ReMS has returned to Munzer Auditorium
as an in-person event only, please join us!

Seminars are 12:00 - 1:00 PM on Thursdays in Munzer Auditorium, Beckman Building. Contact blauadmin@stanford.edu to be added to the the ReMS mailing list.

April 3, 2025 talk 1 - Lars Steinmetz, PhD: Heart of the matter: precision approaches to characterize and treat dilated cardiomyopathy

Dieter Schwarz Foundation Endowed Professor

 

April 3, 2025 talk 2 - Judith Frydman, PhD: Cellular models of human aging and neurodegeneration reveal early hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathogenesis

Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Genetics

 


April 10, 2025 - Anthony Oro, MD PhD: Novel Tumor and Microenvironment Pathways in Resistance

Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

 


April 17, 2025 talk 1 - Asiri Ediriwickrema, MD PhD: Identifying high-risk leukemia stem cells in human acute myeloid leukemia

Instructor, Medicine - Hematology, Majeti Lab

 

April 17, 2025 talk 2 - Ngan F Huang, PhD: Engineering Extracellular Matrix Environments for Stem Cell Manufacturing and Cell Fate Specification

Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Surgery Research) and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering

 


April 24, 2025 talk 1 - Mark A Kay, MD PhD: Think the AAV Capsid’s Just a Cover? Think Again! The Unsuspected Architect of Vector Epigenetics

Dennis Farrey Family Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics

 

 

April 24, 2025 talk 2 - Garry Nolan, PhD: A Post-Data World LLMs and the end of Data Paralysis

Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor

 


May 1, 2025 talk 1 - Jin Billy Li, PhD: RNA editing and sensing in innate immunity and autoinflammatory disease

Professor of Genetics

 

 

May 1, 2025 talk 2 - Philip Beachy, PhD: Neuroendocrine cells orchestrate regeneration through Desert hedgehog signaling

The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Professor of Urology, of Developmental Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

 

 


May 8, 2025 - Natalie Torok, MD: The matrix in hepatocellular carcinoma

Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

 


May 15, 2025 - Matthias Lütolf, PhD: Organoids reimagined: Engineering a path to translation 

Professor, EPFL Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne

 

 


May 22, 2025 talk 1 - Jean Y. Tang, MD PhD: How Stanford prepared me for making a new drug: Gene therapy for healing wounds in a rare skin disease, Epidermolysis Bullosa

Professor of Dermatology

 

 

 

May 22, 2025 talk 2 - Irv Weissman, MD: Stem Cells 

Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, Professor of Pathology, and of Developmental Biology

 

 


May 29, 2025 talk 1- Marius Wernig, MD: The role of microglia for protein aggregation in neurodegeneration

Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

 

 

May 29, 2025 talk 2 - Joanna Wysocka, PhD: How do transcription factors tolerate long polyglutamine tracts? From human evolution to neurodegenerative disease

Lorry Lokey Professor and Professor of Developmental Biology

 

 


June 5, 2025 talk 1 - Sergiu Pasca, MD: Neurons: Assemble!

Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program

 

 

June 5, 2025 talk 2 - Gerald Crabtree, MD: Designing Small Molecules to Rewire Genetic Circuits for Investigative and Therapeutic Purposes

David Korn, MD, Professor of Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology

 

 


June 12, 2025 - Livant Jerby, PhD: From natural to engineered immune responses

Assistant Professor of Genetics

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

 

ReMS Organizers

Helen Blau

Margaret Fuller

Marius Werning

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