Past Events

December 10, 2021 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | 56-614

Friday Forum: Douglas Lauffenburger

Douglas Lauffenburger; Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology

Please join us for a joint CEHS and SRP Friday Forum talk by Professor Douglas Lauffenburger.  For more information about Professor Douglas Lauffenburger, please click here.

December 9, 2021 | 6:00pm | 56-614

DRAM Seminar 12/9/2021

Rebecca Brown (Freudenreich Lab, Tufts University): Components of the THO and TRAMP complexes prevent transcription-replication conflicts and protect against fragility of expanded CAG repeats

Allen Su (Lee Lab, MIT Koch Institute): Cohesin Mitigates Oncogenic Replication Stress

November 18, 2021 | 6:45pm | 56-614

DRAM Seminar 11/18/2021

Anastasia Rastokina (Mirkin Lab, Tufts University): Insight into GAA repeat expansion in mammalian cells

Judit JimenezSainz (Jensen Lab, Yale University): Cancer missense mutations in the BRC repeats of BRCA2 protein disrupt RAD51 binding and activity leading to chemotherapeutic sensitivity

October 14, 2021 | 6:45pm | 56-614

DRAM Seminar 10/14/2021

Vladimir Seplyarskly (Sunyaev Lab, Harvard University): A site-specific mutation rate model uncovers Pol III related hypermutability

Prachi Kharade (Thilly Lab, MIT): Alzheimer's disease as a clonal neoplasia

 

May 28, 2021 | 4:00-5:00PM | https://mit.zoom.us/j/4994386891

Friday Forum: CEHS and SRP Joint Seminar: Engineering the host-pathogen interface

Bryan Bryson; Professor of Biological Engineering

For more information about Professor Bryan Bryson, please click here.

May 13, 2021 | 5:30PM | Zoom Virtual Meeting

DRAM Seminar 5/13/2021

Simona Dalin (Beroukhim Lab, DFCI/Broad and Getz Lab, MGH/Broad): Mutations and Structural Variants arising during double-strand Break Repair

https://mit.zoom.us/j/93487122457

April 30, 2021 | 4:00-6:00PM | Zoom https://mit.zoom.us/j/4994386891

Friday Forum: CEHS and SRP Joint Seminar: Methods for the Detection of NDMA and Related Species

Timothy Swager; Professor of Chemistry

For more information about Professor Timothy Swager, please click here.

April 15, 2021 | 5:30PM | Zoom Virtual Meeting

DRAM Seminar 4/15/2021

The seminar will start at 5:30PM via zoom at: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95616196931

Ryan McGinty (Sunyaev Lab, Harvard Medical School): Short tandem repeat-induced mutagenesis in the human germline

March 18, 2021 | 4:05PM | Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92758596148

Schauer Lecture: Is It Group or Solo Dancing in Microbial Colon Cancer Promotion?

Cynthia L. Sears; Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

For more information about Professor Cynthia L. Sears, please click here.

March 11, 2021 | 5:30PM | Zoom Virtual Meeting

DRAM Seminar 3/11/2021

Norah Owiti (Engelward Lab, MIT): Effect of N-Nitrosodimethylamine on gene expression in mice with varied DNA repair capacity.

Nilisha Pokhrel (Lohman Lab, New England Biolabs): T4 DNA ligase: the quest for rate-limiting step and beyond

February 11, 2021 | 5:30PM | Zoom Virtual Meeting

DRAM Seminar 2/11/2021

Daniel Laverty (Nagel Lab, HSPH): Rev7 Dimerization and The Role of Shieldin in Complex Break Repair.

Elena Sapede (Haber Lab, Brandeis): Nonhomologous Tails Impact Mismatch Correction in Divergent Repeats During SSA Repair

January 14, 2021 | 5:30PM | Zoom Virtual Meeting

DRAM Seminar 1/14/2021

Julia Hisey (Mirkin Lab, Tufts): Replication-independent instability of Friedrich's Ataxia GAA repeats during chronological aging.

Niraj Joshi (D'Andrea Lab, DFCI): FANCG is a Negative Regulator of FANCA-mediated Single-Strand Annealing and DNA End-Resection