Faculty Seminars
Seminars by faculty at UNC and from other institutions are held each Friday during the semester.
~~~ 2020/2021 GMB Friday Seminar Series ~~~
unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Zoom at 12 pm
August 14, 2020
Fall 2020 Friday Seminars Begin
Host: ()
October 2, 2020

Sayan Mukherjee, PhD (website)
Professor
Departments of Statistical Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Duke University
Host: UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students (email)
October 9, 2020

Guo-Cheng Yuan, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University
Host: Yun Li (email)
October 30, 2020

Melissa Boneta Davis, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
Cell and Developmental Biology Research in Surgery
Cornell University
Host: Katie Hoadley (email)
November 6, 2020

Sally Horne-Badovinac, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The University of Chicago
Host: Amy Shaub Maddox (email)
November 13, 2020

Omar Abdel-Wahab, PhD (website)
Associate Member in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP)
Associate Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service in the Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Genetics and Molecular Biology Students (email)
November 20, 2020

Jeff Farrell, PhD (website)
Earl Stadtman Investigator Lab Head
Unit on Cell Specification and Differentiation
NICHD
Host: Bob Duronio (email)
January 8, 2021

Alejandra Medina-Rivera, PhD (website)
Research Associate
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research
National University of Mexico
Host: Samir Kelada (email)
January 15, 2021

Marcia Haigis, PhD (website)
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Host: Genetics and Molecular Biology Students (email)
January 22, 2021

Dana Pe’er, PhD (website)
Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program, SKI;
Scientific Director, Metastasis & Tumor Ecosystems Center
Sloan Kettering Institute
Host: Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta (email)
January 29, 2021

Michael Hoffman, PhD (website)
Senior Scientist,
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Associate Professor,
Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science
University of Toronto
Host: UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students (email)
February 5, 2021

Yana Bromberg, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Rutgers University
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Host: Alain Laederach (email)
March 5, 2021

Jordan Rowley, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Host: Doug Phanstiel (email)
March 12, 2021

Stacey Finley, PhD (website)
Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair;
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Host: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students (email)
March 19, 2021

Dmitri Petrov, PhD (website)
Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Department of Biology
Stanford University
Host: Dan Schrider (email)
March 26, 2021

Alex Nord, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Center for Neuroscience
Genome Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
Host: Hyejung Won (email)
April 2, 2021

UNC Spring Holiday – No Friday Seminar
The G&MB Friday Seminar Series will host no talk on Friday, April 2, 2021.
This is a UNC Holiday.
Classes are cancelled.
Offices are closed.
Host: Not Applicable ()
April 16, 2021

Geoffrey Hannigan, PhD
Principal Scientist
Computational Biology
Merck Exploratory Science Center
Host: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students (email)
April 23, 2021

Rommie Amaro, PhD (website)
Professor and Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Host: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students (email)