The Pharmacology and Cancer Biology seminar series “Regulatory Networks in Health and Disease” is held on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM in 143 Jones. Outside speakers are selected from a pool of nominations made by faculty and trainees.
RNHD | Newton: Protein Kinase C Unbalanced: Dysregulated Signaling in Cancer vs Alzheimer’s Disease
Alexandra Newton, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UC San Diego
RNHD | Zervantonakis: Tumor-macrophage interactions in 3D microenvironments
Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
RNHD | Welm: Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies
Alana Welm, PhD, Ralph E. and Willia T. Main Presidential Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and Senior Director of Basic Science at the Huntsman Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah, and Investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute
RNHD | Nuñez: Rewriting the human epigenome with CRISPR
James Nuñez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
RNHD | Chan: Exploiting dysregulated ribosome homeostasis for cancer therapy
Edmond M. Chan, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
RNHD | Cambronne: Localized Real-time Sensors for Metabolic Signaling
Lulu Cambronne, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin
Spring 2025
| 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 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 |