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Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:58:00 EST

Speaker:

Victor X. Jin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Medicine
Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Seminar title: Omics Approaches to Dissect the Cross-Talk Among Transcription, Chromatin Structure and Splicing

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:46:00 EDT

Speaker:

Santhosh Girirajan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemsitry
and Molecular Biology, Dept. of Anthropology
The Pennsylvania State University

Seminar title: Defining the Genetic Threshold for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Thu, 25 May 2017 16:42:00 EDT

Speaker:

Masoud H. Manjili, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Dept. of
Microbiology and Immunology
VCU Massey Cancer Center

Seminar title: Paradigm Shifts in Cancer Immunotherapy: Targeting Tumor Dormancy

Thu, 04 May 2017 16:34:00 EDT

Speaker:

Aaron Wolen, Ph.D., Co-founder, Data Science Lab, VCU Office of Research, Bioinformatics Specialist, Center for Clinical & Translational Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: Patient-Derived Colorectal Cancer Xenografts Maintain Patient Gene Expression Patterns: A Re-Analysis

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
of the Laboratory of Mammalian
Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY

Seminar title: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:30:00 EST

Speaker:

Michael Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Seminar title: NK cell responsiveness and self-tolerance after transplantation: A Matter of Education?

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Elsa Flores, PhD
Associate Center Director, Basic Science
Senior Member, Molecular Oncology
Kaul Foundation Endowed Chair
Moffitt Distinguished Scholar
NCI Outstanding Investigator
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida

Seminar title: Unraveling the Complexities of the p53 Family to Target the p53 Pathway

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Melissa Hale, PhD
Assistant Professor
Muscular Dystrophy Translational Research Program
Department of Neurology
Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: Translational Approaches to Define the Molecular Mechanisms of Genetic Muscular Dystrophies

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Azeddine Atfi, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Mary Anderson Harrison Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, Massey Cancer Center
Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: Genetic Drivers in Pancreatic Cancer

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Marshall Horwitz, MD, PhD
Associate Dean, Physician-Scientist Education
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
Adjunct Professor, Medicine & Genome Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine

Seminar title: Extracting Lineage from Single Cell RNA-seq

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Dudley Lamming, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director, UW-Madison Comprehensive Diabetes Center Mouse Phenotyping and Surgery Core
Research Health Scientist, William S. Middleton VA Hospital

Seminar title: When a Calorie is Not Just a Calorie: The Regulation of Health and Longevity by What and When We Eat

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Igor Roninson, PhD
Director, Center for Targeted Therapeutics
SmartState Endowed Chair in Translational Cancer Therapeutics
Professor, Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences
University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy

Seminar title: Bypassing Cancer Drug Resistance by Inhibiting CDK8/19 Mediator Kinase

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:00:00 EDT

Speaker:

Daniel T. Starczynowski, PhD
Professor, Division of Experimental Hematology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

Seminar title: Inflammatory Signaling in Cancer

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:00:00 EDT

Speaker:

Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, PhD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Chair, Translational Hematology and Oncology Research Department
Attending Physician, Hematology Service
Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic

Seminar title: TET2 Dysfunction and Pathogenesis of Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:13:00 EDT

Speaker:

Wael El-Rifai, MD, PhD
Associate Director of Basic Science
Co-Leader, Tumor Biology Program
John and Judy Schulte Chair in Cancer Research
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Surgery
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami

Seminar title: The Jekyll and Hyde of Antioxidant Response in Esophageal Tumorigenesis

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:08:00 EDT

Speaker:

Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery (Urology), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
PHASE ONE Foundation Distinguished Chair
Director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and Center
Director, Cedars-Sinai CANCER
Top 10 Cancer Program in the Nation by USN &WR 2020-2022

Seminar title: Discovery and Clinical Evaluation of a Novel Bladder Cancer Subtype

Wed, 11 May 2022 14:05:00 EDT

Speaker:

Esha Madan, PhD
Visiting Faculty
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Fundacao Champalimaud

Seminar title: Cancer-Induced Competitive Manipulation of the Microenvironment in Ovarian Cancer

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:02:00 EDT

Speaker:

Hengbin Wang, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care
Massey Cancer Center
Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: The Function of HIstone Ubiquitination in Development and Cancer

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:58:00 EST

Speaker:

Alaattin Kaya, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: Conserved Regulators of Lifespan

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:38:00 EST

Speaker:

Susan Hong, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure
Director of Cancer Survivorship
University of Illinois Cancer Center
The University of Illinois-Chicago

Seminar title: Why Cancer Genetics is Integral to Survivorship Care

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:05:58 EST

Speaker:

Rajan Gogna, MS, MBA, PhD
Visiting Faculty, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Fundacao Champalimaud
Lisbon, Portugal

Seminar title: Fitness Fingerprints of Human Cells Promote Competitive Growth in Cancer

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:02:19 EDT

Speaker:

Nicholas E. Johnson, MD, MSCI, FAAN
Associate Professor of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division Chief
Vice Chair of Research, Neurology, VCU

Seminar title: Pathogenesis and Progression in Myotonic Dystrophy

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:58:07 EDT

Speaker:

Stephen R. Williams, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Computational Biology
10X Genomics, Inc.

Seminar title: Mutation Detection in Thousands of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells Using Single Cell RNA-Sequencing

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:56:50 EST

Speaker:

Suyun Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Stem Cell, Tumorigenesis and Metastasis

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:50:06 EDT

Speaker:

Kenneth Tew, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chairman, Dept. of Cell & Molecular Pharmacology
John C. West Chair in Cancer Research
Medical University of South Carolina

Seminar title: Redox Biology in Hematopoiesis & Drug Development

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:46:00 EDT

Speaker:

Timothy York, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Roxann Roberson-Nay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, VCU

Seminar title: A Co-Twin Control Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Study of Early-Onset Major Depression

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:44:03 EDT

Speaker:

Devanand Sarkar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: ER Localization Confers Oncogenic Functions to AEG-1

Wed, 23 May 2018 15:36:46 EDT

Speaker:

James Lister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: Color, Grayscale, or Black and White: Zebrafish Mitf in Development and Melanoma

Tue, 22 May 2018 15:39:12 EDT

Speaker:

Suyun Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery-Research, Division of Surgery
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Seminar title: Cancer Stem Cells and Metastases-Molecular Signaling and Therapeutic Targeting

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:57:00 EDT

Speaker:

Keping Xie, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Seminar title: Transcription Factors in Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:57:59 EDT

Speaker:

Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: Re-Shaping the Tumor Immune Microenvironment to Unleash the Power of Immunotherapy

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:28:00 EDT

Speaker:

Xiang-Yang (Shawn) Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: Re-Shaping the Tumor Immune Microenvironment to Unleash the Power of Immunotherapy

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:22:00 EDT

Speaker:

Tomasz Kordula, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, VCU

Seminar title: Malfunction of Adaptive Neuroinflammatory Responses in Glioblastoma Multiforme

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:55:00 EST

Speaker:

Joseph  W. Landry, Ph.D.
Assistant Profesor
Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: The Chromatin Remodeling Complex NURF Localizes to Gene Bodies and Regulates mRNA Processing

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:55:00 EST

Speaker:

Jakub Godlewski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Seminar title: Non-Coding RNA and Cancer: Many Actors in Search of a Plot

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:49:00 EST

Speaker:

Luni Emdad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, VCU

Seminar title: Novel Strategy for the Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:48:00 EST

Speaker:

Ratna Ray, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Pathology
Saint Louis University

Seminar title: Hepatitis C Virus Mediated Liver Pathogenesis

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:44:00 EST

Speaker:

Qin Yang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cell Biology Division
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine

Seminar title: Somatic Cell and Cancer Cell Reprogramming

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:58:00 EST

Speaker:

Victor X. Jin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Medicine
Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Seminar title: Omics Approaches to Dissect the Cross-Talk Among Transcription, Chromatin Structure and Splicing

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:46:00 EDT

Speaker:

Santhosh Girirajan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemsitry
and Molecular Biology, Dept. of Anthropology
The Pennsylvania State University

Seminar title: Defining the Genetic Threshold for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Thu, 25 May 2017 16:42:00 EDT

Speaker:

Masoud H. Manjili, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Dept. of
Microbiology and Immunology
VCU Massey Cancer Center

Seminar title: Paradigm Shifts in Cancer Immunotherapy: Targeting Tumor Dormancy

Thu, 04 May 2017 16:34:00 EDT

Speaker:

Aaron Wolen, Ph.D., Co-founder, Data Science Lab, VCU Office of Research, Bioinformatics Specialist, Center for Clinical & Translational Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

Seminar title: Patient-Derived Colorectal Cancer Xenografts Maintain Patient Gene Expression Patterns: A Re-Analysis

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:00:00 EST

Speaker:

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
of the Laboratory of Mammalian
Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY

Seminar title: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:30:00 EST

Speaker:

Michael Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Seminar title: NK cell responsiveness and self-tolerance after transplantation: A Matter of Education?