12:00 p.m. Room 145, Level 9, Basic Sciences Tower
All seminars are being held virtually through Teams or in person.
April 25, 2024
Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH
Scientific Director, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Adjunct Professor Department of Environmental Health Emory University Rollins School of Public Health "Climate change and cancer"
April 18, 2024
Jacob G. Scott, MD, DPhil
Associate Director for Cancer Data Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Staff Cleveland Clinic, Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Radiation Oncology "Towards evolutionary therapy in lung cancer: from bench to bedside"
April 11, 2024
Muhammad Qazi, MD
Chief/ Chairman, Department of Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, Medical Director Blood Bank/ Transfusion Services,
Consultant: Breast/ GYN/ Head & Neck/ Neuroendocrine and Dermatopathology Midstate Medical Center, CT "Interesting cases of upper aerodigestive track and thyroid"
April 9, 2024
Ji Dong (Karen) Bai, MD
Clinical Instructor, Surgical Pathologist Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University "Keratin 17 and its oncogenic roles in various carcinomas"
April 8, 2024
Fauzia Hasan, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine Staff Pathologist, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center "Diagnostic Approach to Pleural Mesothelioma"
March 29, 2024
Davsheen Bedi, MD
Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology Fellow MD Anderson Cancer Center "Round Cell Sarcomas"
March 26, 2024
Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD
Chief of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) Program, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School "Toward Integrative Insights into Environment, Microbiota, Immunity & Tumors (e.g., Early-Onset Cancer"
February 29, 2024
Giovanni D'Angelo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair on Metabolism, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Adjunct Professor, Stony Brook University, Department of Pathology "Making the Plasma Membrane(s)"
February 6, 2024
Jalil Nasibli, MD
Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Fellow Washington University School of Medicine "Diamond-Blackfan Anemia and its Management from Transfusion Medicine Perspective"
January 29, 2024
John A. Ozolek, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Medical Director of Pediatric Pathology, West Virginia University Children's Hospital, MD "C-cells, UBBs, SCN; An embryological family tree: Implications for thyroid disease"
January 25, 2024
Alejandro Vargas, MD
Cytopathology Fellow, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY "An Introduction to Slide Free Histology"
January 19, 2024
Stephen Wall, DO
Associate Pathologist, Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg, PA "An Updated Review on the Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology"
January 12, 2024
Stephanie Livingston, MD
Board Certified Anatomic Pathologist "Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors: WHO 5th Edition Updates"
January 4, 2024
Brendan Boyce, MD Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University "Lipoprotein (a), a deadly lipid that nearly killed me and could kill you"
December 15, 2023
Mario Shields, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University "G-Protein Signaling in Pancreas Cancer"
December 4, 2023
Aryeh Stock, MD
Fellow, Gastrointestinal Pathology, Pathology, Molecular, and Cell-Based Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City "Translational AI: Practical Applications of Deep Learning and GPT4 in GI Pathology"
November 28, 2023
Yu Yu, MD
Uropathology Fellow
New York University "Diagnostic Challenges and Pitfalls in Bladder Tumors"
October 26, 2023
Rosalie Sears, PhD
Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics
Krista L. Lake Chair in Cancer Research, Co-Director, Brenden-Colson Center for Pediatric Care OHSU, PhD "MYC'S Role in Liver Metastatic, Poor Outcome Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma"
October 20, 2023
Barbara Sampson, MD, PhD
Vice President of the American Board of Pathology
American Board of Pathology "The American Board of Pathology: Past, Present and Bright and Bold Future"
September 25, 2023
Thomas D. Schmittgen, PhD
Professor and Chair, V. Ravi Chandran Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Cancer Genetics Research Complex "Pancreatic Acinar Ductal Metaplasia: There's More to Plasticity than Meets the Eye"
September 25, 2023
Sameer Al Diffalha, MD
Associate Professor, Director of GI Pathology Fellowship, Director of UAB Tissue Biorepository, Vice Chair for Outreach University of Alabama at Birmingham "Liver Lesions: Review/ Update and Glimpse into Future Possibilities"
September 14, 2023
Gilbert Rahme, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacological Sciences
Stony Brook University "Modeling epigenetic lesions that cause gliomas"
September 6, 2023
Hongjie Li, MD, PHD
Assistant Professor, GI/ Liver/ Molecular Pathology
Section Head of Liver Pathology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Danville, PA "Role of Molecular Testing in GI/ Pancreatic/ Liver Cancers in the Era of Precision Medicine"
August 29, 2023
Shella Kumar Mongia, MBBS, MD, FCAP, FASCP
Surgical Pathologist
VA Medical Center, Northport, NY "Breast Cancer Pathology in the Era of Precision Medicine" August 8, 2023
Chunyuan Jin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine
New York University Grossman School of Medicine "Chromatin Deregulation and Carcinogenesis by Environmental Exposures"
June 13, 2023
Jonathan Heusel, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Director, Clinical Genomics and Inherited Disease Diagnostics
Washington University School of Medicine "Genomic Medicine and the (ongoing) Digital Transformation in Healthcare"
June 12, 2023
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Chief, Hematology and Chemistry Core Laboratories, and Attending Physician, Transfusion Services
Stony Brook University Hospital, Department of Pathology "Critical Laboratory Values"
June 8, 2023
Rondell Graham, MBBS
Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN "How Molecular Technology is Transforming GI/Liver Pathology"
June 2, 2023
David Alter, MD, MPH, DACC
Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of Clinical Chemistry, Co-Medical Director Core Laboratories and Medical Director of Point Care Testing
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta GA "Critical Values: Once More into the Breach"
June 1, 2023
Maureen Murphy, PhD
Ira Brind Endowed Professor and Program Leader,
Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program "Out of Africa: The Genetics of Tumor-Suppression by p53"
May 23, 2023
Waqas Mahmud, MD
Clinical Informatics Fellow
Stony Brook University Hospital, Department of Pathology/ Biomedical Informatics "Methods to address QNS samples in an academic genomics lab"
May 22, 2023
Yi Ding, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital "Miscellaneous or Infinite: Laboratory Medicine in Value-based Care"
May 11, 2023
James Musser, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Houston Methodist Hospital "Genome-scale analysis of the many secret lives of group A streptococcus, a versatile human pathogen"
March 16, 2023
Tobias Janowitz, PhD
Professor, MB, BChir
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Pathology of tumor-host interactions"
February 27, 2023
Wenge Zhu, PhD
Professor Tenured, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
George Washington University-School of Medicine & Health Science "Regulation of DNA Repair and Drug Resistance: From the Bench to Bedside"
January 17, 2023
Alae Kawam, DO
Surgical Pathologist, PGY-5, DO
Hofstra/ Northwell Pathology, Greenvale, NY "The pathologic patterns of e-cigarettes and vaping"
November 22, 2022
Lizhong Wang, MD, PhD
Professor with Tenure, Department of Genetics The University of Alabama at Birmingham "Oncogene activation and x-linked tumor suppressor gene reactivation"
November 17, 2022
Lorenzo Galluzzi, PhD
Weill-Cornell Medical Center "Immunological Mechanisms of Resistance to CDK4/6 Inhibition in Breast Cancer"
November 14, 2022
Anupama Sharma, MD, MHA
Associate Professor of Pathology
SOM, UPMC "Granulomatous Inflammation in EBUS fine needle aspirate"
November 10, 2022
Arvind Panday, PhD
NIH/NCI K99/ R00 Pathway to Independence Fellow
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School "Therapeutic Potential of FANCM for BRCA1- Linked Cancer"
October 27, 2022
Emery H. Bresnick, PhD
Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health "From GATA Factor Human Genetics to Stem Cell and Cancer Mechanisms"
October 10, 2022
Kanaga Sabapathy, PhD
Professor and Head, Division of Cellular and Molecular Research Duke-NUS Medical School "Understanding and targeting p53 mutations"
September 30, 2022
13th Annual Marvin Kuschner Memorial Lecture
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD
Senior Group Leader
Head of Janelia's 4D Cellular Physiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus "Looking under the hood of cells: from single molecule dynamics to whole cell organelle reconstructions"
August 4, 2022
Dr. Chengfeng Yang, PhD
Professor
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
“RNA Dysregulations In Carcinogenesis And Cancer Metastasis: Opportunities For Developing Mechanism-Based Cancer Therapies”
July 28, 2022
Dr. Sumitra Deb
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Microbiology & Immunology
Virginia Commonwealth University
“Novel Targeting Of Lung Tumors Carrying Oncogenic p53 Mutants”
July 14, 2022
Dr. Kenneth P. Olive
Associate Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
"Understanding Cellular States In Pancreatic Cancer And Their Response To Therapeutics"
April 28, 2022
Dr. Izabela Podgorski
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
"Fat Cells, Lipids And Metabolic Deregulation In Bone-Metastatic Cancers"
April 7, 2022
Dr. Susan Waltz
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
“Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Breast Cancer”
March 24, 2022
Dr. Christian Metallo
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Salk Institute
“Altered Serine and Glycine Metabolism In Cancer And Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy”
March 10, 2022
Dr. Labros Meimetis
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology/Cancer Center
Stony Brook University
"RadioIMunoStimulants (RIMS) A Targeted In Situ Vaccination Strategy for Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer"
March 3, 2022
Dr. Binfeng Lu
Professor, Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
“Tissue Alarmin Cytokines As A Novel Cancer Immunotherapy”
January 6, 2022
Dr. Wenwei Hu
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
“p53 In Cancer And Infection”
December 16, 2021
Dr. Marilyn Bui
Professor of Pathology
Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
“Unleash Your Superpower as a Patient-Centered Pathologist Through Research and Collaboration”
December 9, 2021
Dr. Guojun Yu
Research Fellow, Department of Cell Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Mechanistic Exploration Of The Chromatin Environment In Targeting Somatic Hypermutation in Human B Cells”
December 7, 2021
Dr. Emily Wang
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
“Local and Systemic Effects of Cancer-Secreted Extracellular miRNA”
December 2, 2021
Dr. Zhaohui Feng
Professor
Departments of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
“Tumor Suppressor p53 and Its Mutants In Cancer Metabolism”
November 4, 2021
12th Annual Marvin Kuschner Memorial Lecture
Dr. Ramon Parsons
Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“The PTEN/PI3K/AKT Pathway in Cancer”
October 21, 2021
Dr. Esperanza Arias
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Selective Autophagy in Liver Pathophysiology”
September 23, 2021
Dr. Luisa Escobar-Hoyos
Assistant Professor, Therapeutic Radiology & Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
“Altered RNA Splicing: A Driver Event In Pancreatic Cancer”
September 16, 2021
Dr. Ke Jian Liu
Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research
University of New Mexico
“Selective Interaction of Arsenic with Zinc Finger Proteins: Implications and Health Effects”
September 2, 2021
Dr. Costas Lyssiotis
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan
“Metabolic Networks in the Tumor Microenvironment”
August 19, 2021
Dr. Linda Schuler
Professor, Comparative Biosciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Hormones and ER+ Breast Cancer: Orchestrating the Tumor Microenvironment"
July 15, 2021
Dr. Don X. Nguyen
Associate Professor, Pathology and Medical Oncology
Yale University
“Adaptive Mechanisms of Metastasis and Drug Response in Lung Cancer”
June 10, 2021
Dr. David Montrose
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University
“Modulating Diet and Microbiota to Prevent and Treat Colorectal Cancer”
June 3, 2021
Dr. Jingfang Ju
Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University
"Build a MicroRNA Cancer Drug Development Platform"
May 27, 2021
Dr. Mike Airola
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Stony Brook University
“Structural Insights Into Triglyceride Biosynthesis”
May 20, 2021
Dr. Donald Karcher
Professor and Immediate Past Chair of Pathology, George Washington University Medical Center
"The CAP and the Future of Pathology"
May 6, 2021
Dr. Agnieszka Bialkowska
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Stony Brook University
"Pancreatic Disease: Progression From Pancreatitis to Cancer"
April 29, 2021
Dr. Hasan Korkaya
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Augusta University
"Significance of Myeloid Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment and Pre-Metastatic Niche"
April 22, 2021
Dr. Joel Saltz
Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine in the Department of Pathology
Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine
Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center
"Pathology Informatics – Digital Pathology, AI, Research and the Laboratory"
April 15, 2021
Dr. Anait S. Levenson
Professor of Cancer Research and Pharmacology
Co-Director, Cancer Research Laboratories (Brooklyn)
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University
“MTA1-Targeted Chemopreventive, Interceptive and Therapeutic Options in Prostate Cancer”
March 25, 2021
Dr. Chuan Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Stony Brook University
"Machine Learning in Cancer Imaging beyond Computer-Aided Dx"
March 18, 2021
Dr. Richard Moffitt
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University
“The National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Clinical Characterization and Early Severity Prediction”
March 11, 2021
Dr. Ute Moll
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair for Experimental Pathology
Stony Brook University
"Therapeutic Ablation of Gain-of-Function Missense Mutant p53 In Cancer As Critical Anti-Tumor Target"
March 4, 2021
Dr. Jeffrey Ge
Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stony Brook University
"The Effect of Off-Axis Rotation on PTV Estimation in Radiotherapy"
February 25, 2021
Dr. Evguenia Alexandrova
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University
“New Therapies and Mechanisms of HER2-positive Breast Cancer and Beyond”
February 11, 2021
Dr. Jerome Liang
Professor, Co-Director of Research, Department of Radiology
Stony Brook University
“Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Cancer Imaging”
January 14, 2021
Dr. Chiara Luberto
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Stony Brook University
“Role and Regulation of Sphingomyelin Synthase 1 in Leukemia: An Interesting ‘Start’”
January 7, 2021
Dr. Ramana Davuluri
Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Stony Brook University
"Application of Deep-learning Methods for Deciphering the Language of Non-coding DNA in the Human Genome"
December 17, 2020
Dr. Fei Chen
Wayne State University
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
"Epigenetic Regulator MDIG in Lung Fibrosis and Cancer"
November 19, 2020
Dr. Besim Ogretmen
Medical University of South Carolina
Professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in Lipidomics and Drug Discovery
"Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling in Cancer Therapeutics: Implications in Aging, Neurodegeneration, and Immunotherapy"
October 29, 2020
Dr. Jacob Houghton
Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor, Radiology
"An Innovative Strategy to Enhance Antibody-Based Nuclear Imaging and Therapy"
September 10, 2020
Dr. Adam Rosebrock
Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor, Pathology
"putting Metabolism In Context: Using Genetic and Nutritional Manipulation To Uncover New Biochemical Activities and Mechanisms of Regulation"
August 27, 2020
Dr. Mehdi Damaghi
University of South Florida
Assistant Professor, Oncologic Sciences
"Evolution of Metabolic Phenotyoes in Breast Cancer"
August 6th, 2020
Dr. Esther Speer
Stony Brook University
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
“Immunomodulatory approaches to neonatal infection and inflammation”
June 4th, 2020
Dr. Labros Meimetis
Chronus Pharmaceuticals
Chief Executive Officer
“Unique Immunotherapy Paradigms for Difficult to Treat Cancers”
February 20th, 2020
Dr. Qing (Robert) Mao
New York University Winthrop Research Institute
Professor, Foundations of Medicine
“Nogo-B receptor is an alternative target for attenuating Ras activation in cancer”
February 13th, 2020
Dr. Jorge Benach
Stony Brook University
Toll Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
“The discovery of the Lyme disease agent”
January 16th, 2020
Dr. Chris Halbrook
University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Fellow
“Metabolism Drives Therapy Resistance and Shapes Pancreatic Tumorigenesis”
December 12th, 2019
Dr. Jacob Houghton
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Radiology & Radiological Science
“Host: Guest Pretargeting for PET Imaging and Radioimmumotherapy”
December 5th, 2019
Dr. Jun Wang
Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
“Single-Cell Functional Proteomics Tools for Rapid Analysis of Molecular Signatures of Small Samples”
October 24th, 2019
Dr. Evelyn Jiagge
Henry Ford Hospital
“Unique international and multiethnic PDX models predict a possible ethnic specific immune signature in TNBC”
October 17th, 2019
Dr. Mayumi Fujita
University of Colorado
“Tumor inflammation and immune suppression via inflammasome activation”
October 3rd, 2019
Dr. Jan Krumsiek
Weill Cornell Medical Center
“Metabolomics: From Pathogenesis to Precision Medicine
September 19th, 2019
Dr. Shannon Cornett
Bruker Daltonics
Applications Development Manager
“MALDI Imaging is a versatile molecular visualization tool for discovering new insight into biological processes”
September 12th, 2019
Dr. David Hicks
University of Rochester
“Breast Cancer Predictive Factor Testing (ER, PR, & HER2): Bridging the Gap between Diagnosis and Clinical Management
August 22nd, 2019
Dr. Hassan Arbab
Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor
“Terahertz Biomedical Imaging: Developing a new handheld imaging modality for cancer diagnosis”
August 8th, 2019
Dr. Claudia Kemper
NIH
Chief of the Complement and Inflammation Research Station
“An Unexpected Force from Within: the Complosome as Key Player in Cell Metabolism”
July 25th, 2019
Dr. Eszter Boros
Stony Brook University
Department of Chemistry
Additional Information to be Announced
June 27th, 2019
Basil Rigas. MD, DSc
Chief Division of Cancer Prevention
Stony Brook University, Department of Medicine
"Modified NSAIDs as Anticancer Agents"
June 20th, 2018
Peter A. Sims, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Director, Systems Biology Graduate Studies Director, Columbia Single Cell Analysis Core
“Single Cell Analysis of Differentiation and Drug Response in Glioblastoma”
May 2th, 2019
Jin Wang, PhD
Professor Chemistry and Physics
Stony Brook University
“Exploring the Relationships between the Cancer and Immunity and between Cancer and Metabolism through the Underlying Regulatory Networks”
April 18th, 2019
Timothy McGraw, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry in Cardiothoracic Surgery
“AKT Regulation of Glucose Metabolism”
March 28th, 2019
Andrew H. Fischer, MD
Professor University of Massachusetts Medical School
Director Cytopathology
“The Importance of the Cellular Level for Diagnosis and Cancer Research”
March 14th, 2019
Dr. Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Assistant Professor Tisch Cancer Institute
Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology and Department of Medicine
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital
February 28th, 2019
Jingfang Ju, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine, Department of Pathology
“Development of miRNA based cancer therapeutics
February 7th, 2019
Andrew Aquirre, MD, PhD
Physician, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
January 31st, 2019
James Davis, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Medical Director of Stony Brook BioBank
Stony Brook Medicine, Department of Pathology
December 6th, 2018
Dr. Andrei Gudkov, PhD
Professor of Oncology and Garman Family Chair,
Department of cell stress biology, Roswell Park Cancer Center
“Puzzles and paradoxes of DNA damage response in vivo”
November 15, 2018- Annual Marvin Kuschner Lecture
Dr. Daniel Remick, MD
Professor and Chairman, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center
“Traumatic brain injury augments innate immunity to clear bacteria”
November 8th, 2018
Dr. Kanokporn Noy Rithidech, PhD
Professor of Research, Stony Brook Department of Pathology
“Ionizing Radiation: An established concept with new opportunities"
October 25th, 2018
Dr. Omar Tliba, DVM, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, Long Island College of Veterinary Medicine
“Corticosteroid resistance in severe asthma: Novel role of airway structural cells”
October 11th, 2018
Dr. Dennis Galanakis, MD
Professor, Stony Brook Department of Pathology
“Unraveling the composition and functions of circulating soluble fibrin”
September 27th, 2018
Dr. Asfar S. Azmi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Karmanos Cancer Institute Wayne State University
“Targeting Nuclear Protein Transport in Cancer”
September 6th, 2018
Dr. Yupo Ma, MD, PhD
Professor, Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab Scientific Director of Stem Cell Core,
Stony Brook Department of Pathology“Cell therapy is ischemic disease: a de-differentiation approach
