GSI/Biochemistry Faculty Search
Schedule of Faculty Candidate Visits
12:00 – 1:00 pm in K-103
| Date | Name | Title |
| Thurs., Oct. 20 | Bluma Lesch, M.D. and Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, David Page’s Lab Whitehead Institute, MIT | “Evolution and developmental control of epigenetic poising in the animal germ line” |
| Thurs., Nov. 17 | Christian Froekjaer Jensen, Ph.D.Visiting Scientist, Andrew Fire’s Lab Departments of Pathology and GeneticsStanford University | “A pervasive, non-coding DNA “watermark” prevents epigenetic silencing in C. elegans” |
| Thurs., Dec. 8 | Nelson Lau, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of BiologyBrandeis University | “Shaping animal genomes by transposon landscapes and the Piwi/piRNA pathway” |
| Thurs., Dec. 15 | Adam Norris, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, John Calarco’s LabFAS Center for Systems Biology
Harvard University |
“Combinatorics of RNA binding proteins: roles in neuronal diversity and organismal health” |
| Tues., Dec. 20 | Anastasios Vourekas, Ph.D.Research Associate, Zissimos Mourelatos’ LabDept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
“Catching RNA binding proteins in the act: Piwi ribonucleoproteins and germline development” |
| Thurs., Jan. 5 | Bryce Carey, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, C. David Allis’ LabChromatin Biology and Epigenetics
Rockefeller University |
“Integrating metabolism and chromatin biology in the regulation of stem cell identity” |
| Thurs., Jan. 12 | Pedro Pereira da Rocha, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, Jane Skok’s LabDepartment of Pathology
New York University School of Medicine |
“Keeping the house in order: The role of nuclear organization in maintaining genome stability, somatic recombination and gene regulation” |
| Thurs., Jan. 19 | Athma Pai, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, Christopher Burge’s LabDepartment of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
“Exploring the dynamics of mRNA splicing” |
| Wed., Jan. 25 | Sihem Cheloufi, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, Konrad Hochedlinger’s LabDepartment of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
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“Epigenetic plasticity during cell fate transitions” |
| Thurs., Feb. 2 | Elizabeth Kass, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, Maria Jasin’s LabMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | “Effect of Tissue-Specific and Genetic Changes on Homology-Directed Repair in the Mouse Mammary Gland” |
| Wed., Feb. 8 | Chao Lu, Ph.D.Research Associate, C. David Allis’ LabChromatin Biology and Epigenetics
Rockefeller University |
“Chromatin dysregulation as driver of oncogenesis” |