Graduate School of Medical Sciences
A partnership with the Sloan Kettering Institute
Mechanisms of Ion Selectivity and Throughput in the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 10:00am
Bryce D. Delgado
Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Richard Hite
Major Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Long
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Alessio Accardi and Dr. Timothy Ryan
Selenocysteine tRNA Methylation as an Antioxidant Mechanism in Melanoma Metastasis
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 3:00pm
Leona A. Nease
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. John Blenis
Major Sponsor: Dr. Elena Piskounova
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Samie Jaffrey and Dr. John Zippin
Additional Member: Dr. Vadim Gladyshev (Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center)
Sex Shapes the Transcriptomic Landscape in Age-related Demyelination and Alzheimer's Tau Pathology via Toll-like Receptor 7
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 2:00pm
Chloe Lopez-Lee
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha
Major Sponsor: Dr. Li Gan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Yueming Li and Dr. Roberta Marongiu
Metabolic Consequences of p53 Activation
Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 - 2:00pm
Jossie J. Yashinskie
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Scott Lowe
Major Sponsor: Dr. Lydia Finley
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Andrew Intlekofer and Dr. Andrea Ventura
Investigating Protein-protein Binding Affinity Using Physics-based Simulations
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 - 11:00am
Ivy Zhang
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (TPCBM)
Chairperson: Dr. Alex Kentsis
Major Sponsor: Dr. John Chodera
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Quaid Morris and Dr. Olivier Elemento
