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| | Monday, December 1, 2025 |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
To Bind or Not to Bind? How DNA Methylation Influences Chromatin Organization
Rochelle Shih, graduate fellow, Funabiki Laboratory
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| 4:00 p.m. |
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Monday Lecture Series
Enhancing Brain Circuits for Vocal Communication
Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| 4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Building Precision Chemistry to Probe Living Systems
Ken (Ku-Lung) Hsu, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Texas at Austin
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| | Tuesday, December 2, 2025 |
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| 3:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Pre-Seminar Coffee and Cookies
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| 4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Exploring the Tension between Fidelity and Variability in Biology from Genetic to Neural Networks
Mariela Petkova, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
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| | Wednesday, December 3, 2025 |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Exploiting TCR Promiscuity to Drive Therapeutic Scalability in Neoantigen Targeting
Christopher A. Klebanoff, M.D., associate professor; laboratory head, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| | Thursday, December 4, 2025 |
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| 10:30 a.m. |
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Stem Cell Biology Seminars
The Planarial Neoblast: Mother of Pluripotency
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D., professor, The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research; president, chief scientific officer, and investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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| 11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Single-cell Phenoscaping of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids
Chris Tape, Ph.D., professor of cell communication, University College London
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| 2:00 p.m. |
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Developmental Biology Program
Building Robust Models of Early Human Development
Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D., professor of applied physics and of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University
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| | Friday, December 5, 2025 |
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| 3:30 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
From Ancestry to Biochemistry in Steatotic Liver Disease
The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics
Helen Hobbs, M.D., professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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