Shannon McKinney-Freeman, PhD

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Member, Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital "Hematopoietic stem cells during ontogeny and disease"

Simpson Lab / Kueh Lab

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Cory Simpson, MD, PhD, FAAD Assistant Professor of Dermatology "Modeling Genetic Skin Diseases in Organotypic Epidermis: From Bedside to Bench and Back" Katie Denecke Graduate Student in Kueh lab "Interrogating the mechanism of a chromatin switch controlling T cell lineage commitment"

Escobar Lab / Regnier Lab

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Thelma Escobar, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry "Histone chaperones in stem cell fate decisions and cancer" Matt Childers, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in Regnier/Mack labs "Using 2’-deoxy-ADP to probe the stability of the myosin interacting heads motif at atomic resolution"

M. Cristina Nostro, PhD

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto Harry Rosen Chair in Diabetes Regenerative Medicine, McEwen Stem Cell Institute at University Health Network "Building hPSC-derived islet-like cells: lessons from the fetal niche"

Utpal Banerjee, PhD

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Life Sciences Distinguished Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Distinguished Professor, Biological Chemistry HHMI Professor University of California, Los Angeles "“Developmental Metabolism” of the Mammalian Preimplantation Embryo"

Horwitz Lab / Boyle Lab

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Marshall Horwitz, MD, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology "Targeted Therapy of a Novel Muscular Dystrophy Driven by Mitochondrial Mutator Phenotype" Chelsea Gibbs Graduate Student in Boyle Lab "Synergistic Graft Interactions May Lead to High VT Following Stem Cell Therapy"

Hawkins Lab / Kwon Lab

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

David Hawkins, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine/Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences "Decoding Epigenomic Regulation of T Stem and Progenitor Cells for Insights into Immune Disorders" Arianna Gomez, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar from the Kwon Lab "Variants in efemp1 Alter Vertebral Characteristics in Adult Zebrafish"

Cirulli Lab / Freedman Lab

Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Vincenzo Cirulli, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition "Exploring epigenetic interventions for the production of stem cell-derived pancreatic islet tissue" Giulia Spennati, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in the Freedman/Fu labs "Modelling diabetic kidney disease with human organoids"