Melissa Boneta Davis, PhD
Inaugural Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator
Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Student-invited speaker
Role of African Ancestry in genomic and proteomic changes in breast cancer disparities
Hosted by: Alla Karpova and Genetics trainees & postdocs
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Medical Oncology Grand Rounds
Norman Sharpless, MD
N/A
Jupiter Bio
Norman Sharpless, MD
Jupiter Bio
Title: TBD
No registration required.
Open to all faculty, staff, trainees and students.
CME credit available.
Please visit our website at: http://oncology.wustl.edu/
Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
Andrew D. Weems, Ph.D.
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
McDonnell Sciences Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
“Bleb Signaling: Morphological Motifs as Signaling Hubs”

Andrew D. Weems, Ph.D.
Faculty Host: Sheila Stewart, Ph.D.
Genetics Seminar Series
Bruce Gelb, MD
Professor & Dean for Child Health Research
Gogel Family Chair and Director of The Mindich Child Health & Development Institute
Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology
Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics & Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine @ Mount Sinai
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
The RASopathies: Too much, too little and getting to just right
Talk abstract: Noonan syndrome and the related disorders, now called the RASopathies, are phenotypically related traits arising from perturbations, largely engendering gain of function, in the RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase signal transduction pathway. In this lecture, insights gained from phenotype-first and genotype-first studies of the RAsopathies will be provided as well as those from cell and animal model research, informing the development of mechanistic therapies for these genetic traits.
Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Medical Oncology Grand Rounds
Akash Patnaik, MD, PhD, MMSc
Assistant Professor
Section of Hematology/Oncology
Department of Medicine
The University of Chicago
Akash Patnaik, MD, PhD, MMSc
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Title: “Activating Innate Immunity in Prostate Cancer: From Bedside to Bench and Back”
No registration required.
Open to all faculty, staff, trainees and students.
CME credit available.
Please visit our website at: http://oncology.wustl.edu/
Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
Yuan Gao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cancer Center
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
McDonnell Sciences Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
“Discovery of a Ligand-regulated Sarcoma Dependency”

Yuan Gao, Ph.D.
Faculty Host: Sheila Stewart, Ph.D.
Genetics Seminar Series
Karen Oegema, PhD
Professor
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Time is (not) on your side: mitotic control of G1 progression
Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)0
Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
Yash Chhabra, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
McDonnell Sciences Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
“Sexual dimorphism of the aging tumor microenvironment dictates melanoma invasion and therapeutic responses”

Yash Chhabra, Ph.D.
Faculty Host: Sheila Stewart
HYBRID Hope Center/Neurology Monday Noon Seminar
Miranda Orr, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Zoom/Holden Auditorium (Farrell LTC, Medical Campus)
Title: “TBA”
This Monday Noon seminar mini-series is co-hosted by the WashU Hope Center for Neurological Disorders and Department of Neurology.
Mini-series: Fundamental Mechanisms of Aging on Neurodegeneration
Organizer: Randall Bateman (WashU Neurology)
- March 27: Shin-Ichiro Imai (WashU Developmental Biology)
- April 3: S. Kerry Kornfeld (WashU Developmental Biology)
- April 10: Andrew Yoo (WashU Developmental Biology)
- April 17: Miranda Orr (Wake Forest University)
Full schedule, Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Genetics Seminar Series
Ali Mortazavi, PhD
Professor
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Title TBD
Hosted by: Dr. Heather Lawson
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Seminar Series
Ellen Hoffman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Yale Child Study Center & Yale Neurogenetics Program
Yale University School of Medicine
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Functional analysis of autism risk genes in zebrafish
Hosted by: Dr. Joe Dougherty
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Seminar Series
Jesse Engreitz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Mapping the regulatory wiring of the genome to connect disease variants to functions
Hosted by: Dr. Heather Lawson
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Seminar Series
Lacra Bintu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
The sequence determinants of human transcriptional activators and repressors: high-throughput discovery and systematic perturbations
Hosted by: Dr. Barak Cohen
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Seminar Series
Kristopher Kahle, MD, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Genomics of developmental brain anomalies
Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Seminar Series
Jessica Tollkuhn, PhD
Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Stephen Johnson Memorial Lecture, student-invited speaker
Hormonal regulation of gene expression defines sex-variable biology
Talk abstract: My lab studies how nuclear hormone receptors modulate gene expression in the brain at single-cell resolution, and how this affects development of and activity within circuits that mediate specific behaviors. We anticipate that the hormone-regulated genes we have identified will contribute to established sex differences in the incidence and etiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Hosted by: Simona Sarafinovska, Din Selmanovic, and Genetics trainees & postdocs
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Special Seminar
Aaron Gitler, PhD
Professor
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
25th Donald C. Shreffler Memorial Lecture
Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease
Hosted by: Dr. Jeffrey Milbrandt
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Genetics Special Seminar
Itay Tirosh, PhD
The Dr. Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman & Dr. Lutz Zwillenberg Career Development Chair
Department of Molecular Cell Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Genetics
Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
520 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
Pan-cancer analysis of intra-tumor heterogeneity
Hosted by: Dr. Sid Puram
In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
42nd Annual Oliver H. Lowry Lecture
Didier Stainier, PhD
Director of the Department of Developmental Genetics, Professor of Biology
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Goethe University
Title:
The Lowry Lecture is held annually to honor the many contributions of the late Oliver Lowry to the field of biochemistry and metabolic regulation, as well as to Washington University. Dr. Lowry came to Washington University in 1947 and chaired the Department of Pharmacology from 1947 to 1976. He was Dean of the School of Medicine from 1955-1958. He became an Emeritus Professor in 1979, and served as acting Department Chair from 1989-1990. He remained an active member of the Department through 1994.
For information, contact: a.abrams@wustl.edu
Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Catherine Hartley, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
New York University
Debra Silver, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
EPNEC Auditorium
Title: “TBA”
The Annual Neuroscience Retreat is organized by graduate students across programs and departments, and intended to foster scientific and social interaction among students, post docs, and faculty in the WashU Neuroscience community.
Visit the Neuroscience Retreat webpage for all the information.
Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Catherine Hartley, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
New York University
Debra Silver, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
EPNEC Auditorium
Title: “TBA”
The Annual Neuroscience Retreat is organized by graduate students across programs and departments, and intended to foster scientific and social interaction among students, post docs, and faculty in the WashU Neuroscience community.
Visit the Neuroscience Retreat webpage for all the information.