Past Seminar Speakers
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September 16, 2021
"Neuro-archealization: Resurrecting Genetic Variations in Human Brain Organoids"
Understanding the evolutionary path and the tradeoffs of the modern human brain will likely illuminate the origins of human disease. Alysson Muotri explains his research using stem cells to model Neanderthal brains in an effort to better understand our origins as well as our future. -
July 8, 2021
“COVID-19 to Heart Regeneration: The Pluripotent Uses of Human Stem Cells”Dr. Murry is a cardiovascular pathologist whose clinical interests span ischemic heart disease, cardiac transplantation, atherosclerosis, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, valvular disease and non-atherosclerotic vascular disease. -
June 10, 2021
“MYC-induced human acute myeloid leukemia requires a continuing IL-3/GM-CSF costimulus”Connie Jean Eaves, FRSC FRS CorrFRSE, is a biologist with significant contributions to cancer and stem cell research. Eaves is a professor generics of genetics at the University of British Columbia and is also the co-founder with Allen C Eaves of Terry Fox Laboratory. -
May 13, 2021
“Bioengineering Early CNS Morphogenesis for a Scalable Neural Tube Defect Risk Assay”Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Associate Director, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison -
April 8, 2021
“A Multiplex Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Defines Molecular and Functional Subclasses of Autism-Related Genes”Lorenz Studer is a Swiss biologist. He is the founder and director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. -
March 11, 2021
“Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production”Madeline Lancaster is an American developmental biologist studying neurological development and diseases of the brain. Lancaster is a group leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. -
February 11, 2021
"Dynamic Transcriptional Responses to Injury of Regenerative and Non-regenerative Cardiomyocytes Revealed by Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing"
Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research; Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects; The Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science
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January 18, 2021
“Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxics pks + E.coli”Principal Investigator at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research (KNAW) and the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Professor at Utrecht University and Oncode Investigator -
January 1, 2021
“Stem Cells as Architects of Their Niches and Their Mechanical Forces”Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University -
December 6, 2020
“Cell Stress Impairs Cell Type Identity in Organoids”Professor, Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Director, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program -
October 30, 2020
“Articular Cartilage Regeneration by Activated Skeletal Stem Cells”Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford -
Kevin Petrecca, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
September 28, 2020
“Deconstructing Glioblastoma Heterogeneity to Develop New Treatments”Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (McGill UniversityAssociate Chair-Neurosurgery of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (McGill University). Chief of the Department of Neurosurgery (McGill University Health Centre) -
August 20, 2020
“Reversing a Model of Parkinson's Disease with In Situ Converted Nigral Neurons”Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD -
February 3, 2020
“A Cell Atlas of the Developing Human Testis”Dr. Cairns is chair of the oncological sciences department at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and an investigator with the Huntsman Cancer Institute. -
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD
July 11, 2019
“Modeling human neurogenetic diseases in mouse and human induced pluripotentstem cells”Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Professor, Neurosciences and PediatricsCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals -
June 13, 2019
“Gene Edited Cells: Next Generation of Cancer Therapeutics”Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, Director, Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for Excellence in Biomedicine, Vice Chair of Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Lab website -
April 11, 2019
“The Piwi-piRNA pathway: a new Paradigm of Gene Regulation"
Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, Director, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University School of Medicine Lab Website -
Sally Temple, PhD
March 14, 2019
“Neural stem cells in aging and modeling neurodegenerative disease"
Scientific Director, Neural Stem Cell Institute, Professor of Neuroscience & Neuropharmacology, Albany Medical College Lab WebsiteVideo not available at this time
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February 11, 2019
“Development of Therapeutic Approaches for Muscle Disease using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles Lab Website
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