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 Alabama Universities. Seminars are hosted by researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology from October through May, and they are typically held on Wednesdays at noon in the Wayne R. Widener Auditorium at HudsonAlpha.
Upcoming Research Seminars
February 5, 2020
Paul G. Wolf, PhD
The Evolution of Genome Size and Chromosome Number in Plants
Professor and Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL
Host: Jeremy Schmutz and Jane Grimwood, PhD
February 19, 2020
Guy A. Caldwell, PhD
Found in Translation: Accelerating Discovery of Therapeutic Targets for Parkinson’s Disease using C. elegans
University Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Host: Rick Myers, PhD, and Kevin Bowling, PhD
February 26, 2020
Zachary Culumber, PhD
Freshwater fishes as a window to major patterns of evolutionary diversification
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Host: Greg Barsh, MD, PhD
March 4, 2020
Matthew Niemiller, PhD
Studying the darkness of cave life in light of genomics
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Department
The University of Alabama Huntsville
Huntsville, AL
Host: Greg Cooper, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED March 11, 2020
Jennifer S. Yokoyama, PhD
Genetic and inflammatory contributions to early-onset neurodegenerative disease
Assistant Professor
Memory and Aging Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Host: Nick Cochran, PhD, Sara Cooper, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED March 18, 2020
Erik D. Roberson, MD, PhD
Progress in understanding genetic mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease
Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
Patsy W. and Charles A. Collat Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Director, Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Host: Greg Barsh, MD, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED March 25, 2020
Olivia Corradin, PhD
Leveraging 3D chromatin dynamics to identify pathogenic cell types of risk alleles
Scott Cook and Signe Ostby Fellow
Whitehead Institute for Biomededical Research
Cambridge, MA
Host: Eric Mendenhall, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED April 8, 2020
Ira M. Lubin, PhD, FACMG
Heather L. Stang, MS, MT(AMT)
Lisa Kalman, PhD
Innovative Approaches to Advancing the Quality of Clinical Genetic Testing
Division of Laboratory Systems
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Host: Elaine Lyon, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED April 15, 2020
David H. Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG
Precision Health at Geisinger: A clinical imperative to sequence every patient
Executive Vice President/Chief Scientific Officer
Geisinger
Danville, PA
Host: Elaine Lyon, PhD
EVENT POSTPONED April 29, 2020
Yin Bao, Ph.D.
Robotic Plant Phenotyping and Beyond
Assistant Professor
Department of Biosystems Engineering
Auburn University
Auburn, AL
Host: Jeremy Schmutz, Alex Harkess, PhD
May 13, 2020
Lin He, PhD
Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair Professor
Molecular Cell Biology Department
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Host: Greg Barsh, MD, PhD
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Past Speakers
Tatyana (Tanya) Sysoeva, PhD
University of Alabama in Huntsville
David M. Bedwell, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael Buck, PhD
University at Buffalo
Tony Capra, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dana C. Crawford, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Shelley Force Aldred, PhD
TeneoBio, Menlo Park, CA
Anita Hjelmeland, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Prof. Dr. Tosso Leeb
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
David H. Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG
Geisinger
Qunhua Li, PhD
Pennsylvania State University
Antonis Rokas, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Robert Schmidt, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Louisa A. Stark, PhD
University of Utah
Richard A. Spritz, M.D.
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Madina Sukhanova, PhD, FACMG
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Winston Timp, PhD
John Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Peter Walter, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Wes Warren, PhD
University of Missouri
Susan R. Wessler, PhD
University of California Riverside
Marc S. Williams, MD
Geisinger
Misha Angrist, PhD
Duke University
Josh Akey, PhD
Princeton University
Leslie Biesecker, MD
National Institutes of Health
Toby Bloom, Ph.D.
New York Genome Center
Patrick Brown, PhD
University of California, Davis
Joseph Carroll, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Philip M. Farrell, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Jennifer Hall, PhD
American Heart Association
Sara J Knight, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leslie A. Lyons, PhD
University of Missouri Columbia, MO
Franco Marincola, MD, FACS
Michael Lotze, MD
John Mullet, PhD
Texas A&M University
Stan Nelson, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Ellis Neufeld, MD, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
John A. Phillips III, M.D.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Sharon Plon, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
John Schimenti, PhD
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Lea Starita, PhD
University of Washington Seattle
Benjamin F. Voight, PhD
University of Pennsylvania – Perelman School of Medicine
Jarred Younger, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nick Cochran, PhD
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Nadiya Sosonkina, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bruce Alberts, Ph.D.
Universtiy of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
David Braun, Ph.D.
University of Missouri
Cinnamon Bloss, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Deanna Church, PhD
10X Genomics Inc; Pleasanton, CA
Nancy Cox, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Steve Duncan, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mick D. Edmonds, PhD
UAB School of Medicine
Stephen Ekker, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Michael Flister
Medical College of Wisconsin
John Forsayeth, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Henry T. “Hank” Greely, JD
Stanford University
Leon Hardy, PhD
University of South Florida
Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Michael Hoffman, Ph.D.
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Toronto Medical Discovery Tower,
Kenneth Kosik, MD
University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael T. Lotze, MD
Lion Biotechnologies, Inc.; Tampa, FL
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
William Murphy, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
John Isaac Murray, Ph.D.
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Natalie Rasgon, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Erik Sacks, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
John Schimenti, Ph.D.
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Kranthi Varala, PhD
Purdue University
Dr. Pankaj Arora
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. David Beier
University of Washington
Dr. Jeremy Day
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Michel Georges
University of Liege
Dr. Geoffrey Hill
Auburn University
Dr. Steve Rowe
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Martin Walsh
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Xu Wang
Cornell University
Dr. Robert S. Welner
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. David C. Williams
UNC School of Medicine
Dr. Wei Yan
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Dr. Kenneth H. Yu
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. David Bick
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Corces Victor
Dr. Robert Duncan
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Sandra Gaston
Tufts Medical Center (TMC)
Dr. John Greally
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Howard Jacob
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Jeffrey M. Kidd
University of Michigan Medical School
Dr. Robert Kingston
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Charles Lee
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Dr. Nita Limdi
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Thomas May
University of California San Francisco
Dr. Robert Sobol
University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute
Dr. Gary Stacey
University of Missouri
Dr. John Vogel
DOE Joint Genome Institute
Dr. Robert Waterland
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Robert Waterston
University of Washington
Dr. Robert W. Williams
University of Tennessee
Dr. Elizabeth Worthey
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Chris Amemiya
Benaroya Research Institute
Dr. Malay Basu
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Jaideep Behari
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Bert Boyer
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Joseph DeRisi
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Douglas M. Fowler
University of Washington
Dr. Santhosh Girirajan
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. David Goldstein
Duke University School of Medicine
Dr. Valerie Horsley
Yale University
Dr. Howard Jacob
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Jason Lieb
Princeton University
Dr. Philip Low
Director of the Purdue Center for Drug Discovery
Dr. Harmit Singh Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr. Christopher E. Mason
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Dr. Heather Mefford
University of Washington
Dr. Todd Mockler
Danforth Center
Dr. Maynard Olson
University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Daniel R. Schoenberg
The Ohio State University
Dr. Julie Segre
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Dr. Jeramiah Smith
University of Kentucky
Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan
University of Illinois
Dr. Scott Williams
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth