Conferences & Events
John H. Blaffer Lecture Series
Each Tuesday from September through April, 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.
Starting in the Fall Series of 2022 an in-person opportunity will be avalible for those wanting to attend the Blaffer lecture series. Please check out the MD Anderson Calendar in September for upcoming lectures.
For further information on a lecture, please contact Lisa M. Watson, Administrative Coordinator at lmwatson@mdanderson.org.
Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m. CST
Onstead Auditorium (BSRB S3.8012)
September through April
Spring 2023 Blaffer Schedule
January 24, 2023
Speaker: Boyi Gan, PhD, Professor, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology & Director, Radiation and Cancer Metabolism Research Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title of Talk: "Targeting Ferroptosis and Disulfidptosis in Cancer "
Host: Swathi Arur, PhD, Department of Genetics
January 31, 2023
Speaker: Eric J. Wagner, PhD, James A. Wolff Professor of Pediatrics at the Institute for Cancer GenetiProfessor Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Title of Talk: "Integrator is a Promoter Proximal Termination Complex Critical for Transcriptional Control"
Host: Ambro van Hoof, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , UTHealth, McGovern Medical School
February 7, 2023
Speaker: Michelle Monje Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University
Title of Talk: "Neuron-Glial Interactions in Health and Disease: From Cognition to Cancer"
Host: Nidhi Sahni, PhD, Department of Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
February 21, 2023
Speaker: Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Director, Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Robert Francis Furchgott Professor Biochemistry and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Title of Talk: "Principle of Epigenetics and Chromatin in Development and Human Disease"
Host: Yejing Ge, PhD, Department of Cancer Biology
February 28, 2023
Speaker: Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD, Associate Vice President, Immunobiology & Professor, Genitourinary Medical Oncology, James P. Allison Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title of Talk: "Immune Checkpoint Therapy: Identifying Mechanisms of Response and Resistance"
Host: Gigi Lozano, PhD, Department of Genetics
March 21, 2023
Speaker: Hao Zhu, PhD, Associate Professor, Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern
Title of Talk: "Clone Wars: Evolution of Adaptation and Malignancy in the Liver"
Host: Li Ma, PhD, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology
March 28, 2023
Speaker: Mark L. Siegal, PhD, Professor, Professor and Vice Dean of General Education, College of Arts and Science Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University
Title of Talk: "Uncovering Genetic Interactions Causing Natural Trait Variation"
Host: Georgios Karras, PhD, Department of Genetics
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Bruce Goode, PhD, Professor of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University
Host: Joseph McCarty, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery - Research
April 11, 2023
Speaker: Diana Bautista, PhD, HHMI Investigator, Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley
Title of Talk: "Neural Control of Itch and Airway Inflammation"
Host: Michael Galko PhD, Department of Genetics
Research Exchange Series
Each week from October 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.
Peter Van Loo, Ph.D. and Shih-Han "Peggy" Lee, 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.
October through May
Fall 2022 Research Exchange Schedule (Hybrid)
October 3, 2022
Xiaojie Yu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Lozano
Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
October 10 , 2022
Kara Marshall, PhD,
Assistant Professor
Deptartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College
of Medicine
October 17, 2022
Eric Van Nostrand, PhD,
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College
of Medicine
October 24, 2022
H.
Courtney Hodges, PhD
Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
October 31, 2022
Mahliyah Adkins Threats, PhD Candidate
Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology, Lab of Dr. Jason Mills, Baylor College of Medicine
November 7 2022
Jayhun Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
November 14, 2022
Jovanka Gencel Augusto, Rosalie B. Hite GRA (Lozano Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
November 28, 2022
Brant Gracia, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Karras Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
December 5, 2022
Bonnie Kircher, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Behringer Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
December 12, 2022
Victor Lopez del Amo,
PhD
Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics &
Environmental Sciences, UTHealth Science Center in Houston