Conferences & Events
John H. Blaffer Lecture Series - Virtual
Each week from September through May, an internationally recognized scientist is invited to speak and present his or her latest results. Students have the opportunity to meet and interact with these distinguished scientists. Swathi Arur, Ph.D., is the Chair and coordinator of the Blaffer Lecture Series.
For further information or access to a lecture, please contact
Lisa M. Watson, Administrative Coordinator
at BlafferSeries@mdanderson.org.
Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m. CST
September through April
Spring 2022 Blaffer Schedule
January 11, 2022
Speaker: Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, David & Lyn SilfenUniversity Professor Departments of Genetics & Biology, Perelman School of Medicine School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease"
Host: Richard Behringer, PhD, Department of Genetics
January 18, 2022
Speaker: Mansi Srivastava, PhD, Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Title: "Mechanisms of Regeneration and their Evolution"
Host: Richard Behringer PhD, Department of Genetics
Feburary 8, 2022
Speaker: Eric Lai, PhD, Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Programs in Cell & Developmental Biology; Tri-Institutional Computational Biomedicine Physiology, Biophysics and Systems. Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Title: "Red Queen and the Lost Boys: The Role of RNAi in Defending Sex Chromosome Conflict"
Host: Swathi Arur, PhD, Department of Genetics
February 15, 2022
Speaker: Angela Stathopoulos, PhD, Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Pasadena, CA
Title: "Twists on BMP and FGF Signaling from Studies of the Drosophila Ovary and Early Embryo"
Host: Michael Galko, PhD, Department of Genetics
March 8, 2022
Speaker: Erich Jarvis, PhD (HHMI), Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York
Title: "Neurogenetics of Vocal Learning and Spoken Language"
Host: Michael Galko, PhD, Department of Genetics
March 29, 2022
Speaker: Christine
Eischen, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of
Cancer Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Title: "New Insights into p53 Targets and Mdm2
Function in Cancers"
Host: Gigi Lozano, PhD, Department of Genetics
April 5, 2022
Speaker: Ming Li, PhD, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Professor, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School, Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York
Title: "Immunological Mechanisms of Epithelial Cancer Defense"
Host: Boyi Gan, PhD, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology
Research Exchange Series
Each week from September through May, this series alternates faculty from across the Texas Medical Center (TMC) with senior trainees from the Department of Genetics to discuss their research. This series highlights the breadth and depth of science in the TMC and provides an opportunity to establish collaborations across the numerous institutions in the TMC. It is also a forum for senior students and post-doctoral trainees to present their studies.
George Eisenhoffer, Ph.D. and Georgios Karras, Ph.D. will host this series.
For further information or access to a seminar, please contact Monique Richardson at MMRichardson1@mdanderson.org.
Mondays, 11 a.m. -12 p.m.
September through May
Spring 2022 Research Exchange Schedule
Feburary 7, 2022
Peter
Van Loo, PhD, Professor
Department of Genetics, MD
Anderson
February 14 , 2022
Efrosini Tsouko, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of
Orthopedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Feburary 21, 2022
Anna-Karin
Gustavsson, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of
Chemistry, Rice University
February 28, 2022
Andre
Catic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of
Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
March 14, 2022
Francis
T.F. Tsai, PhD, Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
March 21, 2022
Blair
Benham-Pyle, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of
Molecular and Cellular Biology, The Cell and Gene Therapy
Center,
Baylor College of Medicine
March 28, 2022 (Rescheduled)
Allison Stewart, PhD, Research Scientist
Department of Thoracic H&N Medical Oncology – Research, MD Anderson
April 4, 2022
Raisa A. Reyes Castro, Graduate Research Assistant (Arur
Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
April 18, 2022
Gül Zerze,
PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston
April 25, 2022
Joy McDaniel, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Lozano
Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
May 2, 2022
Sachet Shukla, PhD, Assistant
Professor
Department of Hematopoietic Biology & Malignancy,
MD Anderson
May 9, 2022
Wanhe
Li, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biology,
Center for Biological Clocks Research, Texas A&M
University
May 16, 2022
Xiaojie Yu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Lozano Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson