Pathobiology Graduate Program

Events

2026 Spring Seminar Series

Date/Location	Speaker	Host
February 5, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Kevin Alby, Ph.D., D(ABMM) Director of Microbiology Brown University Health “Adjacent Academic: A View of Science from the Clinical Laboratory”	Richard Bennett
February 12, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Tamir Chandra, Ph.D., M.S. Professor of Biomedical Informatics Senior Associate, Division of Computational Biology Mayo Clinic "Epigenetics of Aging: Beyond clocks"	Center on the Biology of Aging
SPECIAL TIME! 4:00pm February 19 Location TBD	Noah K. Whiteman, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution & Development Department of Molecular & Cell Biology UC-Berkeley “Adaptation by Leaps and Bounds Through Horizontal Gene Transfer”	Division of Biomed Dean's Seminar
February 26, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Rizwan Romee, M.D. Principal Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School “Novel immune engineering approaches for cancer immunotherapy”	Khanhlinh Dinh
March 5, 70 Ship Street	Mara Sherman, Ph.D. Associate Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center “Defining cellular hierarchies in the tumor microenvironment”	Diana Ferreyra Faustino
March 12, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Anda Chirila, Ph.D. Manning Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience Brown University “Flexible encoding of somatosensory signals in the spinal cord dorsal horn”	Pathobiology Graduate Program
March 19, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Karen Adelman, Ph.D. Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School	Center on the Biology of Aging
March 26, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Alex K. Shalek, Ph.D. J.W. Kieckhefer Professor Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science MIT “Identifying & Counteracting the Impact of Environment Stress on Tissue Dysfunction”	George Tollefson
April 2, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Ned Wingreen, Ph.D. Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University “Collective dynamics of B cell affinity maturation”	Karthi Chellappa
April 9, 70 Ship Street	Diane Mathis, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Morton Grove-Rasmussen Chair of Immunohematology Harvard Medical School “Thymic mimetic cells: tolerogenic masqueraders”	Lillian Levin
April 16, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Amy K. Walker, Ph.D. Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine UMass Chan Medical School	Center on the Biology of Aging
April 23, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Aleeza Gerstein, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Statistics University of Manitoba “Human fungal pathogens and recurrent infections through the lens of evolution”	David Firer
April 30, Marcuvitz Auditorium	Manoj T. Duraisingh, Ph.D. John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Christopher de Graffenried
May 7, 70 Ship Street	Juan Manuel González-Rosa, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Boston College	Jessica Plavicki
May 14, 70 Ship Street	Wolfgang M. Kuebler, M.D., FAPS Professor and Director, Institute of Physiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Professor, Departments of Surgery and Physiology, University of Toronto Associate PI, German Center for Lung Research Associate PI, German Center for Cardiovascular Research “The many faces of the endothelium in lung vascular remodeling and pulmonary hypertension”	Imad Al Gouleh