Genome Maintenance and Cancer (GMaC) Seminars

This seminar series explores current topics ranging from the basic biology of DNA replication and repair to our current understanding of how defects in these pathways drive cancer initiation, progression and response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy. The GMaC Seminar Series builds upon the pressing need to bring together clinicians and basic scientists working at the interface between DNA replication and repair to achieve a greater understanding of how these mechanisms impact cancer initiation and anti-tumor therapy.

When: Select Fridays at 11:00 AM, Fall and Spring Semesters

Where: Majority of these seminars will be in person and announcements will indicate the location. Select dates will be via Zoom Webinar. If virtual, you will receive an email five days before each seminar, asking you to register. After registering, you will receive an email with the Webinar details and log on information.

Who can attend: This lecture series is designed for clinicians, basic science researchers, students, residents, fellows, post-doctoral scholars, and anyone else who wishes to learn more about these topics from experts in the DNA repair, replication, and cancer fields.

Contact [email protected] to learn more about upcoming dates and speakers.

Upcoming Dates

3/20/2026   Peter McKinnon, PhD, St. Jude

4/17/2026   Patrick Sung, MD, PhD, UT San Antonio

5/15/2026   Richard D. Wood, PhD, MD Anderson

Past Seminars

9/8/2025   Kumar Somgajit, PhD, University of Southern Demark

9/19/2025   Samanthat Kendrick, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

10/17/2025   Richard Frock, PhD, Stanford University

11/21/2025   Jens Schmidt, PhD, Michigan State University

12/18/2025   Kara Bernstein, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

1/16/2026   Timothy Yap, MD, MD Anderson

2/20/2026   Brian Strahl, PhD, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

3/20/2026  Peter McKinnon, PhD, St. Jude

9/20/2024   Barry Sleckman, MD, PhD, University of Alabama- Birmingham

10/18/2024   Shailja Pathania, PhD, University of Massachusetts – Boston

11/15/2024   Peter Ly, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

12/13/2024   Nausica Arnoult, PhD, University of Colorado- Boulder

1/17/2025   Agata Smogorzewska, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University

1/31/2025   Ross Chapman, PhD University of Oxford

2/21/2025   Julie Cooper, PhD, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus

2/26/2025   Albert Kim, MD, PhD WashU

3/21/2025   Xiaohua Wu, PhD, Scripps Institute La Jolla

5/16/2025   Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

5/30/2025   Brandt Eichman, PhD, Vanderbilt University

9/22/2023   Bret Freudenthal, PhD, University of Kansas 

11/3/2023   Alberto Cicca, PhD, Columbia University 

11/17/2023   Rahul Kohli, PhD, University of Pennsylvania 

12/15/2023   Brittany Adamson, PhD, Princeton University 

1/12/2023   Tim Fenton, PhD, University of Southhampton, UK 

1/19/2024   Johannes Walter, PhD, Harvard University  

2/16/2024   Grant Stewart, University of Birminghamm, UK

3/8/2024   Gustavo Silva, PhD, Duke University

4/19/2024   Julian Sale, PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

5/24/2024   Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

9/23/2022   Marcus B. Smolka, PhD, Cornell University 

10/7/2022   Neil Johnson, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center- Philadelphia 

11/11/2022   Keith W. Caldecott, PhD, University of Sussex (UK) 

12/2/2022   David Pellman, MD, Harvard University  

1/6/2023   Dávid Szüts, PhD, TTK 

1/20/2023   Roy Parker, PhD, University Colorado – Boulder  

2/3/2023   Elizabeth Swisher, MD, UW Medicine 

2/17/2023   Xiaolan Zhao, PhD, MSKCC 

9/10/2021   Simon Boulton, PhD, The Francis Crick Institute 

9/24/2021   Valerie Chai, PhD,  Loyola Medicine Medical Center 

10/8/2021   Paola Scaffidi, PhD, The Francis Crick Institute 

10/22/2021   Andrés Aguilera, PhD, University of Seville 

11/5/2021   Claus Maria Azzalin, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa  

11/19/2021   Anabelle Decottignies, PhD, Université catholique de Louvain 

12/3/2021   Brandt Eichman, PhD, Vanderbilt University 

12/17/2021   Jan Hoeijmakers, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center 

1/7/2022   Anja Groth, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

2/4/2022   Christian Ziehurt, PhD, Institute of Cancer Research, UK 

3/25/2022   Travis Stracker, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH 

 4/8/2022   Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD, Harvard University 

5/6/2022   Eros Denchi, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH 

5/22/2022   Ralph Scully, MBBS, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

9/18/2020   Susan Wallace, PhD, University of Vermont 

10/9/2020   Eric Kool, PhD, Stanford University 

11/4/2020   Susan Rosenberg, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine 

11/20/2020   Sharon Cantor, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School   

12/4/2020   Hyungjin Kim, PhD, Stony Brook University 

12/18/2020   Lee Zou, PhD, Harvard Medical School 

1/15/2021   Shan Zha, MD, PhD, Columbia University 

2/12/2021   Philippe Pasero, PhD, Institut de Génétique Humaine (IGH) 

3/26/2021   Hao Jiang, PhD, University of Virginia School of Medicine 

4/9/2021   Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD, University of Virginia School of Medicine 

4/23/2021   Anja Groth, PhD, University of Copenhagen 

 5/7/2021   Alan D’Andrea, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

5/21/2021   Dana Branzei , PhD, The Firc Institute Of Molecular Oncology (IFOM), Italy 

6/4/2021   Tanya T Paull , PhD, The University of Texas at Austin 

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