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• Introductory Lecture: "tbd"

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The Nature of Nurture: How Environmental Factors Shape the Epigenome and Evolution

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• Lydia Freddolino, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School

• Introductory Lecture: "Thinking Without Brains: How Bacteria Predict the Future and Remember the Past"

• 3:00 p.m.

• Med Sci II - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• Patrick Bradley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University

• "Harnessing Metagenomics, Phylogenetics, and Physiology to Link Gut Microbial Genotypes to Phenotypes"

• 3:00 p.m.

• Med Sci II - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• Genevieve Wojcik, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• "Global Representation, Local Context: An Epidemiological Perspective on Ancestry and Genetic Risk"

• 3:00 p.m.

• Med Sci II - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• Amy S.Y. Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Center of Immunology & Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

• "Evolution of Biological Novelty Through Specialization of mRNA Translation"

• 3:00 p.m.

• Med Sci II - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• Meaghan Jones, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba

• "Long Term Regulation of DNA Methylation and Chromatin Accessibility by Early Life Exposure to Inhaled Pollution"

• 3:00 p.m.

• Med Sci II - West Lecture Hall

AI in Action: Applications in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

• Sriram Chandrasekaran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

• Introductory Lecture: "Drug Discovery Using Systems Biology and Mechanistic AI"

• 3:00 p.m.

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

• Zijun (Frank) Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• "Fine-Tuning Language Models for Genome Understanding"

• 3:00 p.m.

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

• David Shackelford, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

• "Spatial Mapping of Organelle Architecture and Communication in Lung Cancer"

• 3:00 p.m.

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

• Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, UT Southwestern Medical Center

• "Learning Cellular Mechanisms by Interpretable AI"

• 3:00 p.m.

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

• Feng Guo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

• "Intersection of Brain Organoid, AI, and Medicine”"

• 3:00 p.m.

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

As the Ribonucleotide Turns: How Cells Exert Control, Ride Out Genomic Instability, and Gain Immunity

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

• Lyle Simmons, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

• Introductory Lecture: "Genome Instability Caused by Persistent RNA-DNA Hybrid Formation"

• 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

• Francesca Storici, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

• "RNA's Transformative Impact: Shaping DNA Metabolism in the Genome"

• 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

• Hai Dang Nguyen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota

• "Understanding and Targeting R-Loop Response Pathways in Cancers"

• 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

• Nicholas Ingolia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

• "Global Analysis of the Networks Controlling mRNA Translation and Decay"

• 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 1 - 3330 Auditorium

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• Wendy V. Gilbert, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Yale University

• "Decoding the Untranslated to Engineer Next-Generation mRNA Medicines"

• 3:00 p.m., Med Sci 2 - West Lecture Hall