Upcoming Center Seminars

October 2024

Date:
Monday, October 28, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Zoom Meeting
Password: 682736

Speaker:

Jason Mills, MD, PhD
Herman Brown Endowed Professor
Chief of Research
Vice Chief of Medicine
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Title: Paligenosis, the cell program underlying regeneration, metaplasia, and tumorigenesis

Speaker’s Research Interests: Dr. Mills investigates regeneration, metaplasia, and tumorigenesis in the gastrointestinal tract. His basic science work focuses on the processes that enable mature cells to rearrange their structure and become proliferative, regenerating cells. In chronic injury and inflammation settings, regenerative cells can persist as metaplasia, which in turn can cause cancer. Recently, his lab’s research has shown that differentiated cells can become regenerative via a three-stage process that is fundamental and conserved across cell types. He has named this process paligenosis. Although paligenosis drives tissue repair, it can also increase the risk for mutation accumulation by allowing old cells to proliferate, furthering chronic, pre-cancerous conditions in the stomach, pancreas, and esophagus. Dr. Mills also pursues several translational efforts, including clinical trials, to apply paligenosis findings toward better prevention or treatment of tumors in the GI tract.

November 2024

Date:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: TBD

Speaker:

Frank Tacke, MD, PhD
Professor
Department Head of Hepatology and Gastroenterology
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD

December 2024

Date:
Monday, December 16, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: TBD

Speaker:

Rotonya Carr, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD