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
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