Seminar Archives 2023-2024

When AND WHEREPRESENTER AND SEMINAR TITLE

Tuesday,October 3, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Yavin Shaham, Ph.D., Chief, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Seminar Title: “Animal Models of Relapse after Voluntary Abstinence: Mechanism and Implications for Addiction Treatment”

Host: Dr. Miklos Toth


Tuesday,October 17, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Kristen Pleil, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Seminar Title: “Hormone modulation of neuropeptides in the brain: implications for psychiatric diseases”

Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas


Tuesday,October 31, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Benedict McLarney, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Jan Grimm’s Laboratory

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

Seminar Title: “Leave the lights on: shortwave infrared fluorescence imaging (SWIRFI) for cutting edge fluorescence guided surgery”

Host: Dr. Jan Grimm

Salima Benbarche, Ph.D.

Research Scholar in Dr. Omar Abdel Wahab

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Molecular Pharmacology Program

Seminar Title: “Understanding and Targeting Aberrant RNA Splicing in hematologic malignancies.”

Host: Dr. Omar Abdel Wahab


Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Room A-250

4:00 pm

William Pao, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Development Officer, Executive Vice President -Pfizer

 Seminar Title: “Paradigms for the development of transformative medicines”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Room A-250

4:00 pm

Bruce M. Spiegelman, Ph.D. Researcher

Department of Cancer Biology Dana-Faber Cancer Institute

Seminar Title: "PGC1a/Irisin Axis: Linking Exercise with Cognition and Neurodegeneration"

Host: Dr. James Lo


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Room A-250

4:00 pm

Arvin Dar, Ph.D.

Member and Professor

Department of Chemical Biology- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Seminar Title: “Targeting Cancer Pathways with Chemical Switches and Molecular Glues"

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Ryan Serio, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Dawid Nowak’s Laboratory

Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine-Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center

Seminar Title: “Clonal Lineage Tracing Reveals Migration Histories of Metastatic Prostate Cancer”

Host: Dr. Dawid Nowak

Shino Murakami, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Samie Jaffrey’s Laboratory

Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pharmacology

Seminar Title: “The ribosome links amino acid availability to gene expression through m6A”

Host: Dr. Samie Jaffrey


Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Xinbo Yang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology- Stanford University

Seminar Title: “Decoding TCR-pMHC Interaction, from Ligand Discovery to Therapeutic Development”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Kira Gritsman, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Vice-Chair of Translational Oncology

Department of Medical Oncology

Department of Cell Biology

Betty & Sheldon Feinberg Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research

Co-leader, Stem Cell and Cancer Biology Program,

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Seminar Title: "Signaling Pathways in Myeloid Malignancies: New Insights and Therapeutic Targets”

Host: Graduate Student- Domenic Gargulio


Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Lawrence Kazak, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry

McGill University

Seminar Title: “UCP1-independent thermogenesis: molecular mechanisms and relationship to UCP1”

Host: Dr. James Lo


Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Michelle Chan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics

Princeton University

Seminar Title: “CRISPR-Cas9 lineage tracing in mammalian development”

Host: Dr. Dawid Nowak


Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Samuel Sternberg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Columbia University

Seminar Title: "Molecular innovation at the interface between CRISPRs and transposons”

Host: Dr. Samie Jaffrey


Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Lynette Daws, Ph.D.

Professor, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

UT Health, San Antonio

Seminar Title: “The smoking gun: Organic cation transporter 3 in the actions of amphetamine and alcohol"

Host: Dr. Roberto Levi


Weill Cornell Medicine Pharmacology 1300 York Avenue,
Room E-409
New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 746-6250 Fax: (212) 746-8835