SPRING Talks

Exchanging discoveries and promoting new ideas

We organize and host the Stem & PRogenitor Cell INterest Group (SPRING) series.These meetings occur on a bi-weekly basis on Wednesdays at 9:00 am throughout the academic year and enable faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to present and discuss work in progress. The meetings will be held in 9455 MRB IV.

Upcoming SPRING Talks – Fall 2025

September 3:  Ethan Lee, MD, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Pharmacology

September 17:  Lauren Woodard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

October 1:  Sabine Fuhrmann, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell and Developmental Biology

October 15:  Krishna Mudumbi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

October 29:  Nicholas Zachos, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology

November 12:  Ed Levine, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell and Developmental Biology

December 10:  Michelle Southard-Smith, Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology.

SPRING Talks – Spring 2025

January 8:  Hyosung Kim, Ph.D., Research Professor (Lippmann Lab)

January 22:  Maddie Spetz (Grad Student, Brunger Lab) and Hannah Brien (Grad Student, Brunger Lab)

February 5:  Ken Lau, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Surgery

February 19: Kathy DelGiorno, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Surgery

March 5:  Joseph Benthal (Grad Student, Southard-Smith Lab) and Megan Stone (Grad Student, Levine Lab)

March 19:  Sushobhan Biswas, Ph.D. (Postdoc, Jan Lab) and Chisako Tanaka, M.D. Ph.D. (Visiting Scholar, Jan Lab)

April 2:  Ian Macara, Ph.D., Louise B. McGavock Professor, Chair Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology

April 16:   Guoqiang Gu, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

April 30:  Katherine Ankenbauer (Postdoc, DelGiorno Lab) and Amelia Cephas (Grad Student, DelGiorno Lab)