Musculoskeletal Seminar Schedule
The Interdisciplinary Musculoskeletal Research Seminar (IMSKR) meets weekly on Fridays throughout the academic year. Hybrid meetings are held at the McGuire Translational Research Facility (Room 1-110, view map) and Zoom. For more details regarding each meeting, please view the information below. This webpage is updated on a regular basis.
Date/Time | Speaker | Topic |
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2025 | ||
April 11, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Baohong Zhao, BM, DMD, PhD Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine, Graduate Program in Biochemistry Cell and Development Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University; Director, Lab of Pathological Bone Metabolism and Osteoimmunology, Hospital for Special Surgery |
Dissecting the Bone: How Inflammation, Cellular Crosstalk, and Stem Cells Shape Its Health |
April 18, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Huzefa Husain Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Candidate; CIC Fellow; Systems Regeneration Lab, University of Minnesota |
A light-cured injectable composite hydrogel based on chitosan and decellularized matrix modulates stem cell aggregation behavior for accelerating cartilage defect repair |
April 25, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Casey Johnson, PhD Assistant Professor and Section Head of Medical Imaging, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota |
Quantitative MRI as a window into the pathogenesis of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease |
May 2, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Beau Webber, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota |
Application of human induced pluripotent stem cells to cancer modeling and therapy |
May 9, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Deborah Veis, MD, PhD Professor; Director, Histology and Morphometry Core, Musculoskeletal Research Center, Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases, Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine |
Extracellular vesicles in the pre-malignant bone microenvironment: the case of HTLV-1 infection |
May 23, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Dmitriy Sheyn, PhD Associate Professor, Orthopedic Stem Cell Research Lab; Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, Department of Orthopedics/Surgery/Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Harnessing skeletal development and pathology for stem cell therapies in musculoskeletal disorders |
May 30, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Ismael Karkache PhD Doctoral Candidate, Comparative and Molecular Biosciences, University of Minnesota |
Topic TBA |