Verge Meeting History

2023 Academic Year
2022 Academic Year
2021 Academic Year
2020 Academic Year
2019 Academic Year
2018 Academic Year

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

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

Presentations 2019 Academic Year

September 10, 2019

  • Robin Dando
    Taste, Obesity and Feeding
  • Yung-Fu Chang
    Identification of host factors involved in the C. difficile toxins-induced cytotoxicity

October 8, 2019

  • Zhenglong Gu
    Mitochondrial DNA Mutation and Disease
  • Haiyuan Yu
    Transcription imparts architecture and function to enhancer units

November 12, 2019

  • Motoko Mukai
    The Complex World We Live in: Endocrine Disruptors
  • Jen Grenier
    The Genomics Innovation Hub: collaborative resources for cutting-edge genomics applications at Cornell University

December 10, 2019

  • Marcos Simoes-Costa
    Mapping the early vertebrate embryo with spatial genomics
  • Fenghua Hu
    A role of Progranulin in microglial responses to A-beta Amyloid

January 14, 2020

  • Martha Field
    Genetic and molecular mechanisms linking elevated plasma erythritol to metabolic disease onset
  • Cindy Leifer
    Regulation of innate immunity

February 11, 2020

  • Theodore Clark
    Exploring the role of the tubby-like protein, TULP4, in mammalian fertility
  • Leonardo Campagna
    Regulation of melanogenesis and its relevance to promoting avian phenotypic differentiation and speciation

March 10, 2020

  • Jen Grenier
    Genomics Innovation Hub Update: shared resources and funding for genomics technology development
  • Avery August
    Intrinsic and extrinsic tuning of T cell mediated inflammation

April 14, 2020

  • Yu-Han (Amy) Hung (Sethupathy Lab)
    Regulatory dynamics in the human intestinal organoid differentiation model

May 12, 2020

  • Brian Rudd
    Flipping the script: Using immune development to study genomics
  • Paula Cohen
    Life sciences research at Cornell

Presentations 2018 Academic Year

September 11, 2018

  • Veerle Rottiers
    Mitochondrial transporter MTCH-1/MTCH2 is a conserved regulator of lipid homeostasis and fertility.
  • Charles Danko
    Positive Selection Drives Changes in Gene Expression in the Adaptive Immune System of Primates

November 13, 2018

  • John Lis
    A Discussion of Cornell University's Genome Biology Initiative

December 11, 2018

  • Mariana Wolfner
    Calcium Waves and Macromolecular Changes to Start Development (in Drosophila, but it’s Conserved!)
  • Tracy Stokol
    A (Blood) Tale of Yorkies

January 8, 2019

  • Patricia Cassano
    Nutritional Genomics of Lung Function Phenotypes
  • Andrew Yen
    Retinoic Acid

February 12, 2019

  • Andrew Clark
    Drosophila models of neurodegeneration
  • Cedric Feschotte
    LTR recombination of endogenous retroviruses as a cis-regulatory switch

March 12, 2019

  • Emily Funk (CVG Scholar, McCune Lab)
    From Lungs to a Gas-bladder: Evolution of a Phenotypic Novelty in Ray-finned Fishes
  • Tudorita Tumbar
    Skin Vasculature and Hair Follicle Stem Cells Cross-Talking Associated with Stem Cell Activation and Tissue Homeostasis

April 9, 2019

  • Matthew Hare
    Using RNAseq to Test for Variation in Thermal Tolerance Across Lake Populations of Adirondack Brook Trout
  • Maria Garcia-Garcia
    Understanding the Genetic and Molecular Basis of Congenital Birth Defect Through Mouse Forward Genetics

May 14, 2019

  • Kathleen Kelly
    Cardiopathology and genomics of sudden death in racehorses
  • Praveen Sethupathy
    Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals that miR-375 controls intestinal stem cell function


For the Verge history prior to 2017, please email Charlotte Williams.