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Characterization of DNA Methylation Dysfunction
Date: Monday, April 23, 2018 - 1:00pm

Heng Pan
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology

Chairperson:               Dr. Jason G. Mezey
Major Sponsor:           Dr. Olivier Elemento
Minor Sponsors:         Drs. Danwei Huangfu & Dan A. Landau
Additional Member:  Dr. Giorgio Ga. Inghirami (Weill Cornell Medicine)

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Computational Modeling of microRNA Targeting and Context Specificity
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 1:00pm

Yuheng Lu
Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology

Chairperson:        Dr. Olivier Elemento
Major Sponsor:    Dr. Christina Leslie
Minor Sponsors:  Drs. Michael Kharas & Andrea Ventura

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Role of CARM1 (PRMT4) in Retinoic Acid (RA)-Induced Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Date: Friday, April 27, 2018 - 1:00pm

Cynthia M. Quintero
Pharmacology

Chairperson:               Dr. Katherine Hajjar
Co-Major Sponsors:   Drs. Lorraine Gudas & Minkui Luo
Minor Sponsors:         Drs. Yael David, Michael Kharas & Lonny Levin
 

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Dissecting the Transcriptional Logic in GastroIntestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs)
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 12:30pm

Yuedan Chen
Cell & Developmental Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Sarat Chandarlapaty
Major Sponsor: Dr. Ping Chi
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Alexandra Joyner & Ming Li

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Investigating the Role of the BCL6 Locus Control Region in Germinal Center B-Cells
Date: Monday, May 21, 2018 - 10:00am

Rajat Singh
Immunology and Microbial Pathogensesis

Chairperson:          Dr. Jayanta Chaudhuri
Major Sponsor:      Dr. Ari Melnick
Minor Sponsors:    Drs. Eftychia Apostolou & Olivier Elemento

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Investigating the Roles of GATA and FOXA Factors in Diabetes and Development Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Date: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 10:00am

Kihyun Lee
Immunology and Microbial Pathogensesis

Chairperson:          Dr. Todd Evans
Major Sponsor:      Dr. Danwei Huangfu
Minor Sponsors:    Drs. Shuibing Chen & Lorenz Studer

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The Fault is in Our TCRs: Searching for On and Off-Targets in T Cell Receptor Based Therapies
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 2:00pm

Ron Shlomo Gejman
Pharmacology

Chairperson:               Dr. Alex Kentsis
Major Sponsor:           Dr. David A. Scheinberg
Minor Sponsors:         Drs. Gary Koretzky & Andrea Schietinger
Additional Member:  Dr. Daniel Mucida (The Rockefeller University)

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