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Basic Science Academic Department Seminars

November 2023

The basic science academic departments welcome members of the Northwestern community to attend upcoming seminars.

Please click on the event times for more details, updates and to confirm the event format (in-person, hybrid or virtual).

Campus partner events are noted below with an asterisk.

Thursday, November 2

10:00 a.m. | Multiomic Profiling to Understand Intrinsic Cardiorespiratory Fitness and its Relationship to Acute Exercise and Exercise Training

Charles Burant, MD, PhD
Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Metabolism
Professor of Internal Medicine, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of Nutritional Sciences
Director, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute
University of Michigan

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

1:00 p.m. | 5th Annual Eugene M. Silinsky Student-Led Symposium: Understanding Pain: Neuropathy to Neuropathways

Host: Department of Pharmacology

2:00 p.m. | Using Genetic Variants to Understand TRIO Function in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Anthony Koleske, PhD
Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine

Host: Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment

Friday, November 3

Noon | Neural Mechanisms Underlying Working Memory Forgetting

Jaime de la Rocha, PhD
Principal Investigator in Neuroscience
IDIBAPS (Barcelona)

Host: Department of Neuroscience

1:00 p.m. | Biochemistry, Epigenetics and Metabolism (BEaM) Forum

Tanner Monroe, PhD
Center for Genetic Medicine, McNally Lab
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Anneke Thorne
PhD Student, Endocrinology, Bass Lab
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics

Monday, November 6

2:00 p.m. | Spatiotemporal Control of Pattern Formation During Somitogenesis

Ertuğrul M. Özbudak, PhD
CCRF Endowed Professor
Division of Developmental Biology
Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Host: Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

3:00 p.m. | Cardiac Arrhythmias and Myopathies at High Resolution: Structural and Functional Investigation of Calcium-Selective Channels

Filip Van Petegem, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of British Columbia

Host: Department of Pharmacology

Tuesday, November 7

10:00 a.m. | Host Polymerases Contribute to Human Cytomegalovirus Genome Stability

Felicia Goodrum, PhD
Professor of Immunobiology, BIO5 Institute, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cancer Biology, and Genetics
The University of Arizona School of Medicine

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Wednesday, November 8

CANCELLED: Noon | Defining Specific Nutritional Needs of Cancer Cells

Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, PhD
John P. Perkins Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Science
Department of Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Host: Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

3:30 p.m. | Multiple Facets of Epigenetic Regulation by the MSL Complex: From X Chromosome to Neurodevelopmental Syndrome

Asifa Akhtar, PhD
Director, Department of Chromatin Regulation
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

Host: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics

Thursday, November 9

CANCELLED: 10:00 a.m. | Deconstructing Lung and Pancreas Cancer Development Through a P53 Lens

Laura Attardi, PhD
Catharine and Howard Avery Professor
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

2:00 p.m. | Broad Transcriptomic Dysregulation Occurs Across the Cerebral Cortex in ASD

Michael Gandal, MD, PhD
Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics
University of Pennsylvania

Host: Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment

*3:30 p.m. | Vulnerabilities to Transplantation Tolerance

Maria-Luisa Alegre, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology

Host: Center for Human Immunobiology and the Division of Organ Transplantation

Tuesday, November 14

10:00 a.m. | **Pathogenesis and Dynamics of Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteremia**

Michael Bachman, MD, PhD
Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Associate Professor of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Wednesday, November 15

Noon | Unraveling Genomic Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Tissue Homeostasis

Xiaomin Bao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences and of Dermatology
Northwestern University

Host: Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Thursday, November 16

10:00 a.m. | Bacterial Physiology During Human Infection

Marvin Whiteley, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bennie H. & Nelson D. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center (CF@LANTA)
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Monday, November 20

3:00 p.m. | Specific Delivery of Therapeutic Antibodies to the Neuronal Cytoplasm Using Recombinant Derivatives of Botulinum Neurotoxin

Philip Band, PhD
Research Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Host: Department of Pharmacology

Monday, November 27

3:00 p.m. | Post-Transcriptional Mechanisms of Survival in Quiescent Cancer Cells

Shobha Vasudevan, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Host: Department of Pharmacology

Tuesday, November 28

10:00 a.m. | Biogenesis, Cargo and Functions of Extracellular Vesicles Released by HSV Infected Cells

Maria Kalamvoki, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology
University of Kansas Medical Center

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

10:00 a.m. | Genomics of B Cell Lymphoma: Role of Super-Enhancer Hypermutation

Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Genetics & Development, and Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Institute for Cancer Genetics
Columbia University

Host: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics

Wednesday, November 29

Noon | CDB Trainee Seminar

Emanuelle Grody
Postdoctoral Student, Goyal Lab
Northwestern University

Justin Modica
Research Associate, Mrksich Lab
Northwestern University