Colloquium

Victor Corces, Emory Univ. – January 15, 2020
Title: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of obesity
Host: Yarui Diao

Richard Gomer, Texas A&M Univ. – January 22, 2020
Title: Dictyostelium secreted factors: insights into acute respiratory distress syndrome and tuberculosis
Host: Matt Scaglione

Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College – January 29, 2020
Title: The dynamic intersection of calcium and the cytoskeleton controls polarized growth 
Host: Masa Onishi

Molly Hammell, Cold Spring Harbor – February 5, 2020
Title: Three Stressors in ALS: Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation, and Retrotransposons
Host: Zhao Zhang

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Univ. of Toronto – February 12, 2020
Title: Coordinating cell movements: cellular and molecular dynamics at the leading edge
Host: Second Year DSCB Graduate Students

Elaine Fuchs, The Rockefeller Univ. – February 19, 2020
Title: Stem Cells: It's All About the Neighborhood
Host: Amanda MacLeod

Doug Millay, Univ. Of Cinn. – February 26, 2020
Title: Mergers and acquisitions: making multinucleated muscle through cell fusion
Host: Ken Poss, RNI

Nannette Nascone-Yoder, NC State Univ. – March 4, 2020
Title: Left, Right and Wrong: a multi-pronged approach to understanding birth defects
Host: Second Year DSCB Graduate Students

Julie Sneddon, UCSF – March 18, 2020 - canceled, rescheduled for next year
Title: Engineering the Endocrine Pancreas
Host: Nina Tsvetanova

Jessica Tyler, Cornell Univ. – March 25, 2020 - canceled, rescheduled for next year
Title: Using budding yeast as a model to understand stem cell aging
Host: Eda Yildirim

Rachel Roberts-Galbraith, Univ. of GA – April 1, 2020 - canceled, rescheduled for next year
Title: Off with their heads: understanding regeneration using planarian flatworms
Host: Sarah Goetz

Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine – April 8, 2020 - canceled, rescheduled for next year
Title: Signaling Role of Matabolites in Longevity Regulation
Host: Dong Yan

Noriaki Ono, Univ. of Michigan – April 15, 2020 - canceled, rescheduled for next year
Title: Skeletal/mesenchymal stem cells: How much do we know about them?
Host: Courtney Karner

Jennifer Cremins, U. Penn - January 16, 2019
Title: Reconfiguration of the 3D Epigenome in brain development and disease

Elizabeth Chen, UT Southwestern - January 23, 2019
Title: To Invade or Resist: That is the Question - Mechanisms of Cell-Cell Fusion

Michel Cayouette, Univ. of Montreal - January 30, 2019
Title: Building and rebuilding the retina

Artyom Kopp, UC Davis – February 6, 2019
Title: The origin and evolution of sex specific traits in Drosophila

Jessica Whited, Harvard Stem Cell Institute – February 13, 2019
Title: Uncovering regenerative constraints and mechanisms using axolotis

Amy Gladfelter, UNC – Chapel Hill – February 20, 2019
Title: The organization of cytosol by RNA-driven phase separation

Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Univ. of Mass Amherst – February 27, 2019
Title: Our evolving view of cell motility

Vicki Rosen, Harvard – March 6, 2019
Title: BMP signaling regulates skeletal stem cell niches

Madhav Mani, Northwestern University – March 20, 2019
Title: Taking a statistical (physics) approach to developmental biology

Celina Juliano, UC Davis – March 27, 2019
Title: Mechanisms of development and regeneration in Hydra

Alex Pollen, UCSF – April 3, 2019
Title: Establishing Cerebral Organoids as Models of Human-Specific Brain Evolution

Mark Krasnow, Stanford Univ. – April 20, 2019
Title: Lung stem cells, their niches, and cancer at single cell resolution

Deneen Welik, University of Michigan – April 17, 2019
Title: Are Hox-expressing cells musculoskeletal stem cells?

David Parichy, Univ. of Virginia - January 17, 2018
Title: Developmental genetics of zebrafish pigment pattern formation

Andrea Page-McCaw, Vanderbilt University - January 24, 2018
Title: Knowing there's a problem: Mechanisms of epithelial wound detection

Guo-Li Ming, University of Pennsylvania - January 31, 2018
Title: Understanding human neurodevelopment and diseases using human iPSC based 2D and 3D models

Stefano Di Talia, Duke University - February 7, 2018
Title: Chemical waves and synchronization in embryonic development and regeneration

Ben Emery, OHSU - February 14, 2018
Title: Myelination in the CNS: Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation

Valentina Greco, Yale University - February 21, 2018
Title: Capturing principles of tissue dynamics and function by live imaging

Jennifer Nemhauser, Washington University - February 28, 2018
Title: Plant Logic

Damaris Lorenzo, UNC-Chapel Hill - March 7, 2018
Title: Cell-autonomous obesity due to loss of ankyrin-B function

Cliff Ragsdale, University of Chicago - March 21, 2018
Title: Evolutionary Biology of Octopus Brain & Development

Veronique Lefebvre, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute - March 28, 2018
Title: SOXcessful control of skeletal cell fate and differentiation

Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois - April 4, 2018
Title: Microscopy and TSA-Seq Mapping of Nuclear Genome Organization Point to Nuclear Speckles as a Major Transcriptional Hub

Xin Sun, UCSD - April 11, 2018
Title: Know Thy Neighbor, Building a Functional Lung

Mary Goll, University of Georgia - April 18, 2018
Title: Chromatin dynamics at the maternal to zygotic transition

Alex Jaworski, Brown University – January 18, 2017
Title: Axon guidance in mice

Anna Sokac, Baylor Medical School – January 25, 2017
Title: Drosophila morphogenesis

Bejamin Martin, Stony Brook – February 1, 2017
Title: Stem cell development and cancer pathogenesis” in zebrafish

Jody Rosenblatt, University of Utah – February 8, 2017
Title: Cell Extrusion

Michelle Arbeitman, FSU – February 15, 2017
Title: Courtship and reproductive behaviors of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Nicola Allen, Salk Institute – February 22, 2017
Title: Astrocyte function in neuronal connections

Joan Taylor, UNC-Chapel Hill – March 1, 2017
Title: Normal and aberrant growth in the cardiovascular system

Marisa Bartolomei, UPENN – March 8, 2017
Title: Genomic imprinting and X inactivation in mice

Tony Harris, Univ. of Toronto – March 22, 2017
Title: Drosophila Tissue Development

Zach Pincus, Washington University – March 29, 2017
Title: Individual variability, aging, and robustness

Pantelis Rompolas, Penn State – April 5, 2017
Title: Stem Cell Biology in hair follicles

Andy McCallion, Johns Hopkins – April 12, 2017
Title: Cis-regulatory elements in neurological disease & zebrafish development

Bernhard Kuhn, University of Pittsburgh – April 19, 2017
Title: Heart Regeneration Mice

Debbie Yelong, UCSD – January 20, 2016
Title: Sculpting the Heart: Dynamic Regulation of Organ Dimensions

Nicholas Plachta, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology – January 27, 2016
Title: Seeing how mammalian life starts: Quantitative imaging in mouse embryos

Carole Parent, CCR, NCI – February 3, 2016
Title: Live imaging of signal relay during chemotaxis and its relevance to inflammation

Adam Martin, MIT – February 10, 2016
RhoA GTPase inhibition organizes contraction during epithelial morphogenesis

Eric Olson, UT Southwestern Medical Center – February 17, 2016
Exploring Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration

Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute and NYU – February 24, 2016
Forming the Next Generation

Konrad Hochedlinger, MGH Dept. of Molecular Biology – March 3, 2016
Dissecting mechanisms that safeguard somatic and pluripotent cell fates

Nanette Nascone-Yoder, NC State Univ. college of Veterinary Medicine – March 9, 2016
Ahead of the curve: how the stomach becomes left-right asymmetric

Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School – March 23, 2016
The development and evolution of the vertebrate body plan

Amy Maddox, UNC-Chapel Hill – March 30, 2016
Dynamic and stable rings in cell division and development

Nasser Rusan, NIH – April 6, 2016
Using embryos and stem cells to unlock centrosome secrets

Mary Gehring, Whitehead Institute – April 13, 2016
Epigenomic Reprogramming during Plant Development

Richard Mann, Columbia Univ – April 20, 2016
Linking Development and Function in the Drosophila Adult Motor System

Rich Schneider, UCSF – January 14, 2015

Bob Franks, NC State University, Dept. of Genetics – January 21, 2015

Shawn Ahmed, UNC-Chapel Hill – January 28, 2015

Caroline and Geoff Burns, MGH Harvard – February 4, 2015

David M. Parichy, Univ. of Washington – February 11, 2015

Julie Canman, Columbia Univ. – February 18, 2015

Judith Yanowitz, Univ. of Pittsburgh – February 25, 2015

Brad Davidson, Swarthmore – March 4, 2015

Stephani Gupton, UNC – Chapel Hill – March 18, 2015

Sally Horne-Badovinac, Univ. of Chicago – March 25, 2015

Rosalind Segal, Harvard – April 1, 2015

Lee Niswander, Univ. of Colorado, Denver – April 8, 2015

Matt Tyska, Vanderbilt – April 15, 2015

Verena Gobel, Harvard - January 22, 2014

David Miller, Vanderbilt - January 29, 2014

Bruce Draper, UC Davis - February 5, 2014

Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute - February 12, 2014

Vivian Budnick, Univ of Mass - February 19, 2014

Alex Nechiporuk, Oregon Health Services - February 26, 2014

Helen McNeill, Mount Sinai Hospital - March 5, 2014

Celeste Nelson, Princeton - March 19, 2014

Jeff Long, UCLA - March 26, 2014

Jane Hubbard, NYU - April 2, 2014

Kathryn Anderson, Memorial Sloan Kettering - April 9, 2014

Tatyana Svitkina, U of Penn - April 16, 2014

Valerie Horsley, Yale – January 16, 2013
Title: Stem Cell Biology in the Vertebrate Epidermis

Yingzi Yang, NIH, NHGRI – January 23, 2013
Title: Wnt and Hedgehog Signaling in Skeletal Development and Disease

David Sherwood, Duke Univ. – January 30, 2013
Title: Breaching the basement membrane: Anchor cell invasion in C. elegans

Freda Miller, Univ. of Toronto – February 6, 2013
Title: Stem cells: building and rebuilding the nervous system

David Pfenning, UNC-Chapel Hill – February 13, 2013
Title: Interplay of Ecology, Evolution and Development

Cassandra Extavour, Harvard – February 20, 2013
Title: The evolution of novel and diverse mechanisms of arthropod germ cell specification

Kaveh Ashrafi, UCSF – February 27, 2013
Title: Fat Regulation in C. elegans

Wesley Grueber, Columbia – March 6, 2013
Title: Molecular control of neuronal shape and neural circuit development in Drosophila

Keiko Torri, Univ. of WA – March 20, 2013
Title: Communication, Fate and Decision Making during Stomatal Development in Plants

William Theurkauf, UMASS – March 27, 2013
Title: Mechanisms that maintain the integrity of the genome in Drosophila

Laurie Boyer, MIT – April 3, 2013
Title: Molecular basis of ESC Pluripotency

Jeremy Nance, NYU – April 10, 2013
Title: C. elegans gastrulation

Thaddeus Stappenbeck, WA Univ. – April 17, 2013
Title: Development and Regeneration of the Intestine