The Pharmacology and Cancer Biology seminar series “Regulatory Networks in Health and Disease” is held during the academic year. Outside speakers are selected from a pool of nominations made by faculty and trainees.
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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09.03.25 | Xin Gu, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School | Catching transcription factors for proteasomal degradation |
10.15.25 | Tigist Tamir, PhD | UNC School of Medicine | Evaluating the convergence of signaling and metabolism in diet induced obesity |
10.21.25 | Jason Sheltzer, PhD | Stanford University | Leveraging mischaracterized drugs to uncover new cancer vulnerabilities |
10.29.25 | Nina Tsvetanova, PhD | Duke University School of Medicine | Specification of divergent signaling responses by GPCR localization |
11.07.25 | Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD | UC San Diego | Deciphering the Anti-oncogenic Effect of Oncoproteins |
11.12.25 | Adam Palmer, PhD | UNC School of Medicine | TBA |
12.3.25 | Chad Pecot, MD | UNC School of Medicine | New Frontiers in RNA Structure and Therapeutics to Combat Cancer |
1.7.26 | Sudarshan Rajagopal, MD, PhD | Duke University School of Medicine | Spatiotemporal Organization of G protein-coupled receptor signaling |
1.21.26 | Carmen W. Dessauer, PhD | McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston | TBA |
2.4.26 | Brent R. Stockwell, PhD | Columbia University | Ferroptosis and metabolism—mechanisms and therapeutic implications |
2.11.26 | Guang Hu, PhD | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | CRISPR screen identifies novel regulatory mechanisms in germline entry |
2.18.26 | Katie Houlahan, PhD | McMaster University | Germline-mediated immunoediting in cancer |
3.4.26 | Alex K. Shalek, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Identifying & Counteracting The Impact Of Environment Stress On Tissue Dysfunction |
4.1.26 | Samantha Morris, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School | TBA |
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |