Tuesdays, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103
- Tuesday, October 15, 2024: James Zhou, PhD, Stanford University. AI models of spatial biology with applications to cancer and aging
- Tuesday, November 12, 2025: Frank Albert, PhD, University of Minnesota. Title: Trans-acting genetic influences on gene expression, protein degradation, and complex traits
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025: Peter Koo, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Title: “Interpreting and designing regulatory DNA with deep learning”
- Tuesday, April 8, 2025: Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Title:“The power of nuisance variables- leveraging relatedness and ancestry to fuel genetic discovery”
- Tuesday, May 6, 2025: Miriam Udler, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital. Title: “Genetic Insights into the Heterogeneity of Type 2 Diabetes: Translating Discovery to Clinical Care”
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025: Shankar Subramaniam, PhD, UC San Diego. Title: How is the human brain reprogrammed in Alzheimer’s disease?”
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
Thursdays, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - CLSC 119
- Thursday, January 30, 2025 - Ernesto Gagarin & Jean Greenberg
- Thursday, March 6, 2025 - Alexander Chen & Andy Dahl
- Thursday, April 3, 2025 - Pinky Lee & Ran Blekhman
- Thursday, April 17, 2025 - Josh Sodicoff & Joe Thornton
- Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Dylan Cook & Oni Basu
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
Thursdays, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - CLSC 119
- Thursday, February 27, 2025: Boyang Gao (Chuan He Lab) Title: "RNA dependent cytotoxicity of 5-azaC" & Ashwin Chetty (Blekhman Lab) Title: "Widespread Effects of Medications on Gut Microbiome Composition and Function"
- Thursday, March 13, 2025: Liz Gibbons Title: "IBD treatment shapes the microbiome and host single-cell gene expression" & Vivaswat Shastry Title: "Jointly representing long-range genetic similarity and spatially-heterogeneous isolation-by-distance"
- Thursday, March 27, 2025: Sabrina Arif (Blekhman Lab) Title: "Host transcriptional responses to gut microbiome variation arising from industrialization" & Manasa Prahlad (Kratsios Lab) Title: "Hox factors and PBX generate motor neuron diversity along the antero-posterior axis in C. elegans"
- Thursday, April 10, 2025: Brendan Jamison (Gilad Lab) Hyunkyung Kim (Dahl Lab) Title: "Removing pleiotropic signals reveals disease-specific genetic architecture in noisy, shallow biobank phenotypes"
- Thursday, April 24, 2025: Manuela Costantino (Dahl Lab) Title: "Genetic architecture partly depends on the chosen phenotype scale" & Dylan Stermer (Yang Li Lab) Title: "Mapping Functional Impact of Alternative Splicing Coupled Nonsense-Mediated Decay"
- Thursday, May 1, 2025: Gabi Haddad (Ruthenburg Lab) Title: "Elucidating cheRNA as regulators in the mammalian genome"
- Thursday, May 15, 2025: Marta Majcherska-Agrawal (Chuan He Lab) Title: "Elucidating the functional roles of SNORD115 and SNORD116, key C/D box small nucleolar RNAs, in gene expression regulation of Prader-Willi syndrome" & Brendan Jamison (Gilad Lab) Title: “Characterizing regulatory dispersion of gene expression in cardiac heterogeneous differentiated cultures”
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
GGSB Alumni Symposium - Friday, April 19, 2024 - 9:30 am – 5:00 pm - KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103
- Dr. Justin Fay, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester (PhD 2001) - Title: “Evolution of thermal tolerance”
- Dr. Sahar Mozaffari, Statistical Geneticist, Maze Therapeutics (PhD 2018) - Title: “From sea anemones to genetics in drug discovery”
- Dr. Avery Posey, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania (PhD 2011) - Title: “Gene-modified T cells to overcome limitations of endogenous immunity”
- Dr. Ron Hause, Senior Vice President, Head of AI, Shape Therapeutics (PhD 2013) - Title: "An Unexpected Journey: Applying Generative AI to Develop Novel Therapies in Biotech"
- Dr. Latishya Steele, Associate Dean, Graduate Education & Diversity, Stanford University School of Medicine (PhD 2009) - Title: “From Graduate Student Scientist TO Graduate Student Administrator: Takeaways and Opportunities Along the Way”
Reception to be held in the KCBD Atrium at the conclusion of the talks.
Co-Sponsored by: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program, Biological Sciences Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Human Genetics, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Genetic Mechanisms of Evolution Training Grant, Human Genetics Graduate Program, myCHOICE, Section of Genetic Medicine, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research