Duke CTPM Seminar Series (Special Monday Seminar) - "Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain”
Sponsor(s):
Department of Anesthesiology
Monday, April 13, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Clifford J. Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD (Harvard)
From Names to Mechanisms: Reframing Disease Classification
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Melissa Haendel, 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, April 16, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Ian Williamson, Ph.D.
Mosaicism and Inheritance in Vascular Malformations: Integrating Germline and Somatic Mutations
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Doug Marchuk, PhD
The Intestinal Stem Cell Niche in Homeostasis and Disease: A Shifting BMP Gradient
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Neil McCarthy, 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, April 30, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Rafael Guerrero, Ph.D.
The Human Microbiome: From Metagenomes to Therapeutics
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG), Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, May 05, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Julia Oh, PhD
Neurobiology Special Seminar: Dwight Bergles: Wrapping the brain: How myelin is generated across space and time
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Duke Integrative Immunobiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dwight Bergles
G-protein Coupled Receptors
Sponsor(s):
Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, and Mandel Center for Hypertension and Atherosclerosis
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, PhD
Cell Bio Distinguished Lecturer
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, June 04, 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Thomas Lecuit, Ph.D.





