Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance of cancer susceptibility in mammals
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bluma Lesch, MD, PhD, Yale
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 26, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Oliver Porquie, Ph.D.
How to completely copy a genome
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
James Dewar, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Gastronauts: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone
Thursday, February 02, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. Greg Gage
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 02, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Greg Gage, Ph.D.
Harnessing the upper respiratory microbiota for the development of novel biotherapeutics for childhood respiratory infections
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Matthew Kelly
Programmable mRNA translation: a dream comes true?
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Shu-Bing Qian, PhD, Cornell University
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 09, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Blanche Capel, Ph.D.
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Job Dekker, Ph.D.
Tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy
Sponsor(s):
Duke Cancer Institute, DCI Cancer Research Training & Education Coordination, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Monday, February 20, 2023
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dr. Xiao-Fan Wang, Duke University
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Andrew Carter, Ph.D.
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 02, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jason Spence, Ph.D.
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 09, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Ellizabeth H. Kellogg, Ph.D.
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sonya Neal, Ph.D.
Fighting fire with fire: Endogenous retroviruses boost human immunity
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Cedric Feschotte
Using the mouse mammary gland as a model for malignant breast cancer in humans
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sean Egan, PhD, University of Toronto
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 30, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Katrin Karbstein, Ph.D.
Aesthetic Evolution and the Coevolution of Art
Friday, March 31, 2023
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Richard Prum
CANCELED! Towards Mechanism at Genome Scale
**CANCELED**
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Paul Sternberg
Metabolism, cellular decisions and the language that unites them
Wednesday, April 05, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jared Rutter, PhD, University of Utah
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 06, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Daniel Gerrard Isom
Genomic extremes in organ development and regeneration
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Don Fox, PhD, PCB
Genomic extremes in organ development and regeneration
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Don Fox
Building the Cell's Antenna: Primary Cilia in Development and Disease
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sarah Goetz, PhD, PCB
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 13, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Karen Kasza
Context- and cell-type specific genetic variation shaping the human brain
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jason Stein
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 20, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Eviatar Yemini, Ph.D.
Exploration of Nervous System Development and Disease: From Neurodevelopmental Disorders to Opioid Drug Responses
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Brock Grill
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 27, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lila Solnica-Kreze, Ph.D
The ATR Checkpoint Pathway: from Basic Science to Targeted Cancer Therapy
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lee Zou, PhD, PCB
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, June 01, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Theresa Alenghat, Ph.D.
Thursday Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, June 08, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sue Ackerman, Ph.D.
From studying cryptococcal morphogenesis to mRNA vaccine development
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Xiaorong Lin
Getting an independent faculty position with Ken Poss and Akankshi Munjal
Sponsor(s):
Duke Regeneration Center
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ken Poss and Akankshi Munjal
Complex Structural Variation in a Complete Human Genome
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Evan Eichler
ATR and DNA replication stress: a battle in the genome of cancer cells
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lee Zou
Long Read Sequencing Unlocks mRNA Isoforms, but Do They Matter?
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jason Underwood
Towards Mechanism at Genome Scale
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Paul Sternberg
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 12, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Tim Sampson, Ph.D.
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Andrew Brack, Ph.D.
Genetic drivers of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell fate and plasticity
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Trudy Oliver
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, November 02, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Elda Grabocka, Ph.D.
Evolving moldy murderers: Aspergillus as a model for studying the repeated evolution of opportunistic pathogenicity
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Antonis Rokas
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, November 16, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lisa Manning, Ph.D.
Automating my own job: machine learning for evolutionary genomics
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Dan Schrider
How cellular lifecycles drive adaptive organ states
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Duke Regeneration Center, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lucy Erin O'Brien
Multiomic Characterization of Cell State Heterogeneity in Human Brain Tumors
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Anoop Patel
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 11, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Manuel Kleiner, Ph.D.
The physical code of RNA in patterning cytoplasm
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Amy Gladfelter
Insulin and the Environment: From Maternal Effects to the Microbiome
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Nick Burton
The transmission of epigenetic information to offspring by sperm RNAs
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Colin Conine
Stress-induced transposon mobility in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus: An evolutionary super-tool for adaptive change?
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Asiya Gusa
How do innate behaviors develop?
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Arnaldo Carreira Rosario
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 07, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Aparna Lakkaraju, Ph.D.
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 14, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Leah Byrne, Ph.D.
Dissertation Seminar: Juan Ramirez: Astrocyte-microglia signaling controls developmental thalamocortical synapse refinement
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Thursday, March 21, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Juan Ramirez
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 21, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sloan Siegrist, Ph.D.
Using mouse models and massively parallel genomic assays to decipher gene regulatory variation
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
James Noonan
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 28, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Ting Wang, Ph.D.
Identifying Novel Regulators of Protein Quality Control Pathways in Neurodegeneration
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Matthew Scaglione
Genomic insights into Evolutionary History and Processes
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Priya Moorjani
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Yunsun Nam, Ph.D.
Exploring distinctive epigenetic mechanisms in the nervous system
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Harrison Gabel
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Yi-Wei Chang, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Novel Targets and Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Cryptococcus neoformans"
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Thursday, May 09, 2024
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Julia Palmucci
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, May 16, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sally Horne-Badovinac
Special Seminar: Yulong Li: Spying on Neuromodulator Dynamics In Vivo by Constructing Multi-Color Genetically Encoded Sensors
Friday, May 17, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Yulong Li
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, August 29, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Shaeri Mukherjee
Harnessing Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes and other immunotherapies to treat primary brain tumors, glioblastoma
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Mustafa Khasraw
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 03, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Maxence Nachury
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 10, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Sean Sun
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 17, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Bassem Hassan, Ph.D.
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Tuomas Tamella
One plus one equals one: symbiotic mergers and the biology of eukaryotes
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
John Archibald
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Benita Sjogren
An oxylipin signal confers protection against FKS targeting antifungals, a naturally evolved program in Aspergillus?
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Nancy Keller
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, November 21, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Robert Manguso
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, December 05, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Furqan Fazal
The role of chromatin structure/dynamics and non-coding regions
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Luca Pinello, PhD
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 09, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Elizabeth Wasmuth
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 09, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Elzabeth Wasmuth
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, January 30, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
David Booth
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 06, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Megan Baldridge
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Matt Anderson
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 06, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Patrick Sun
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Yvon Woappi
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 03, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Dan Gottschling
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Anna La Torre
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, May 08, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Gozde Demirer
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, May 15, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Zev Gartner
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Fred Cross