PRC/CCR Seminar Series

In collaboration with the School of Dentistry’s Center for Craniofacial Research (CCR), this seminar series is held on the third Friday of every month.

FY24 PRC/CCR Seminar Series

DateTimeSpeakerTitleLocationHost
September 15, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pmTao Yang, PhD

Interim Chief and Associate Professor
Van Andel Institute - Michigan
SUMOylation and Chromatin Modulators in Skeletal Development and DiseasesMSB B.612Yoshihiro Komatsu, PhD
September 29, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pmXiao Li, PhD

Assistant Investigator
Texas Heart Institute
The Macrophage Landscape Across the Lifespan of a Human Cardiac AllograftMSB B.612Jun Wang, PhD
October 20, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pmGuangwei Du, MS, PhD

Professor, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Phospholipid Signaling and Metabolism in Cellular RegulationMSB B.610Jun Wang, PhD
November 17, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pmKai Sun, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Lipids and Lipid Signaling in Metabolic Diseases and CancerMSB B.610Xiangli Yang Elefteriou, PhD
December 15, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pmRichard H. Finnell, PhD

Professor and Faculty Senator
Baylor College of Medicine
The Biology of Neural Tube Defects: From Prevention Efforts to Stem Cell TherapeuticsMSB B.612Jacqueline Hecht, PhD
January 19, 202412:00 pm - 1:00 pmFrancesca Cole, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Age-Dependent Alteration in Homologous Recombination Causes Chromosome Mis-segregation in Mouse SpermatocytesMSB B.612Xiangli Yang Elefteriou, PhD
February 16, 202412:00 pm - 1:00 pmRosa Uribe, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of BioSciences
Rice University
What About Neural Crest Diversification Below the Neck?MSB B.612Yoshihiro Komatsu, PhD
May 17, 202412:00 pm - 1:00 pmPhilip J. Lupo, PhD, MPH

Professor, Pediatrics Hematology - Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine
Integrating Epidemiologic and Genomic Data to Explore Cancer Risk in Children with Birth DefectsMSB B.612Rachel Miller, PhD
June 21, 202412:00 pm - 1:00 pmZheng (Jake) Chen, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
TBDMSB B.612Xiangli Yang Elefteriou, PhD