HudsonAlpha Research Seminars

The HudsonAlpha Research Seminars bring together experts in genetics, genomics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, medicine and immunology for free, public presentations and debate among the scientific community. The seminars also provide valuable academic learning and discussion opportunities for scientists training in labs at HudsonAlpha and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Seminars are hosted by researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology from October through May.

Upcoming Research Seminars

For more information about HudsonAlpha Seminars, please contact Kathy Rader at krader@hudsonalpha.org.

April 2019

April 10, 2019
Host: Sara Cooper, PhD
Anita Hjelmeland, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology (CDIB)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Birmingham, AL

April 15, 2019
Host: Greg Barsh, MD, PhD
Prof. Dr. Tosso Leeb
Director Institute of Genetics
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

April 24, 2019
Host: Kankshita Swaminathan, PhD
Robert Schmidt, PhD
Founder, Resolute Genetics, LLC
Former Chief Scientist, SG Biofuels, Inc
Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

May 2019

May 1, 2019
Host: Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, Rick Myers, PhD, Bruce Korf, MD, PhD
UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine – 2019 Symposium:
Marc S. Williams, MD
Director, Genomic Medicine Institute
Geisinger
Danville, PA

May 8, 2019
Host: Elaine Lyon, PhD, Irina Vasenkova, PhD, Kailos Genetics
Madina Sukhanova, PhD, FACMG
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Co-Director, Cytogenetics
Assistant Technical Director, Molecular Diagnostics
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL

May 15, 2019
Host: Sara Cooper, PhD
Qunhua Li, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

May 22, 2019
Host: Rick Myers, PhD
David Kingsley, PhD
Professor and HHMI Investigator
Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Future Schedule

Research Seminars News

Researcher discusses study of glioblastoma in HudsonAlpha seminar
April 10, 2019
Anita Hjelmeland, PhD, addressed her research on glioblastoma for this week’s HudsonAlpha seminar session. Hjelmeland, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, detailed her research on the type of brain tumor Senator John McC...
HudsonAlpha seminar explores impact of Neanderthal DNA on modern health
April 3, 2019
Tony Capra, PhD, presented at this week’s HudsonAlpha seminar session. Capra, of Vanderbilt University, explained how geneticists identified evidence that modern humans once interbred with Neanderthals, leaving a lasting impact ...
Nonsense mutations and their health effects explored at HudsonAlpha seminar
March 27, 2019
David M. Bedwell, PhD, delivered a seminar at HudsonAlpha on research efforts to battle the health effects of nonsense mutations. Bedwell, of The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Gen...