Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar Series

The Genome Sciences Hub integrates basic science and clinical faculty across OHSU who work in disciplines of genetics and genomics, epigenetics, rare disease genetics, genome technologies and computational biology, stem cell and developmental biology, cancer genetics, and gene therapy. Faculty within the Hub apply multidisciplinary approaches, including single gene and single cell technologies, gene therapies, transcriptional pathway and whole genome analyses, and animal models of disease.

The interdisciplinary nature of this Hub is based on the combined basic science and clinical composition of the Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics that will cultivate interactions between the basic sciences and the clinical researchers and practitioners. The goals of the Genome Sciences Seminar Series are to facilitate interactions among faculty and trainees and to provide an opportunity to expand breadth and depth of knowledge in a variety of Genetic research areas that both complement and expand attendees areas of research focus. The Genome Sciences seminar will host 4 to 5 outside speakers for the benefit of the entire OHSU science community. We will also host OHSU faculty and trainees or students and postdoctoral fellows throughout the year. 

Time: Mondays, September through June 12-1pm

Streaming live via WebEx.

Email MMGoffice@ohsu.edu for links 

October 7, 2024

Seminar Title: "Epigenetic memory of environmental stress response"

Presented by: Caren Weinhouse, Ph.D. MPH, Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU

October 14, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

October 21, 2024

Seminar Title: "Gamma' Fibrinogen and COVID-19 Disease Severity"

Presented by: David H. Farrell, Ph.D., F.A.H.A., Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, OHSU

October 28, 2024

Seminar Title: “Haplotype-resolved view of normal and pathogenic gene regulation”

Presented by: Andrew Stergachis, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Medical Genetics and Genome Science at the University of Washington

November 4, 2024

Seminar Title: "Epigenetics of Myeloid Malignancies”

Presented by: Ted Braun, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU

November 11, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

November 18, 2024

Seminar Title: "Allelic Expression Imbalance and Dosage Sensitive Human Disease genes"

Presented by: Matt Thayer, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, OHSU

November 25, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

December 2, 2024

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Jonathan R. Brody, Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, OHSU

December 9, 2024

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Jeff Wall, Ph.D. Professor, PC. Research Genetics. OHSU

December 16, 2024

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Hisham Mohammed, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Knight Cancer Institute, OSHU

December 23, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

December 30, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

January 6, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Anne Vonada, Post Doctoral Scholar, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

January 13, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Chia-Lin Wei, Ph.D., University of Washington

January 20, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

January 27, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Kevin Hawthorne, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

February 3, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Sita Kugel Ph.D.

February 10, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Madeline Krieger Ph.D.

February 17, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

February 24, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Grace Su, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

March 3, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Jacquie Budrewicz, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

March 10, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Marissa Co, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

March 17, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

March 24, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

March 31, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Celina Sanchez, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 7, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Travis Moore, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar, CEDAR, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU

April 14, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Gabriela Elizondo Cardenas, M.D., Research Associate, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 21, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Caitlin Peaslee, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 28, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Konstantin Queitsch, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

May 5, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

May 12, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Yoon-Jae Cho M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, OHSU

May 19, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Lauren Rylaarsdam, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

May 26, 2025

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

June 2, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by: Hannah Rudolph, Graduate Student, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

June 9, 2025

Seminar Title:

Presented by:

September 25, 2023

Seminar Title: “T2T-scale genome assemblies: shining a light on repeats, dynamic centromeres and chromosome evolution”

Presented by: Presented by: Rachel J. O’Neill, P.h.D. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut

October 2, 2023

Seminar Title: “Accessing Data Resources: All of Us and the Health Oregon Project.”

Presented by: Wesley Stoller and Paige Farris, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU

October 9, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

October 16, 2023

Seminar Title: “Effects of Maternal Western-Style Diet on Fetal Hematopoiesis and Immunity in Rhesus Macaques.”

Presented by: Oleg Varlamov, Ph.D. Oregon National Primate Research Center, OHSU

October 23, 2023

Seminar Title: “Molecular basis for maternal inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA”.

Presented by: Dmitry Temiakov, Ph.D, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University 

October 30, 2023

Seminar Title: “Single-cell RNA-seq provides high-resolution identification and characterization of antigen-specific T cells”

Presented by: Benjamin Bimber, Ph.D. Oregon National Primate Research Center, OHSU

November 6, 2023

Seminar Title: “Cell Type Evolution and Vulnerabilities in the Primate Brain”

Presented by: Alex Pollen, Ph.D. Department of Neurology University of California-San Francisco

November 13, 2023

Seminar Title: "Epigenetic dysfunction in myeloid leukemias"

Presented by: Julia Maxson, Ph.D., OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, OHSU

November 20, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

November 27, 2023

Seminar Title: “Vertical and horizontal transmission of mtDNA”

Presented by: Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., Oregon National Primate Research Center, OHSU

December 4, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

December 11, 2023

Seminar Title: "Diverse molecular and neurodevelopmental phenotypes across the Tbr1 allelic spectrum"

Presented by: Marissa Co, Ph.D., Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

December 18, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

December 25, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

January 1, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

January 8, 2024

Seminar Title: Urea Cycle Disorders: From Diet Assessment to Gene Therapy

Presented by: Cary O. Harding, MD and Melanie B. Gillingham, PhD, RD

January 15, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

January 22, 2024

Seminar Title: "Leveraging rare disease models to advance scientific and therapeutic discovery"

Presented by: Ashleigh E Schaffer, PhD, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences and Center for RNA Science and Therapeutics Case Western Reserve University

January 29, 2024

Seminar Title: "Targeting haploinsufficient essential genes for the treatment of -7/del(7q)hematological malignancies"

Presented by: Haijiao Zhang, M.D., Division of Oncological Sciences, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU

February 5, 2024

Seminar Title: "Schizophrenia and glycosylation: from genes to neurobiology to treatments"

Presented by: Robert Mealer, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, OHSU

February 12, 2024
February 19, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

February 26, 2024

Seminar Title: "Reciprocal genomic disorders: rare variant windows into brain development and disease"

Presented by: Xander Nuttle, Ph.D., MMG faculty candidate visiting from Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

March 4, 2024

Seminar Title: "From synapse to behavior: astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and Rett Syndrome"

Presented by: Krissy Lyon, Ph.D., MMG Faculty candidate visiting from The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

March 11, 2024

Seminar Title: "Stem Cells, Trabecular Meshwork, and Primary Open Angle Glaucoma"

Presented by: Mary Kelley Ph.D., Casey Eye Institute, OHSU

March 18, 2024

Seminar Title: "SCN2A related autism and epilepsy: from mouse and hiPSCs models to genetic medicine"

Presented by: Yang Yang, Ph.D., Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University

March 25, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

April 1, 2024

Seminar Title: "No brain? No problem! Using planarians to understand brain regeneration at the single-cell level"

Presented by: Bret Pearson, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, OHSU

April 2, 2024

Seminar Title: “Understanding and Targeting Energy Failure in Neurodegeneration”

Presented by: Neal Bennett, Ph.D., MMG faculty candidate visiting from Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at UCSF

April 8, 2024

Seminar Title: "Fast night thoughts on liver-directed gene editing"

Presented by: Cary Harding, M.D., Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 15, 2024

Seminar Title: "CoMo DB: CoMorbdity DataBase of Severe Male Infertility in Multiple Model Organisms".

Presented by: Caitlin Peaslee, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences Students, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 22, 2024

Seminar Title: "High-throughput single cell whole genome sequencing: A key to understanding cancer development"

Presented by: Konstantin Queitsch, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences Students, School of Medicine, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 29, 2024

Seminar Title: "Understanding how mutations in microbial signaling molecules control infection vs. autoimmunity"

Presented by: Ruth Napier, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, OHSU

May 6, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

May 13, 2024

Seminar Title: Mitochondrial Cardiolipin: A Regulator of Cardiac Metabolism in Normal Development and Disease

Presented by: Kathryn Chatfield, M.D., Ph.D., University of Colorado

May 20, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

May 27, 2024

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar

June 3, 2024

Seminar Title: "The Role of LRRK2 in Parkinson's Disease Related Neurodegeneration"

Presented by: Judit Pallos, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, Jungers Center for Neurosciences Research, OHSU
 

June 10, 2024

Seminar Title: "Methods to Increase Homology Directed Repair for Treatment of Phenylketonuria"

Presented by: Michael Martinez, Graduate Student in Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

September 26, 2022

Seminar Title: "Evolution of ultra low specificity S100 proteins"

Presented by: Michael Harms, PhD

October 3, 2022
October 10, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

October 17, 2022

Seminar Title: "Investigating genome topology through the lens of evolution"

Presented by: Lucia Carbone, PhD

October 24, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

October 31, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

November 14, 2022

Seminar Title: "Healthy Oregon Project: Origination, Status, and Opportunities"

Presented by: Paul Spellman, PhD

November 21, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

November 28, 2022

Seminar Title: "Programming and reprogramming of pancreatic cancer"

Presented by: Jungsun Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor

December 5, 2022
December 12, 2022
December 19, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

December 26, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 2, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 9, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 16, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 30, 2023

Seminar Title: "Advances in Single-cell Combinatorial Indexing in Neuroscience and Cancer"

Presented by: Andrew Adey PhD, Associate Professor Molecular and Medical Genetics 

February 6, 2023

Seminar Title: “The arc of a career: PKAN pathogenesis and treatment”

Presented by: Susan Hayflick, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics
Professor, Departments of Molecular & Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University

February 13, 2023

Seminar Title: "LCHADD chorioretinopathy: pathophysiology and potential treatments"

Presented by: Melanie Gillingham, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics, School of Medicine

February 20, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

February 27, 2023

Seminar Title: "Post-Translational Activation of MYC Promotes Aggressive, Liver Metastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma"

Presented by: Rosie Sears, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics, School of Medicine

March 6, 2023

Seminar Title"Investigating the role of the Amyloid Precursor Protein Intracellular Domain in Sleep and Circadian Disruption"

Presented by: Dani Long, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar CR.Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Science

March 13, 2023

Seminar Title: "In Vivo Expansion of Gene-Edited Hepatocytes for Liver-Directed Gene and Cell Therapy"

Presented by: Anne Vonada, Graduate Student 

March 20, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

March 27, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

April 3, 2023

Seminar Title: "Gamma Prime Fibrinogen and COVID-19: Who Knew?"

Presented by:David H. Farrell, Professor

April 10, 2023

Seminar Title: “Characterizing the chorioretinopathy in a LCHADD mouse model”

Presented by: Shannon Babcock, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

April 17, 2023

Seminar Title: "Optimizing Lipid Nanoparticles for Gene Editing in the Retina"

Presented by: Renee Ryals, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology Casey Eye Institute Oregon Health & Science University

April 24, 2023

Seminar Title: “Investigating the Formation and Rupture of Micronuclei and the Consequence of Cytosolic DNA Release in Early Mammalian Embryogenesis”

Presented by: Jacqueline Budrewicz, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

May 1, 2023

Seminar Title: "Succeses and Challenges of CRISPR/CAS9 Gene Editing in Vivo"

Presented by: Lev Fedorov, PhD, Res Assist Professor Director of the Transgenic Core Lab (TMM),USR program, OHSU

May 8, 2023

Seminar Title: "Rethinking the roles of p53 in tumor suppression"

Presented by: Wei Gu, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Pathology and Cell Biology and Institute of Cancer Genetics, Columbia University

May 15, 2023

Seminar Title: "Chromatin Accessibility Profiling of Human Pancreatic Tumors Reveals Epigenetic Features of Transcriptional Subtype and Malignancy"

Presented by: Kevin MacPherson, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

May 22, 2023

Seminar Title: “Single-cell, single-virion genomic methods for studying brain cell connectivity & host-virus interactions”

Presented by: Arpiar Sanders, PhD Assistant Professor in the Saunders Lab Vollum Institute, OHSU

May 29, 2023

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

June 5, 2023

Seminar Title: "A Mutation-Independent CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Integration Approach to Treat Murine PKU"

Presented by: Michael Martinez, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

June 12, 2023

Seminar Title: "Validating actin-related candidate gene from single-cell sequencing data using behavioral assays in Drosophila tauopathy model"

Presented by: Eve Lowenstein, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

September 27, 2021

Presented by: Abdenour Soufi, Ph.D

Seminar Title: "Mechanistic insights into controlling cell identity by transcription factors"

October 4,2021

Presented by: R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD

Seminar Title: "Drivers of hepatocellular carcinogenesis – roles of DNA repair and replication"

October 11, 2021

Presented by: John Brigande, PhD

Seminar Title: "Gene Therapy for Congenital Deafness"

October 18, 2021

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

October 25, 2021

Presented by: Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD

Seminar Title: "AAV gene therapy for glycogen storage diseases"

November 1, 2021

Presented by: Oleg Varlamov, PhD

Seminar Title: "Maternal Diet Modulates Developmental Hematopoiesis in Rhesus Macaques"

November 8, 2021

Presented by: Eric Goetzman, PhD

Seminar Title: “Alternative medium-chain fatty acid therapies”

November 15, 2021

Presented by: Claudio Mello MD, PhD

Seminar Title: “Comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific features in birds”

November 22, 2021

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar  

November 29, 2021

Presented by: Mushui Dai, PhD

Seminar Title: "A novel SUMO ligase function of USP36 in ribosome biogenesis."

December 6, 2021

Presented by: Joshua Saldivar, PhD

Seminar Title: “Nuclear dynamics coordinating DNA replication and transcription”

December 13, 2021

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

December 20, 2021

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

December 27, 2021

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 3, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 10, 2022

Presented by: Daniel Liefwalker, PhD

Seminar Title: "Lipid biosynthesis is a metabolic liability in oncogene-driven hematopoietic malignancies"

January 17, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

January 24, 2022

Presented by: Marissa Co, PhD 

Seminar Title: “Shared and distinct functional effects of patient-specific Tbr1 mutations on cortical development"

January 31, 2022

Presented by: Ayumu Konno Ph.D.

Seminar Title: "Cell type-specific promoters in brain cells for AAV vectors" 

February 7, 2022

Presented by: Taisuke Furusho, PhD

Seminar Title: "AAV mediated gene therapy for kidney disease"

February 14, 2022

Presented by: Scott Kennedy 

Seminar Title: "Mysteries of Mitochondrial Mutagenesis"

February 21, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

February 28, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

March 7, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

March 14, 2022

Presented by: Gurkan Galip Yardimci 

Seminar Title: "Characterization of cell state via modeling of multi-omics data"

March 21, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

March 28, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

April 4, 2022

Presented by: Anne Vonada

Seminar Title: “Drug-Mediated Expansion of Gene-Edited Hepatocytes In Vivo”

April 11, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

April 18, 2022

Presented by: Eve Lowenstein

Seminar Title:  "Investigating nuclear organization in a Drosophila melanogaster human tauopathy model"

April 25, 2022

Presented by: Kevin MacPherson 

Seminar Title: "Single cell analysis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma"

May 2, 2022

Presented by: Steve S Rich, PhD

Seminar Title: "From Bench to Bedside to Community in Type 1 Diabetes"

May 9, 2022

Presented by: Tiffany DeVine

Seminar Title: "LCHAD deficiency in an iPSC-derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium model"

May 16, 2022

Presented by: Zinab Doha

Seminar Title: "Modeling the heterogeneity and therapeutic response of Triple-negative breast cancer''

May 23, 2022

Presented by: Shannon Babcock

Seminar Title: "Studying Molecular Mechanisms of LCHADD Chorioretinopathy Using LCHADD Mouse Model"

May 30, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

June 6, 2022

Presented by: Michael Martinez

Seminar Title: "Methods to Enhance In Vivo Gene Editing for Treatment of Phenylketonuria"

June 13, 2022

No Molecular and Medical Genetics Genome Science Seminar 

October 5, 2020

Presented by: Thomas M. Vondriska, Ph.D. University of California

Seminar Title: "A chromatin structural model for complex cardiovascular disease"

October 12, 2020

Presented by: Gail Mandel, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute

Seminar Title: "Rett syndrome: Insights from a rare disorder"

October 19, 2020

Presented by: Jonathan Brody, Ph.D. Director of Surgical Research

Seminar Title: "Can we target an element of pancreatic cancer cells’ pro-survival phenotype?"

October 26, 2020

Presented by: Nathalie Pamir, Ph.D., Depts. of Medicine & Biochemistry

Seminar Title:  "High density lipoprotein in cardiovascular disease and stroke among Whites and Blacks: The good cholesterol not so good in Blacks"

November 2, 2020

Presented by: Lea M. Starita, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington

Seminar Title: "Getting to community surveillance for COVID-19"

November 9, 2020

Presented by: Ellen Langer, Ph.D., OHSU

Seminar Title: "A role for the prolyl isomerase PIN1 in fibroblast activation in pancreatic cancer"

November 16, 2020

Presented by: Allison Allen, M.D

Seminar Title: "cfDNA for Monogenic Disorders"

November 30, 2020

Presented by: Dr. Alejandro Lomniczi, Research Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center

Seminar Title: "Epigenetic Writers, Readers and Erasers in the Control of Female Puberty"

December 7, 2020

Presented by: Cedric Feschotte, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

Seminar Title: "Fighting Fire with Fire: Endogenous Retroviruses Boost Human Immunity"

January 11, 2021

Presented by: Rita Cervera Juanes, Ph.D., OHSU

Seminar Title: "Investigating the neuroepigenome to identify targets for the treatment of alcohol use disorders"

January 25, 2021

Presented by: Adam Krieg, Ph.D., OHSU

Seminar Title: "Physiological Hypoxia As a Regulator of Ovarian Biology"

February 1, 2021

Presented by: Jared Fischer, Ph.D., OHSU

Seminar Title: "Nanomaterials for enhanced viral vector delivery and cancer detection"

February 8, 2021
February 22, 2021

Presented by: Megan Dennis, Ph.D., UC Davis

Seminar Title: "Using zebrafish to test neurodevelopmental genes important in human disease and evolution"

March 8, 2021

Presented by: Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: “Four legs, fuzzy coat, a tail and a woof: How evolution got there”

March 15, 2021

Presented by: Casey Thornton, MMG Graduate Student, Andrew Adey Lab

Seminar Title: "Characterizing glial chromatin accessibility in the human cortex and hippocampus"

April 5, 2021

Presented by: Kevin Costello, Graduate Student, Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope

Seminar Title: "The role of Transposable elements in regulation and evolution"

April 26, 2021

Presented by: Eve Lowenstein, MMG Graduate Student Adey Lab

Seminar Title: "Effects of frontotemporal dementia associated Tau mutations on nuclear organization in a Drosophila melanogaster human tauopathy model"

May 3, 2021

Presented by: Sara Gosline, Ph.D., P.N.N.L.

Seminar Title: “Harnessing the power of ‘omics in rare disease: Lessons from building cohorts, model systems, and algorithms in Neurofibromatosis 1”

May 10, 2021

Presented by: Alejandro Aballay, Ph.D. Chair, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine

Seminar Title:  "C. elegans as a model host to study the role of the neural-gut axis in immune response against bacterial pathogenetic disease models"

May 17, 2021

Presented by: Carsten Shultz, Ph.D., Chair, Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine

Seminar Title: "Lessons learned from genetic disease models"

May 24, 2021

Presented by: Zinab Doha, MMG Graduate Student

Seminar Title: "Myc Regulation of The Therapeutic Responses in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer"

June 7, 2021

Presented by: Hisham Mohammed, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Medical and Molecular Genetics

Seminar Title: "Multi-omics single-cell approach reveals transcriptional and epigenetic plasticity in hormone driven cancers "