Winter Quarter

"Pathobiology of APOE in Alzheimer’s disease” Guojun Bu, Ph.D. Mary Lowell Leary Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience Jorge and Leslie Bacardi Associate Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville

"Tracing the Evolutionary Origins of X-chromosome Inactivation” Sundeep Kalantry, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Human Genetics University of Michigan

Katey Rayner, PhD, FAHAAssociate ProfessorMember, College of the Royal Society of Canada Director, Biochemistry Graduate ProgramDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology Faculty of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa Heart Institute

"Cell intrinsic control of viral infection" John W. Schoggins, PhDAssociate Professor of MicrobiologyDirector of Molecular Microbiology Graduate ProgramUT Southwestern Medical Center

“The dynamic epigenome – challenges and opportunities for health aging and suppression of cancer" Prof. Peter D. Adams Professor and Co-Director Aging, Cancer and Immuno-oncology Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

"The ABC of RNA Editing in Trypanosomes" Ruslan Afasizhev, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine

“Coagulation factor 11 mediates liver- heart crosstalk and protects against heart failure” Jake Lusis, Ph.D. Professor Medicine-Cardiology, Human Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics UCLA

“Pathways of Lysosome Dysfunction Across Neurodegenerative Diseases” Shawn Ferguson, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Neuroscience Yale University

“Chromatin-Associated RNA Decay in Epigenetic Gene Silencing” Danesh Moazed, Ph.D. Professor, Cell Biology HHMI Investigator Harvard Medical School