Graduate School of Medical Sciences
A partnership with the Sloan Kettering Institute
CD8 T cell Somatic Mutations Involved in the Progression of Human Autoimmune Myositis
Date: Monday, April 29, 2024 - 11:00am
Lorien Shakib
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Carl Blobel
Major Sponsor: Dr. Laura Donlin
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Morgan Huse and Dr. Dan Landau
Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulation of Anxiety Following Early Life Adversity
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 3:00pm
Anika Nabila
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha
Major Sponsor: Dr. Miklos Toth
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Christine Mayr and Hagen Tilgner
Type I Interferon Exacerbates Mycobacterium tuberculosis Induced Monocyte-Derived Macrophage Cell Death
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 1:00pm
Angela Lee
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Chairperson: Dr. Sabine Ehrt
Major Sponsor: Dr. Carl Nathan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv and Dr. Justin Perry
Hierarchies of B-Cell Lymphoma: From Single Cells to Histological Classifications
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 11:00am
Dylan R. McNally
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Eftychia Apostolou
Major Sponsor: Dr. Olivier Elemento
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Christina Leslie and Dr. Ari Melnick
Additional Member: Dr. Wendy Beguelin (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Transposable Element Expression in Adaptive and Innate Immune Responses at the Bulk and Single Cell Resolution
Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 - 10:00am
Jez Lim Marston, M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Chairperson: Dr. Christina Leslie
Major Sponsors: Dr. Ethel Cesarman and Dr. Douglas Nixon
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Paul Bienasz
Microbiome-derived Indoxyl Sulfate Enhances CAR T Cell Therapy Response
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 10:00am
Pamela S. Hatfield (Herrera)
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gross
Major Sponsor: Dr. Marcel van den Brink
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Kayvan Keshari and Dr. David Scheinberg
Additional Member: Dr. Melody Smith (Stanford University)
Cerebellar Output Neurons Regulate Cerebellar and Extracerebellar Circuit Development and Behavior
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 2:00pm
Andrew S. Lee
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha
Major Sponsor: Dr. Alexandra Joyner
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Natalia De Marco Garcia and Dr. Kristen Pleil
Additional Member: Vibhu Sahni (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Contributions of Epicardial Progenitors and Vegfc Signaling to Zebrafish Heart Maturation and Regeneration
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 10:00am
Sierra K. Duca
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Geoffrey Pitt
Major Sponsor: Dr. Jingli Cao
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Michael Harrison and Dr. Heidi Stuhlmann
Augmenting CAR T cell Functions with LIGHT
Date: Monday, May 13, 2024 - 1:00pm
Winson Cai
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Jedd Wolchok
Major Sponsor: Dr. David Scheinberg
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Renier Brentjens
Additional Member(s): Dr. Morgan Huse (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Intracellular Trafficking of Transferrin Dictates Ferroptosis Execution
Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 - 10:00am
Zechuan Zhao
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Michael Overholtzer
Major Sponsor: Dr. Xuejun Jiang
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Yueming Li and Dr. Ordureau
