{"id":3567,"date":"2019-02-11T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?page_id=3567"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:24:50","slug":"gsi-past-seminars-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/seminars\/gsi-seminar-series\/gsi-past-seminars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GSI Past Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GSI has invited a number of distinguished speakers to speak to BUMC faculty, staff and students, and the surrounding community.\u00a0 Below is a list of recent speakers that have presented their research and have engaged in our scientific community. If you are interested in receiving regular updates on GSI initiatives such as upcoming seminars, workshops, and symposiums, please email <a href=\"mailto:gsi@bu.edu\">gsi@bu.edu<\/a> to be added to our mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Spring 2026<\/h4>\n<table width=\"1138\" height=\"886\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>January 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Craig Ceol, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, UMass Chan Medical School<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cBMPing into melanoma: targeting BMP-driven melanoma progression\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>January 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Kaitlyn Alimenti, 4<sup>th<\/sup> Year PhD student \u00a0\u2013 Dr. Michael Blower lab<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cA novel method for mapping rna: chromatin interaction sites at genome wide resolution\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Ali Gulhan, 3<sup style=\"font-family: inherit;\">rd<\/sup><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Year PhD student \u2013 Dr. Lindsay Farrer lab<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cHSV-1 Infection Is Associated with Reduced Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Related Atrophy and Altered Brain Transcriptomic Signatures\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>February 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, Professor, Medicine<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cUniversal Newborn Sequencing and Lifelong Genomic Medicine\u201c<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>February 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Abigail Fowler, 3<sup style=\"font-family: inherit;\">rd<\/sup><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Year PhD student \u2013 Dr. Tuan Leng Tay lab<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cImpact of peripheral inflammation on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Progression\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Sanjana Bhagavatula, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> <span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Year PhD student \u2013 Dr.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Stefano Monti\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">lab<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cIntegrated Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment and Aging in Head and Neck Cancer.\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Owen Sanborn, 4<sup>th<\/sup> <span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Year PhD student \u2013 Dr.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Daniel Cifuentes<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">lab<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cDisruption of miRNA targeting fidelity by AGO2 mutations drives the LESKRES neurodevelopmental syndrome\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Keyu (Chloe) Li, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> <span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Year PhD student \u2013 Dr.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Valentina Perissi\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0lab<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cNEURL4-dependent ADP-ribosylation as a post-translational switch regulating mitochondrial function.\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>April 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Ryan Collins, PhD, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cWhat can population genomics teach us about cancer predisposition and tumorigenesis?\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>April 28<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>Kaifu Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>&#8220;AI-powered discovery of cell identity regulators in differentiation, development, and diseases.&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>May 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026<\/td>\n<td><strong>10X Genomics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>&#8220;10X Genomics Xenium Seminar: Push Spatial Boundaries with Subcellular Resolution.&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table width=\"1138\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>September 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>10x Genomics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;<em>Launch of the BU Spatial Transcriptomics Core &#8220;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>September 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Stephanie E. Mohr, PhD, Director of DRSC\/TRiP-FGR<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>&#8220;Genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 Screening in Mosquito and other Arthropod Cell Lines&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Haiyuan (Henry) Sun, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Year PhD student \u2013 Dr. Finn Hawkins lab<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cEnhancing Airway Stem Cell Engraftment for Early, Targeted Intervention in Chronic Airway Disease\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Deborah Lang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Boston University<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>&#8220;Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Drivers of Melanoma&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 28<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Margot Barroso Zuppa, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Year PhD student \u2013 Dr. Ignaty Leshchiner lab<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cClonal selection in treatment of minimal residual disease in chronic lymphocytic leukemia\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>November 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>10X Genomics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>&#8220;10x GEM-X Flex Bioinformatics Workshop&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>November 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Emily Kirchner, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Year PhD student \u2013 Dr. Philipp Mews lab<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cMetabolic Control of Histone Methylation in Learning and Memory\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>December 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>Ruben Dries, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Hematology &amp; Medical Oncology<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cOpportunities and Challenges in spatial omics cancer research\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>December 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u00d6zge Getkin, DVM, MA,<\/strong> <strong>Sr Account Executive, Spatial Genomics, Takara Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Wysocki, Territory Manager, Takara Bio<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>\u201cAdvancing RNA-seq solutions to accelerate discovery\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Previous Years:<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 6th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Hainer, <\/strong>PhD, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 30th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rameen Beroukhim,<\/strong> MD, PhD, Harvard Medical Center<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 22nd, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucas Edelman, PhD, <\/strong>CS Genetics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 25th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julianna Crivello, <\/strong>10x Genomics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 18th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vicky Yao, PhD, Rice<span>\u00a0University<\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Integrative methods for the analysis of complex traits and diseases<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 4th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dmitry Leyfer, PhD<br \/>\nAdam Labadorf, PhD<br \/>\nNelson Lau, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em><span>Q &amp; A Session &#8211; BMSIP &amp; GSI Pilot Grant\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 28th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Meghan Kilcoyne<\/h4>\n<p><em><span>Legislative Advocacy in Cancer Care &amp; Patient Access Biomarker Testing Legislation\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 21st, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>LevitasBio<\/h4>\n<p><em><span>Levitation Technology Fuels and Improves Single-Cell Data<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December 10th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Michael Baym, PhD, <span>Harvard Medical School<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Plasmid Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">November 25th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Bess Frost, PhD, <span>Brown University<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Retrotransposon activation in neurodegenerative tauopathy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 29th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Eric Lai, PhD, <span>Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em><span>RNA Silencing: from mechanisms to biology<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 22nd, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Illumina<\/h4>\n<p><em>Moving beyond the Genome with Illumina Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 24th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Active Motif<\/h4>\n<p><em>Advances in Epigenomics: New Applications for Targeted Analysis &amp; Discovery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 10th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Singular Genomics Seminar<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 28th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Qiagen IPA Training Seminar<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 12th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Geoff Rosenfield, PhD, <\/strong>UC San Diego School of Medicine<\/h4>\n<p><em>How the Endocrine\/Paracrine System \u201cLeaps the Minotaur\u201d to Activate the Enhancer Labyrinth<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 9th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>William Mair, PhD, <\/strong>Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<\/h4>\n<p><em>Metabolic Flexibility and Healthy Aging<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 19th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Julianna Crivello, <\/strong>10x Genomics<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 5th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fei Chen, PhD, Board Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Genomic tools for probing the rules of tissue organization<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 7th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lindsay Barrett, PhD, Board Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Leveraging iPSC models to study neural development and disease<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 23rd, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Stephan Issac, PhD, Harvard Medical School of Genetics<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Structure and packaging of the polyploid mitochondrial genome<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 16th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Pravrutha Raman, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Evolution innovations in eukaryotic histone repertoires drive biological novelties<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 9th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Valentina Cigliola, PhD, Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur &#8211; Institut de Biologie Valrose<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December 5th, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nora Martin, Scale Biosciences Technology Seminar<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Single Cell Biology using Combinatorial Indexing at ScaleBio: scRNA &amp; scMethylation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 17th, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Rachel O&#8217;Neill, PhD, University of Connecticut Molecular &amp; Cellular Biology<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Using T2T scale genomics to study centromere function and chromosome evolution<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 3rd, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Winston Timp, PhD, John Hopkins University College of Biomedical Engineering<\/strong><o:p><\/o:p><\/h4>\n<p><em>Beyond Assembly: The increasing flexibility of single molecule sequencing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 26th, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sara Rouhanifard, PhD, Northeastern University College of Engineering<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><em>Developing tools for single-molecule sequencing and imaging of RNA modifications<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 12th, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Caroline Petersen, <\/strong>10x Genomics<\/h4>\n<p><em>Go where single cell has never gone before<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">August 21st, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Alper Akay, PhD, University of East Anglia<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>U6 snRNA m6A modification is required for accurate and efficient cis- and trans-splicing of C. elegans mRNAs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 2, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>ACD Bio<\/h4>\n<p><em>Visualize Gene Expression In Situ With RNAscope<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 19, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Hong Zhou, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles<\/h4>\n<p><em>SPLIT-Seq Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 4, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>William Hwang, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School<\/h4>\n<p><em>Therapeutic resistance and tumor-nerve interactions in pancreatic cancer elucidated by single-cell, spatial, and functional genomics<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 7, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Scott Magin and Kristen O&#8217;Malley, QIAGEN<\/h4>\n<p><em>IPA Technology Seminar<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 7, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Michael-Christopher Keogh, PhD, EpiCypher<\/h4>\n<p><em>Cut &amp; Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 24, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Joseph Kelly, Parse Biosciences<\/h4>\n<p><em>SPLIT-Seq Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">November 29, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Rupa Sridharan, PhD, University of Wisconsin<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Manipulating the epigenome to enable a change in cell identity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">November 21, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Yukiko Yamashita, PhD, MIT<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Immortal Germline<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 11, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Chonghui Cheng, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Deconvoluting alternative RNA splicing in breast cancer metastasis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 20, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD, Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Clonal heterogeneity, composition and resistance: from premalignancy to drug refractory disease<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 18, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Jada Benn Torres, PhD, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Genomic ancestry and cultural identities &#8211; case studies of community engaged genomics in the Caribbean<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 27, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Kathleen Burns, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Transposable elements in cancer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 23, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lee Zou, PhD, Harvard Medical School, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Impacts of transcription on DNA break repair<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 8, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sumana Chintalapudi, PhD, QIAGEN Digital Insights<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zYFO_0eCv30\">Ingenuity Pathway (IPA) Virtual Training<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December 15, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Vadim N. Gladyshev, PhD, Division of Genetics at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, Harvard Medical School<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Quantifying and Manipulating the Aging Process<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">November 18, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>13th Annual GSI Research Symposium<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 13, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Christopher Benner, PhD, School of Medicine, University of California &#8211; San Diego<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Decoding regulatory DNA controlling host defense responses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 15, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>The 10x Genetics Team<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Envision New Dimensions: Spatial Mapping of the Transcriptome from FFPE Preserved Tissues Assay intro and workflow implementation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 19th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Sumana Chintalapudi, QIAGEN Digital Insights<\/h4>\n<p><em>Ingenuity Pathway (IPA) Virtual Training<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 14th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Anthony Leung, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University<\/h4>\n<p><em>Compositional control of cellular condensates during virus infection<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 24th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Carl Novina, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT<\/h4>\n<p><em>Lnc\u2019ing non-coding RNA function to bone marrow failure<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 17th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, Technical University of Munich, Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology<\/h4>\n<p><em>Decoding the DNA blueprints of human and microbiome molecular functionality<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December 2nd, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Kate Jeffrey, Harvard Medical School, MGH, Broad Institute<\/h4>\n<p><em>Epigenome and Virome immunomodulation in the gut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 21st, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Vera Gorbunova<\/strong>, Rochester Aging Research Center, U of Rochester<\/h4>\n<p><em>Mechanisms of longevity in long-lived mammals<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 23rd, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Pepper J. Schedin<\/strong>, Oregon Health &amp; Science University<\/h4>\n<p><em>Young Women\u2019s Breast Cancer: Bench to Population Science and Back Again<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 11th, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosha Poudyal<\/strong>, 10x Genomics<\/p>\n<p><em>Single-Cell ATAC-Seq: Understanding chromatin remodeling at single-cell resolution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February 5th, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Seiser<\/strong>, Qiagen<\/p>\n<p><em>Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) Training: New to IPA and Advanced Functionalities QIAGEN <\/em><em>Digital Insights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December 4th, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Goll,<\/strong> University of Georgia<\/p>\n<p><em>Chromatin regulation in development and disease<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 23rd, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Promislow<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> University of Washington, Seattle, WA<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Dog Aging Project: Learning New Tricks from Old Dogs\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 9th, 2019<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Moffitt,<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard Medical School, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Imaging the transcriptome with MERFISH&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 25th, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Kingston<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cChromatin\u00a0compaction, phase separation, and Polycomb-Group function during mammalian development\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May 22nd, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonard Zon,<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard Medical School, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital<\/p>\n<p><em>Pathways regulating hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and migration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 10th, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rinath M. 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