2023 Cell & Cancer Biology seminar series
Link to 2022 Seminar Series
January 19 - DRUG DELIVERY FOR HEART AND LUNG REPAIR
Ke Cheng, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Medicine
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
12:00 pm, Collier Bldg. room 1000A
January 26 - THERAPEUTIC TARGETING OF THE MYC PATHWAY IN CANCER
Sarki A. Abdulkadir, M.D., Ph.D.
John T. Grayhack, MD Professor of Urologic Research
Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Urology
Director, Chicago Prostate Cancer SPORE
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, IL
12:00 pm, Virtual seminar
February 16 - CELLULAR IDENTITY AND PLASTICITY IN PANCREATIC CANCER INITIATION AND
PROGRESSION
Howard C. Crawford, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Director, Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center
Henry Ford Cancer Institute
Detroit, MI
12:00 pm, Collier bldg., room 1000A
February 23 - GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF PARP INHIBITOR SENSITIVITY AND RESISTANCE IN
PROSTATE CANCER
Lia Jia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Lead Investigator, Director of Urological Research
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
12:00 pm, Virtual seminar
March 30-31 - Graduate Student Research Forum
Keynote lecture - GENOMIC INTEGRATION OF SARS-COV-2 IN HUMANS AND BATS
Rudolf Jaenisch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Core Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Member Institute of Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
4:00 pm, Health Education bldg., room 105
April 13 - OVERCOMING RESISTANCE OF AR-TARGETED THERAPY
Allen C. Gao, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor and Director of Research
Department of Urologic Surgery
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA
4:00 pm, Virtual Seminar via Webex
April 20 - THE ROLE OF DPP4 IN AML
Xunlei Kang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Center for Precision Medicine
University of Missouri School of Medicine
4:00 PM, Virtual Seminar via Webex
May 4 - TBA
Yue Zou, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell & Cancer Biology
University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences
4:00 pm
May 18 - TBA
Murugesan Palaniappan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Immunology
Center for Drug Discovery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
4:00 pm, Virtual Seminar
October 5 - TBA
Elena N. Pugacheva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research
Department of Biochemistry
West Virginia School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV
4:00 pm, Virtual Seminar