dr. Dan Sharer -
November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024
Li Lan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University (12 PM - 1 PM)
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
November 22, 2024
November 22, 2024
Lee Zou, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
December 6, 2024
December 6, 2024
Changsheng Zhao, M.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Runhua Liu -
December 13, 2024
December 13, 2024
Joshua Tycko, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard University (Zoom)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025
Xuehua Zhong, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025
Jeffery Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Virginia
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
Tiffany Amariuta, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine (Division of Biomedical Informatics)
University of California San Diego (UCSD) (Zoom)
Host: Dr. Arko Sen -
February 7, 2025
February 7, 2025
Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Florida
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
February 14, 2025
February 14, 2025
Dan Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
February 21, 2025
February 21, 2025
Haosheng Sun, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
March 7, 2025
March 7, 2025
Sean (Sheng’en) Hu, Ph.D.
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Virginia (Zoom)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
March 14, 2025
March 14, 2025
Jian Jin, Ph.D.
Department of Genome Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Host: Dr. Jia Xu -
March 21, 2025
March 21, 2025
Daphna Bup, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Standford University (Zoom)
Host: Dr. Zhangli Su -
April 4, 2025
April 4, 2025
Thomas De Raedt, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
Host: Dr. Deeann Wallis -
April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025
Bradley Yoder, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
April 18, 2025
April 18, 2025
Jessica Tyler, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025
Carlos Moraes, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Miami
Host: Dr. Sarika Srivastava -
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
Murali Dharan Bashyam, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Oncology
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)
Host: Dr. Anindya Dutta -
May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute
Host: Dr. Hui-Ying Lim
Archive
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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) -
2021-2022
Friday, Sept. 3, 2021
“Genetic Testing of Neurofibromatosis”
Juan Dong, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Director, Medical Genomics Laboratory
Friday, Sept. 3, 2021
“Mitochondria in Health and Disease”
Keshav K Singh, Ph.D.
Joy and Bill Harbert Endowed Chair in Cancer Genetics
Professor of Genetics, Pathology and Environmental Health
Friday, Aug. 27, 2021
“Patient Specific Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Animal Models: Translational Studies and Therapeutic Approaches”
Robert Kesterson, Ph.D.
Professor with Tenure
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, Aug. 20, 2021
“Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Heart Development”
Kai Jiao, MD, PhD
Professor and Interim Director, Research
Department of Genetics
Friday, July 23, 2021
“DNA replication initiation and genome instability”
Anindya Dutta M.D., Ph.D.
Professor/Chairman, Department of Genetics at UAB
Friday, July 16, 2021
“Microbiome, metabolome, multi-omics…hype or path to precision biomedicine?”
Tatiana T. Marquez Lago, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
Friday, July 9, 2021
“Genomic tools for third-generation sequencing data analysis”
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics and Informatics Institute at UAB
Friday, July 2, 2021
“Using CRISPR to Create Precision Animal Models”
Laura J. Lambert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics -
2020-2021
Friday, May 21
“Protein monoaminylation in brain: novel mechanisms of neural development, plasticity and disease”
Ian S. Maze, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Friedman Brain Institute, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City
Friday, May 14
“Novel Mechanisms of Oncogenesis and Metastasis”
Mick D. Edmonds, MS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, May 7
“Phenomic Modeling”
John Hartman, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Friday, April 23
“Direct Cardiac Reprogramming: How to Create New Cardiomyocytes?”
Yang Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering
Friday, March 5
“Investigating Key Genetic Regulators in Small Cell Lung Cancer”
Michael Kareta, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, SD
Friday, January 15
“Pathophysiological Basis and Mitigation for Cardiometabolic and Genetic Disorders”
Girish C. Melkani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology. Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, December 11
“Epithelial FOXP3-regulated network and targeted cancer therapies”
Lizhong Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, November 20
“Feasibility and Potential Impact of Exon Skipping as a Therapeutic for Neurofibromatosis Type I (NF1)”
Deeann Wallis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, November 6
“Sifting through Data from Clinical Genomes - When is a Case 'Solved'?”
Elaine Lyon, Ph.D.
Research Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha
Huntsville, Alabama
Friday, Oct. 23
“Mitochondria Based Priming of Stem Cell Self-Renewal: From Basic Science to its Translation”
Kasturi Mitra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor. Department of Genetics
Co-Director, GGSC Undergraduate Program
Friday, Oct. 16
“UAB Genomic Medicine”
Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics
Associate Dean for Genomic Medicine, UAB School of Medicine
Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine -
2019-2020
Friday, February 28 | “Understanding and Targeting Glioblastoma Environmental Effects: A Focus on Glucose Transporters” | Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell, Development and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, December 13 | “Targeting α2AAR: Solution for Alzheimer’s Disease” | Qin Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB
Friday, December 6 | “Bioactive Retinoic Acid: Gene knockouts reveal unexpected roles” | Natalia Y. Kedishvili, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, UAB
Friday, November 22 | “Selective RANK Signaling Pathways as Novel Drug Targets for Breast Cancer Prevention” | Xu Feng, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology
Friday, November 15 |“Population Genetics in an era of Precision Medicine” | Eimear Kenny, Ph.D., Director, Center for Genomic Health, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Friday, November 8 | “The identification and targeting of novel oncogenic ncRNA in human cancer” | Mick Edmonds, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Genetics Research Division, Department of Genetics, UAB
Friday, November 1 | "Computational Drug Repositioning Strategies for Precision Medicine 2.0" | Jake Chen, Ph.D., Chief Bioinformatics Office, Professor, Department of Genetics, Informatics Institute, UAB
Friday, October 25 | “Mathematical modeling: Aiding biomedical discoveries" | Andre Leier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, Associate Scientist, O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Member, Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center
Friday, October 18 | “Clinical Application of Genome Sequencing: The Children’s of Alabama Experience” | Anna C.E. Hurst, M.D., MS, FACMG, Assistant Professor,Department of Genetics,UAB
Friday, September 27 | “Fluid-Mosaic Membrane in Aging, Disease and Mitochondrial Function and The use of Membrane Lipid Replacement to Reduce Fatigue, Pain and Other symptoms while Improving Mitochondrial Function” | Garth Nicolson, Ph.D., M.D., Professor Emeritus, President and Founder, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA
Friday, September 13 | “From Genetic to Pharmacological Inhibition of TXNIP- Effects on Diabetes” | Anath Shalev, M.D., Professor of Medicine - Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Nancy R. and Eugene C. Gwaltney Family Endowed Chair in Juvenile Diabetes Research, Director, UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center
Friday, September 6 | “Genetic and epigenetic regulation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy” | Matthew S. Alexander, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UAB Pediatric Neurology
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2018-2019
Friday, May 17 | “Implementation of a Personalized Medicine Program Across a Community Health System” | Peter J. Hulick, M.D., MMSc, FACMG, Medical Director, Mark R. Neaman Center for Personalized Medicine Division, Head, Center for Medical Genetics NorthShore University HealthSystem, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Friday, May 10 | “STAT3: From Fundamental Discoveries to Novel Targeting Platforms” | Hua Yu, Ph.D., Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Professor in Tumor Immunotherapy, Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Immuno-Oncology, Co-leader, Cancer Immunotherapeutics Program, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Friday, May 3 | “InterGenomic Cross Talk Underlying Aging and Cancer” | Keshav K. Singh, Ph.D., Joy and Bill Harbert Endowed Chair in Cancer Genetics and professor, Department of Genetics University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, April 19 | “Enhancing Precision Oncology at UAB” | Eddy S. Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Vice Chair for Translational Science, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, April 12 | “Genetics and Epigenetic Regulation of Heart Development in Mice” | Kai Jiao, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Genetics Research Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, March 22 | “The Impact of Geometry, Diffusion Barriers and Stochasticity in Cell Polarity and Protein Dynamics” | Tatiana Marquez-Lago, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Research Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, March 15 | “Functional characterization of human disease-associated gene variants using the vertebrate animal model Xenopus laevis” | Chenbei Chang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB
Friday, March 8 | “RAS and the Plasma Membrane: A Complicated Relationship” | John Hancock, MA MB BChir PhD ScD MRCP FRACP, Professor and Chairman, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Executive Director, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
Friday, February 22 | “Epithelial Homeostasis in Development and Disease” | Ian G. Macara, PhD, Professor and Louise B. McGavock Chair, Department of Cell and Development Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Friday, February 15 | “Structural Variations of the Immunoglobulin Receptors and
Clinical Phenotype” | Robert P. Kimberly, M.D., Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, February 1 | “A Novel Technology Developed at UAB for Phenomic Research and Drug Discovery” | John L. Hartman IV, M.D., Associate Professor, UAB Department of Genetics
Friday, January 18 | "Polycystic Kidney Disease-Treatment Options Update" | Michal Mrug, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Nephrology
Friday, January 11 | “The algorithm for precision medicine” | Matthew Might, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Director, UAB’s Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, December 14 | “Molecular profiling in ovarian cancer” | Rebecca C. Arend, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, December 7 | “Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition in Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis” | Binhua (Peter) Zhou, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Cancer and Metabolism, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Friday, November 30 | "A Mitochondrial Etiology of Common 'Complex' Diseases" | Douglass C. Wallace, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 19 | "Design and evolution of trans-splicing group I intron ribozymes" | Ulrich F. Muller, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego
Friday, November 2 | “Unraveling the complex roles of SIN3 in breast cancer metastasis”| Douglas R. Hurst, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, October 19 | "Patient-Specific NF1 Rodent Models & Gene Correction Therapies" | Robert A. Kesterson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Genetics, UAB
Friday, October 12 | "The ELMOD family of ARF family GAPs: roles in mitochondria, cell cycle, ciliogenesis, and transcriptional regulation" | Richard A. Kahn, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University
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2017-2018
March 9, 2018 | Phillip Owens, Ph.D. | University of Colorado
March 16, 2018 | Richard Finnell, Ph.D. | Baylor College of Medicine
March 23, 2018 | Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D. | Case Univeristy
April 4, 2018 | Nita Limdi, PharmD, Ph.D. | UAB
April 13, 2018 | Chulan Kwon, MS, Ph.D. | John Hopkins University
April 20, 2018 | Merry-Lynn McDonald, Ph.D. | University of Alabama at Birmingham
May 4, 2018 | Mikhail Alexeyev, Ph.D., I University of South Alabama
May 11, 2018 | Jiangbing Zhou, Ph.D. I Yale University
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2016-2017
Date
Speaker
Institution
Title
9/2/2016 Margaret R. "Peggy" Wallace Indiana University Molecular and Cellular Studies of Neurofibromatosis 1 9/9/2016 9/16/2016 Vidu Garg, MD Nationwide Children's Hospital Insights into the genetics of congenital heart disease:
From human genetics to mouse models9/23/2016 STATE DEPT MEETING 9/30/2016 10/7/2016 Jake Chen Journal Club 10/14/2016 IMMERSON COURSE 10/21/2016 10/26/2016 11/4/2016 Gabrielle Geddes, M.D. Medical College of Wisconsin/ Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Ciliopathies and Congenital Heart Disease 11/11/2016 Patty Sanderson Journal Club 11/18/2016 SCIENTIFIC RETREAT 11/25/2016 12/2/2016 Brian Spurlock Journal Club Mechanisms of Autophagy as discovered by Dr. Yoshinori Oshumi Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2016 12/9/2016 Sophie Astrof, PhD Thomas Jefferson University Cell type-specific function of fibronectin in cardiovascular development 12/16/2016 12/30/2016 1/6/2017 Li, Yi, PHD
*This lecture will take place from 2 - 3 p.m. in the Finely Conference Room
Baylor College of Medicine` Unexpected players in cancer metastasis 1/13/2017 Joy Dean Journal Club 1/20/2017 1/27/2017 2/3/2017 Benjamin Tu, PhD UT-Southwestern University A metabolic vulnerability of tumors revealed by yeast 2/10/2017 2/17/2017 Jariya Upadiya Journal Club Fox transcription factors in cardiovascular development 2/24/2017 Barbara K Burton MD Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency 3/3/2017 RARE DISEASE SYMPOSIUM 3/10/2017 Dr. Kume Tsutomu Northwestern University Fox transcription factors in cardiovascular development 3/17/2017 Bruce Walcheck University of Minnesota Regulating Receptor Levels on Leukocytes to Improve Their Function During Disease 3/24/2017 Stephen Dalton University of Georgia “MYC coordinates metabolic control with pluripotent stem cell fate decisions” 3/31/2017 4/7/2017 Dr. David Gutmann Washington Univ Neurofibromatosis Center
Neurofibromatosis: New Insights from an Old Gene4/14/2017 Danny Welch, PhD Univ of Kansas Medical Center The forgotten genome: Surprising roles of mitochondria in cancer metastasis. 4/21/2017 Genetics Graduation - Robert Marion Albert Einstein College of Medicine 4/28/2017 Deborah Yelon Univ of California San Diego “Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Cardiac Architecture in Zebrafish” 5/5/2017 Dr. Prabhat Goswami A redox cycle within the cell cycle: ring in the old with the new. 5/12/2017 Deeann Wallis, PhD Journal Club 5/19/2017 IMMERSION COURSE 5/26/2017 Shizen (Emily) Wang, Ph.D Seminar Series “Cancer-derived extracellular miRNA in breast cancer metastasis”. 6/9/2017 Dr. Melissa Harris Uncovering gene regulatory networks for somatic stem cell self-renewal. 9/29/2017 Dr. Elizabeth Worthey John Hartman Preparing for the Precision Medicine Revolution: Transforming Whole Genome Sequencing Data into Clinically Actionable Knowledge -
2015-2016
Date Speaker Institution Title 09/04/2015 09/11/2015 09/18/2015 State Department Meeting 09/25/2015 10/02/2015 10/09/2015 10/16/2015 Journal Club-
Justin AveryUAB 10/23/2015 Dr. Sunjung Kim Children's National Medical Center "The Role of Tumor Suppressor genes in Central Nervous System (CNS) Disorder 10/30/2015 Deeann Wallis, Ph.D Texas A&M University "High-Throughput Differentiation and Screening of a Library of Mutant Stem Cell Clones Defines New Host-Based Genes Involved in Infection' 11/06/2015 Journal Club-
Ved Prakash MoogaUAB 11/13/2015 Areeg El-gharbawy University of Pitsburg 11/20/2015 11/27/2015 Thanksgiving holiday 12/04/2015 Journal Club-
Akila SubramaniumUAB 12/11/2015 Joy Lincoln , Ph.D Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute 12/18/2015 Stanley Lei Qi, PhD Stanford University 12/25/2015 Holiday 01/01/2016 Holiday 01/08/2016 01/15/2016 Day before MLK Weekend 01/22/2016 Journal Club -
Kasturi Mitra, Ph.DUAB 01/29/2016 Ivan Moskowitz, MD, PhD University of Chicago "Gene Regulatory Networks in Cardiac Development and Homeostasis" 02/05/2016 Mick Edmonds, PhD, MS Vanderbilt University Medical Cente 02/12/2016 Cancelled- Rescheduled for March 4. 02/19/2016 Toren Finkel NIH "Mitochondria and Aging" 02/26/2016 Joy Lincoln , Ph.D Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute "Exploring heart valve endothelial cell dynamics" 03/04/2016 Journal Club-
Ashley TurnerUAB 03/11/2016 Stanley Lei Qi, PhD Stanford University "CRISPR/Cas9 for complex genome regulation and disease modeling" 03/18/2016 Journal Club-
Austin HammUAB 03/25/2016 Spring Break 04/01/2016 Spring Break 04/08/2016 Vishal Gohil Texas A & M University "Discovering novel mitochondrial disease genes by integrative genomics" 04/15/2016 Journal Club-
Sean SantosUAB 04/20/2016 Woojin An, Ph.D., University of Southern California “Chromatin dynamics and gene regulation” 04/22/2016 Todd Lowe, Ph.D. University of California Santa Cruz Unraveling the Complex Roles for 500+ Human tRNA Genes and their Ubiquitous Small RNA Fragments 04/29/2016 Maria Alejandra San Martin, PhD Emory University “Diverse roles of NADPH oxidases in the VSMC phenotype” 05/06/2016 Anil Shanker, PhD Meharry Medical College School of Medicine "Preventing Immune Escape Variants of Cancer" 05/13/2016 05/20/2016 Brian Kennedy, PH.D. / LRC-235 Buck Institute for Aging “The Age of Aging – Can We Intervene?” 05/27/2016 Jing Yang PhD University of California, San Diego "Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Carcinoma Metastasis" 06/17/2016 Journal Club-
Anna HurstUAB -
2014-2015
Date Speaker Institution Title 09/12/2014 Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, UAB State of the Department Address 09/19/2014 No Seminar 09/26/2014 Rebecca Dodd, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center "New Mice for Old Questions: Modeling Soft-tissue Sarcoma" 10/03/2014 No Seminar 10/10/2014 Todd Nystul, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco "To Be (Stem) or Not to Be: Polarity and pH Define Cell Fate in an Epithelial Stem Lineage" 10/17/2014 Becky Nagy, MD, LGC Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University "The Use of Next Generation Sequencing in Novel Gene Discovery: A Tale of Two Cities" 10/24/2014 Journal Club- Trevor Carden UAB 10/31/2014 Sean Wu, MD, Ph.D Professor, Stanford University "Molecular Regulation of Cardiac Development: Implications in Regenerative Therapy" 11/07/2014 Hudson Alpha Retreat- NO SEMINAR N/A N/A 11/14/2014 Journal Club-Anil Challa UAB 11/21/2014 Anil Challa, Ph.D Instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham 11/28/2014 Thanksgiving Holiday N/A N/A 12/05/2014 Hyeong-Reh Choi Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Wayne State University "A Novel Function of PDGF D in Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis: New Biology of an Old Growth Factor Family Member" 12/12/2014 No Seminar 12/19/2014 Journal Club- Warren L Simmons UAB 12/26/2014 Christmas Holiday N/A N/A 01/02/2015 New Years Holiday N/A N/A 01/09/2015 Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Dept. of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama 01/16/2015 MLK Holiday N/A N/A 01/23/2015 William Pu, MD. Harvard Medical School 01/30/2015 Journal Club- Bob Kesterson UAB 02/06/2015 No Seminar 02/13/2015 No Seminar 02/20/2015 Journal Club- Wei Zhang UAB 02/27/2015 No Seminar 03/06/2015 Matt R. Kaeberlein, Ph.D. University of Washington 03/13/2015 Rocio Moran, MD Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic 03/20/2015 Journal Club-Haley D. Albright 03/27/2015 Spring Break 04/03/2015 Spring Break 04/10/2015 Bhupendra Singh, Ph.D. Instructor, University of Alabama at Birminhgam 04/17/2015 Randal Voss, Ph.D. Professor, Biology, University of Kentucky 04/24/2015 Day Before Commencement 05/01/2015 No Seminar 05/08/2015 Journal Club- Ying Peng UAB 05/15/2015 Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UAB 05/22/2015 No Seminar 05/29/2015 Journal Club- Justin Avery UAB