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Seminars by faculty at UNC and from other institutions are held each Friday during the semester.

~~~ 2023/2024 GMB Friday Seminar Series ~~~

unless otherwise noted, seminars are hosted in 1131 Bioinformatics Building at 12 pm


August 25, 2023

Genome editing and the new era of genetic disease therapeutics
Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD (website)

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University


Host: Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students (email)

September 8, 2023

Cell Reintegration: a neural adhesion assembly at work in epithelia
Dan Bergstralh, PhD (website)

Associate Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri


Host: Jeff Sekelsky (email)

September 29, 2023

Building A Mind For Cancer
Trey Ideker, PhD (website)

Professor, Division of Genomics and Precision Medicine,
Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego
Member, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego


Host: Corbin Jones (email)

October 6, 2023

Exploring evolutionary immunogenomics: how pathogens have shaped human evolution
Luis Barreiro, PhD (website)

Professor, Section of Genetic Medicine
The University of Chicago
Chair of Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology


Host: Samir Kelada, Associate Professor of Genetics (email)