Seminar Series

Spring 2021 Schedule
Thursdays, 12:00-1:00 pm (unless otherwise noted)

Via Zoom

The Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research, in collaboration with several other departments on campus, sponsors the following seminar series:

• Seminars in Development and the Pathogenesis of Disease [Pathology]
  Sponsored by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research, and the Bohan Visiting Professor Program

• Seminars in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology [ObGyn]
  Sponsored by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research, and the Bohan Visiting Professor Program

• Seminar Series in Urology, Male Reproductive Health and Infertility [Urology]
  Sponsored by the Department of Urology, the Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research, and the Bohan Visiting Professor Program

• Special Seminars [Special]

Date	Series	Speaker	Title
February 11	Pathology	Scott T. Younger, PhD Children's Mercy Hospital	"Massively parallel cell-based systems to functionally profile rare genetic variants"
February 25	ObGyn	Stephanie Seminara, MD Harvard Medical School	"A Kiss to Remember"
March 4	Pathology	Carol Sartorius, PhD University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	"Hormone regulation of breast cancer heterogeneity"
March 11	Pathology	William Pastor, PhD McGill University	"Studying formation of the trophoblast and epiblast epigenomes using cell culture models"
March 18	Pathology	Martin Knöfler, PhD Medical University of Vienna	"Model systems and signalling pathways in human trophoblast development"
March 25	DCJohnson	Thomas E. Curry, Jr., PhD University of Kentucky	"Ovulation: Emerging Concepts in the Human"
April 1	Pathology	Xinyang Zhao, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham	"Protein arginine methylation transduces signals in normal and abnormal blood development"
April 15	Pathology	Rachel Schiff, PhD Baylor University	"Genomic and epigenomic-driven transcriptional reprograming in treatment resistant ER+ breast cancer and metastasis"
April 22	Pathology	Paola Vermeer, PhD Sanford Health	"Tumor innervation: How do nerves get recruited? What do they do once in the tumor bed?"
April 29	Voogt	Michael N. Lehmann, PhD Kent State University	"Neuroendocrine Basis of Reproduction: KNDy cells and beyond"
May 6	Damjanov	Terry Magnuson, PhD University of North Carolina	"Genome-Wide Dynamics of Chromatin Modifiers"
May 13 & 14	ObGyn	Nataki Douglas,MD, PhD Rutgers University	Thursday Lecture (Basic Science) "Notch in Pregnancy and Cancer" Friday Lecture (Grand Rounds) "Infertility and Preeclampsia: A Spectrum of Endometrial Pathology"
May 20	Pathology	John M. Perry, PhD Children's Mercy Hospital	"Igniting immunity against therapy-resistant leukemia stem cells"

For more information and to get access to the Zoom details, please email Brandi Miller.