Graduate School of Medical Sciences
A partnership with the Sloan Kettering Institute
tRNA Modifications Regulate Stress Granule Formation and Melanoma Metastasis
Date: Friday, October 17, 2025 - 2:00pm
Riley O. Hughes
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Samie Jaffrey
Major Sponsor: Dr. John Blenis
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Yael David and Dr. Christine Mayr
Additional Member: Dr. Elena Piskounova (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical College)
Maximizing Structural Insights With Minimal Data: Lessons From Membrane Protein Activation and Computational Drug Design
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025 - 1:00pm
Alexander M. Payne
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB)
Chairperson: Dr. Richard Hite
Major Sponsor: Dr. John Chodera
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Daniel Bachovchin and Dr. Jiankun Lyu
Additional Member: Dr. David Huggins (Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute)
Modeling Sensitivity to Antibody Drug Conjugates in Urothelial Cancer Using Patient-Derived Models
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025 - 3:00pm
Xinran Tang
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Yu Chen
Major Sponsor: Dr. David Solit
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Sarat Chandarlapaty
Additional Member: Dr. Michael M. Shen (Columbia University)
Small Molecules, Big Impact: Enhancing Intestinal Organoid, Islet Function and Survival Through Systems-Level Discovery
Date: Friday, October 31, 2025 - 12:30pm
J. Jeya Vandana
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB)
Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Bachovchin
Major Sponsor: Dr. Shuibing Chen
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Lorraine Gudas and Dr. Tobias Meyer
