Verge Meeting History

2024 Academic Year
2023 Academic Year
2022 Academic Year
2021 Academic Year
2020 Academic Year


For the Verge history prior to 2020, please contact the CVG Administrator.

Presentations 2024 Academic Year

September 10, 2024

  • John Lis
    Molecular architecture & regulatory mechanisms of a potent long-range enhancer.
  • Angela Poole
    Predicting oral and gut microbiota response to carbohydrate intake.

October 8, 2024

  • Claudia Fishbach-Teschl
    Engineered microenvironments to understand cancer complexity.
  • Meng Wang
    Poison from within: metabolic aldehydes in cancer and aging.

November 12, 2024

  • Ayshwarya Subramanian
    Macrophages in tissue inflammation.
  • Ben Sandkam
    Alternative Y chromosomes drive intrasexual diversity in hormone signaling across male reproductive morphs.

December 10, 2024

  • Brian Rudd
    Age-related changes in the T cell repertoire.
  • Heather Huson
    Investigating several genetic health traits in working dogs; Panosteitis, dermatitis, ciliary dyskinesia, rhabdomyolysis and more.

Presentations 2023 Academic Year

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

Presentations 2022 Academic Year

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

Presentations 2021 Academic Year

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

Presentations 2020 Academic Year

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