DATE AND HOST

2021 - 2022 IMM SEMINAR SERIES SPEAKERS

September 3, 2021
Host: Zhiqiang An

Xin Ge
UTHealth IMM

Presentation title:  Protease Inhibitory mAbs - Discovery Engineering and Evaluation

September 24, 2021
Host: Momoko Yoshimoto

Takanori Takebe
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Presentation title:  Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Organogenesis in a Dish

October 1, 2021
Host: Vihang Narkar

Zhen Yan
University of Virginia

Presentation title:  Exercise-induced Adaptation in Health and Disease Prevention

October 22, 2021
Host: Kai Sun

Scott Summers
University of Utah

Presentation title:  Ceramide and the Two Phases of Lipotoxicity

October 29, 2021
Host: Kristin Mahan

Gad Asher
Weizmann Institute of Science

Presentation title:  Organization and Specificity of the Peripheral Circadian Clock System

November 12, 2021
Host: Brian Davis

Pietro Genovese
Boston Children's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Presentation title:  Advanced Genetic Engineering of Hematopoiesis for the Treatment of Inherited Diseases

November 19, 2021
Host: Wenliang Li

Guocan Wang
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Presentation title:  Transcriptional and Epigenetic Dysregulations in Prostate Cancer Progression

December 3, 2021
Host: Ningyan Zhang

Kyuson Yun
Houston Methodist

Presentation title:  Regulation of Cancer Stem Cells, Metastasis and Immune Suppression by S100A4

December 17, 2021
Host: Sheng Zhang

Jun-yuan Ji
Tulane University

Presentation title: Role of Wnt Signaling in Regulating Lipid Homeostasis in Drosophila

January 14, 2022 
Host: Priyatansh Gurha

Bernhard Kuhn
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Presentation title:  Harnessing Regenerative Mechanisms for Treating Congenital Heart Disease

January 28, 2022
Host: Kristin Mahan

Mary Teruel
Cornell University

Presentation title: Linking the cell cycle, circadian clock, and fat cell differentiation

February 11, 2022 
Host: Brian Davis

Harry Malech
NIH

Presentation title:  TBA

February 18, 2022 
Host: Qingchun Tong

Javier Eduardo Stern
Georgia State University

Presentation title:  TBA

March 11, 2022
Host: Radbod Darabi

Alessandra Sacco
Sanford Burnham Prebys Discovery

Presentation title:  TBA

March 18, 2022
Host: Zhiqiang An

Mitchell Ho
NIH

Presentation title:  TBA

March 31, 2022
Host: Mikhail Kolonin

HARRY E. BOVAY, JR. LECTURE

Peter Carmeliet
University of Leuven

Presentation title:  TBA

April 8, 2022
Host: Rick Wetsel

HANS J. MüLLER-EBERHARD MEMORIAL LECTURE

Michael Carroll
Harvard University

Presentation title:  TBA

April 22, 2022
Host: Sheng Pan

Benjamin Garcia
Washington University St. Louis

Presentation title:  TBA

April 29, 2022
Host: Wenliang Li

Allen Gao
University of California, Davis

Presentation title:  TBA

May 6, 2022
Host: Kendra Carmon

Karl Willert
University of California, San Diego

Presentation title:  TBA

May 13, 2022
Host: Mikhail Kolonin

Judith Varner
University of California, San Diego

Presentation title: TBA

May 20, 2022
Host: Wenliang Li

Zhaohui Feng
Rutgers

Presentation title:  TBA

May 27, 2022
Host: Vihang Narkar

Ashok Kumar
University of Houston

Presentation title:  TBA