2026 - 2027 Seminar Series

2026

September 9, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Siyuan Ding, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 
  "Viral and Host Determinants of Rotavirus Host Range"

September 16, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Antonis Kourtidis, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC  
  " RNA tales from the colon"- Works in Progress

September 23, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Izumi Kaji, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Surgery, Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  "Beyond Transplantation: Transcriptional Back-Programming for Decompensated Cirrhosis"     

September 30, 11:00 a.m., BSB611

• Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, M.D, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh 
  "Transcriptional compensation of YAP1 and SOX9 in cholangiocarcinoma"

October 7, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Andrew Disharoon
  Biopharma Technology Manager, Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization, MUSC
  "Intellectual Property Protection and Technology Commercialization of Academic Innovations with the Zucker Institute"

October 14, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Lauren G. Poole, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University, RWJ Medical School
  "Mechanisms and consequences of coagulation activity in acute and chronic liver injury"

October 21, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

October 28, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Aadra Bhatt, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill 
  TBA

November 4, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Noel Warfel, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MUSC 
  "TBA"

November 11, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• No Seminar

November 18, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Kristen Engevik, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
  "TBA"- Works in Progress

December 2, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
  Whitehead Career Development Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research 
  TBA

December 9, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Jerrold Turner, MD, Ph.D.
  Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  "TBA"

December 16, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• No Seminar

2027

January 6, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Ge Tao, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, MUSC
  "Works in Progress"

January 13, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

January 20, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Heather McCauley, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC-Chapel Hill
  "TBA"

January 27, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

February 3, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Kelvin Pond, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona 
  "Quantitative Imaging of Patient-derived Organoids Reveals Novel Stem Cell Dynamics and Fate Decisions"

February 10, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

February 17, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Jacopo Ferruzzi, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
  TBA

February 24, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

March 3, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

March 10, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Kara Margolis, M.D.
  Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  TBA

March 17, 3:00 a.m., DD 110

• TBD

March 24, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Biology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
  "Dietary control of stem cells in physiology and disease."

March 31, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

April 7, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D.,Ph.D.
  Professor and Chair, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Cleveland Clinic,
  TBA

April 14, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

April 21, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

April 28, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Matthew Kutys, Ph.D.
  Associate Director of Synthetic Circuits and Experimental Cell Models, Allen Institute for Cell Science
  "Decoding morphogenesis: from endothelial cell-cell interfaces to multicellular design" 

May 5, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• No Seminar

May 12, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

May 19, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• TBD

May 26, 11:00 a.m., BSB 6D.11

• TBD