2024 Cell & Cancer Biology Seminar Series
Link to 2023 Seminar Series
January 18 - DELINEATING THE ACTL6A-HIPPO PATHWAY MEDIATED DRIVER AND RESISTANCE MECHANISMS
IN CANCER
Srinivas Vinod Saladi, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
January 25 - BONE MARROW FAT CELLS, TUMOR METABOLISM AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSE TO STRESS
IN BONE-METASTATIC CANCERS
Izabela Podgorski, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Co-Leader, Prostate Cancer Research Team
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, MI
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
February 29 - REGULATION OF CELL DIVISION BY CALCIUM TRANSIENTS AND MECHANOSENSITIVE
ION CHANNELS
Qian Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Toledo
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
March 14 - PROTEOMIC INSTABILITY OF CANCER AND NON-ONCOGENE ADDICTION: HEAT SHOCK
FACTOR 1 (HSF1) AS AN ONCOGENIC ENABLER
Chengkai Dai, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Mouse Cancer Genetics Program
Head, Proteomic Instability of Cancer Section
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
12:00 pm, Virtual seminar
March 28 - TARGETING DSTYK TO IMPROVE THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER
Yong Jiang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine
East Tennessee State University
Quillen College of Medicine
Johnson City, TN
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
April 18 - EPIGENOME DYNAMICS OF CELLULAR SENESCENCE IN CANCER
Ricardo Iván Martínez Zamudio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
Rutgers Presidential Faculty Scholar 2022
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
12:00 pm, Virtual seminar
April 25 - INVESTIGATING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN BREAST CANCER AND MICROBIOME
Dipali Sharma, Ph.D.
Professor of Oncology
Division of Women's Malignancies
Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
12:00 pm, Virtual seminar
May 2 - TUMOR SUPPRESSOR p53 AND ITS MUTANTS IN METABOLISM
Zhaohui Feng, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Rutgers State University
New Brunswick, NJ
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 9 - CHOLEMIA AND DIETARY FERMENTABLE FIBER IN A PICKLE: A BREW FOR LIVER CANCER
Matam Vijay Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology
Director, The Univ. of Toledo-Microbiome Consortium (UT-MiCo)
The University of Toledo
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 16 - DELINEATING NOVEL MECHANISMS OF BREAST CANCER METASTASIS
Celina Kleer, M.D.
Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology
Director, Breast Pathology Research
Rogel Cancer Center Scholar
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 30 - IMPACT OF BONE MICROENVIRONMENT ON PROSTATE CANCER DORMANCY, METASTASIS,
AND THERAPEUTIC RESISTANCE
Xiaohong Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell & Cancer Biology
The University of Toledo
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
June 20 - ENGINEERING AND DELIVERING NUCLEIC ACID THERAPEUTICS AND VACCINES FOR CANCER
AND BEYOND
Guizhi (Julian) Zhu, Ph.D.
Ara G. Paul Associate Professor
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy
BioInnovations in Brain Cancer, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
August 8 - TOWARD A CANCER FEAR-FREE WORLD
Yuzhuo Wang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Professor, Dept. of Urologic Sciences, Univ. of British Columbia
Distinguished Scientist, Dept. of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency
Vancouver Prostate Center
Vancouver, BC, Canada
4:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
August 22 - ROLE OF FATTY ACID DESATURATION IN CANCER
Wanqing Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences and of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, MI
4:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
September 5 - TBA
Stephan Patrick, Ph.D.
Professor of Basic Science
Wayne State University School of Medicine Oncology
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, MI
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
September 12 - TBA
Wei Guo, Ph.D.
Hirsch Family President's Distinguished Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Biology
Philadelphia, PA
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
December 12 - TBA
Qianben Wang, Ph.D.
Banks Anderson Sr. Distinguished Professor of Pathology
Professor of Cell Biology
Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
12:00 p m, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436