Integrated Genetics and Genomics Graduate Seminar Series

Dr. David Segal, UC Davis, presents "Therapeutic gene editing is on the brink of disaster (and why no one has a good plan for saving it)".

Wolf Heyer, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, presents "The functions of BRCA2 in homologous recombination to maintain genomic stability: Implications for cancer predisposition and anti-canc

John Lindo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, presents "Ancient DNA in the Age of Genomics".

Dr. Pilar Blancafort, Associate Professor of Cancer Epigenetics, University of Western Australia, presents "Epigenome engineering for targeting breast cancer metastases".

Professor Flora Tassone, Department Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, presents "Somatic mosaicism and diseases".

Janai Carr-Asher, M.D. Ph.D., UC Davis, presents on Sarcoma biology.

Glennis Logsdon, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, presents "The sequence, variation, and evolution of human centromeres".

Alberto Ciccia, Ph.D., Columbia University, presents "Investigating the DNA damage response at high resolution".