Verge Meeting History

September 12, 2023

• Andrew Moeller
  Extinction and adaptation of ancestral human gut microbiota
• Jan Lammerding
  Fixing broken nuclei, hearts and muscle – New insights and therapeutic approaches for laminopathies.

October 10, 2023

• Jessica Hayward
  Genetic studies of companion animal diseases
• Cedric Feschotte
  Transposon Addiction

November 14, 2023

• Nilay Yapici
  A gut-brain circuit regulates sugar ingestion in drosophila
• Paul Soloway
  Single-cell analyses of gene-environment interactions in health and disease

December 12, 2023

• Cynthia Leifer
  Regulation of innate immunity: A novel player in Toll-like receptor 8 signaling.
• Haiyuan Yu
  Map regulatory genomic landscape across diverse cell and tissue types through nascent transcriptome studies

February 13, 2024

• Mandi de Mestre
  Defining the intolerome of in utero life.
• Jonathan Butcher
  Hemodynamic operation of local mechanobiological switches drives spontaneous yet robust control of valve morphogenesis.

March 12, 2024

• Adam Boyko
  The Genetics of Canine Lab Values
• Norah Smith
  Using genetic variation to understand age-related differences in CD8+ T cell responses

April 9, 2024

• Nina Overgaard Therkildsen and Jen Grenier
  Haplotagging: Affordable linked-read sequencing to enable variant phasing and detection of structural variants in natural populations
• Santiago Peralta
  Translating genomic findings into veterinary oral oncological solutions

May 21, 2024

• Praveen Sethupathy
  Single-cell analysis of a devastating early-onset cancer reveals unique therapeutic vulnerabilities
• Doug Antczak
  Don't forget the Horse Doctor

September 13, 2022

• Tolunay Beker Aydemir
  Zinc metabolism in GI-related disorders: Implications for potential biomarkers
• Iwijn De Vlaminck
  Spatial Transcriptomics Approaches to Map Microbe-Host Interactions in Tissues

October 18, 2022

• Jacquelyn Evans
  Investigating genetic risk factors for complex diseases in dogs
• Marcus Smolka
  Signaling Networks Controlling Genome Integrity and Chemoresistance

November 1, 2022

• Colleen Lau
  Epigenetic control of innate and adaptive immune memory
• Nathaniel Vacanti
  Alzheimer’s disease, the proteome, and metabolic flux

December 13, 2022

• Bhargav Sanketi
  Go with your gut: How the intestine gets its form and function

January 10, 2023

• Andrew White
  Sex differences in melanocyte stem cell behavior resulting from pro-inflammatory signals.
• Fenghua Hu
  How does lysosome regulate brain functions? – Lessons learned from TMEM106B studies

February 14, 2023

• Maren Vitousek
  What can songbirds tell us about stress? Investigating the causes of variation in stress coping capacity in a free-living model system.
• Avery August
  Tuning T cells induced inflammation and anti-inflammation

April 11, 2023

• Ellie Duan
  Transcriptomic regulations of heat stress response in dairy cows
• Nora Prior
  What the nose knows: social experiences impact peripheral and central chemosensory systems

May 9, 2023

• Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou
  Gene regulation in brain development and autism
• Michael Sheehan
  Out of the lab and into the weeds: Opportunities for genomics on rewilded lab mice

September 14, 2021

• Charles Danko
  Transcription and PARP-1 activity shape enhancer-promoter looping
• Joeva Barrow, Division of Nutritional Sciences Seminar
  Harnessing High-Throughput Screening Approaches to Treat Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disease

October 12, 2021

• John Schimenti
  The genetics of human infertility
• Elizabeth Johnson
  Lipid-dependent diet-microbiome interactions

November 9, 2021

• Mariana Wolfner
  Function and regulation of genes on the Drosophila melanogaster Y chromosome
• David Lin
  Regeneration in the mouse peripheral nervous system

December 14, 2021

• Natasza Kurpios
  Adventures in Left-Right Asymmetry: New Paradigms Driving Pitx2-dependent Organogenesis
• Robert Weiss
  New Roles for the SIRT5 Deacylase in Breast Cancer

January 11, 2022

• Andrew Clark
  Polygenic genotype by environment interaction in humans.

February 8, 2022

• Julia Felippe
  Equine common variable immunodeficiency: pieces of an unsolved puzzle
• Benjamin Cosgrove
  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse and human skeletal muscle aging

March 8, 2022

• Gerlinde Van de Walle
  Towards elucidating mechanisms of low mammary cancer incidence in certain mammals
• Alexander Ophir
  The social environment, DNA methylation, and developmental trajectories of brain and behavior

April 12, 2022

• Anushka Dongre
  The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition drives resistance of breast carcinomas to immune checkpoint blockade therapies
• Glenn Simmons, Jr.
  Deciphering the role of fat in cancer cell survival

May 10, 2022

• Yi Athena Ren
  From gene regulation to physiology: Orchestration of time and space in mammalian ovulation
• William Lai
  An end-to-end methodology for data analysis, reproducibility, and dissemination in genomic research

September 8, 2020

• Andrea Flesken-Nikitin
  Origins of Serous Endometrial Carcinoma
• Iwijn De Vlaminck
  A Liquid Biopsy for COVID-19

October 6, 2020

• Jen Grenier
  Review of Core Resources: Innovation Hub
• Frank Pugh
  Review of Core Resources: Epigenomics Core

November 10, 2020

• Joeva Barrow
  High-Throughput Screening Approaches to Combat Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease
• Paul Soloway
  Adipose Tissue Reprogramming after Bariatric Surgery Revealed by Single Cell Analyses

December 8, 2020

• Amnon Koren
  Towards identifying novel trans-acting regulators of human DNA replication timing
• Paula Cohen
  Integration of meiotic recombination and cell cycle progression in the mammalian germ line

January 12, 2021

• Andrew Grimson
  Fishing for MicroRNA Targets
• Jacqueline Copeland (Simoes-Costa Lab)
  Post-transcriptional Tuning of Signaling Systems Mediated Neural Crest Induction

February 9, 2021

• Ned Place
  Naked but not afraid of reproductive aging: Oogenesis and the ovarian reserve in the naked mole-rat
• Shu-Bing Qian
  Secrets of Translation Initiation

March 9, 2021

• Leonardo Campagna (Lovette Lab)
  Combinatorial Speciation in Neotropical Seedeaters
• Tudorita Tumbar
  Single cell genomics and lineage tracing approaches reveal heterogeneity of adult epithelial skin stem cells and their niches

April 13, 2021

• Cédric Feschotte
  Recurrent evolution of vertebrate transcriptional factors by transposase capture

May 11, 2021

• Albert Vill (Brito Lab)
  Expanding the meta'omics toolbox to explore the human gut microbiome
• Hector Aquilar-Carreno
  Emerging deadly viruses and their glycoproteins – From infection to vaccines and antivirals

September 10, 2019

• Robin Dando
  Taste, Obesity and Feeding
• Yung-Fu Chang
  Identification of host factors involved in the C. difficile toxins-induced cytotoxicity

October 8, 2019

• Zhenglong Gu
  Mitochondrial DNA Mutation and Disease
• Haiyuan Yu
  Transcription imparts architecture and function to enhancer units

November 12, 2019

• Motoko Mukai
  The Complex World We Live in: Endocrine Disruptors
• Jen Grenier
  The Genomics Innovation Hub: collaborative resources for cutting-edge genomics applications at Cornell University

December 10, 2019

• Marcos Simoes-Costa
  Mapping the early vertebrate embryo with spatial genomics
• Fenghua Hu
  A role of Progranulin in microglial responses to A-beta Amyloid

January 14, 2020

• Martha Field
  Genetic and molecular mechanisms linking elevated plasma erythritol to metabolic disease onset
• Cindy Leifer
  Regulation of innate immunity

February 11, 2020

• Theodore Clark
  Exploring the role of the tubby-like protein, TULP4, in mammalian fertility
• Leonardo Campagna
  Regulation of melanogenesis and its relevance to promoting avian phenotypic differentiation and speciation

March 10, 2020

• Jen Grenier
  Genomics Innovation Hub Update: shared resources and funding for genomics technology development
• Avery August
  Intrinsic and extrinsic tuning of T cell mediated inflammation

April 14, 2020

• Yu-Han (Amy) Hung (Sethupathy Lab)
  Regulatory dynamics in the human intestinal organoid differentiation model

May 12, 2020

• Brian Rudd
  Flipping the script: Using immune development to study genomics
• Paula Cohen
  Life sciences research at Cornell

September 11, 2018

• Veerle Rottiers
  Mitochondrial transporter MTCH-1/MTCH2 is a conserved regulator of lipid homeostasis and fertility.
• Charles Danko
  Positive Selection Drives Changes in Gene Expression in the Adaptive Immune System of Primates

November 13, 2018

• John Lis
  A Discussion of Cornell University's Genome Biology Initiative

December 11, 2018

• Mariana Wolfner
  Calcium Waves and Macromolecular Changes to Start Development (in Drosophila, but it’s Conserved!)
• Tracy Stokol
  A (Blood) Tale of Yorkies

January 8, 2019

• Patricia Cassano
  Nutritional Genomics of Lung Function Phenotypes
• Andrew Yen
  Retinoic Acid

February 12, 2019

• Andrew Clark
  Drosophila models of neurodegeneration
• Cedric Feschotte
  LTR recombination of endogenous retroviruses as a cis-regulatory switch

March 12, 2019

• Emily Funk (CVG Scholar, McCune Lab)
  From Lungs to a Gas-bladder: Evolution of a Phenotypic Novelty in Ray-finned Fishes
• Tudorita Tumbar
  Skin Vasculature and Hair Follicle Stem Cells Cross-Talking Associated with Stem Cell Activation and Tissue Homeostasis

April 9, 2019

• Matthew Hare
  Using RNAseq to Test for Variation in Thermal Tolerance Across Lake Populations of Adirondack Brook Trout
• Maria Garcia-Garcia
  Understanding the Genetic and Molecular Basis of Congenital Birth Defect Through Mouse Forward Genetics

May 14, 2019

• Kathleen Kelly
  Cardiopathology and genomics of sudden death in racehorses
• Praveen Sethupathy
  Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals that miR-375 controls intestinal stem cell function