Current Topics in Seminar Series
Each Spring semester the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics offers the Current Topics in Genetics seminar series. Distinguished scientists from across the nation are invited to present the latest research in a broad array of genetics topics. Lectures are attending by the Genetics students and faculty as well as being open to the scientific community. Enhancing the graduate student training, students of the Genetics Program study a paper on the lectures research in preparation of a discussion with the guest lectures. Students also have an opportunity for informal meetings with the guest lecture.

 

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the Genetics Program in advance at grad-genetics@uiowa.edu.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Seminars are Mondays at 4pm in either 2117 MERF or 101 BBE - please check the schedule below.

DatePresenter
3/31/2025
2117 MERF
Pejman Mohammadi, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics – Division of Immunology
University of Washington, Seattle
TBD

Hosted by the Genetics Graduate Students
4/7/2025
2117 MERF
Andrew Lieberman, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Director of Neuropathology
University of Michigan
“Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: more than just a motor neuron disease”

Hosted by Mark Schultz, PhD
4/14/2025
2117 MERF
Carsten G. Bönnemann, MD
Senior Investigator – Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood
National Institute of Health
“TBD”

Hosted by the Genetics Graduate Students
4/21/2025
2117 MERF
Anjana Rao, PhD
Professor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
The TET-DNMT-ASXL1-OGT axis: regulation of DNA and histone methylation, clonal haematopoiesis, and cancer”

Hosted by Markus Kuehn, PhD
4/28/2025
101 BBE
Shelley Lumba, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto
“One signal, two kingdoms: How strigolactones are perceived by plants and fungi"

Hosted by Bin He, PhD
5/5/2025
101 BBE
Karla Kaun, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Brown University
“Molecular Changes Underlying Alcohol Reward”

Hosted by Seth Tomchik, PhD