Early-Career Scientist
Seminar Series

Marcos L. Aranda, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Neurobiology 
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA 

Light tunes long-term threat avoidance behavior

Han (Hannah) Fang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences 
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada 

Trapping microbial D lactate in the gut: a metabolite-based strategy to improve glycemia and MASLD/MASH

James (SeongJun) Han, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Departments of Immunology and Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Blavatnik Institute
Boston, MA, USA 

Aging as a Driver of Immune Dysfunction in Cancer

Selin Jessa, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

Deep learning approaches to decode gene regulation in development, disease, and therapeutics

Marshall S. Padilla, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA  

From Molecular Synthesis to Supramolecular Structure: Deciphering the Activity of RNA Lipid Nanoparticles

Ashley Libby, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Francis Crick Institute 
London, United Kingdom

CRISPy Chickens - Genetically coordinated cell fate transitions in neural tube development

Claudia Gentile, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Boston, MA, USA

Phosphorylation-dependent targeting and activity of cBAF chromatin remodeling complexes promotes oncogenic kinase signaling in cancer

Juan Inclan-Rico, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Veterinary Medicine 
University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, PA, USA

“Listen to your nerves”: Itch-inducing neurons distinctly modulate skin immunity

Khalid N. Al-Zahrani, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Molecular and Systems Biology
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Toronto, ON, Canada

Decoding aneuploidy in breast cancer

Marie-Anne Goyette, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA

Functional screening of novel HER2 heterogenous breast cancer model

Rony Chidiac, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada

Mechanisms of endothelial regeneration and vascular repair: Application to regenerative medicine

Benjamin Martin, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Compensation fonctionnelle dans le remodelage de la chromatine et la régulation de la transcription

Ana Uzquiano López, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA

Brain organoids: the quest to crack human cortical development and disease

Mingqi Han, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Spatial and temporal mapping of mitochondrial networks and bioenergetics in lung cancer

Lukas Tamayo Orrego, PhD

Research Fellow

MRC Human Genetics Unit
Institute of Genetics and Cancer
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Using Genetics to Understand the Vertebrate Replisome

Simon Chamberland, PhD

Pathway to Independence Fellow

New York University School of Medicine
NYU Neuroscience Institute
New York, NY, USA

Inhibitory mechanisms and circuits in the hippocampus

Jose Adrover Montemayor, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA

A vascular-restricted, tumor-induced neutrophil population drives vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis

Johannes Schlachetzki, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow / Assistant Project Scientist

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA

Epigenetic regulation of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases

Jumana AlHaj Abed, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Investigating how parental chromosomes organization shapes gene function

Dheva Setiaputra, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

53BP1 et BRCA1: mechanisms driving two antagonistic DNA repair pathways

Rasim Barutcu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts

Ahilya Sawh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biozentrum
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Conformational acrobatics of entire chromosomes during development

Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Infectious Disease Division
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Development of lipid-based delivery systems for mRNA vaccines and therapeutics – The future is brighter

Ramón A. Piñol, PhD

Staff Scientist

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Preoptic BRS3 neurons increase body temperature and heart rate via multiple pathways

Mehmet Neşet Özel, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Biology
New York University
New York, NY, USA

Coordinated control of neuronal differentiation and wiring specificity by a sustained code of transcription factors