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Be sure to join us on Fridays for our department's seminar series at the Finley Conference Center (Room 270), where we will feature outstanding presentations focusing on various aspects of genetics research.

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These sessions will take place at 10:15 a.m. (unless otherwise specified), and we certainly hope you can join us. We are currently taking a summer pause on seminars and plan to return in the fall.

 

 



Past Seminars

  • 2024-2025
    Friday, September 20, 2024

    Weidong Wang, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    UAB Department of Genetics


    Friday, September 27, 2024

    Nathaniel Robin, M.D.
    Professor
    UAB Department of Genetics


    Friday, October 4, 2024

    Anindya Dutta, Ph.D.
    Chair, Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, October 11, 2024

    Abid Khan
    Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
    University of North Carolina 


    Friday, October 25, 2024

    Joshua Snyder
    Department of Surgery
    Duke University


    Friday, November 1, 2024

    Hui-Ying Lim, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    UAB Department of Genetics


    Friday, November 8, 2024

    Zaili Luo, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    UAB Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology


    Friday, November 15, 2024

    Gerald Shadel, Ph.D.
    Director
    San Diego Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging


    Friday, November 21, 2024

    Li Lan, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
    Duke University


    Friday, November 22, 2024

    Lee Zou, Ph.D.
    Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
    Duke University


    Friday, December 6, 2024

    Changsheng Zhao, M.D.
    Associate Professor of Human Genetics
    Emory University School of Medicine


    Friday, December 13, 2024

    Joshua Tycko, Ph.D.
    Department of Neurobiology
    Harvard University 


    Friday, January 17, 2025

    Xuehua Zhong, Ph.D.
    Department of Biology
    Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)


    Friday, January 24, 2025

    Jeffery Smith, Ph.D.
    Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics
    University of Virginia


    Friday, January 31, 2025

    Tiffany Amariuta, Ph.D.
    Department of Medicine (Division of Biomedical Informatics)
    University of California San Diego (UCSD)


    Friday, February 7, 2025

    Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    University of Florida


    Friday, February 14, 2025

    Dan Tyrrell, Ph.D.
    Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


    Friday, February 21, 2025

    Haosheng Sun, Ph.D.
    Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


    Friday, March 7, 2025

    Sean (Sheng’en) Hu, Ph.D.
    Department of Genome Sciences
    University of Virginia


    Friday, March 14, 2025

    Jian Jin, Ph.D.
    Department of Genome Sciences
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


    Friday, March 21, 2025

    Daphna Bup, Ph.D.
    Department of Genetics
    Standford University


    Friday, April 4, 2025

    Thomas De Raedt, Ph.D.
    Department of Pediatrics
    University of Pennsylvania (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)


    Friday, April 11, 2025

    Bradley Yoder, Ph.D.
    Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


    Friday, April 18, 2025

    Jessica Tyler, Ph.D.
    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medical College


    Friday, April 25, 2025

    "Gene Therapy Approaches to Mitochondrial Diseases"

    Carlos Moraes, Ph.D.
    Department of Neurology
    University of Miami


    Friday, May 2, 2025

    "Studying gene fusions emanating from orthogonal chromatin compartments reveals a novel mode of gene activation in cancer"

    Murali Dharan Bashyam, Ph.D.
    Department of Molecular Oncology
    Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)


    Friday, May 9, 2025

    "Protein biogenesis in genes drive cardiac programming"

    Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D.
    Director, Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research
    Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute


    Friday, May 16, 2025

    "V(D)J Recombination: from Lymphocyte Antigen Receptor Gene Assembly to Genome Stability"

    Bo-Ruei Chen, Ph.D.
    Department of Hematology and Oncology
    UAB

  • 2023-2024
    Friday, September 6, 2024

    Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology (CDIB)
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, May 31, 2024

    Sarika Srivastava, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, May 17, 2024

    Christos Adamopoulos, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Signaling
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 


    Friday, May 10, 2024

    Yan Zhang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
    University of Michigan


    Friday, May 3, 2024

    Konark Mukherjee, MBBS, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor 
    Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Feb 16, 2024

    "Genomic Diversity and Function of Human Centromeres"

    Rafael Contreras-Galindo, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Jan 12, 2024

    "Hippo Signaling in Organ Size Control and Cancer”

    Bo-Kuan Wu, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Dec 15, 2023

    "Blood Circulating Extracellular Vesicles and microRNAs in Brain Function and Behavior”

    Shinichi Kano, MD, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Dec 8, 2023

    "Therapeutic Opportunities in the Electron Transport Chain”

    Neil Pfister MD, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Radiation Oncology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Dec 1, 2023

    "Defining the Epigenetic Adapters of Cell Fate" 

    Coral Wille Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Nov 17, 2023

    "An Application of Chromosome Microarray Analysis in Disease Biology and Advancements in NF1 Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Studies" 

    Yunjia Chen Ph.D., MBA, FACMG
    Assistant Professor
    Assistant Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Nov 10, 2023

    "Micobial Regualtion of Psychostimulant Abuse" 

    Angela Carter, Ph.D. 
    Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery 
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Oct 27, 2023

    "MAPK4, an Emerging Oncogenic driver to promote cancer ”

    Feng Yang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Baylor College of Medicine


    Friday, Oct 20, 2023

    "Novel Radiation Therapy at UAB”

    Joel Pogue, Ph.D.
    Department of Radiation Oncology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Oct 6, 2023

    "Determining the Genetic Mechanisms of Aberrant Gene-expression Patterns in High-risk Neuroblastomas”

    Arko Sen, Ph.D.
    Department of Genetics
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Sep 29, 2023

    "Metabolism in Cancer and Immune Regulation”

    Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D.
    Professor of Department of Pathology
    Duke University Medical Center


    Friday, Sep 22, 2023

    "Therapeutic Insights from Cancer Mutational Signatures”

    Samuel Brady, Ph.D.
    Assistant Member, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
    St Jude Children's Research Hospital


    Friday, Sep 15, 2023

    "Epitranscriptomics: RNA Modifications in Gene Regulation”

    Zhangli Su, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2022-2023
    Friday, Aug 4, 2023

    "nc886, a Multi-functional Noncoding RNA Implicated in Innate Immunity, Cancer, and More"

    Yong Sun Lee, Ph.D.
    Department of Cancer Biomedical Science
    Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy
    National Cancer Center (Goyang, Korea)


    Friday, July 7, 2023

    "LCN2 Promotes Therapy Resistance and Tumor Progression in Colorectal Cancer"

    Professor Sorab N. Dalal, Ph.D.
    Cell and Tumor Biology, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC)
    Tata Memorial Centre


    Friday, June 30, 2023

    "Mitochondria in Health and Disease"

    Keshav K. Singh, Ph.D.
    Professor of Genetics, Pathology and Dermatology
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, June 23, 2023

    "A Decade of Dysmorphology and Discovery: Insights from Care4Rare Canada"

    A. Micheil Innes, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
    Department of Medical Genetic and Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
    Cumming School of Medicine
    The University of Calgary


    Friday, June 16, 2023

    "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Immunosuppression in Cancer"

    Xin Lu, Ph.D.
    Department of Biological Sciences
    The University of Notre Dame


    Friday, June 9, 2023

    "Telomere-Dependent lmmunosuppression within the Tumor Niche"

    Shantanu Chowdhury, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Functional Genomics and Integrative Biology
    CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology


    Friday, June 2, 2023

    "Roles of Alternative RNA Splicing in Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancers"

    Xuesen Dong, MD, Ph.D.
    Department of Urologic Sciences
    The University of British Columbia


    Friday, May 26, 2023

    "SQSTM1/p62 Oxidation and Oxidative Stress Response"

    Benyi Li, MD/Ph.D.
    Professor of Urology
    Department of Urology
    The University of Kansas Medical Center


    Friday, May 19, 2023

    "LSDl-FOXAl: A New Epigenetic Complex in Cancer Development"

    Changmeng Cai, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy
    University of Massachusetts Boston


    Friday, May 12, 2023

    "Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer Development and Therapy"

    Rui Lu, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine - Hematology & Oncology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, May 5, 2023

    "Leveraging Bone-mediated Tumor Adaptation as a Therapeutic Strategy for Secondary Metastasis"

    Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
    O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Apr 21, 2023

    "The Functional Heterogeneity of Pancreatic Tumor Cells"

    Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
    O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Apr 7, 2023

    "Tumor Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants for Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness"

    Li Xin, Ph.D.
    Professor, Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative of Medicine
    University of Washington


    Friday, Mar 31, 2023

    "Resistance to Targeted Therapy in HER2-positive Breast Cancer"

    Bolin Liu, MDProfessor, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology
    LSU Health New Orleans


    Friday, Mar 17, 2023

    "Modulating Chromatin Dynamics: A Promising Strategy for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention"

    Manuel Rosa-Garrido, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Mar 10, 2023

    "AKT Isoform-preferred Substrates as Drivers of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness"

    Irwin Gelman, Ph.D.
    Distinguished Professor of Oncology
    Department of Cancer Genetics & Genomics
    Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center


    Friday, Mar 3, 2023

    "Personalized Prediction of Disease Risk and Targets based on the Full Genome Architecture"

    Kuan-lin Huang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics
    Mount Sinai Center for Transformative Disease Modeling
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


    Friday, Feb 24, 2023

    "Weight Matters: Unraveling the Molecular Variations in Cancer Patients"

    Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Genetics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Feb 17, 2023

    "Circular RNAs: Biogenesis, Detection, Function and Role in Disease"

    Andre Leier, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Feb 10, 2023

    "BETing on Reprogramming Stress"

    Kejin Hu, MPhil, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Feb 3, 2023

    "Cardiogenomics: The Role of Medical Genetics in Evaluating Cardiovascular Disorders in Adults"

    Ali Said Al-Beshri, MD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Jan 27, 2023

    "Molecular Diagnosis for Neurofibromatosis: Past, Present and Future"

    Yulong Fu, Ph.D., FACMG
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
    Director, Medical Genomics Laboratory, Department of Genetics (UAB)


    Friday, Jan 20, 2023

    "Reshaping the Tumor-immune Landscape via Oncolytic Virotherapy"

    Jianmei Leavenworth, MD, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
    Department of Microbiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Friday, Jan 13, 2023

    "Clinical Genetics in the Genomics Era: Medical Practice & Education"

    Nathaniel H. Robin, MD
    Professor and Director, Clinical Services
    Department of Genetics


    Friday, Dec 16, 2022

    "Deciphering Host-microbial Functional Interactions Toward Effective Therapies and Symbiotics"

    Tatiana T. Marquez Lago, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
    School of Medicine (UAB)


    Friday, Dec 9, 2022

    "The Chromatin Remodeler HELLS: A New Regulator in DNA Repair, Genome Maintenance, and Cancer"

    Wioletta Czaja, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
    O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
    School of Medicine (UAB)


    Friday, Nov 18, 2022

    "AR Variant Biogenesis, PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity and Tumor Immunity in CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer"

    Haokie Huang, Ph.D.
    Professor, Director of Basic Urologic Research, Co-Director of the Genitourinary Cancer Program
    Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Urology, Mayo Clinic


    Friday, Nov 11, 2022

    "The All of Us Research Program" 

    Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
    Department of Genetics
    Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics
    Associate Dean for Genomic Medicine, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
    Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine


    Friday, Nov 4, 2022

    "Correlation Between DNA Methylation Patterns, Gene Expression, and Human Heart Failure Etiologies"

    Adam R. Wende, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
    Molecular and Cellular Pathology (UAB)


    Friday, Oct 28, 2022

    "Redox Regulation by Tryptophan Metabolism: An Emerging Mechanism for Adaptive Immunomodulatory Signaling"

    Dario A. Vitturi, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology (UAB)


    Friday, Oct 21, 2022

    "Targeting PI3K/AKT/PTEN Pathway in Cancer" 

    Jia Xu, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics (UAB)


    Friday, Oct 14, 2022

    "Optimizing Metabolomic Detection of Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency, A Rare (But Likely Underdiagnosed) Disorder of Neurotransmitter Metabolism"

    J. Daniel Sharer, Ph.D.
    Professor and Interim Director, Research
    Department of Genetics (UAB)


    Friday, Oct 7, 2022

    "Interleukin-17 and Prostate Cancer"

    Zongbing You, M.D., Ph.D
    Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology
    Tulane University School of Medicine


    Friday, Sept 30, 2022

    "Cellular Heterogeneity in Therapeutic Resistance and Disease Progression of Prostate Cancer"

    Jiaoti Huang, M.D.
    Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology
    Duke University Medical Center


    Friday, Sept 16, 2022

    "Proteogenomics Opens New Frontiers in Cancer Systems Biology"

    Chen Huang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Genetics Research Division (UAB)


    Friday, Sept 9, 2022

    "TUBB4A Function and Mediated Signaling in Prostate Cancer"

    Lizhong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
    Associate Scientist, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
    General Clinical Research Center (UAB)