Past Seminars

Date	Presenter
4/29/24 101 BBE (Kollross)	Molly Duman-Schell, PhD, Navari Family Professor, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics Indiana University "RNAi-based Mosquito Control Programs: A Journey from the Bench to the field" Faculty host: Dan Eberl, Ph.D.
4/22/24	Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Advanced Retinal and Ocular Therapeutics University of Pennsylvania "The Luxturna experience: Insights into development of gene-based treatments for other blinding disorders" Faculty host: Arlene Drack, M.D.
4/15/24	No Seminar
4/8/24 101 BBE (Kollross)	Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD, Professor, D, SC National Institute on Aging-Laboratory Molecular Gerontology "DNA damage signaling to mitochondria in neurodegeneration and aging" Host: Genetics Graduate Program student invited speaker
4/1/24	Janine Kwapis, PhD, Paul Bery Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor of Biology Penn State University "Time to learn: Diurnal regulation of memory via the clock gene Per 1" Faculty host: Ted Abel, Ph.D.
3/25/24	Ryan Corces, PhD, Assistant Investigator Gladstone Institutes "Multi-omic dissection of noncoding genetic drives of neurodegenerative disease risk" Host: Genetics Graduate Program student invited speaker
3/18/24	Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California San Diego "Modulators of RNA in Human Health and Disease" Faculty host: Ryan Boudreau, PhD
1/30/23 101 BBE (Kollross)	Marc Freeman, PhD, Director and Senior Scientist Oregon Health & Science University, Vollum Institue “Neuronal remodeling in complex metazoans”
2/20/23	Quasar Padiath, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor Human Genetics, and Department of Neurobiology University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health “The role of the nuclear lamina in disease and development”
3/20/23	Elena Semina, PhD, Professor and Chair, Division of Developmental Biology Medical College of Wisconsin “Exploring Underlying Causes of Rare Developmental Phenotypes”
3/27/23	Mark Schultz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Iowa “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Proteostatic therapeutics for Niemann-Pick type C disease”
4/3/23	Seth Tomchik, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology University of Iowa “Nf1 Ras GAP effects on repetitive motor behaviors and metabolic alterations”
4/10/23	Cat Pinnaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Iowa “Turner syndrome and Associated Phenotypes: The X chromosome and Beyond”
4/17/23 Virtual	Lucy Bai, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Penn State University “Binding Mechanism of Pioneer Factors”
4/24/23	Helen Jones, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics University of Florida “In utero gene therapy; Targeting and improving placental development and function for impact across the lifespan”
5/1/23 101 BBE (Kollross)	Laura Landweber, PhD, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, and Biological Sciences, and Systems Biology. Columbia University “RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangements in the Ciliate Oxytricha”