| Date | Speaker | Home Institution | Title | Host |
| October 31, 2024 | Junjie Guo, Ph.D. | Yale University | RNA plasticity in neuronal health and disease | Pedro Miura |
| October 7, 2024 | Paul Flicek, Ph.D. | The Jackson Laboratory | Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation | Brenton Graveley |
| September 19, 2024 | John Lis, Ph.D. | Cornell University | Dissecting the Molecular Architecture and Regulatory Mechanisms of a Robust Long-range Enhancer | Michael Guertin |
| May 16, 2024 | Hiten Madhani, M.D., Ph.D. | University Of California, San Francisco | Large-scale CRISPR base editing to understand the human spliceosome | Brenton Graveley |
| May 2, 2024 | Emma Farley, Ph.D. | University of California San Diego | Affinity optimizing enhancer variants disrupt development | Michael Guertin |
| February 16, 2024 | Thomas Maniatis, Ph.D. | Columbia University | Protocadherin Gene Cluster: A Generator of Cell Surface Barcodes Required for Normal Brain Wiring | Brenton Graveley |
| February 2, 2024 | Doris Kretzschmar, Ph.D. | Oregon Health and Science University | Connecting circadian disruptions and Alzheimers disease | Blanka Rogina |
| January 8, 2024 | Eric Lai, Ph.D. | Sloan Kettering Institute | microRNAs and RNAi: from mechanisms to biology | Brenton Graveley |
| December 14, 2023 | Marc Mendillo, Ph.D. | Northwestern University | Delineating Mechanisms of Cancer Cell Stress Resilience | Michael Guertin |
| November 30, 2023 | Ashleigh Schaffer, Ph.D. | Case Western Reserve University | Mechanisms of selective vulnerability in RNA binding protein-associated pediatric neurological disease | Pedro Miura |
| April 27, 2023 | Sam Sternberg, Ph.D. | Columbia University | Discovery and development of CRISPR-associated transposases | Brenton Graveley |
| April 20, 2023 | Eric Wagner, Ph.D. | UConn Health | Integrator is a Promoter-Proximal Termination Complex Critical for Transcriptional Control | Brenton Graveley |
| March 30, 2023 | Yingqun Huang, M.D., Ph.D. | Yale University | Overcoming a TET offensive in multiple diseases | Brenton Graveley |
| March 16, 2023 | Frederick S. Varn, Ph.D. | The Jackson Laboratory | Dissecting tumor-microenvironment interactions and their role in the evolution of diffuse glioma | Brenton Graveley |
| March 2, 2023 | Leighton Core, Ph.D. | UConn | Mapping transcriptomes and defining points of gene regulation with nascent RNA sequencing | Brenton Graveley |
| February 23, 2023 | Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez, Ph.D. | UConn Health | Nonocanonical translation of the genetic code by a new tRNA family | Brenton Graveley |
| January 12, 2023 |
Sarah Aitken, Ph.D. |
University of Cambridge |
Disentangling strand interactions in DNA damage and repair | Brenton Graveley |
| December 1, 2022 | Summer Thyme, Ph.D. | The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Using Zebrafish to Study Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Discover Treatments | Brenton Graveley |
| November 17, 2022 | Lindy Barrett, Ph.D. | Broad Institute | Leveraging iPSC Models to Study Neural Development and Disease | |
| November 3, 2022 | Mira Moufarrej, Ph.D. | The Column Group | Improving prenatal care through liquid biopsies | Stefan Pinter |
| October 20, 2022 | Ronald Breaker, Ph.D. | Yale University | Modern Riboswitches Reveal Ancient RNA Capabilities and Limitations | Sandra Garrett |
| October 6, 2022 |
Michael Guertin, Ph.D. | University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kinetic networks identify key regulatory nodes and transcription factor functions in early adipogenesis | Pedro Miura |
| October 4, 2022 |
Bernhard Payer, Ph.D. | Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain | Epigenetic reprogramming of the X chromosome in the female mammalian germ line | Stefan Pinter |
| September 30, 2022 |
Melissa Moore, Ph.D. (Herbert and Esther Brandwein Lecture) | Chief Scientific Officer, Scientific Affairs, Moderna, Inc., and Co-Founder, Via Scientific | mRNA as Medicine |
Brenton Graveley |
| September 8, 2022 | Eric Wang | The Jackson Laboratory | Overcoming therapy resistance in hematologic malignancies | Brenton Graveley |
| March 24, 2022 | Lori Passmore | MRC Laboratory and Moleculare Biology, Cambridge, UK | Molecular Insights into the mRNA3′ – end processing machinery | Brenton Graveley |
| March 18, 2021 | Jay Shendure | University of Washington – Genome Sciences | Global views of Mammalian Development | Brenton Graveley |
| March 4, 2021 | Vincent Pasque | KU Leuven, Belgium | Genome and epigenome regulatory principles in early mammalian development, stem cells and reprogramming | Stefan Pinter |
| February 18, 2021 | Thorold Theunissen | Washington University, St. Louis | Understanding human pluripotent stem cell states and their applications | Stefan Pinter |
| January 21, 2021 | Gosia Trynka | Welcome Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, UK |
Interpreting GWAS variants with chromatin marks and single cell transcriptomics | Justin Cotney |
| December 17, 2020 | Elizabeth J. Leslie | Emory University School of Medicine | From GWAS to Genomes: New Insights into the Human Genetics of Orofacial Clefts | Justin Cotney |
| December 3, 2020 | Aaron Quinlan | University of Utah | Patterns and consequences of mutation in the human germline | Justin Cotney |
| November 19, 2020 | Erica Hutchkins | Caltech | Unraveling the mechanisms of the neural crest epithelial – mesenchymal transition | Stefan Pinter |
| November 5, 2020 | Mingxia Gu | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Endocardial contribution to heart development and disease | Stefan Pinter |
| October 22, 2020 | Youngmok Lee | Asst Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCHC
Requesting joint appointment in department |
Gene therapy for Glycogen Storage Disease Type I | Brent Graveley Isolde Bates |
| October 8, 2020 | Miguel Moreno-Mateos | Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology | Understanding early vertebrate development: A CRISPR-Cas view | Jean-Denis Beaudoin |
| February 25, 2020 | Dr. Dionna Kasper | Yale University School of Medicine Yale Cardiovascular Research Center & Department of Genetics |
Special Seminar: “How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| February 3, 2020 | Dr. Max Staller | Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis |
Special Seminar: “Probing the sequence-to-function relationship of transcription factor activation domains” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 16, 2020 | Dr. Tania Rozario | Morgridge Institute for Research University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Special Seminar: “Making heads or tails of tapeworms: Region-specific regulation of stem cell-driven regeneration in Hymenolepisdiminuta” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 13, 2020 | Dr. Margarida Cardoso Moreira | University of Heidelberg, Germany | Special Seminar: “Origins and evolution of organs” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 10, 2020 | Dr. Bushra Raj | Harvard University | Special Seminar: “Global insights into brain diversity, development and lineage at single-cell resolution” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 7, 2020 | Dr. Nicholas Tran | Harvard University | Special Seminar: “Applying a retinal cell atlas to examine mechanisms of selective neuron resilience and axon regeneration” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| September 26, 2019 | Dr. Jaime Imitola | UConn Health | “Human Cellular Models to advance mechanisms and treatments for neurological diseases” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| September 26, 2019 | Dr. Jaime Imitola | UConn Health | “Human Cellular Models to advance mechanisms and treatments for neurological diseases” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| July 9, 2019 | Dr. Ling-Ling Chen | Chinese Academy of Sciences | “Linking RNA processing and function” | Dr. Gordon Carmichael |
| July 9, 2019 | Dr. Ling-Ling Chen | Chinese Academy of Sciences | “Linking RNA processing and function” | Dr. Gordon Carmichael |
| April 4, 2019 | Dr. William Fairbrother | Brown University | “Pathogenic variations often disrupt splicing – implications for clinical genetics and evolutionary models of regulatory signals” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 17, 2019 | Dr. Rebekah Rogers | UNC Charlotte | “When Bad Things Happen to Good Genomes: genetic tragedies in mammoths and poison dart frogs” | Dr. Charles Lee, JAX GM and Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| January 17, 2019 | Dr. Rebekah Rogers | UNC Charlotte | “When Bad Things Happen to Good Genomes: genetic tragedies in mammoths and poison dart frogs” | Dr. Charles Lee, JAX GM and Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| December 13, 2018 | Dr. Mayu Inaba | UConn Health | “Stem cell receptor degradation by niche cells restricts signaling” | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| November 29, 2018 | Dr. Duygu Ucar | The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine | “Sex dimorphism in human immune system aging” | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| October 26, 2018 | Dr. Eric Van Nostrand | University of California San Diego | Special Seminar: “Exploring RNA biology at scale” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| October 4, 2018 | Dr. Scott Bultman | University of North Carolina | “The role of microbiome-derived metabolism in cancer prevention and therapy” | GDB Graduate Students |
| July 11, 2018 | Dr. Adrian Krainer | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Herbert and Esther Bennett Brandwein Lecture: “Spinraza: The First Approved Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| May 24, 2018 | 6th UConn Fly Club | UConn | Multiple Talks | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| May 10, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Helfand | Brown University | “Retrotransposons as agents of somatic diversity, disease and aging” | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| March 29, 2018 | Dr. Aoife Heaslip | UConn | “Oh the places you’ll go! Vesicle transport in Toxoplasma gondii” | Dr. Arthur Gunzl |
| March 15, 2018 | Dr. Beiyan Zhou | UConn Health | “Macrophage Polarization and Obesity” | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| March 1, 2018 | Dr. Christine Beck | UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine | “Repetitive sequences and genomic plasticity” | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| February 20, 2018 | Dr. Li Yang | Chinese Academy of Science | “Genome-wide characterization of circular RNAs” | Dr. Gordon Carmichael |
| December 14, 2017 | Dr. David Zappulla | Johns Hopkins University | “Telomerase: RNP architecture, telomere maintenance, and senescence without it” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| December 7, 2017 | Dr. Patrick Murphy | UConn Health | “Alternative splicing as a novel axis in endothelial-immune interactions” | Dr. Stormy Chamberlain |
| November 9, 2017 | Multiple Speakers | Multiple Institutions | Northeastern Glenn Symposium on the Biology of Aging | Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| October 19, 2017 | Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed | UConn Health | “Dealing practical issues associated to the clinical and high throughput genomic data integration for precision medicine” | Dr. Brenton Graveley |
| June 1, 2017 | Dr. Nitika Badjatia – Henderson Prize Awardee | Penn State | “Biochemical Reconstitution of Nucleosome Organization at Gene Promoters | Dr. Arthur Gunzl and Dr. Blanka Rogina |
| March 9, 2017 | Dr. Camron Bryant | Boston University | “Systems genetic analysis of drug and food addiction traits in mice” | Dr. Erin Young |
| September 12, 2016 | Dr. Christian P. Schaaf | Baylor College of Medicine | “Translational approaches to rare neurodevelopmental disorders” **This seminar is held at the JAX-GM Auditorium** | |
| June 30, 2016 | Dr. Albert Shaw | Yale University | “Effects of Aging on Signatures of Influenza Vaccine Response” | |
| May 5, 2016 | Dr. Pierre-Antoine Defossez | University Paris Diderot | “A hypercompetitive histone mimic in DNA Ligase 1 links DNA replication and UHRF1 recruitment: implications for DNA remethylation” | |
| March 24, 2016 | Dr. Shangqin Guo | Yale University | “Visualizing the birth of induced pluripotent stem cells: Seeing the non-stochastic events” | |
| January 14, 2016 | Dr. Albert Cheng | The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine | “Upgrading CRISPR/Cas” | |
| September 10, 2015 | Dr. Edison Liu | The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine | “Genomic Configuration and Systems Biology for Breast Cancer” |