🎓Thesis defense seminar: Yessenia Cedeno Cedeno, PhD candidate, Department of Cell Biology, Mentor: Dr. Robert Coleman, "Dissecting the Role of NMNAT1 in Local and Dynamic NAD+-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation" May 22, 2025, at 10:00 AM

🎓Thesis Defense: Yessenia Cedeño Cedeño, Department of Cell Biology, Laboratory of Dr. Robert Coleman, "The Role of NMNAT1 in Local and Dynamic NAD⁺-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation" Thursday, May 22, 2025 🎓

🎓Thesis defense seminar: Jacob Stauber, MD-PhD candidate, Department of Genetics, Mentors: Drs. John Greally & Ulrich Steidl, "Evolution of Donor Stem Cell Clonal Hematopoiesis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation" May 27, 2025, at 1:00 PM

Today's work-in-progress seminar featured Dr. Irene Roy from the Kira Gritsman & Sara Mosavarpour from the Lindsay LaFave lab with discussant Dr. Pratitutsi Basu from the Satish Nandakumar lab.

Today's work-in-progress seminar featured Dror Perk from the Will lab & Dr. Haruhito Totani from Keisuke Ito_Lab with discussant Dr. Samuel Taylor from the Uli Steidl Lab.

1. New paper alert! 🕺🏻 In this collaboration between the Cuervo and Evris Gavathiotis labs, Mericka McCabe and her coauthors developed a first-in-class selective small molecule inhibitor of CMA. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

🎓 Thesis Defense! Blake Ebert, MD/PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Dr. Meelad Dawlaty: “Epigenetic regulation of stem cell biology by the enzymatic activities of TET DNA dioxygenases” June 10, 2025 | 12 PM Department of Genetics & Stem Cell Institute

Next IFI-JLM Scientific Session!! 📅 Date: June 11th 📷 Featured Topics: #Neuroscience #CancerResearch 🎤 Presenters: 🔹 Imran Jan – David Loeb Lab 🔹 Minori Aoki – Ben Himes, MD, PhD Lab EinsteinPhD ME Cancer Center EinsteinMSTP Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official Montefiore Health System

In a new study, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Ph.D., and Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., have identified the NCoR1/RARα protein complex as a regulator of CMA in #lungcancer. The work opens the door for targeted CMA inhibition across a range of cancers. More at bit.ly/4l0O4ej.

Novel Treatment Strategy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer montefioreeinstein.org/news/2025/06/1… EMBO Mol. Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official Montefiore Health System

Fun times at the Senescence and Aging CSHL Meetings a few weeks ago! Ana Maria gave a fantastic talk and Rebecca Sereda showcased her poster!

Einstein Research led by Marina Konopleva: Possible New Treatment for Form of Acute Myeloid #Leukemia Learn more at bit.ly/4n1a1eV.

Thesis Seminar! Khushbu Patel, PhD candidate in the Department of Pathology & Liver Center (Drs. Arias-Perez & Macian-Juan labs), “Role of Chaperone-mediated Autophagy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development” June 16, 2025

Thesis defense! Daniella Miller, MD-PhD candidate, Department of Genetics, in the lab of Dr. Bernice Morrow. “Reduced dosage of Kmt2d modifies the transcriptional landscape of Tbx1 haploinsufficiency towards phenotypes of 22q11.2DS” June 16, 2025

The Rose F. Kennedy Center @ Montefiore Einstein UCEDD founded May 1st, 1966 now associated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official, Montefiore Health System, Montefiore Pediatrics & Montefiore Einstein Department of Medicine serves the Developmental Disabilities community through clinical services, research, community education & training. #RFKCenter #EinsteinMed #UCEDD

🎓 Thesis defense seminar by Ruth Hauptman (Department of Systems & Computational Biology): “Microbiome-Derived Biomarkers for Diarrhea: Insights from Mechanistic and Data-Driven Approaches” Mentor: Dr. Libusha Kelly Friday, June 20, 2025

🎓 Thesis seminar by Austin Landgraf (Molecular Pharmacology): “Widespread discordance between mRNA expression, protein abundance, and de novo lipogenesis activity in hepatocytes during the fed-starvation transition” Mentors: Drs. Kosaku Shinoda & Jeffrey E. Pessin 6/25/25

Why are most people with disabilities not represented in research? "Reducing Translational Science (TS) Roadblocks to Disability Research" dives into why this occurs & how TS can change this. A must-read by the CTSA at Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official Montefiore Einstein Department of Medicine cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🎓 Thesis defense seminar by Karl Roberts (Departments of Cell Biology & Genetics): “Proof-of-Concept in a Murine Model of Treatment of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Using Lab-Grown Engineered Red Blood Cells” Mentor: Dr. Eric Bouhassira Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Had such an amazing time at the tri-lab joint BBQ to kick off summer! Loved sharing fun moments, delicious food, and building new connections with Dr. Dawlaty (Meelad Dawlaty) & Guo (Wenjun_Guo) labs. Looking forward to more collaborations! EinsteinSCI Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official Einstein MSTP