Faculty Seminars
Seminars by faculty at UNC and from other institutions are held each Friday during the semester.
~~~ 2022/2023 GMB Friday Seminar Series ~~~
unless otherwise noted, seminars are hosted in 1131 Bioinformatics Building and via Zoom at 12 pm
August 19, 2022

Martin Buchkovich, PhD (website)
Manager, Bioinformatics
Q2 Solutions
UNC BCB Alum
Host: Will Valdar (email)
September 2, 2022

Seth Shipman, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
of Bioengineering
University of California San Francisco
Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco
Host: Jason Stein (email)
September 9, 2022

Aaron Quinlan, PhD (website)
Professor,
Department of Human Genetics,
Department of Biomedical Informatics,
Thomas Dee Endowed Chair
of Human Genetics,
Associate Director of
the Utah Center for Genetic Discovery,
University of Utah
Host: BCB Graduate Students (email)
October 7, 2022

R Stephanie Huang, PhD (website)
Professor,
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology,
College of Pharmacy,
University of Minnesota
Host: BCB Graduate Students (email)
October 14, 2022

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD (website)
Professor,
Member,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Jean Cook (email)
October 28, 2022

Paz Polak, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
Oncological Sciences
Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Host: UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (email)
November 11, 2022

Ariel Pani, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Virginia
Host: Kacy Gordon (email)
January 13, 2023

Peter Van Loo, PhD (website)
Professor
Department of Genetics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Host: Hongtu Zhu (email)
January 20, 2023

Ivona Aksentijevich, MD (website)
Associate Investigator
IDS/NHGRI/NIH
Host: Jenny Ting (email)
January 27, 2023

Pengda Liu, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
UNC Lineberger Cancer Center
Host: Dan McKay (email)
February 3, 2023

Anne West, MD, PhD (website)
Professor of Neurobiology
Professor of Cell Biology
Faculty Network Member
of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University
Host: Karl Shpargel (email)
February 10, 2023

Nicole King, PhD (website)
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Amy Shaub Maddox (email)
February 24, 2023

Winston Timp, PhD (website)
Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Brian Strahl, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics (email)
March 3, 2023

To Be Rescheduled – Luis Barreiro, PhD (website)
Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine,
University of Chicago
Host: Samir Kelada, Associate Professor of Genetics & Mark Heise, Professor of Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology. (email)
March 10, 2023

Golnaz Vahedi, PhD (website)
Associate Professor of Genetics,
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Host: Ageliki Tsagaratou, Assistant Professor of Genetics (email)
March 17, 2023

UNC Spring Break 2023
Spring Break 2023
No Classes
The Friday Seminar Series returns Friday, March 31, 2023
Host: ()
March 31, 2023

Justin Brumbaugh, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine
Host: Doug Phanstiel, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology (email)
April 7, 2023

UNC Holiday – Spring Holiday 2023
Offices Closed
No Classes
Seminar series resumes on April 14, 2022
Host: ()
April 14, 2023

Yin Shen, PhD (website)
Associate Professor of Neurology,
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences,
University of California, San Francisco
Host: Yun Li, Professor of Genetics and Biostatistics (email)
April 21, 2023

Lexy von Diezmann, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Host: Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students (email)
April 28, 2023

Kin Fai Au, PhD (website)
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host: Yuchao Jiang, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Biostatistics (email)