Speaker: Chang Hui Pak, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Hosted by: Guo-Li Ming, MD, PhD, Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, PSOM
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff! Come enjoy some snacks and stem cell science.
Location: JMR ‘62 Seminar Room
Title: Bioengineering Strategies for Augmenting Skeletal Muscle Function in Rotator Cuff Injuries
Speaker: Woojin Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!
IRM Faculty Lunch
Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
“Utilizing human brain organoids for neural repair”
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
12:00 PM | 9-100 SCTR
This event is for faculty only.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff. Join us for this IRM-sponsored installment of the Distinguished Seminar Series, which features notable researchers from institutions around the world.
Jacob H. Hanna, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science
“Synthetic Ex Utero Embryogenesis: From Naïve Stem Cells to Complete Embryo Models”
Monday, December 11, 2023
12:00 PM
BRB Auditorium
For questions about one-on-one meetings or trainee lunch with our speaker, please contact Diona Cashioli (diona.cashioli@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).
Speakers: Kate Miroshnikova, PhD, Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator, NIH/NIDDK
Alisya Anlas, B.S., Ph.D., Postdoc, Discher lab
Hosted by: Dennis Discher, Robert D. Bent Professor, Penn Engineering
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff! Come enjoy some snacks and stem cell science.
Location: BRB 253
Title: A central role of mechanotransduction in controlling Shh expression via Yap activation in both regeneration and embryonic development
Speaker: Dr. Yangzi Yang, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Developmental Biology
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 from 3:30-5:00pm in Room 9-146 SCTR
Speakers:
- Mijo Simunovic, PhD, Assistant Professor Columbia University
- Title: A slingshot through time: recreating the first steps of human embryonic development with stem cells
- Eoin Whelan, PhD, Postdoctoral Feloow Brinster Lab & Sasaki Lab
- Title: In vitro derivation of primate spermatogonia
Hosted by: Kotaro Sasaki, MD, PhD, School of Veterinary Medicine
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff! Come enjoy some snacks and stem cell science.
Location: Seminar Room CRB Auditorium
Title: Myostatin: A molecular Rheostat for Muscle Mass
Speaker: Se-Jin Lee, MD PhD, The Jackson Laboratory (co-sponsored with PCMD)
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!