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

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

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

• Ge Tao, PhD
  Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC 
  "TBA"- Works in Progress

December 16, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• No Seminar

2027

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

• Jorge Munera, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  "Modeling human hindgut development, disease and differentiation using organoids derived from pluripotent and adult stem cells"

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

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

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

• Diana Fulmer, Ph.D.
  Faculty Candidate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
  "A regulatory role for nuclear architecture in development and disease"

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

• David Assis, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), Yale School of Medicine
  "Emerging Insights into Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis through Bile Derived Organoids"

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

• David Assis, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), Yale School of Medicine
  "Emerging Insights into Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis through Bile Derived Organoids"

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

• Evan Delgado, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Experimental and Translational Pathology, Pittsburgh Liver Research Center Faculty
  "Metabolic Heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for the Immune Microenvironment"

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

• Kengo Nozaki, M.D., Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, MUSC
  "Cell death and “Bucket List” during infection -How a cell dies matters in immunology-"

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

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

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

• Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, MUSC
  "Enteric Neurons and Host Defense"

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

• Brian Kobilka, M.D
  Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
  "G Protein Coupled Receptors: Challenges and New Approaches to Drug Discovery"

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

• Diana Fulmer, Ph.D.
  Faculty Candidate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
  "A regulatory role for nuclear architecture in development and disease"

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

• TBA

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

• Sonia Kupfer, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, University of Chicago
  "Modeling inter-individual gene-environment interactions in human colonic organoids"

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

• Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D.
  Scientific Director and Professor, The Jackson Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics
  "Young at heart: the new genetics of regeneration"

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

• TBD

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

• Stacey S. Huppert, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  "Mechanisms regulating hepatic epithelial cell plasticity and identity"

May 30, 11:00 a.m., BSB 611

• Xia Xiao, Ph.D.
  Instructor, Nephrology and Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  "BMP-SMAD signaling pathway in iron homeostasis and liver fibrosis"

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

• Dipak Panigrahy, M.D.
  Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  TBA

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

• TBA

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

• Henry Sucov, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, MUSC - Works in Progress
  TBA

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

• Jashodeep Datta, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Surgery, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
  TBA