Previous ReMS Schedules
June 2, 2022 - talk 1: Linking the Lnc122 RNA (the miR122 precursor) to MYC and Cancer
Hagoon Jang
Kay Lab Postoctural Fellow
Stanford University
June 2, 2022 - talk 2: Studying developmental cell biology with optical control of protein activity
Michael Lin
Associate Professor
Stanford University
May 26, 2022 - talk 1: RNA phenotypes for cardiomyopathy
Emma Monte
Snyder Lab Postdoc
Stanford University
May 26, 2022 - talk 2: Epigenomic shifts in health and disease
Nidhi Bhutani
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University
May 19, 2022: RNA Editing and Innate Immunity
Jin Billy Li
Associate Professor of Genetics
Stanford University
May 12, 2022 - talk 1: The immune-brain interface in aging and enurodegeneration
Katrin Andreasson
Professor of Neurology
Stanford University
May 12, 2022 - talk 2: How autoimmunity is driven in FOXP3 deficient, human immune system
Simon Borna
Bacchetta Lab Postdoc
Stanford University
May 5, 2022 - talk 1: Dynamically crosslinked PEG hydrogels reveal the critical role of viscoelasticity in modulating glioblastoma cell fates and drug responses in 3D
Fan Yang
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & of Bioengineering
Stanford University
May 5, 2022 - talk 2: Systemic Inflammation can Limit Mechanism of Neural Plasticity: Implications from Immunotherapy to Long COVID
Michelle Monje
Professor of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery, of Pediatrics, of Pathology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
April 28, 2022 - talk 1: Role of Developmental Signals of Spinal Disc Cells
Chitra Dahia
Associate Prof of Cell & Developmental Biology
Weill Cornell Medicine
April 28, 2022 - talk 2: Characterization of Novel Skeletal Stem Cell Populations for use in Regenerative Orthopedic Surgery
Daniel Coutu
Assistant Prof of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of Ottowa
April 21, 2022: Abscopal Responses Against Metastatic Cancer
Julien Sage
Elaine and John Chambers Professor of Pediatric Cancer and Professor of Genetics
Stanford University
April 14, 2022 - talk 1: Developing Functional Screening Platforms to Rejuvenate Old Neural Stem Cells
Tyson Ruetz
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunet Lab
Stanford University
April 14, 2022 - talk 2: TBD
Julia Salzman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Statistics
Stanford University
April 7, 2022 - talk 1: Roles of mechanical asymmetry in cell and tissue organization
Alexander Dunn
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
April 7, 2022 - talk 2: Identifying new immune targets to treat fibrosis and cancer
Gerlinde Wernig
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Stanford University
March 31, 2022 - talk 1 - "Encoding cell fate decisions and its disease consequences in the developing human embryo"
Annie Collier PhD presenting for the Oro Lab
March 31, 2022 - talk 2 - "Stem Cell Sources of Bone-Forming Osteoblasts"
Joy Wu, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Stanford University
March 24, 2022 - talk 1 - "Ovarian Reserve Formation and Maintenance - the Foundation of Precision Medicine for Ovarian Function and Health"
Lei Lei, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine
March 24, 2022 - talk 2 - "Stem Cells and Regeneration of Uterus"
Shiying Jin, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine
CANCELLED
March 17, 2022 - "Chemogenetic and Optogenetic Technologies for Probing Molecular and Cellular Networks"
Alice Ting, Professor of Genetics, of Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemistry, Stanford University
March 10, 2022 - "Stem cell-centric mechanisms of skin homeostasis and aging"
Emi K. Nishimura, Professor, Division of Aging and Regeneration, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
4:00 PM March 8, 2022 - "Why Don't We Get More Cancer: The critical role of extracellular matrix and microenvironment in malignancy and dormancy?"
2022 Katharine D. McCormick Distinguished Lecture delivered by Mina Bissell, PhD
Mina J. Bissell is a Distinguished Senior Scientist, (the highest rank bestowed at Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory (LBNL), serves as Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology.
March 3, 2022 - talk 1 - "Uncovering New Functions of RNA Modifications in mRNA Processing"
Nicole M. Martinez, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology, Stanford University
March 3, 2022 - talk 2 - "Using Hybrids to Reveal the Genetic Basis of Wound Healing and Human Evolution"
Hunter Fraser, Associate Professor of Biology, Stanford University
February 24, 2022 - Talk 1 - "Mammalian Synthetic Biology: Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine"
Xiaojin Gao, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
February 24, 2022 - Talk 2 - "Correction of Genetic Disease Through In Vivo Gene Replacement"
Peter Marinkovich, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Stanford University
February 10, 2022 - "Ferroptosis Regulation by the CDK4/6 Pathway"
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Scott Dixon, Associate Professor of Biology, Stanford University
February 3, 2022 - "Vascular Rejuvenation for Promoting Healthy Aging"
Eli Keshet, Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
January 27, 2022 - talk 1 - Stem Cells in Human AML
Ravi Majeti is RJ Cao Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hematology, and Member of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
January 27, 2022 - talk 2 - "New Regulators of Cancer Mutagenesis”
Ashby Morrison, Associate Professor, Biology, Stanford University
January 20, 2022 - "Progenitor Differentiation and Polygenic Disease"
Paul Khavari, Carl J. Herzog Professor of Dermatology, Stanford University
January 13, 2022 - talk 1: Spatial deep profiling reveals immune-mediated mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and aging
Yu Xin (Will) Wang, K99 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
January 13, 2022 - talk 2: How to break through a barrier without losing it at the seams: Progenitor cell integration into the gut epithelium
Lucy O'Brien, Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
January 6, 2022: Following tumor evolution and metastasis using a single cell “molecular flight recorder"
Jonathan Weissman, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Member and Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Professor of Biology, MIT, Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
December 16, 2021: Modeling Human Disease in Adult Tissue Organoids
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD, Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor
December 9, 2021: 15-PGDH Mediated Regeneration Following Stem Cell Transplantation
Amar Desai PhD, Assistant Professor, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University
Baxter Lecture
December 2, 2021: Stem Cells, Embryos and Embryo Models
Janet Rossant PhD, Senior Scientist and Chief of Research Emeritus, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
November 18, 2021: A p53 Lung Regeneration Program Underlies Tumor Suppression
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Laura Attardi, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation and Cancer Biology) and of Genetics
November 11, 2021: TBD
Ruslan Medzhitov PhD, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine
November 4, 2021 Talk 1: Surfing an ERK activity wave for body-wide regeneration
Bo Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
November 4, 2021 Talk 2: Compete or Perish – HSC Dynamics in Fanconi Anemia
Agnieszka Czechowicz MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
October 28, 2021 Talk 1: Short Tandem Repeats Recruit Transcription Factors to Tune Gene Expression Across Eukaryotic Genomes
Polly Fordyce PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics
October 28, 2021 Talk 2: “Code Switching”- Differential Use of the Nanog 3’UTR and Cognate CDS mRNA Components in Stem Cell Organization and Colony Formation
Mary Hynes PhD, Associate Professor (Research) of Biology
October 21, 2021: Demystifying Cancer Stem Cells with Data Science
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Aaron Newman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science
October 14, 2021 Talk 1: Skeletal Stem Cells and Beyond
Charles Kwok Fai Chan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
October 14, 2021 Talk 2: Chromatin Remodelers Lost in Translation
Capucine Van Rechem, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology (Pathology Research)
October 7, 2021 Talk 1: Deadly Infection of Human Blood Vessels by Biosafety Level 4 Viruses
Kyle Loh PhD, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)
October 7, 2021 Talk 2: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Lineage Specification
Marius Wernig, PhD, Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
September 30, 2021: Global Views of Mammalian Development
Jay Shendure MD, PhD, Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Director of the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, and Scientific Director of the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine
September 29, 2022 - Sergiu Pasca: From stem cells to wiring human neural circuits in living systems
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of Stanford Brain Organogenesis
October 6, 2022 - Steve Horvath: Epigenetic clocks for aging and regeneration in different species
PI, Altos Labs, San Diego
October 13, 2022 talk 1- Kyle Loh: The brain has two embryonic origins, with implications for development, differentiation and evolution
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)
October 13, 2022 talk 2- Tushar Desai: Surprises in acute epithelial repair
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)
October 20, 2022 talk 1- Ngan Huang: Engineering Skeletal Muscle--To Infinity and Beyond
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Surgery Research) and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering
October 20, 2022 talk 2- Carla Shatz: Synapses Lost and Found
Sapp Family Provostial Professor, The Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology
October 27, 2022 - Howard Y. Chang: Reading and writing extrachromosomal DNA
Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Genetics
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
November 3, 2022 talk 1 - Inma Cobos: Tangles: Drivers of toxicity or homeostatic response in Alzheimer’s Disease?
Assistant Professor of Pathology
November 3, 2022 talk 2 - Michael Greicius: APOE4: Weak Friend or Powerful Foe in Alzheimer’s Disease?
Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)
November 10, 2022 - James Ferrell: Signaling in 2D vs. 3D
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
November 17, 2022 - Benoit Bruneau: Transcriptional regulation of heart development and disease
William H. Younger Investigator and Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease; Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF
December 1, 2022 talk - Karlene Cimprich: RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry Chemical and Systems Biology Operations
December 1, 2022 talk 2 - Peter Jackson: TBD
Professor, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
December 8, 2022 - Capucine van Rechem: Chromatin remodelers lost in translation
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Pathology Research)
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
December 15, 2022 talk 1 - Daniel Jarosz: Protein condensation in cellular memory and adaptation: Epigenetics within and beyond the organism
Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology Chemical and Systems Biology Operations
December 15, 2022 talk 2 - Jeffrey Axelrod: A lonely planar polarizing cell
Professor of Pathology
January 12, 2023 - Joanna Wysocka: Cis-regulatory elements and transcription factor dosage as drivers of human disease and variation
Lorry Lokey Professor and Professor of Developmental Biology
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Baxter Distinguished Lecture
January 17, 2023 - Hans Clevers, MD PhD: Organoids to model human diseases
Principal Investigator at the Princess Máxima Center, Utrecht; Head of Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) of Roche; Oncode Investigator; University Professor, University Utrecht
January 26, 2023 talk 1 - Flora Rutaganira: New Insights on Animal Origins from the Unicellular Relatives of Animals
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Developmental Biology
January 26, 2023 talk 2 - Marius Wernig: Microglia can be the good guys in chronic neuroinflammation
Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
February 2, 2023 - Steven Burden, PhD: Building, Breaking and Repairing Neuromuscular Synapses
Professor, Skirball Institute, NYU Medical School
February 9, 2023 - Monther Abu-Remaileh: A lysosomal lipid transport pathway that enables cancer cell survival under choline limitation
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Genetics
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
February 16, 2023 - No ReMS Seminar
February 23, 2023 talk 1 - Seung K. Kim:
Pancreatic islet transplantation for preventing and curing diabetes mellitus: from mice to humans
KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Endocrinology) and of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
February 23, 2023 talk 2 - Ravindra Majeti: Stem Cells in Human AML
RZ Cao Professor
March 2, 2023 talk 1 - Husniye Kantarci: Schwann Cells Promote Sensory Neuron Excitability during Development
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zuchero Lab
March 2, 2023 talk 2 - Gozde Durmus: Levitating Cells for Applications in Biology and Medicine
Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology (Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford)
March 9, 2023 - Helen M. Blau: Regenerating and Rejuvenating Aged Tissues 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
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
March 16, 2023 - No ReMS Seminar
March 23, 2023 - Peter Reddien, PhD: Choices in regeneration
MIT Biology, Whitehead Institute, HHMI
March 30, 2023 - Jürgen Knoblich, PhD: TBA
Scientific Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA, OEAW)
April 6, 2023 talk 1 - Katrin Svensson: Deorphanization of circulating signaling peptides
Assistant Professor of Pathology
April 6, 2023 talk 2 - Lay Teng Ang: Purified populations of human hepatocytes for regenerative medicine and BSL4 virology
Instructor, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
April 13, 2023 - No ReMS Seminar
April 20, 2023 - Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, PhD: Promoting regeneration of aged muscles
Altos Labs, San Diego Institute
April 27, 2023 talk 1 - Calvin Kuo: Organoid 2.0
Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor
April 27, 2023 talk 2- Irving Weissman: Normal and Abnormal Stem Cells
Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, Professor of Pathology, and of Developmental Biology
May 4, 2023 - Georege Q Daley, MD, PhD: Blood Lineages from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at HMS
May 11, 2023 - Philip Beachy: Mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling in regeneration and malignancy
The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Professor of Urology, of Developmental Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks
May 18, 2023 - Douglas Millay, PhD: Building and repairing muscle through cell fusion
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
May 25, 2023 talk 1 - Anne Brunet: Mechanisms of stem cell aging and rejuvenation
Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor
May 25, 2023 talk 2 - Garry Nolan: Resolving form, function, time & mechanism at the tumor-immune interface
Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor
June 1, 2023 talk 1 - Livnat Jerby: Location, structure, and function: Probing antitumor immunity at the cellular and tissue level
Assistant Professor of Genetics
June 1, 2023 talk 2 - Gerald Crabtree: Rewiring cancer drivers to activate cell death pathways
David Korn, MD, Professor of Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
June 8, 2023 talk 1 - Lauren Goins: Studying blood cell development live and in color
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
June 8, 2023 talk 2 - Serena Sanulli: Heterochromatin and its phases
Assistant Professor of Genetics