TV Seminar 2024-2025

Held the third Friday of every month in BRB 301 at noon. Two trainees present their research findings each month. The 2024 - 2025 schedule is as follows
September20 ► Speakers
Malay Sannigrahi, from Dr. Devraj Basu Lab
Title: "Immune suppression due to elevated DNA damage repair predicts bad biology in HPV associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma".
Dipayan Bose, from Dr. Erle Robertson lab
Title: "KSHV-encoded LANA bypasses transcriptional block through the stabilization of RNA Pol II in hypoxia".
October 18 ► Speakers
Amulya Sreekumar, from Dr. Lewis Chodosh lab
Title: "Breast cancer residual lesions co-opt a bone development program to maintain dormancy".
Leonardo Castro Muñoz, from Dr. Paul Lieberman lab
Title:  "Regulation of Epstein–Barr virus Latency by histone variant H2A.Z".
November 15 ► Speakers
Namrata Kumar, form Dr. Matthew Weitzman lab
Title:   "Non-canonical role for DNA repair protein RAD51 in viral transcription"
Taylor Senay, form Dr. Jianxin You Lab
Title:  “Host-Virus Harmony: How the MCPyV Protein ALTO Fine-Tunes Innate Immunity”
January 17 ► Speakers

Jacinta Davis, from Dr. Andrei Tikhonenko Lab
Title: "Reversing non-productive splicing of CD22 transcripts to overcome resistance to immunotherapy".

February 21 ► Speakers
Kim Manning, from Dr. Ahmed Diab lab
Title: “Investigating the role of APOBEC3 enzymes in HNSCC”.
March 21 ► Speakers
Rachel Sklutuis, from Dr. Italo Tempera lab 
Title: “The Dynamics of NAD+ Metabolism During EBV Infection and Latency”
Ying Liu, from Dr. Ahmed Diab lab
Title: "WEE1 inhibition triggers tumor microenvironment-dependent antitumor immunity against HPV+ HNSCC tumors."
April 18 ► Speakers
Joseph Patria, from Dr. Devraj Basu lab
Title "Defining and targeting the biology of therapy resistance in recurrence prone HPV+ head and neck cancer".
Lorenzo Serra, from Dr. Alex Price lab
Title: "Effect of splicing inhibitors on Adenovirus RNA processing and infection".
May 16 ► Speakers
James Regan, from Dr. Jianxin You Lab
Pyounghwa Park, from Dr. Italo Tempera lab