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
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 10/11 | Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, FACP Medical College of Wisconsin “Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease: How rare genetic causes inform pathogenesis” |
| 10/18 | Matthew Silva, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Osteoblast Proliferation Contributes to Fracture Healing” |
| 10/25 | Jennifer Zellers, PT, DPT, PhD WashU Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Surgery “Implications of diabetes and metabolic syndrome on tendon health and healing.” |
November 2024
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11/01 | Abdul Malik, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Regulation of Bone mass by Gut Microbiome via Modulating T Cell Function in Young and Aging Mice” |
| 11/08 | Erica Scheller, DDS, PhD WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases “Adipose tissue heterogeneity: is fat good or bad for bone?” |
| 11/15 | Thomas Gardella, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital “Parathyroid Hormone Analogs – Investigations into Modes of Action and Applications for Diseases of Bone and Calcium Metabolism” |
| 11/22 | Burel R. Goodin, PhD WashU Anesthesiology “Do Threats to Social Safety Promote Musculoskeletal Pain Disparities?” |
| 11/29 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
December 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 12/06 | Maria Schuller Almeida, PhD. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences “Mechanisms of Aging in Bone” |
| 12/13 | Arin Oestreich, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “From Womb to Wellness: How Maternal Diet Influences Offspring Joint Health” LOCATION CHANGE – EPNEC Seminar Room A |
| 12/20 | Andrew Arnold, MD University of Connecticut Health “Parathyroid Neoplasia – Molecular Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications” TIME CHANGE – 8:30am |
| 12/27 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
January 2025
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 01/03 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
| 01/10 | Emily 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 |
| 01/17 | Chuan-Ju Liu, PhD Yale School of Medicine “Growth Factors and Ion Channels in Musculoskeletal and Autoimmune Diseases.” LOCATION CHANGE – EPNEC Seminar Room A |
| 01/24 | ORS Practice Talks Chenming Wei Victor Gustavo Quentin Meslier |
| 01/31 | Iannis 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)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 02/07 | NO SEMINAR – ORS Meeting |
| 02/14 | Roberto Civitelli, MD WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases “Paracrine Modulation of Breast Cancer Growth by Microenvironment Cells via N-Cadherin, Tgf-β1, and PTH1R Signaling” |
| 02/21 | Cheryl L Ackert-Bicknell, PhD University of Colorado “Allelic effects at the Cped1 locus interact with Parathyroid Hormone to impact bone strength in mice” |
| 02/28 | Elizabeth Yanik Rowlands, ScM, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Leveraging Biobank Data to Investigate Genetic and Non-Genetic Determinants of Musculoskeletal Disease” |
March 2025
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 03/07 | Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD University of San Francisco “Microbiome, Bone Strength and Aging” |
| 03/14 | Aaron Johnson, PhD WashU Developmental Biology “You talking to me!?! Long-range signaling in musculoskeletal disease” |
| 03/21 | Regis O’Keefe, MD, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Targeting Dnmt3b and Abat in the Regulation of Osteoarthritis” |
| 03/28 | Maria (Isabel) Montes- Menendez, DVM, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging for Whole-Body Immune Response and Pain Assessment in Arthritis” |
April 2025
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 04/04 | Joshua Li, MD, PhD University of Virginia “Intervertebral Disc Herniation: Unraveling the Immune Response” |
| 04/11 | Steven Mumm, PhD WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases “Transmembrane Protein 53 Craniotubular Dysplasia (OMIM # 619727): The Skeletal Disease and Consequent Blindness of this New Disorder” |
| 04/18 | Jie Shen, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “Lipid Metabolism and Osteoarthritis” |
| 04/25 | Wei Zou, PhD WashU Pathology-Anatomic & Molecular Pathology (AMP) “Pyroptosis Regulates Bone Formation” |
May 2025
Virtual meetings (see top of page)
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 05/02 | Hicham Drissi, PhD Emory University School of Medicine “A Runted tale about skeletal homeostasis and repair” |
| 05/09 | Rachana Vaidya, PhD WashU Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Surgery “Bone Quality Matters: Towards Better Clinical Assessment of Skeletal Fragility” LOCATION CHANGE: EPNEC – Seminar Room A |
| 05/16 | Debabrata Patra, PhD WashU Orthopaedic Surgery “FGF Receptor Signaling and Bone Homeostasis” |
| 05/23 | NO SEMINAR |
| 05/30 | Thomas Nickolas, MD, MS WashU Bone and Mineral Diseases |
For questions about the seminars, please contact:
Jaci McDonald
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