Wednesdays from 12:30 - 1 pm in the Cannon Room (C Building, Room 135)

Every week, graduate students and postdocs present their latest research at our "Pizza Talks" where trainees get their fill of both science and pizza! These talks provide an opportunity for trainees to share their work and latest data, receive feedback, and practice presenting their research.

  • Current Academic Year
    DATESPEAKERLABTALK TITLE
    Sep. 6, 2023Amir KargerResearch Computing“Research Computing at HMS: We will make your (research) life better”
    Sep. 13, 2023João CoelhoShaoPOSTPONED
    Sep. 20, 2023Brandon GassawayGygi"Investigating T Cell Activation Using the Phosphorylation Integrated Thermal Shift Assay"
    Sep. 27, 2023Rudolf PisaRapoport"Through Thick and Thin: How a Thin Membrane Drives Substrate Selection During ER-Associated Degradation."
    Oct. 4, 2023Kiran KurmiHaigis"Regulation of mitochondrial mass during T cell activation"
    Oct. 25, 2023Nils BurgerChouchani"An Atlas of the Zinc binding Proteome identifies Glutathione Reductase as Zinc-targetable cancer vulnerability"
    Nov. 1, 2023Philip DumesicSpiegelman"RBM43 controls PGC1α translation, a PGC1α-STING signaling axis, and glucose homeostasis"
    Nov. 8, 2023Arda MizrakHarper"Single molecule tracking of protein transport from the ER to lipid droplets"
    Nov. 15, 2023  NO PIZZA TALK
    Nov. 29, 2023Allison JamesFarnung"Predictome screen identifies nucleosome acidic patch interactors”
    Dec. 6, 2023Pruthvi GowdaDanial“Mechanism and functional consequences of dietary lipids in lineage specification of oncohistone gliomas”
    Dec. 20, 2023Greg BrunettePellman“Haplotype-resolved analysis of chromosome structure and evolution using refLinker”
    Jan. 10, 2024Changqian ZhouWhitman“GCN2 Kinase Activation through Ribosome Collisions: Insights from in vitro Reconstruction of the Amino Acid Response Pathway”
    Jan. 17, 2024Hsin-Yu TsaiLee“Translational Control of Virus Replication by Ribosome Heterogeneity"
    Jan. 24, 2024Zhikai LiuLiberles“Why do we get dizzy after standing up? Neural control of cardiovascular response to postural change”
    Feb. 7, 2024Madi CisséManning“Integration of oncogenic signaling and nutrient sensing by mTORC1 in melanoma”
    Feb. 14, 2024  NO PIZZA TALK
    Feb. 21, 2024  NO PIZZA TALK
    Feb. 28, 2024Sreeja Jamuna SurendranSubramanian"Transporting the Gli transcription factors to the cilium tip compartment for Hedgehog signaling: A tale of two motor systems"
    Mar. 13, 2024Zeyu ChenBernstein"Tuning cis-regulatory elements for transcriptional circuit rewiring”
    Mar. 20, 2024Yuxiang ZhengCantley"Unexpected influence of the SWI/SNF-Polycomb axis on methionine metabolism"
    Mar. 27, 2024Tevis VitalePuigserver"Utilizing tumor mitochondrial defects to drive anti-tumor immunity".
    Apr. 3, 2024Roberto SotomayerMoazed"Mechanisms of HP1/Swi6 mediated gene silencing"
    Apr. 10, 2024Pushpa Verma SharmaVan Vactor"Regulation of innate immune responses by microRNA, miR-980 in Drosophila melanogaster"
    Apr. 17, 2024Simon NoerrelykkeImage Analysis Collaboratory“Image Analysis, Vision Transformers, and LLMs for Cell Biology” 
    Apr. 24, 2024Ricardo Bango Da Cunha CorreiaKirchhausen"MOSAIC-Lattice Light Sheet with Microfluidics: timing and monitoring the “Action” "
    May 1, 2024João CoelhoShao"The eRF1 degrader SRI-41315 acts as a molecular glue at the ribosomal decoding center”
    May 8, 2024Dan ZhaoRapoport 
    May 15, 2024 TBD 
    May 22, 2024Nomeda GirniusBrugge"Analysis of Ovarian Cancer Heterogeneity and Cellular Programs Associated with Chemotherapy Tolerance"
    May 29, 2025Eva de la SernaCITE 
    Jun 5, 2024Bryan SeguinotFinley 
    June 12, 2024Melanie MittenbuhlerSpiegelman 

     

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