Cell Biology Seminar Series
The Department of Cell Biology Seminar Series showcases speakers from around the country and the world. Topics cross disciplines, including developmental genetics, immunology, molecular and cellular neurobiology, among others.
View upcoming events on the Department of Cell Biology Seminar Series calendar or see the list below. Our seminars take place from 12PM to 1PM at NYU Langone’s Science Building, SC 1 03.
2023–2024
January 23, 2024
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Title: A Holistic Understanding of Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila
Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
February 6, 2024
Kenneth Poss, PhD
The James B. Duke Professor of Regenerative Biology, Duke University
Title: Regulating Tissue Regeneration
Host: Juan J. Lafaille, PhD
March 12, 2024
Alexandra Byrne, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School
Title: Intrinsic Mechanisms of Functional Axon Regeneration
Host: Niels Ringstad, PhD
April 2, 2024
Nipam Patel, PhD
Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago
Title: Emerging Research Organisms: From Crustacean Limbs to the Physics of Butterfly Coloration
Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
April 23, 2024
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, PhD
Chair, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: From Single Cells to Tissues: Cell Plasticity and Behavior at the Onset of Mammalian Development
Host: Holger Knaut, PhD
2024–2025
September 16, 2024
Jan Zylicz, PhD
Group Leader and Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Title: Epi-Metabolic Regulation of Early Mammalian Development
Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
Co-Host: Susan L. Smith, PhD
October 22, 2024
Rachel Zwick, PhD
Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Title: Remodeling on Demand: Tissue Adaptation to Meet Physiological Need
Host: Niels Ringstad, PhD
Co-Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
January 30, 2025
Hongkui Deng, PhD
Boya Chair Professor, Director of Stem Cell Research Center, Peking University
Title: From Bench to Bedside: Chemical Reprogramming and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
Host: Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD
February 11, 2025
Kenneth Zaret, PhD
Joseph Leidy Professor, Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Title: Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Change Cell Fate
Host: Esteban O. Mazzoni, PhD
Co-Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
February 25, 2025
Valentina Greco, PhD
Carolyn Walch Slayman Professor of Genetics, Co-Chair of Status of Women in Medicine (SWIM), HHMI Investigator, Yale School of Medicine
Title: Principles of Tissue Dynamics and Function Captured by Imaging Live Mice: The Power of Multiple Lenses
Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
Co-Host: E. Jane Albert Hubbard, PhD
March 25, 2025
Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Professor of Applied Physics and of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Title: Robust in vitro models of early human development
Host: Niels Ringstad, PhD
Co-Host: Piul S. Rabbani, PhD
April 8, 2025
Janelia Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Title: Shaping Organs via Dynamic Cell and Matrix Interactions
Host: Weiyi Qian, PhD
Co-Host: Neha Ghosh, PhD
April 22, 2025
Professor, Director, Division of Developmental Biology, Co-Director, Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Title: Aerodigestive development and congenital disease: from animal models to human stem cells
Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD
May 6, 2025
Sally Horne-Badovinac, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Title: Fat2-based initiation of rotational epithelial migration
Host: Jessica E. Treisman, PhD
Co-Host: Hyung Don Ryoo, PhD
June 10, 2025
Andrew Fire, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: Unusual agents of biological constancy and change (or 'why we still expect the unexpected in genetics')
Host: Niels Ringstad, PhD
Co-Host: Andrea H. Brand, PhD