{"id":418,"date":"2024-08-07T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:38:00","slug":"seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/research\/seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<h2 id=\"tablepress-7-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-7\">2026<\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-7\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-7\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-7-name\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Date<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Seminar Series Description<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">3\/5\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2025\/12\/Wasmuth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\"Leveraging Protein Language Models for Rare Variant Association Testing of Complex Traits and Cancer\"<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Noah Zaitlen, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">3\/26\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/CIO-Seminar_Coetzee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\"Chromatin State Landscapes of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Simon Coetzee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">4\/23\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/April-Seminar-Series-1.pdf\">\"The Tumor Ecosystem- Microenviornmental Drivers of Breast Cancer Risk and Initiation\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Kai Kessenbrosk, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">6\/25\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/April-Seminar-Series.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\"New Regulatory Mechanisms of DNA Damage Repair and Genomic Stability\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Eloise Dray, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">7\/23\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/JULY-SEMINAR.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\">\"Targeting KDM1A\/LSD1-Mediated Epigenomic Reprogramming In TNBC Brain Metastasis\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Gangadhara Sareddy, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">8\/27\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/Aug.-Seminar-Series.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">\"Mechanistic Insights into BRCA2 Variants: From DNA Repair to Precision Oncology\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Ryan B. Jensen, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">9\/24\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/09\/Sept.-Seminar-Series-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\"Viral Infection, APOBEC3 Dysregulation, and Tumor Mutagenesis\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Diako Ebrahimi, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">10\/22\/26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/cio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2026\/10\/October-Seminar-Series.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\"Ovarian Cancer Microenvironment of Pembrolizumab Responders and Non- Responders\"<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Marcela Haro, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-7 from cache -->[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<nav id=\"subnav\" class=\"callout outline\" aria-label=\"Sub navigation 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