Fridays from 1:00 - 1:30 pm in the Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall
Every week, graduate students and postdocs present their latest research at our "Pizza Talks" where trainees get their fill of both science and pizza! These talks provide an opportunity for trainees to share their work and latest data, receive feedback, and practice presenting their research.
Starting in January 2025, Pizza Talks are held in the Waterhouse Room in Gordon Hall on Fridays at 1:00 pm.
Current Academic Year
| DATE | SPEAKER | LAB | TALK TITLE |
| September 11, 2024 | Alex Truong | HMS IT | "Research computing at HMS: How we can make your (research) life better" |
| September 18, 2024 | Meiying Ng | Chouchani | "A druggable redox switch on SHP1 controls macrophage inflammation" |
| September 25, 2024 | Songhua Hu | Haigis | “A novel role of sirtuin-generated byproduct in regulating fatty acid oxidation” |
| October 9, 2024 | Felix Kraus | Harper | “Systematic Analysis of Cellular Proteomes and Lipidomes in Lysosomal Storage Disorders” |
| October 16, 2024 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| October 23, 2024 | Rishov Goswami | Danial | "Contribution of lipid metabolism to the tumorigenic potential of the BRAF fusion oncoprotein in pediatric gliomas" |
| October 30, 2024 | Karl-Uwe (Kalle) Reusswig | Pellman | "Exploring how chromosome stability is affected by the formation of an MN body around a chromosome that was exposed to the cytoplasm during the previous cell cycle" |
| November 6, 2024 | Steven Shuken | Gygi | "Quantifying sites of modification and mutation with the GoDig targeted mass spectrometry platform" |
| November 13, 2024 | Manuel Osorio Valeriano | Farnung | "Looping the genome: cryo-EM analysis of CTCF-nucleosome complexes" |
| November 20, 2024 | Jim Gould, Ph.D. | HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows | "Making the Most of Your Postdoc" |
| November 27, 2024 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| December 11, 2024 | Jingyi Chi | Liberles | "Peering into the cellular and functional diversity of the sympathetic nervous system" |
| December 18, 2024 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| December 25, 2024 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| January 3, 2025 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| January 10, 2025 | Hyeongju Kim | Lee | "Identifying mechanism of translation regulation by alphavirus" |
| January 17, 2025 | Yingqian Chen | King | "Evaluating the role of inhibitory phosphorylation of E2 enzyme UBE2H" |
| January 24, 2025 | Konstantinos Nakos | Subramanian | “How does a mitotic kinase localize at the spindle midzone?” |
| February 7, 2025 | Bryan Seguinot | Finley | "Landscaping the RBC Proteome" |
| February 14, 2024 | Anne Van Der Leun | Bernstein | "The cause and consequence of DNA hypomethylation in T cells" |
| February 21, 2025 | Pedro Latorre-Muro | Puigserver | "Mechanisms of mitochondrial adaptive respiration" |
| February 28, 2025 | Haruka Chino | Shao | "Requirements for degrading a misoriented protein at the ER" |
| March 14, 2025 | Juntao Yu | Moazed | "Molecular Basis of Chromatin-Based Epigenetic Memory" |
| March 21, 2025 | Diana Ho | Van Vactor | "Motor neuron subtype specificity of TDP-43 responses in Drosophila" |
| March 28, 2025 | Gustavo Scanavachi Moreira Campos | Kirchhausen | “Real time visualization of Notch synapse and Notch signaling" |
| April 11, 2025 | Jared Johnson | Cantley | "An Atlas of Substrate Specificities for the Human Protein Kinome" |
| April 18, 2025 | Xiangkun Han | Brugge | |
| April 25, 2025 | Spiegelman | ||
| May 2, 2025 | Sam Lapp | Manning | |
| May 9, 2025 | Taciani de Almeida | Salic | |
| May 16, 2025 | TBA | ||
| May 23, 2025 | NO PIZZA TALK | ||
| May 30, 2025 | Chris Nardone | Rapoport | |
| June 13, 2025 | TBA |