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
Applications of Viral Sequencing in the Biopharmaceutical IndustryMartin Buchkovich, PhD (website)
Manager, Bioinformatics
Q2 Solutions
UNC BCB Alum
Host: Will Valdar (email)
September 2, 2022
Hijacking Bacterial Retroelements for Transcriptional Recording and Genome EditingSeth Shipman, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor
of Bioengineering
University of California San Francisco
Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco
Host: Jason Stein (email)
September 9, 2022
New Answers to Old (and New) Questions in Human Germline MutationAaron 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
Bridging Pre-Clinical Drug Screening with Patient Molecular Profiles for Biomarker Discovery & Drug DevelopmentR 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
Surfing the Cell Cycle with Chemical GeneticsPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD (website)
Professor,
Member,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Jean Cook (email)
October 28, 2022
High sensitivity cancer monitoring via whole genome sequencing of cell-free DNAPaz 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
Investigating how FGF signaling directs cell migration in vivoAriel Pani, PhD (website)
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Virginia
Host: Kacy Gordon (email)
January 13, 2023
Molecular archeology of cancerPeter Van Loo, PhD (website)
Professor
Department of Genetics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Host: Hongtu Zhu (email)
January 20, 2023
Regulation of Innate Immune Responses: insights from pathogenic variants associated with monogenic autoinflammatory diseasesIvona Aksentijevich, MD (website)
Associate Investigator
IDS/NHGRI/NIH
Host: Jenny Ting (email)
January 27, 2023
STING is a new vulnerability in renal cell carcinoma through an innate immunity independent mechanismPengda Liu, PhD (website)
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
UNC Lineberger Cancer Center
Host: Dan McKay (email)
February 3, 2023
The lysine demethylase Kdm6b promotes postmitotic neuronal maturationAnne 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
The lysine demethylase Kdm6b promotes postmitotic neuronal maturationNicole King, PhD (website)
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Amy Shaub Maddox (email)
March 3, 2023
Exploring evolutionary immunogenomics: Lessons from our ancestors and past pandemicsLuis 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 31, 2023
Histone methylation regulates cell fate and plasticity in the intestineJustin 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 14, 2023
Characterize non-coding DNA variants in the human genomeYin 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)