Dram Seminars - Past
DRAM Seminar 12/8/2022
Chiara Masnovo (Mirkin Lab, Tufts University): Coordination between leading and lagging strand synthesis prevents (GAA)n repeat instability
Leonardo (Leo) Betancurt (Gardner Lab, NEB/Pasteur Institute): Cryo-EM and functional studies reveal novel proofreading mechanisms in archaeal replication
DRAM Seminar 11/10/2022
Lee Pribyl (Engelward Lab, MIT): Impact of Mgmt-Mediated DNA Repair on Mutation Susceptibility & Cancer in Mice
Xiao-Feng Zheng (Chowdhury Lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute): CDK5/Cyclin B regulates mitotic progression and fidelity
DRAM Seminar 5/12/2022
Paul Caffrey (Gardner Lab, New England BioLabs): Repair of Hyperoxidized DNA in Archaea: How New Enzyme Discovery Fills in the Gaps of Biological Understanding
Deyu Li (Li Lab, University of Rhode Island): Chemical Biology of DNA Damage and Repair
DRAM Seminar 4/14/2022
Justin Blanch (McVey Lab, Tufts University): Error-prone DNA repair in Drosophila: the missing link between polymerase θ structure and function
Shrabasti Roychoudhury (Chowdhury Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): High-throughput screening strategy identifies a novel regulator of replication stress response
DRAM Seminar 3/17/2022
Nimrat Chatterjee (Chatterjee Lab, University of Vermont): REV1 DNA Polymerase: The Road from Cancer Resistance to Host-Pathogen Interactions
Shangming Tang (Pellman Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): Breakage of Cytoplasmic Chromosomes by Pathological DNA Base Excision Repair
DRAM Seminar 2/10/2022
Sneh Manishi Toprani (Nagel Lab, Harvard University): Repeated measurements of DNA repair capacity in healthy individuals
Iman Khan (Mouw Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): Investigating the role of CHEK1 in early NER pathway in cancer calls
DRAM Seminar 1/13/2022
Turner Pecen (Nagel Lab, Harvard University): Developing Pathway Specific Reporters for Nucleotide Excision Repair
Li Lan (Lan Lab, MGH/Harvard University): Understanding and Targeting the RNA-regulated DNA Damage Response in Cancer