Spring 2023 Seminars

1/18/2023 MIC Graduate Student Seminar
Yen Nguyen (Zong Lab) and Sara Dochnal (Cliffe Lab)

Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1-17

1/25/2023 MIC Seminar – Stephen Robinson, PhD and Sally A. Dreger, PhD

Stephen Robinson, PhD
Group Leader
Quadram Institute Bioscience
“Developing Live-Biotherapeutic Products to Treat Breast Cancer”
AND
Sally A. Dreger, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Quadram Institute Bioscience
“Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Vascular Development”

Host: Melanie Rutkowski, PhD

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

2/15/2023 MIC Graduate Student Seminar

Salma Sharmin (Kashatus Lab) and Brandon Thompson (Petri Lab)

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

3/1/2023 MIC Graduate Student Seminar

Samantha Lempke (Ewald Lab) and Alexander Ball (Pompano)

Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

3/15/2023 MIC Seminar Matthew Sikora, PhD

Matthew J. Sikora, PhD
Department of Pathology
University of Colorado Cancer Center
University of Colorado, School of Medicine

Host: Daniel Gioeli, PhD

Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

3/22/2023 MIC Seminar: Igor Brodsky, PhD

Igor Brodsky, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania

Host: Melissa Kendall, PhD

Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

4/5/2023 MIC Seminar: Shruti Naik, PhD

Shruti Naik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology

Hosts: MIC Graduate Student Committee

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

4/12/2023 MIC Seminar: Abby Overacre, PhD

Abby Overacre, PhD
Assistant Professor | Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh | UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Host: Anne Sperling, PhD

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

4/19/2023 MIC Seminar – Stacy Horner, PhD

Stacy Horner, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Center for RNA Biology
Duke University

Host: Anna Cliffe, PhD

Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

4/26/2023 MIC Seminar: Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD

Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Host: Kwon Park, PhD

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

5/3/2023 MIC Seminar: Kenneth Whitaker Witwer, Ph.D.

Kenneth Whitaker Witwer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Departments of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology, Neurology
Johns Hopkins University

Host: Jay Fox, PhD

Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

5/17/2023 MIC Seminar: Anthony Rossomando, PhD

Anthony Rossomando, PhD
Chief Development Officer
Sinfonia Biotherapeutics

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1017

6/14/2023 MIC Seminar: Professor Kini R Manjunatha, PhD

Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore