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Upcoming Seminars - 2025-2026

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May 2026 Joint IRM/PCMD Seminar Cancelled
70 Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / RRB Austrian Auditorium Joint with IRM
51 Title: Leveraging MicroRNA Function to Treat Skeletal Disorders

2b Audrey McAlinden, PhD 2 55

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology & Physiology
29 Washington University, St. Louis

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Past Seminars

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Brendan A. Harley, Sc.D.Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
57 Building Tissues: Engineering Complexity Through Biomaterial Design
34 Brendan A. Harley, Sc.D.
5c Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2b Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL)
36 Carl R. Woses Institute for Genomic Biology
34 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chuanju Liu, Ph.D.Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
7e Biomanufacturing, Biomaterials, and Biomechanics for Improved Treatment of Volumetric Muscle Loss Injuries
2c Chuanju Liu, PhD
50 Professor and Director, Translational Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
2c Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
25 Department of Cell Biology
94 NYU Grossman School of Medicine 
Lori A. Setton, Ph.D.Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 8:00 am-6:30 pm / Smilow Rubinstein Auditorium & Commons
37 Annual Scientific Symposium
62 Navigating a Path to Understanding Drug Delivery in the Treatment of Arthritis
2c Keynote Speaker:
87 Lori A. Setton, PhD., Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor & Chair of Biomedical Engineering
2c Washington University in St. Louis
Michael T. Collins, M.D., FASBMRTuesday, December 13, 2022, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
bf The Physiology and Pathophysiology of FGF23 in Skeletal and Mineral Biology
3c Michael T. Collins, M.D., FASBMR
1e Senior Investigator
47 Chief, Section on Skeletal Disorders and Mineral Homeostasis
41 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
26 National Institute of Health
Ralph Marcucio, Ph.D.Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium Joint with IRM
c9 Life, Death, and Transformation in the Transition Zone, Implications for Bone Healing
2f Ralph Marcucio, PhD
2c Professor of Orthopaedic Research
39 Director, Laboratory for Skeletal Regeneration
27 Orthopaedic Trauma Institute
46 Co-Director, Oral and Craniofacial Science Graduate Program
31 University of California, San Francisco
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Patrick Mooney, M.D.

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Christopher Natale, Ph.D.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
45 From Bench to Human Trials: How did we get there?
39 Patrick Mooney, M.D., CEO and Director
48 Christopher Natale, PhD, Co-Founder and VP, Research

1f Linnaeus Therapeutics
Kharma C. Foucher, M.D., Ph.D.Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
d9 Biomechanical & Energetic Factors Associated with Physical Activity Limitations in Osteoarthritis
38 Kharma C. Foucher, M.D., PhD
47 Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition
42 Director, Biomechanics and Clinical Outcomes Laboratory
2b University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Zuscik, PhDTuesday, May 23, 2023, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

d2 Thinking Outside the Joint:  Can Targeting the Intestine Support OA Disease Modification?
2f Michael Zuscik, PhD
3c Mack Clayton Professor and Vice Chair of Research
24 Department of Orthopedics
20 University of Colorado
Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D.Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 130pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
b9 Targeting the Immune System in Regenerative Medicine and Biomaterials
33 Jennifer Elisseeff, PhD
5a Morton Goldberg Professor and Director, Translational Tissue Engineering Center
68 Wilmer Eye Institute and Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedic Surgery, Chemical
47 Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
22 Johns Hopkins University
Lin Han, Ph.D.Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 130pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
c5 Decorin: A Central Player of Cartilage Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease
28 Lin Han, PhD
5c Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
1b Drexel University
Suzanne Maher, Ph.D.Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
c2 My Journey to Demystify the Marvelous Misunderstood Meniscus
2e Suzanne Maher, PhD
2f Senior Scientist, Research Institute
53 Co-Director, Orthopedic Soft Tissue Research Program, Research Institute
39 Associate Director, Department of Biomechanics
26 Hospital for Special Surgery
Charles Washabaugh, Ph.D.Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 am-6:30 pm / Smilow Rubinstein Auditorium & Commons
37 Annual Scientific Symposium
48 Navigating the NIH: The Program Director Perspective
2c Keynote Speaker:
8d Charles Washabaugh, PhD, Program Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases,
26 National Institute of Health
Hai Yao, Ph.D.Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
c2 Understanding Joint Health Through Whole Joint Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
28 Hai Yao, PhD
39 Professor and Ernest R. Norville Endowed Chair
3d Associate Chair for CU-MUSC Bioengineering Program
3d Associate Vice President for Biomedical Innovation
27 Department of Bioengineering
1c Clemson University
Se-Jin Lee, M.D., Ph.D.Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

a3 Myostatin: A Molecular Rheostat for Muscle Mass
31 Se-Jin Lee, M.D., PhD
4d Presidential Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
49 Joint Appointment, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
2b MD/PhD Executive Committee Chair
23 University of Connecticut
Ronen Schweitzer, Ph.D.Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium - Seminar canceled
36 Perspectives on Tendon Development
31 Ronen Schweitzer, PhD
52 Interim Director of Research, Shriners Hospital for Children - Portland
4f Professor in Orthopaedics and Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology
30 Oregon Health & Science University
Alexander Robling, Ph.D.Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

dc Bone Building Molecular Targets: Lessons from Mechanical Signaling in Skeletal Tissues
32 Alexander Robling, PhD
38 Chair, Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology
30 Indiana University, School of Medicine
Munir Tanas, M.D.Monday, April 15, 2024, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
3c Joint with Pennsylvania Muscle Institute

49 Mechanisms of Hippo Pathway Dysregulation in Sarcomas
2d Munir Tanas, M.D.
2b Associate Professor of Pathology
25 Carver College of Medicine
28 University of Iowa Health Care
Sarah L. Dallas, Ph.D. 4a

Rescheduled to October 2024
53 Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

8b Interrogating Osteoclast Biology by Live Cell Imaging Reveals Novel Insight into their Cellular and Resorption Dynamics
30 Sarah L. Dallas, PhD
45 University of Missouri Curator’s Distinguished Professor
39 Lee M. and William Lefkowitz Endowed Professor
2b University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Kathleen Derwin,  Ph.D.Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
a7 Rotator Cuff Tear and Repair: From Bedside to Bench
30 Kathleen Derwin, PhD
20 Department Vice Chair
32 Associate Staff, Biomedical Engineering
34 Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center
35 Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
be "Bone Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond"
36 Xiang-Dong Edward Guo, PhD
2e Professor of Biomedical Engineering
1d Columbia University
Sarah L. Dallas, Ph.D.Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

8b Interrogating Osteoclast Biology by Live Cell Imaging Reveals Novel Insight into their Cellular and Resorption Dynamics
30 Sarah L. Dallas, PhD
45 University of Missouri Curator’s Distinguished Professor
39 Lee M. and William Lefkowitz Endowed Professor
2c University of Missouri-Kansas City
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 8:00 am-6:00 pm / Smilow Rubinstein Auditorium & Commons
37 Annual Scientific Symposium
44 Regulation of Post-Natal Growth Plate Maturation
2c Keynote Speaker:
5b Marie DeMay, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
68 Intraarticular Microbial Products: a Potential Driver of Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis
31 Matlock Jefferies, MD
38 Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
30 University of Oklahoma Health Services
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
aa Building Stronger Bones with Osteoblasts
2b Joy Wu, MD, PhD
20 Professor of Medicine
42 Vice Chair, Basic Science in the Department of Medicine
1d Stanford University
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
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22 Joint with IRM

ba A Series of Local Stem Cells Governing Skeletal Diseases
34 Matt Greenblatt, MD, PhD
43 Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
27 Weill Cornell Medical College
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
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57 The Regulation of Musculoskeletal Disease Pathogenesis by Actin Reorganization

29 Justin Parreno, PhD 2 53

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
1f University of Delaware

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
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c6 Bone Building and Breakdown from the City of Brotherly Love to the Lone Star State
2d Benjamin Levi, MD
2e Dr. Lee Hudson-Robert R. Penn Chair
47 Director, Center for Organogenesis Regeneration & Trauma
32 Professor in Surgery and Bioengineering
38 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
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cd Innovative Approaches in Regenerative Therapies for Disc Degeneration and Osteoarthritis.
2e Fackson Mwale, PhD, FIOR 22

Professor of Surgery
1a McGill University

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Friday, June 27, 2025, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium
22 Joint with IRM

bc Noodle Hop Hop - On the Development and Evolution of Skeletal Proportion
30 Kimberly Cooper, PhD
34 Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
2d University of California, San Diego
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Monday, September 29, 2025, 11:00 am-12:00 pm / JMB Class of '62 Auditorium
46 PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME

83 Translational Opportunities at the Intersection of Immunoengineering, Mechanobiology, and Regenerative Medicine
33 Robert E. Guldberg, PhD
38 Robert and Leona DeArmond Executive Director,
4b Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact;
42 Director, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon;
33 Professor, Department of Bioengineering;
2d Vice President, University of Oregon

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium 74

Modulating Inflammatory Factors to Prevent the Painful Pathoanatomy in Discogenic Low Back Pain

31 Simon Tang, PhD, MSCI
35 Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
1f Washington University
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 8:00 am-6:00 pm / Smilow Rubinstein Auditorium & Commons
3e Annual Scientific Symposium
1b Keynote Speaker:
2b Scott Rodeo, MD
3a Professor and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
40 Co-Director, Orthopaedic Soft Tissue Research Program
35 Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium 5c

Repair Patrol: Sox9 Lineage Cells as Sentinels of Skeletal Regeneration

2c Francesca Mariani, PhD 2 50

Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
2a Integrative Anatomical Sciences
58 Director for the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Master's Program
40 Keck School of Medicine, University of South California

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / CRB Austrian Auditorium Joint with IRM 10d

Investigating the PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Axis: Direct and Indirect Regulation of Bone Metabolism in Breast Cancer Metastasis

2b Rachelle Johnson, PhD 2 52

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
2d Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology
3e Program Director & Director of Graduate Studies
24 Program in Cancer Biology
31 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

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Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / RRB Austrian Auditorium Joint with IRM c2

Scaling Up: Why Large Animal Models are Transforming Musculoskeletal Research

25 Dana Gaddy, PhD 2 72

Professor, Veterinary Integrative Biosciences College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
40 School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
21 Texas A&M University

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm / RRB Austrian Auditorium Joint with CreATE Motion Center 76

Title: The Healing Potential of Progenitor Cells, from Preservation to Repair of Skeletal Tissues

28 Hicham Drissi, PhD 2 33

Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
2f Vice Chair of Research, Orthopaedics
19 Emory University

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