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
Fall 2022 Blaffer Schedule
September 13, 2022
Speaker: Elsa Flores, PhD, Associate Center Director, Basic Science, Senior Member, Molecular Oncology, Kaul Foundation Endowed Chair, Moffitt Distinguished Scholar, NCI Outstanding Investigator, Moffitt Cancer Center
Title of Talk: "Unraveling the Complexities of p63 and p73 to Target the p53 Pathway "
Host: Swathi Arur, PhD, Department of Genetics
September 20, 2022
Speaker: Shan Zha, MD, PhD, James A. Wolff Professor of Pediatrics at the Institute for Cancer Genetics, Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology and Immunology & Microbiology, Columbia University
Title of Talk: “Inhibition is not equal to Deletion in DNA Damage Response”
Host: Bin Wang PhD, Department of Genetics
September 27, 2022
Speaker: Raghu
Kalluri, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Cancer
Biology
Frederick F. Becker Distinguished University Chair of
Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center
Title of Talk: "The Biology and Function of Exosomes in
Cancer Progression and Therapy"
Host: Gigi Lozano, PhD, Department of Genetics
October 4, 2022
Speaker: Allan Drummond, PhD, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Title of Talk: "Rethinking the Cellular Responses to Proteotoxic Stress"
Host: Nidhi Sahni, PhD, Department of Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
October 11, 2022
Speaker: Monika Ward, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy Biochemistry and Physiology, Chair, Developmental and Reproductive Biology (DRB) Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii
Title of Talk: “Unraveling Secrets of Mouse Y Chromosome Gene Function in Reproduction”
Host: Richard Behringer, PhD, Department of Genetics
October 18, 2022
Speaker: Shawn Burgess, PhD, Senior Investigator, Head, Developmental Genomics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Title of Talk: "Transcriptional and Metabolic Control of Tissue Regeneration"
Host: George Eisenhoffer, PhD, Department of Genetics
November 1, 2022
Speaker: Alan D'Andrea, MD, Director, Center for DNA Damage and Repair & Susan F.
Smith Center for Women’s Cancers (SFSCWC), The Fuller-American Cancer Society Professor of Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Title of Talk: “Targeting DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy”
Hosts: Neal Copeland & Nancy Jenkins, PhD, Department of Genetics
November 8, 2022
Speaker: Kristen Harris, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience Center for Learning and Memory Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin
Title of Talk: "Synaptic Mechanisms of Spaced Learning"
Host: Pierre McCrea, PhD, Department of Genetics
November 15, 2022
Linda A. Barlow, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Title of Talk: “The Sense of Taste: Development, Regeneration and Dysfunction”
Host: Richard Behringer, PhD, Department of Genetics
November 29, 2022
Speaker: Martine Roussel, PhD, Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncogenesis, Co-Leader of the Cancer Biology Cancer Center Program, Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Title of Talk: "Developing New Therapies for Pediatric Brain Tumors"
Host: Neal Copeland & Nancy Jenkins, PhD, Department of Genetics
December 6, 2022
Speaker: Ludmil B. Alexandrov, PhD, Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, University of California
Title of Talk: “Anthology of Unusual Patterns of Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomes”
Host: Peter Van Loo, 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