{"id":269,"date":"2015-10-15T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.genetics.uchc.uconn.edu\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:43:51","slug":"seminar-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/seminar-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nHome Institution<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 2, 2026<\/td>\nKevin Child, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUConn Health, Department of Genetics and Genome Science<\/td>\nTBD<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 19, 2026<\/span><\/td>\nElla Zeldich, Ph.D.<\/td>\nBoston University<\/span><\/td>\nMechanistic insights into neuronal dysfunction in Down Syndrome through human organoid models<\/span><\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 22, 2026
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Kavitha Kannan, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUconn Health<\/span><\/td>\nEffects of citrate transporter INDY on gut physiology and metabolism in Drosophila<\/span><\/td>\nBlanka Rogina<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 11, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nAmanda Whipple, Ph.D.<\/td>\nHarvard University<\/span><\/td>\nImprinted gene regulation in the brain<\/span><\/td>\nSarah Alshawi<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 30, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nChan Zhou, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUMass Chan Medical School<\/span><\/td>\nFrom lncRNAs to lncRNA-derived fusions in disease: a computational perspective<\/td>\nDongyuan Song<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 16, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nYerbol Kurmangaliyev, Ph.D.<\/td>\nBrandeis University<\/span><\/td>\nHow are brain wiring diagrams connectomes encoded in the genomes<\/td>\nPedro Miura<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 5, 2025<\/td>\nXiting Yan, Ph.D.<\/td>\nYale School of Medicine<\/td>\nDesigning computational tools for understanding disease progression and pathogenesis using spatial transcriptomic data<\/td>\nDongyuan Song<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 22, 2025
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Quaid Morris, Ph.D.<\/td>\nMemorial Sloan Kettering Institute Cancer Center<\/td>\nReconstructing the sequence specificities of RNA-binding proteins across eukaryotes<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 1, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nJeremy Sanford, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUniversity of California Santa Cruz<\/td>\nRISCy Business: Oncogenic amplification by IGF2BP3<\/td>\nPedro Miura<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 10, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nHiten Madhani, M.D., Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity Of California, San Francisco<\/span><\/td>\nChromatin regulation and evolution<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 20, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nRob Dowen, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/span><\/td>\nDevelopmental and environmental regulation of lipid homeostasis<\/td>\nMichael Guertin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 13, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nJingyiJessica Li, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity Of California, Los Angeles<\/span><\/td>\nPermutation Enhances the Rigor of Genomics Data Analysis<\/td>\nDongyuan Song<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 21, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nGaelle Talross, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nYale University<\/span><\/td>\nNeuronal long non-coding RNAs: Insights from the fly olfactory system<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 18, 2025
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Vikram Vijayan, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nThe Rockefeller University<\/span><\/td>\nCircuit and molecular mechanisms underlying a relative-value decision in Drosophila<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 11, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nJennifer Malin, Ph.D.<\/td>\nNew York University<\/td>\nUnderstanding the regulation of cell number in the Drosophila visual system<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 27, 2025<\/span><\/td>\nRexxi Prasasya, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/td>\nThe Role of TET1 in Resetting and Patterning the Germline Methylome<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 19, 2024<\/span><\/td>\nCarson Thoreen, Ph.D.<\/td>\nYale University<\/span><\/td>\nMotifs and mechanisms for mTORC1 control of mRNA translation and stability<\/span><\/td>\nJean-Denis Beaudoin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 31, 2024<\/td>\nJunjie Guo, Ph.D.<\/td>\nYale University<\/span><\/td>\nRNA plasticity in neuronal health and disease<\/td>\nPedro Miura<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 7, 2024<\/span><\/td>\nPaul Flicek, Ph.D.<\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory<\/span><\/td>\nEvolution of Transcriptional Regulation<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 19, 2024<\/td>\nJohn Lis, Ph.D.<\/td>\nCornell University<\/span><\/td>\nDissecting the Molecular Architecture and Regulatory Mechanisms of a Robust Long-range Enhancer<\/span><\/td>\nMichael Guertin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16, 2024<\/td>\nHiten Madhani, M.D., Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity Of California, San Francisco<\/span><\/td>\nLarge-scale CRISPR base editing to understand the human spliceosome<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2, 2024<\/td>\nEmma Farley, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity of California San Diego<\/span><\/td>\nAffinity optimizing enhancer variants disrupt development<\/span><\/td>\nMichael Guertin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 16, 2024<\/td>\nThomas Maniatis, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nColumbia University<\/span><\/td>\nProtocadherin Gene Cluster: A Generator of Cell Surface Barcodes Required\u00a0for Normal\u00a0Brain Wiring<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 2, 2024<\/td>\nDoris Kretzschmar, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nOregon Health and Science University<\/span><\/td>\nConnecting circadian disruptions and Alzheimers disease<\/span><\/td>\nBlanka Rogina<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 8, 2024<\/td>\nEric Lai, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nSloan Kettering Institute<\/span><\/td>\nmicroRNAs and RNAi: from mechanisms to biology<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 14, 2023<\/td>\nMarc Mendillo, Ph.D.<\/td>\nNorthwestern University<\/td>\nDelineating Mechanisms of Cancer Cell Stress Resilience<\/td>\nMichael Guertin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 30, 2023<\/td>\nAshleigh Schaffer, Ph.D.<\/td>\nCase Western Reserve University<\/td>\nMechanisms of selective vulnerability in RNA binding protein-associated pediatric neurological disease<\/td>\nPedro Miura<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 27, 2023<\/span><\/td>\nSam Sternberg, Ph.D.<\/td>\nColumbia University<\/span><\/td>\nDiscovery and development of CRISPR-associated transposases<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 20, 2023<\/span><\/td>\nEric Wagner, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUConn Health<\/span><\/td>\nIntegrator is a Promoter-Proximal Termination Complex Critical for Transcriptional Control<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 30, 2023<\/td>\nYingqun Huang, M.D., Ph.D.<\/td>\nYale University<\/td>\nOvercoming a TET offensive in multiple diseases<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 16, 2023<\/td>\nFrederick S. Varn, Ph.D.<\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory<\/span><\/td>\nDissecting tumor-microenvironment interactions and their role in the evolution of diffuse glioma<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 2, 2023<\/td>\nLeighton Core, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\nMapping transcriptomes and defining points of gene regulation with nascent RNA sequencing<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 23, 2023<\/td>\nOscar Vargas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\nNonocanonical translation of the genetic code by a new tRNA family<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0January 12, 2023
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Sarah Aitken, Ph.D.
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		\u00a0University of Cambridge
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		 Disentangling strand interactions in DNA damage and repair<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 1, 2022<\/span><\/td>\nSummer Thyme, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nThe University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/span><\/td>\nUsing Zebrafish to Study Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Discover Treatments<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 17, 2022<\/span><\/td>\nLindy Barrett, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nBroad Institute<\/span><\/td>\nLeveraging iPSC Models to Study Neural Development and Disease<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 3, 2022<\/span><\/td>\nMira Moufarrej, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nThe Column Group<\/span><\/td>\nImproving prenatal care through liquid biopsies<\/span><\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 20, 2022<\/span><\/td>\nRonald Breaker, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nYale University<\/td>\nModern Riboswitches Reveal Ancient RNA Capabilities and Limitations<\/span><\/td>\nSandra Garrett<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 6, 2022
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Michael Guertin, Ph.D.<\/td>\nUniversity of Connecticut School of Medicine<\/td>\n Kinetic networks identify key regulatory nodes and transcription factor functions in early adipogenesis<\/span><\/td>\nPedro Miura<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 4, 2022
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Bernhard Payer, Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\nCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain<\/span><\/td>\nEpigenetic reprogramming of the X chromosome in the female mammalian germ line<\/span><\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 30, 2022
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Melissa Moore, Ph.D. (Herbert and Esther Brandwein Lecture)<\/td>\nChief Scientific Officer, Scientific Affairs, Moderna, Inc., and Co-Founder, Via Scientific<\/span><\/td>\nmRNA as Medicine
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 8, 2022<\/span><\/td>\nEric Wang<\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory<\/td>\nOvercoming therapy resistance in hematologic malignancies<\/span><\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 24, 2022<\/td>\nLori Passmore<\/td>\nMRC Laboratory and Moleculare Biology, Cambridge, UK<\/td>\nMolecular Insights into the mRNA3′ – end processing machinery<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 18, 2021<\/td>\nJay Shendure<\/td>\nUniversity of Washington – Genome Sciences<\/td>\nGlobal views of Mammalian Development<\/td>\nBrenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 4, 2021<\/td>\nVincent Pasque<\/td>\nKU Leuven, Belgium<\/td>\nGenome and epigenome regulatory principles in early mammalian\u00a0 development, stem cells and reprogramming<\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 18, 2021<\/td>\nThorold Theunissen<\/td>\nWashington University, St. Louis<\/td>\nUnderstanding human pluripotent stem cell states and their applications<\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 21, 2021<\/td>\nGosia Trynka<\/td>\nWelcome Genome Campus
\nHinxton, Cambridge, UK<\/td>\n		Interpreting GWAS variants with chromatin marks and single cell transcriptomics<\/td>\nJustin Cotney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 17, 2020<\/td>\nElizabeth J. Leslie<\/td>\nEmory University School of Medicine<\/td>\nFrom GWAS to Genomes: New Insights into the Human Genetics of Orofacial Clefts<\/td>\nJustin Cotney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 3, 2020<\/td>\nAaron Quinlan<\/td>\nUniversity of Utah<\/td>\nPatterns and consequences of mutation in the human germline<\/td>\nJustin Cotney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 19, 2020<\/td>\nErica Hutchkins<\/td>\nCaltech<\/td>\nUnraveling the mechanisms of the neural crest epithelial – mesenchymal transition<\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 5, 2020<\/td>\nMingxia Gu<\/td>\nCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center<\/td>\nEndocardial contribution to heart development and disease<\/td>\nStefan Pinter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 22, 2020<\/td>\nYoungmok Lee<\/td>\nAsst Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCHC<\/p>\n

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Gene therapy for Glycogen Storage Disease Type I<\/td>\nBrent Graveley
\nIsolde Bates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 8, 2020<\/td>\nMiguel Moreno-Mateos<\/td>\nAndalusian Center for Developmental Biology<\/td>\nUnderstanding early vertebrate development: A CRISPR-Cas view<\/td>\nJean-Denis Beaudoin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 25, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Dionna Kasper<\/td>\nYale University School of Medicine
\nYale Cardiovascular Research Center &\u00a0 Department of Genetics<\/td>\n		Special Seminar: “How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions”<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 3, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Max Staller<\/td>\nEdison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology
\nWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis<\/td>\n		Special Seminar: “Probing the sequence-to-function relationship of transcription factor activation domains”<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 16, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Tania Rozario<\/td>\nMorgridge Institute for Research
\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison<\/td>\n		Special Seminar: “Making heads or tails of tapeworms: Region-specific regulation of stem cell-driven regeneration in Hymenolepisdiminuta”<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 13, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Margarida Cardoso Moreira<\/td>\nUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany<\/td>\nSpecial Seminar:\u00a0\u201cOrigins and evolution of organs\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 10, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Bushra Raj<\/td>\nHarvard University<\/td>\nSpecial Seminar:\u00a0\u201cGlobal insights into brain diversity, development and lineage at single-cell resolution\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 7, 2020<\/td>\nDr. Nicholas Tran<\/td>\nHarvard University<\/td>\nSpecial\u00a0Seminar: \u201cApplying a retinal cell atlas to examine mechanisms of selective neuron resilience and axon regeneration\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 26, 2019<\/td>\nDr. Jaime Imitola<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cHuman Cellular Models to advance mechanisms and treatments for neurological diseases\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 26, 2019<\/td>\nDr. Jaime Imitola<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cHuman Cellular Models to advance mechanisms and treatments for neurological diseases\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 9, 2019<\/td>\nDr. Ling-Ling Chen<\/a><\/td>\nChinese Academy of Sciences<\/td>\n\u201cLinking RNA processing and function\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Gordon Carmichael<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 9, 2019<\/td>\nDr. Ling-Ling Chen<\/a><\/td>\nChinese Academy of Sciences<\/td>\n\u201cLinking RNA processing and function\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Gordon Carmichael<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 4, 2019<\/td>\nDr. William Fairbrother<\/a><\/td>\nBrown University<\/td>\n\u201cPathogenic variations often disrupt splicing \u2013 implications for clinical genetics and evolutionary models of regulatory signals\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 17, 2019<\/td>\nDr.\u00a0Rebekah Rogers<\/a><\/td>\nUNC Charlotte<\/td>\n\u201cWhen Bad Things Happen to Good Genomes: genetic tragedies in mammoths and poison dart frogs\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Charles Lee, JAX GM and
\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 17, 2019<\/td>\nDr.\u00a0Rebekah Rogers<\/a><\/td>\nUNC Charlotte<\/td>\n\u201cWhen Bad Things Happen to Good Genomes: genetic tragedies in mammoths and poison dart frogs\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Charles Lee, JAX GM and
\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 13, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Mayu Inaba<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cStem cell receptor degradation by niche cells restricts signaling\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 29, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Duygu Ucar<\/a><\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine<\/td>\n\u201cSex dimorphism in human immune system aging\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 26, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Eric Van Nostrand<\/a><\/td>\nUniversity of California San Diego<\/td>\nSpecial Seminar: \u201cExploring RNA biology at scale\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 4, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Scott Bultman<\/a><\/td>\nUniversity of North Carolina<\/td>\n\u201cThe role of microbiome-derived metabolism in cancer prevention and therapy\u201d<\/td>\nGDB Graduate Students<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 11, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Adrian Krainer<\/a><\/td>\nCold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/td>\nHerbert and Esther Bennett Brandwein Lecture: \u201cSpinraza: The First Approved Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 24, 2018<\/td>\n6th UConn Fly Club<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\nMultiple Talks<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 10, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Stephen Helfand<\/a><\/td>\nBrown University<\/td>\n\u201cRetrotransposons as agents of somatic diversity, disease and aging\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 29, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Aoife Heaslip<\/a><\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n\u201cOh the places you\u2019ll go! Vesicle transport in\u00a0Toxoplasma gondii\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Arthur Gunzl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 15, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Beiyan Zhou<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cMacrophage Polarization and Obesity\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 1, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Christine Beck<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine<\/td>\n\u201cRepetitive sequences and genomic plasticity\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 20, 2018<\/td>\nDr. Li Yang<\/td>\nChinese Academy of Science<\/td>\n“Genome-wide characterization of circular RNAs”<\/td>\nDr. Gordon Carmichael<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 14, 2017<\/td>\nDr. David Zappulla<\/td>\nJohns Hopkins University<\/td>\n\u201cTelomerase: RNP architecture, telomere maintenance, and senescence without it\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 7, 2017<\/td>\nDr. Patrick Murphy<\/a><\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cAlternative splicing as a novel axis in endothelial-immune interactions\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Stormy Chamberlain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 9, 2017<\/td>\nMultiple Speakers<\/td>\nMultiple Institutions<\/td>\nNortheastern Glenn Symposium on the Biology of Aging<\/td>\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 19, 2017<\/td>\nDr. Zeeshan Ahmed<\/td>\nUConn Health<\/td>\n\u201cDealing practical issues associated to the clinical and high throughput genomic data integration for precision medicine\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Brenton Graveley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 1, 2017<\/td>\nDr. Nitika Badjatia – Henderson Prize Awardee<\/a><\/td>\nPenn State<\/td>\n“Biochemical Reconstitution of Nucleosome Organization at Gene Promoters<\/td>\nDr. Arthur Gunzl and
\nDr. Blanka Rogina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 9, 2017<\/td>\nDr. Camron Bryant<\/a><\/td>\nBoston University<\/td>\n\u201cSystems genetic analysis of drug and food addiction traits in mice\u201d<\/td>\nDr. Erin Young<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 12, 2016<\/td>\nDr. Christian P. Schaaf<\/a><\/td>\nBaylor College of Medicine<\/td>\n\u201cTranslational approaches to rare neurodevelopmental disorders\u201d **This seminar is held at the JAX-GM Auditorium**<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 30, 2016<\/td>\nDr. Albert Shaw<\/a><\/td>\nYale University<\/td>\n\u201cEffects of Aging on Signatures of Influenza Vaccine Response\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 5, 2016<\/td>\nDr. Pierre-Antoine Defossez<\/a><\/td>\nUniversity Paris Diderot<\/td>\n\u201cA hypercompetitive histone mimic in DNA Ligase 1 links DNA replication and UHRF1 recruitment: implications for DNA remethylation\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 24, 2016<\/td>\nDr. Shangqin Guo<\/a><\/td>\nYale University<\/td>\n\u201cVisualizing the birth of induced pluripotent stem cells: Seeing the non-stochastic events\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 14, 2016<\/td>\nDr. Albert Cheng<\/a><\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine<\/td>\n\u201cUpgrading CRISPR\/Cas\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 10, 2015<\/td>\nDr. Edison Liu<\/a><\/td>\nThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine<\/td>\n\u201cGenomic Configuration and Systems Biology for Breast Cancer\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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