CDI / Georgetown – Postdoctoral Seminar Series

About the Series
Launched in 2020, this consortium-wide seminar series highlights research by our postdoctoral and clinical fellows.
2022-2023 Speakers
Thursday, June 8, 2023
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
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Emre Deniz, PhD
Mentor: Aykut Uren, MD
Title: “Ezrin Asserts its Roles on Osteosarcoma Metastasis Through Interacting with RNAs”

Chandra Char, PhD
Mentors: Suzanne O’Neill, PhD, and Marc Schwartz, PhD
Title: “Hearing Loss & Cancer: Assessing the moderation of race using the NIH All of Us Data Set”
Thursday, May 25, 2023
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
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Hariprasad Thangavel, PhD
Dr. Jyothi Nagajyothi Lab
Title: “Adipocyte-tumor Cell Crosstalk in Breast Cancer Pathogenesis”

Jia Liu, PhD
Dr. Hai-Hui Xue Lab
Title: “CTCF Mediates Effector CD8+ T cell Differentiation Through Genomic Reorganization”
December 15, 2022
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Todd Young, PhD
Mentor: Rebecca Riggins, PhD
Title: “Expression of Amino Acid Transporters and Metabolic Enzymes in Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer”

Susree Modepalli, PhD
Mentor: Gary Kupfer, MD
Title: “Elucidating the Role of Codanin-1 in Erythroid Differentiation”
December 1, 2022
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Yasmine Hassoun, PhD
Dr. David Perlin Lab
Title: “Mutations in a Fatty Acid Elongase Evolve During Antifungal Drug Treatment in Candida glabrata Colonizing the Gut and Contribute to Drug Tolerance In Vivo”

Wassihun Aragaw, PhD
Dr. Thomas Dick Lab
Title: “Pyrazinoic Acid Analogs as Inhibitors of Mycobacterial Aspartate Decarboxylase”