Graduate School of Medical Sciences
A partnership with the Sloan Kettering Institute
Harnessing the Immune Modulatory Properties of the Senescence Program to Treat Cancer
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 11:00am
Caroline M. Broderick
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Andrea Schietinger
Major Sponsor: Dr. Scott W. Lowe
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Karuna Ganesh and Dr. Charles Rudin
Additional Member: Dr. Andrew Aguirre (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Loss of the Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor GPR52 in Breast Cancer: A Novel Regulator of Multicellular Organization
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 9:00am
Sarah Z. Hanif, M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Xin-Yun Huang
Major Sponsor: Dr. Kristy Brown
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Xin-Yun Ganesh
Additional Member: Dr. Gregory Alushin (The Rockefeller University)
Alzheimer’s Disease-Linked Risk Alleles Elevate Microglial cGAS-Associated Senescence and Neurodegeneration in a Tauopathy Model
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 10:00am
Gillian K. Carling
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
Major Sponsor: Dr. Li Gan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Gary Gibson and Dr. Yueming Li
Fusobacterium Nucleatum Secretomes Rewire the Transcriptome and Metabolome of Colorectal Cancer Cells to Evade NK Cell Killing
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 11:00am
Wendy Lin
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Karuna Ganesh
Major Sponsor: Dr. Joao Xavier
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Andrew Intlekofer and Dr. Dawid Nowak
Additional Member: Dr. Joseph Sun (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Enhancing the Clinical Utility of Genomic Profiling For Cancer Diagnosis
Date: Monday, August 5, 2024 - 10:00am
Madison Darmofal
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (TPCBM)
Chairperson: Dr. Nikolaus Schultz
Major Sponsor: Dr. Michael Berger
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Dan Landau and Dr. Quaid Morris
