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Seminar Series

Presentations take place in DRC 1, Room 1002 on Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. unless indicated otherwise.

2022 Seminar Series Presentation Schedule

Date	Speaker	Host/Mentor
December 5	Gargi Ghosal, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC gargi.ghosal@unmc.edu Title: Role of USP1 in Ewing sarcoma pathogenesis (tentative title)	Seminar Committee Moorthy Ponnusamy
December 12	Leila Gobejishvili, PhD University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky leila.gobejishvili@louisville.edu Title: Pleiotropic roles of phosphodiesterase 4 in hepatic inflammatory and fibrotic processes in humans and mice	Karuna Rasineni
December 19	No seminar scheduled
December 26	Christmas Holiday (No seminar)

2023 Seminar Series Presentation Schedule

Date	Speaker	Host/Mentor
January 2	New Year Holiday (No seminar)
January 9	Sreyashi Bhattacharya Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Datta’s lab
January 16	Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No seminar)
January 23	Sushanta Halder Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Batra’s Lab
January 30	Kishor K. Bhakat, PhD Associate Professor Department of Genetics Cell Biology & Anatomy, UNMC kishor.bhakat@unmc.edu Title: TBD	Seminar Committee Moorthy Ponnusamy
February 6	Carol Casey, PhD Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UNMC ccasey@unmc.edu Title: TBD	Seminar Committee Moorthy Ponnusamy
February 13	Steven A. Weinman, MD, PhD Professor and Vice Chair for Research Director, Liver Center Department of Internal Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, KS 66160 sweinman@kumc.edu Title: TBD	Armen Petrosyan
February 20	President’s Day (No seminar)
February 27	Joshua A. McDowell Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Deegan’s Lab
March 6	Raju Tamang Lama Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Singh’s Lab
March 13	Kevin Li Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Batra’s Lab
March 20	Rachel J. Kehrberg Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Kumar’s Lab
March 27	Arjun Dhir Fourth year student Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Hyde’s Lab
April 3	Dr. Marcin Kortylewski, PhD Professor Department of Immuno-Oncology City of Hope, California Title: Oligonucleotides as a multi-tool for cancer immunotherapy	Kishore Challagundla
April 10	Details TBD
April 18	Soumen Paul, PhD Professor and Director of Graduate Program Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research University of Kansas Medical Center spaul2@kumc.eduu 913-588-7236 Title: TBD	Samikshan Dutta
April 24	Amar Singh, PhD Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC Title: TBD	Seminar Committee Moorthy Ponnusamy
May 1	Arianne L. Thiess, PhD Associate Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine University of Colorado Title: TBD	Amar Singh
May 8	David Tuveson, PhD Professor Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center dtuveson@cshl.edu Title: TBD	Student Invited Speaker Kevin Li – Student representative
May 15	Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Director, GHN Molecular and Cellular Biology Program The Ohio State University zobeida.cruz-monserrate@osumc.edu 614-685-8266 Title: TBD	Micah Schott
May 22	Jeffrey L. Brodsky, PhD Professor, Avinoff Chair of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburg Title: TBD	Steve Caplan
May 29	Memorial Day (No seminar)