2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecture Series
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm • 147 Nanaline Duke

Cell Biology Distinguished Lecture Series, 2024-2025
12:00PM - 1:00PM, 147 Nanaline Duke Buildling
December 2, 2024
JUN WU, Ph.D., Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Engineering human embryo-like structures with stem cells
December 9, 2024
VALENTINA GRECO, Ph.D., Carolyn Walch Slayman Professor of Genetics. Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Dermatology, Tenured, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland Yale University School of Medicine
Principles of Tissue Dynamics and Function Captured by Imaging Live Mice: The Power of Multiple Lenses
February 10, 2024
KAELYN D. SUMIGRAY, PH.D., Co-director; Mechanisms of Development, Assistant professor of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, Co-director: Yale Summer Enrichment Research Experience (YSERE), Yale University
Fate and Form: Intestinal morphogenesis and cell fate specification
January 6, 2025
CASSANDRA G. EXTAVOUR, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), Harvard University
Alien invasion: new genes and new biology generated by sequence transfer across kingdoms of life
January 27, 2025
JIAN MA, Ph.D., Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg
Learning Multiscale Genome and Cellular Organization
February 17, 2025
ED MUNRO, Ph.D., Professor,, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Propagation and stabilization of polarized states in embryonic cells and tissues
March 17, 2025
B. DUYGU ÖZPOLAT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Living Earth Collaborative Fellow Washington University, St. Louis
Germline development and regeneration in the annelid Platynereis
March 24, 2025
The Marc Caron Lecture
KATHLEEN CARON, Ph.D., Frederik L. Eldridge Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meningeal Lymphatics in the Pathophysiology of Migraine Pain