The Pharmacology and Cancer Biology seminar series “Regulatory Networks in Health and Disease” is held on weekly. Outside speakers are selected from a pool of nominations made by faculty and trainees.
Details about the 2025-2026 series will be announced in the summer.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.03.25 | Xin Gu, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School | Catching transcription factors for proteasomal degradation |
| 10.29.25 | Nina Tsvetanova, PhD | Duke University School of Medicine | TBA |
RNHD | Gu: Catching transcription factors for proteasomal degradation
Xin Gu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.15.25 | Anders Sejr Hansen, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Dynamics of 3D Genome Structure and Function |
| 01.22.25 | Jamie Spangler, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | Reprogramming the immune response through molecular engineering |
| 01.29.25 |
Daniel Dominguez, PhD |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Protein Disorder and RNA Binding *co-sponsored by the |
| 02.05.25 | Chris Chidley, PhD | Duke University | Using genetic screens to understand nutrient transport and metabolism in cancer |
| 02.12.25 | Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | How understanding metabolism has informed cancer biology |
| 02.19.25 | N/A | N/A | No seminar |
| 02.26.25 | N/A | N/A | No seminar |
| 03.05.25 | Ben Stanger, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania | Immune-based therapy for pancreas cancer: How do we thread the needle? |
| 03.12.25 | N/A | N/A | Spring Recess |
| 03.19.25 | Ana Gomes, PhD | Moffitt Cancer Center | Understanding Cancer Through the Lens of Aging |
| 03.26.25 | Alexandra Newton, PhD | University of California, San Diego | Protein Kinase C Unbalanced: Dysregulated Signaling in Cancer vs Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 04.02.25 | Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD | University of Pittsburgh | Tumor-macrophage interactions in 3D microenvironments |
| 04.09.25 | Alana Welm, PhD | The University of Utah | Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies |
| 04.16.25 | James Nuñez, PhD | University of California, Berkeley | Rewriting the human epigenome with CRISPR |
| 04.23.25 | Edmond M. Chan, MD | Columbia University Irving Medical Center | Exploiting dysregulated ribosome homeostasis for cancer therapy |
| 04.30.25 | Lulu Ang Cambronne, PhD | The University of Texas at Austin | Localized Real-time Sensors for Metabolic Signaling |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.11.24 | Kris Wood, PhD | Duke University |
Mechanism-based dependencies arising during tumor evolution |
| 9.25.24 | David Cobrinik, MD, PhD | Children's Hospital Los Angeles Keck School of Medicine, USC |
Retinoblastoma Initiation and Progression |
| 10.9.24 | Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT |
Lung cancer: genomics and genome-inspired cancer therapeutics. |
| 10.16.24 | Alicia Darnell, PhD | Duke University | Metabolic control of protein synthesis by ribosome fall‐off |
| 10.23.24 | Melanie Cobb, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Catching a few good WNKs |
| 10.30.24 | Carson Thoreen, PhD | Yale School of Medicine | Motifs and mechanisms for mTORC1 regulation of mRNA translation and stability |
| 11.6.24 | Andrew Xiao, PhD | Yale School of Medicine | Epigenetic lessons from evolution, embryogenesis and cancer |
| 11.13.24 | Wu-Min Deng, PhD | Tulane School of Medicine | Tumor Initiation and Sex-Dimorphic Tumor Growth |
| 11.20.24 | Andrew Stergachis, MD, PhD | University of Washington | Haplotype-resolved view of normal and pathogenic gene regulation |
| 12.4.24 | Alexander "Sandy" Borowsky, MD | UC Davis School of Medicine |
Getting back to basic mechanisms to tackle major problems in breast disease. |
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1.17.2024 | Agnel Sfeir, PhD | MSKCC |
| 1.24.2024 - 3.6.2024 | Faculty Search Candidates | |
| 3.13.2024 | Duke Spring Break - No Seminar | |
| 3.20.2024 | Minna Roh-Johnson, PhD | University of Utah |
| 3.27.2024 | Matthew Hangauer, PhD | UCSD |
| 4.3.2024 | Andre Nussenzweig, PhD | National Cancer Institute |
| 4.10.2024 | Goutham Narla, MD, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 9.13.2023 | Gina DeNicola, PhD | Moffitt Cancer Ctr |
| 9.20.2023 | Benjamin Myers, PhD | University of Utah |
| 9.27.2023 | David MacAlpine, PhD | Duke University |
| 10.4.2023 | Amy Moran, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| 10.11.2023 | Chao Lu, PhD | Columbia University |
| 10.18.2023 | Aaron Hata, MD, PhD | Harvard University |
| 10.25.2023 | Elizabeth Johnson, PhD | Cornell University |
| 11.1.2023 | Zhao Zhang (ZZ), PhD | Duke University |
| 11.8.2023 | Brian Calvi, PhD | Indiana University |
| 11.15.2023 | Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD | MSKCC |
| 11.29.2023 | Roberto Zoncu, PhD | UC Berkeley |
| 12.6.2023 | Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |