2025 Spring Seminar Series

  2025 Spring Seminar Series
  Thursdays, 12:00pm
  Sidney Frank Hall, Marcuvitz Auditorium, and 70 Ship Street Room 107

DATE

 

SPEAKER AND LECTURE TITLE

HOST

February 6
70 Ship Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMINAR CANCELED!

Alex K. Shalek, Ph.D.
J. W. Kieckhefer Professor, and
Director
Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and Health Innovation Hub
MIT

"Characterizing Cell-Intrinsic and Microenvironmental Drivers of Cell State, Plasticity, and Drug Response in Cancer”

 

 

Bailey Lab

 

 

 

 

February 13
70 Ship Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marina Pasca di Magliano, Ph.D.
Maud T. Lane Professor of Surgical Immunology
Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan Medical School

"Oncogenic KRAS as a regulator of the local and systemic pancreatic cancer microenvironment"

 

Diana Ferreyra Faustino

 

 

 

 

 

February 20
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Promislow, D.Phil.
Senior Scientist
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University

“The Companion Dog as a Model for the Systems Biology of Aging”

 

 

Center on the Biology of Aging

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 27
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novalia Pishesha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard University

"Engineered Nanobodies to Visualize and Direct Antigen-Specific Tolerance"

 

 

Madeline Malfara

   

 

 

 

 

March 6
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

Kellie Ann Jurado, Ph.D.
Presidential Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

“Mechanisms of early life immune protection”

 

Lillian Levin

 

 

 

 

March 13
85 Waterman Street  
 

SPECIAL TIME!
4:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANNUAL DR. CHRISTINE BIRON MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY LECTURESHIP

Marion Pepper, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Immunology
University of Washington

“Tissue Immunity in the Lungs”

 

Richard Bennett

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 20
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

Siyuan (Steven) Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine

"3D genome and spatial transcriptome in disease and aging"

 

Center on the Biology of Aging

 

 

 

 

March 27
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. West, F.R.S., Ph.D.
Principal Group Leader
DNA Recombination and Repair Laboratory
The Francis Crick Institute

"Repairing broken chromosomes - it takes two to tango"

 

Richard Bennett

 

 

 

 

April 3
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, and Chief
Systems Genomics Section
NIH/NIAID

 

 

Katie Siddle

 

 

 

 

April 10
70 Ship Street

 

 

 

 

Julie Magarian Blander, Ph.D.
Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Immunology
Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Weill Cornell Medicine

 

 

Lisa Ramos-Rodriguez

 

 

 

 

April 17
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

Corina Amor Vegas, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Deconstructing Aging with Senolytic CAR T Cells

 

Center on the Biology of Aging

 

 

 

 

April 24
Marcuvitz Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

Troy A. Roepke, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

 

 

 

Mel Ortiz Alvarez

 

 

 

 

 

May 1
70 Ship Street

 

 

 

Benjamin G. Neel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Perlmutter Cancer Center
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“New Surprises from Old Friends

Wentian Yang