Fridays @ 9am

In-person location is BJC Institute of Health, 5th floor, Nathaniel Allison Conference room unless otherwise noted below.

Avioli seminars are available virtually and require a Zoom meeting link and passcode. If you wish to receive this attendee information, please submit a request.
Zoom link will be different each week. It will be sent to non-WashU registrants weekly.
To encourage in-person attendance, registrants at WashU will need to reply to seminar notices to request a link when needed.

October 2024

DateSpeaker
10/11Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, FACP
Medical College of Wisconsin
“Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease: How rare genetic causes inform pathogenesis”
10/18Matthew Silva, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
“Osteoblast Proliferation Contributes to Fracture Healing”
10/25Jennifer Zellers, PT, DPT, PhD
WashU Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Surgery
“Implications of diabetes and metabolic syndrome on tendon health and healing.”

November 2024

DateSpeaker
11/01Abdul Malik, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
“Regulation of Bone mass by Gut Microbiome via Modulating T Cell Function in Young and Aging Mice”
11/08Erica Scheller, DDS, PhD
WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases
“Adipose tissue heterogeneity: is fat good or bad for bone?”
11/15Thomas Gardella, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
“Parathyroid Hormone Analogs – Investigations into Modes of Action and Applications for Diseases of Bone and Calcium Metabolism”
11/22Burel R. Goodin, PhD
WashU Anesthesiology
“Do Threats to Social Safety Promote Musculoskeletal Pain Disparities?”
11/29NO SEMINAR – Holiday

December 2024

Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)

DateSpeaker
12/06Maria Schuller Almeida, PhD.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
“Mechanisms of Aging in Bone”
12/13Arin Oestreich, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
“From Womb to Wellness: How Maternal Diet Influences Offspring Joint Health”
LOCATION CHANGE – EPNEC Seminar Room A
12/20Andrew Arnold, MD
University of Connecticut Health
“Parathyroid Neoplasia – Molecular Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications”
TIME CHANGE – 8:30am
12/27NO SEMINAR – Holiday

January 2025

Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)

DateSpeaker
01/03NO SEMINAR – Holiday
01/10Emily Eul, PhD Candidate (Faccio Lab)
WashU Molecular Cell Biology
“Breast cancer-bone crosstalk alters hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to support tumor progression”
LOCATION CHANGE – EPNEC Seminar Room A
01/17Chuan-Ju Liu, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
“Growth Factors and Ion Channels in Musculoskeletal and Autoimmune Diseases.”
LOCATION CHANGE – EPNEC Seminar Room A
01/24ORS Practice Talks
Chenming Wei
Victor Gustavo
Quentin Meslier
01/31Iannis Adamopoulos, PhD
Harvard Medical School
“IL-23 as an immune regulator of bone loss in psoriatic arthritis”

February 2025

Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)

DateSpeaker
02/07NO SEMINAR – ORS Meeting
02/14Roberto Civitelli, MD
WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases
“Paracrine Modulation of Breast Cancer Growth by Microenvironment Cells via N-Cadherin, Tgf-β1, and PTH1R Signaling”
02/21Cheryl L Ackert-Bicknell, PhD
University of Colorado
02/28Elizabeth Yanik Rowlands, ScM, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery

March 2025

Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)

DateSpeaker
03/07Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD
University of San Francisco
03/14Aaron Johnson, PhD
WashU Developmental Biology
03/21Regis O’Keefe, MD, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
03/28Maria Montes- Menendez, DVM, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery

April 2025

Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)

DateSpeaker
04/04Joshua Li, MD, PhD
University of Virginia
04/11Steven Mumm, PhD
WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases
04/18Jie Shen, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
04/25Wei Zou, PhD
WashU Pathology-Anatomic & Molecular Pathology (AMP)

May 2025

Virtual meetings (see top of page)

DateSpeaker
05/02Hicham Drissi, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine
05/09Rachana Vaidya, PhD
WashU Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Surgery
05/16Debabrata Patra, PhD
WashU Orthopaedic Surgery
05/23NO SEMINAR
05/30Thomas Nickolas, MD, MS
WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases

For questions about the seminars, please contact:
Jennifer Vollmer | jvollmer@wustl.edu

Series sponsored jointly by:

  • Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases
  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Musculoskeletal Research Center (P30)
  • Skeletal Disorders Training Program (T32)
  • Avioli Speaker Fund