PCB Works in Progress
Sponsor(s):
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Molecular Cancer Biology (MCB), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Friday, April 18, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hannah Thrash & Matt Collins
Immunology Seminar Series: Jennifer Brogdon, PhD - "Pioneering Innovation: Reimagining cancer treatment thru academic and industry collaboration"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Jennifer Brogdon, PhD
RNHD | Chan: Exploiting dysregulated ribosome homeostasis for cancer therapy
Sponsor(s):
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Edmond M. Chan, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
PCB Works in Progress
Sponsor(s):
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Molecular Cancer Biology (MCB), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Friday, April 25, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tatiana Prioleau & Xiaojuan Ran, PhD
PCB | Nacev: Decoding the Epigenome in ATRX-Deficient Sarcomas: Can We Move Towards Precision Therapies?
Sponsor(s):
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Molecular Cancer Biology (MCB), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Benjamin Nacev, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Member, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
PCB | Kappei: Hyperactivation of the ALT pathway causes persistent chromatin bridge formation and telomere-driven genomic instability
Sponsor(s):
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Molecular Cancer Biology (MCB), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Friday, May 09, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dennis Kappei, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series - Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD: "Mechanisms that govern the dissemination of inflammatory mediators from the intestine to distal and surrounding tissues"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Ru-Rong Ji, PhD - “Neuroimmune interactions in pain”
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Stacy Horner, PhD - "Regulation of RNA virus infection and the antiviral response"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Stacy Horner, PhD
Synonymous codon usage: Regulator of mRNA stability & translation initiation
Thursday, May 22, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. Chloe Barrington
Integrative Immunobiology Dissertation Defense: Skye Tracey
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Wednesday, June 04, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Skye Tracey
Immunology Seminar Series: David Easterhoff, PhD - "Preclinical development of mRNA medicines for autoimmunity"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
David Easterhoff, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Sara Suliman, PhD - "Host determinants of heterogeneity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Sara Suliman, PhD
RNHD | Gu: Catching transcription factors for proteasomal degradation
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Xin Gu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Immunology Seminar Series: Natalie Stanley, PhD - "Decoding immune control of aging and neurodegeneration"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, September 09, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Natalie Stanley, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD - “T cells as surrogate microbes: Implications for innate inflammation and protective Immunity”
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Victor Nizet, MD - "Novel Biomimetic Cell Membrane-Coated Nanotherapies and Nanovaccines for Bacterial Pneumonia and Sepsis"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Victor Nizet, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Allan Kirk, MD, PhD - "Costimulation Blockade in Organ Transplantation"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Allan Kirk, MD, PhD
MGM Monday Works In Progress Meeting
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Monday, October 13, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chi Lab and Steve Haase
Immunology Seminar Series: Ankit Malik, PhD - "Novel triggers and functions of Interferons in mucosal immunity"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Ankit Malik, PhD
RNHD | Tamir: Evaluating the convergence of signaling and metabolism in diet induced obesity
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tigist Tamir, PhD, Assistant Professor, Systems Metabolism and Signaling Lab, Departments: Biochemistry and Biophysics | Nutrition Computational Medicine Program, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine
Special Immunology Seminar: Feng Shao, PhD - "Pyroptosis & innate immunity: mechanisms & therapeutics potentials"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Thursday, October 16, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Feng Shao, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD - "Determinants of B cell function in cancer"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD
RNHD | Sheltzer: Leveraging mischaracterized drugs to uncover new cancer vulnerabilities
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jason Sheltzer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University
Dissertation Announcement: Christian Richardson
Sponsor(s):
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Jones, room 143
Christian Richardson
Immunology Seminar Series: Jung-Hyun Park, PhD - "Integrin CD103 promotes cytokine-driven acquisition of memory phenotype and effector function of naïve CD8 T cells"
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Jung-Hyun Park, PhD
RNHD | Tsvetanova: Specification of divergent signaling responses by GPCR localization
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Nina Tsvetanova, PhD
Immunology Seminar Series: Toni Darville, MD - "Immunology in Translation: A T Cell Roadmap to Chlamydia Vaccine Success"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, November 04, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Toni Darville, MD
RNHD | Feng: Deciphering the anti-oncogenic effect of oncoproteins
Friday, November 07, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD, Senior Investigator and Director, Institute of Cancer Research, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
MGM Works In Progress Seminar Presentations
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Monday, November 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Bohorquez and Heitman lab with Lawrence David hosting
Immunology Seminar Series: Xinzhong Dong, PhD - "The role of the Mrgpr GPCR family in inflammation and innate immunity”
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Xinzhong Dong, PhD
RNHD | Palmer: The impact of patient heterogeneity and treatment sequence in combination cancer therapy
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Adam Palmer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Immunology Seminar Series: Justin Milner, PhD - "Molecular programming of T cell activity in infection and cancer"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Integrative Immunobiology
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Justin Milner, PhD
Dissertation Announcement: Allyson Caldwell
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Allyson Caldwell
RNHD | Pecot: New Frontiers in RNA Structure and Therapeutics to Combat Cancer
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Chad Pecot, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, UNC RNA Discovery Center, Co-Leader, UNC Lineberger Cancer Therapeutics Program
MGM Works In Profress Seminar Presentations
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Monday, December 08, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Derbyshire and Luftig lab with Nick Heaton as host
RNHD | Tuveson: Pancreatic Cancer Biology and Medicine
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
David Tuveson, MD, PhD, Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research, Cancer Center Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
PCB Works in Progress
Friday, January 09, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jude Raj (Wood Lab) & Ajinkya Kawale, PhD (Zou Lab)
RNHD | Rajagopal: Spatiotemporal Organization of G protein-coupled receptor signaling
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sudarshan Rajagopal, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
RNHD | Dessauer: Spatial Landscape of Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Carmen W. Dessauer, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX
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