Seminar Series 2025-2026
Location: 125 Frick Fine Arts Building *Students registered for this course are REQUIRED to attend the seminars being hosted IN PERSON. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class.
- Time: 11:30am
*Out of respect for the speakers, please be on time and in your seat by 11:25am - In order to receive a passing grade, students registered for this course are only permitted 2 unexcused absences per semester. Please email cpcb.seminar@gmail.com if you need to be excused from attending.
- The use of Laptops and any other electronic devices during the talks, are prohibited. Please be courteous of the speakers.
If you are NOT taking this course for credit, you may sign in to view these talks over Zoom:
Zoom link: In email invite
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
Title |
| September 5, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| September 12, 2025 | NO SEMINAR |
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| September 19, 2025 |
Rebecca Taylor
Carnegie Mellon University |
Nate Lord (PITT) | |
| September 26, 2025 | Jonathan Henninger Carnegie Mellon University |
Christian Cuba Samaniego (CMU) | "RNA and biomolecular condensates in gene control" |
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October 3, 2025
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Benedict Paten UC Santa Cruz |
Andreas Pfenning (CMU) | "Furthering our understanding of human genetic variation: the human pangenome reference project second release" |
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October 10, 2025
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NO SEMINAR
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October 17, 2025
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NO SEMINAR |
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October 24, 2025
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Hakhamanesh Mostafavi New York University |
Richard Border (CMU) | "What genes are prioritized in genetic association studies?" |
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October 31, 2025
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Curtis McCloskey |
Nate Lord (PITT) | |
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November 7, 2025
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Katharina V. Koelle Emory University |
John Barton (PITT) | |
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November 14, 2025
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Noelle Noyes University of Minnesota |
William Yu (CMU) |
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November 21, 2025
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Claudia Solis-Lemus |
Dannie Durand (CMU)
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| November 28, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | ||
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December 5, 2025
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NO SEMINAR |
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WINTER BREAK |
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January 16, 2026
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Stefano Allesina
University of Chicago |
Oana Carja (CMU) | |
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January 23, 2026
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Jared Toettcher |
Nate Lord (PITT) | |
| January 30, 2026 |
Melissa Gymrek |
Jian Ma (CMU) |
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February 6, 2026
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Michael Elowitz |
Rachel Gottschalk (PITT) | |
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February 13, 2026
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Shaila Ahsan Musharoff Cornell |
Oana Carja (CMU) | |
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February 20, 2026
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Christina Leslie |
Jishnu Das (PITT) | |
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February 27, 2026
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NO SEMINAR
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March 6, 2026
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NO SEMINAR | ||
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March 13, 2026
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NO SEMINAR |
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March 20, 2026
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CMU | ||
| March 27, 2026 | Tess Smidt MIT |
David Koes (PITT) | |
| April 3, 2026 |
Khalid Al-Zahrani |
Curtis McCloskey (PITT) | |
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April 10, 2026
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NO SEMINAR | ||
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April 17, 2026
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Benedetta Bolognesi Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia |
Fritz Roth (PITT) |