HUMGEN 630
GTP Short Courses

“Pipettes to Patients: Translational Methods in Biomedical Sciences”

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• Introductory Lecture, Jason Spence, Ph.D.

• Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

• “Using Lung Organoids and Patient Tissue to Understand How Inflammatory Signaling Shapes the Transcriptional and Cellular Architecture of the Early Postnatal Lung”

• 3:00 PM

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• Dan Huh, Ph.D.

• Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

• “Microengineered Mimicry of Human Health and Disease”

• 3:00 PM

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Paul Macklin, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington

• “A Human-Interpretable Model Language for Intuitive Development of Cancer Simulations, with Application to Personalized Medicine”

• 3:00 PM

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.

• Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center and the Chief Scientist for the Lustgarten Foundation

• “Pancreatic Cancer Biology and Therapy”

• 3:00 PM

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Mingxia Gu, M.D., Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Broad Stem Cell Research Center 

• “Engineering Vascularized Organoids: Decoding Human Development and Disease in a Dish”

• 3:00 PM

• South Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

“Safeguarding the Germline: Mechanisms of Regulation and Repair in Meiosis”

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School

• Introductory Lecture: "Germline Mutagenesis by Nonhomologous End Joining"

• 3:00 p.m.

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

• Luke Berchowitz, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Development, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• "The Dual Lives of Pathogenic Structures: From Functional Amyloids to Domesticated Capsids”

• 3:00 p.m.

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

• Florencia Pratto, PhD, Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Acting Section Chief: Section on Replication and Recombination in the Mammalian Germline, Genetics & Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

• "Multilayered Control of Recombination and Diversity in the Mammalian Germline"

• 3:00 p.m.

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

• Francesca Cole, PhD, Director of Trainee Transitions and Associate Professor, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

• "Age-Dependent Alterations in DNA Repair Cause Chromosome Mis-Segregation in Meiosis"

• 3:00 p.m.

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

• Anne Villeneuve, PhD, Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Professor and Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Department of Developmental Biology, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

• "Illuminating Mechanisms of Genome Inheritance"

• 3:00 p.m.

• West Lecture Hall, Med Sci 2

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