As part of Stanford Developmental Biology's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, we are organizing a virtual PhD Applicant Recruitment Panel Discussion for students who may be interested in applying to our PhD program.

15-PGDH Mediated Regeneration Following Stem Cell Transplantation
Amar Desai PhD, Assistant Professor, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University

Modeling Human Disease in Adult Tissue Organoids
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD, Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor

Stem Cells, Embryos and Embryo Models

Janet Rossant PhD, Senior Scientist and Chief of Research Emeritus, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

Alex Pollen, UCSF
Pending title

A p53 Lung Regeneration Program Underlies Tumor Suppression
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Laura Attardi, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation and Cancer Biology) and of Genetics

Ruslan Medzhitov PhD, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine

Talk 1: Surfing an ERK activity wave for body-wide regeneration
Bo Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Talk 2: Compete or Perish – HSC Dynamics in Fanconi Anemia
Agnieszka Czechowicz MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

Celina Juliano, UC Davis
Mechanisms of development and regeneration in hydra

Talk 1: TBD
Polly Fordyce PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics

Talk 2: TBD
Mary Hynes PhD, Associate Professor (Research) of Biology

Demystifying Cancer Stem Cells with Data Science
SCI Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cell Talks
Aaron Newman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Talk 1: TBD
Charles Kwok Fai Chan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)

Talk 2: Chromatin Remodelers Lost in Translation
Capucine Van Rechem, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology (Pathology Research)

Andrea Pauli, IMP Vienna
Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition – from fertilization to translational regulation

Talk 1: Deadly Infection of Human Blood Vessels by Biosafety Level 4 Viruses
Kyle Loh PhD, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)

Talk 2: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Lineage Specification
Marius Wernig, PhD, Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

Jay Shendure MD, PhD, Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Director of the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, and Scientific Director of the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine