Lecture Series

June 4, 2025
2:00-3:00pm ET

Lecture Series

October 23, 2025
2:00-3:00pm ET

Virtual Lecture Series

Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous mammalian chromosomes

Dr. Ana Pombo is a Professor and Senior Group Leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Dr. Pombo’s research group studies the interplay between gene regulation and genome architecture to understand their roles in development and disease.

Virtual Lecture Series

Effects of positive and negative selection on somatic copy-number changes in cancer genomes

Dr. Rameen Beroukhim is an Associate Professor of medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Beroukhim’s research group studies the somatic genetics of cancer, primarily identifying alterations in chromosome structure that contribute to tumor growth, and how changes to the genome affect cancer behavior.

Virtual Lecture Series

Molecular determinants of treatment response in glioblastoma

Dr. Sunit Das is a neurosurgeon and scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Kids, and Associate Professor and the Keenan Chair in Surgery at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the Provincial Lead for CNS Oncology at Cancer Care Ontario. Dr. Das’s research group investigates the biology of stem cells in the normal brain and in primary brain tumors by using real-world data and meta-analysis for clinical translation.

In-Person Lecture Series

Cancer evolution through the lens of the noncoding genome

Dr. Ekta Khurana is an Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and an Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Khurana’s research group studies the genetic and epigenetic changes that lead to tumor development and treatment resistance.