Liver Biology Club

The Liver Biology Club is a monthly meeting of Center investigators in the Liver Biology Theme Group, with talks and vigorous discussion on liver-related research topics.

The Research Seminars take place the third Thursday of every month from 12 - 1 PM in 901 BRB II/III, unless otherwise noted. Lunch is provided.

February 27, 2025

Speakers-

  • Gundappa Saha (Hajishengallis Lab)
  • David Li (Wells Lab)

March 20, 2025

Speakers

  • Bukola Adebesin (Gade Lab)
  • Dan Boehmler (Gade Lab)

April 10, 2025

Speakers

  • Eleonora Scorletti (Rader Lab)
  • Josephine Johnson (Rader Lab)

May 8, 2025

Speakers

  • TBD

June 12, 2025

Speakers

  • Prema Agarwala (Wells Lab)

January 25, 2024

Speakers

  • Nicholas Lesner (Celeste Simon Lab)
  • Dominic Santoleri (Titchenell Lab)

February 15, 2024

Speakers

  • Eleana Kaffee (Manolis Lab)

March 21, 2024

Speakers

  • Donna Conlon (Guerty Lab)

  • Yang Xiao (Lazar Lab)

April 18, 2024

Speakers

  • Melissa Rowe (Kaestner Lab)

  • Tamir Diamond (Behrens Lab)

May 23, 2024

Speakers

  • Eleonora Scorletti (Rader Lab)

June 20, 2024

Speakers

  • Jacyln Welles (Titchenell Lab)

November 7, 2024

Speakers

  • Wentaou Liu (Wells Lab)

  • Belen Sirera (Wells Lab)

May 5, 2023

Speakers

  • Marijana Vujkovic, PhD - TBD
  • Anya Mezina, MD, MSc (Rader Lab) - TBD

April 7, 2023

Speakers

  • Kate Townsend Creasy, PhD (Rader Lab) - "TBD"
  • Subhan Chaudhry, MD, PhD (Shen Lab) - "Gut microbial and dietary regulation of CYP2E1-mediated drug and xenobiotic hepatotoxicity"

March 3, 2023

Speakers

  • Tamir Diamond, MD, PhD (Loomes Lab) - TBD

  • Kapish Gupta, PhD (Wells Lab) - "Toxins produced by blue green algae cause neonatal extrahepatic bile duct damage"

February 3, 2023

Speakers

  • Dr. Yedidya Saiman, MD, PhD (Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University) - TBD

  • Meg Stefkovich (Titchenell Lab) - "AKT's acute regulation of hepatic glucose utilization"

 

December 2, 2022

Speakers

  • Laura C. Kim, PhD (Simon Lab) - "Competition for Arginine between tumor and immune cells in HCC"

  • Chelsea Thorsheim (Arany Lab) - TBD

November 4, 2022

Speakers

  • Nicholas Lesner, PhD (Simon Lab) - "Examining the Urea Cycle and Arginine Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma"

  • Takeshi Katsuda - "The epigenetic basis of hepatobiliary plasticity following liver injury"

October 7, 2022

Speakers

  • Jinping Liu, PhD (Kaestner Lab) - "In Vivo Anti-Mir Screen Identifies the Combinational Immunotherapy Targets in Hepatocellular Carcinoma"

  • Jaclyn Wells (Titchenell Lab) - "Using single nuclei transcriptomics to investigate the role of phosphatidylcholine in NASH"

June 3, 2022

Speakers

  • Ale Vázquez Salgado (Wangensteen Lab) - "In Vivo CRISPRi Screento Identify Druggable Targets for Hepatocellular Carcinoma"

  • Eleonora Scorletti (Rader Lab) - TBD

May 6, 2022

Speakers

  • Nick Hand (Rader Lab) - TBD

  • Tobias Raabe - TBD

April 1, 2022

Speakers

  • Kapish Gupta (Wells Lab) - TBD
  • Kate Townsend Creasy (Rader Lab) - TBD

March 4, 2022

Speakers

  • Jinping Liu (Kaestner Lab) - TBD

  • Jaclyn Welles (Titchenell Lab) - TBD

February 4, 2022

Speaker

  • Moira Hilscher (Hilscher Lab) - "Regulation of portal hypertension through neutrophil-platelet interactions in liver sinusoids"

January 7, 2022

Speakers

  • Laura Kim (Simon Lab) - "Arginine in the HCC Tumor Microenvironment and Immune Suppression"
  • Agnes Holczbauer (Wangensteen lab) - TBD

 

 

December 3, 2021

Speakers

  • Celeste Simon (Simon Lab) - "Urea Cycle Loss And Novel HCC Therapeutics"
  • Takeshi Katsuda (Stanger Lab) - TBD

November 5, 2021

Speakers

  • Jessica Llewellyn (Wells Lab) - "Glisson’s capsule matrix thickness and composition is altered in cirrhotic patients irrespective of etiology"
  • Dingzi Yin (Wangensteen Lab) - TBD

July 1, 2021

Speakers

  • David Li  (Wells Lab)
  • Eleonora Scorletti (Carr Lab)

June 18, 2021

Speakers

  • David Li (Wells Lab)
  • Eleonora Scorletti (Carr Lab)

May 21, 2021

Speakers

  • Sarmistha Mukherjee (Baur Lab)

  • Kelley Weinfurtner (Kaplan Lab)

Title

  • "Metabolic changes in liver regeneration"

April 16, 2021

Speakers

  • Kahealani Uehara (Titchenell Lab)
  • Tamir Diamond (Behrnes Lab)

Title

  • "Regulation of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism by mTORC1"

March 19, 2021

Speakers

  • Brooke Bathon (Raabe Lab)
  • Bridget Gosis (Arany Lab)

Title

  • "Functional characterization of organoids derived from irreversibly damaged NASH patient liver"

February 19, 2021

Speakers

  • Tzachi Reizel (Kaestner Lab)

  • Dingzi Yin (Wangensteen Lab)

Title

  • "FoxA pioneer factors and DNA methylation regulate liver plasticity and stability"