Seminars

Winter 2026

Fridays at 1pm, 6364 Scott Hall. In person.

Lunch with graduate students and postdocs 12-1pm for external speakers; seminars 1-2pm, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker		Title
01/16/26	Sangbum Park, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University	"Capturing cellular dynamics during wound repair in live mice"
01/23/26	No seminar
01/30/26	Aitor Aguirre, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Chief, Division of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University	"Synthetic human hearts models for the study of cardiac development and disease”
02/06/26	No seminar
02/13/26	Michael L. Risner, MA, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, William Beaumont School of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Eye Research Institute, Oakland University	“Impact of sphingomyelin metabolism on cell death in glaucoma”
02/20/26	Amelie Fradette-Turcotte, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry, and Pathology, Universite Laval	"The role of chromatin in safeguarding the genome under stress conditions"
02/27/26	Brendon Baker, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan	"Synthetic stromal microenvironments for mechanobiology and regeneration"
03/06/26	Paul Burridge, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine	"Understanding the Pharmacogenomics of Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity using hiPSC"
03/13/26	James Jackson, M.F.A., M.A.	Academic Services Officer, Assessment Coordinator, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University	“Assessment and student learning: Workshopping ways for PhD students to benefit and engage!”
03/20/26	No seminar	SPRING BREAK
03/27/26	David Rand, Ph.D.	Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Director of COBRE Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease, Co-Director of Computational Biology Core, Brown University	"Mitochondrial-Nuclear Fitness Interactions in Evolution and Disease."
04/03/26	Tim Mosca, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University	"On the Surface: Transmembrane Protein Codes that Direct Synapse Formation and Function in the Brain"
04/10/26	Jun Hee Lee, Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Research Professor of Gerontology, University of Michigan	"See Everything Quickly: Microscopic Exploration of Spatial Transcriptome"
04/17/26	Christi Gendron	Associate Research Scientist, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School, University of Michigan	"Neuronal Mechanisms by Which Sensory Perception Impacts Lifespan"
04/24/26	William Daniel Tracey	Professor, Biology, Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University	"Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Mechanisms of Nociception in Drosophila"