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.

January 9, 2025 - Stanley Qi, PhD:  Perturbing RNA localization to study their roles on neuronal function and regeneration

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks


January 16, 2025 talk 1- Lacramioara Bintu, PhD:  High-throughput characterization human transcriptional effector domains: activators, repressors and bifunctionals

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

 

January 16, 2025 talk 2 - Gerlinde Wernig, MD:  The role of CD63 in cancer and beyond

Assistant Professor of Pathology

 


January 23, 2025 talk 1- Erin Green, PhD:  Mechanisms of chromatin regulation and signaling in stress response pathways

Visiting Scholar, Marius Wernig Lab and Associate Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

 

January 23, 2025 talk 2 - Rosa Bacchetta, MD:  Talk Title TBA

Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

 

 


Baxter Foundation Distinguished Lecture

January 30, 2025 - Bruce Spiegelman, MD:  PGC1a/Irisin Axis: Linking Muscle Metabolism to Neurodegeneration and Cognition

Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Please join us in Clark Center Auditorium for this special lecture

 

 


February 6, 2025 talk 1 - Tushar Desai, MD:  "WNT activity in lung cancer progression: diverse, dynamic, and even dispensable"

Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)

 

 

 

February 6, 2025 talk 2 - Helen Blau, PhD: "Regenerating and Rejuvenating Muscles by Targeting a Gerozyme"

Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

 

 

 


February 13, 2025 - Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD:  Toward the noninvasive characterization of tumors & their microenvironments

Moghadam Family Professor

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

 

 


February 20, 2025 - Olivier Pourquié, PhD:  Talk title TBA

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Frank Mallory Burr Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

 

 

 


February 27, 2025 talk 2 - Serena Sanulli, PhD: "Splicing Secrets: Modulating Heterochromatin Dynamics through RNA Processing"

Assistant Professor of Genetics

 

 

February 27, 2025 talk 1 - Alistair Boettiger, PhD:  Talk Title TBA

Associate Professor of Developmental Biology

 

 

 


March 6, 2025 - No ReMS Seminar

 

 


March 13, 2025 - Nicholas Leeper, MD: The impact of cancer on atherosclerosis

Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and of Medicine (Cardiovascular)

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks


March 20, 2025 talk 2 - James Chen, PhD:  The roles of aldehyde dehydrogenases in stemness and cancer


Jauch Professor and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, of Developmental Biology and of Chemistry

 

 

March 20, 2025 talk 1 - Kyle Loh, PhD:  Bloody origins and making blood

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)

 

 

 


March 27, 2025 - Ben Cosgrove, PhD:  Talk title TBA

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

 

 

 

ReMS Organizers

Helen Blau

Margaret Fuller

Marius Werning

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