Seminar Series Schedule
All seminars take place in 409B at 11 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.
Faculty Seminar 2025 - 2026
Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept 2, 2025 | Hamed Jafar-Nejad, M.D. Molecular & Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine | "Building Better Biliary Branches" |
| Sept 9, 2025 | Ryan S. Dhindsa, M.D., Ph.D. Pathology & Immunology Baylor College of Medicine | "Population-scale genomics for therapeutic discovery" |
| Sept 16, 2025 | Hongjie Li, Ph.D. Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine | "Mapping Aging and Longevity at Cellular Resolution Across the Whole Organism" |
| Sept 23, 2025 | Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D. IMM-Center for Human Genetics UTHealth Houston | "Molecular genetic basis of electrocardiographic QT interval variability" |
| Sept 30, 2025 | Guangyu Wang, Ph.D. Cardiovascular Sciences Houston Methodist | "AI Approaches for Multi-Modality Genomics and Image in Biomedicine" |
| Oct 7, 2025 | George Rodney, Ph.D. Integrative Physiology Baylor College of Medicine | "Turning the Heat Down in Skeletal Muscle" |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Jun Wang, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine | "To Beat or Not to Beat: A Hippin in the Heart" |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Lachlan Rach, Ph.D. Health, Medicine & Behavioural Sciences The University of Queensland, Australia | "Development of venom peptide inhibitors of acid-sensing ion channel 1a as potential therapeutics for multiple sclerosis." |
| Nov 4, 2025 | David Durgan, Ph.D. Integrative Physiology Baylor College of Medicine | TBA |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Mehmet Şen, Ph.D. Department of Biology & Biochemistry University of Houston | TBA |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Vishnu Dileep, Ph.D. Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine | TBA |
| Nov 25, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Thanksgiving! |
| Dec 9, 2025 | Ergun Sahin, M.D., Ph.D. Huffington Center on Aging Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Dec 16, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Holidays! |
| Dec 23, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Holidays! |
| Jan 6, 26 | NO SEMINAR | Happy New Year! |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Melanie Samuel, Ph.D. Huffington Center on Aging Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jacob Reimer, Ph.D. Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Bruno Di Stefano, Ph.D. Center for Cell and Gene Therapy Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Feb 03, 2026 | Xiao Li, Ph.D. Texas Heart Institute Integrative Physiology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Jeremy E. Wilusz, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Mario Escobar Galdamez, Ph.D. | TBD |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Pamela Wenzel, Ph.D. Integrative Biology and Pharmacology UT Health Houston | TBD |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Joseph Hyser, Ph.D. Virology & Microbiology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Sean Hartig, Ph.D. Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Thomas A. Cooper, M.D. Pathology & Immunology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Barna Dubok, Ph.D. Neurology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Gustavo Ayala, M.D. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UT Health Houston | TBD |
| May 19, 2026 | Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Cancer Biology Division of Discovery Science University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | TBD |






