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.
September 2023
Date | Speaker |
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9/29 | Deborah Veis, MD, PhD WU Bone and Mineral Diseases “Beyond RANKL, Tumor Osteolysis via Exosomes” |
October 2023
Date | Speaker |
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10/06 | ASBMR Practice |
10/13 | No Seminar – ASBMR Meeting |
10/20 | Roman Eliseev, MD, PhD Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY “Mitochondrial Metabolism in Bone Health and Disease” |
10/27 | Jacob McPherson, PhD WU Biomedical Engineering “Zombie cats, cyborg rats, and monkeys with computer chip hats: just another day in the clinic?” |
November 2023
Date | Speaker |
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11/03 | Matthew Silva, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Building New Bone with Mechanical Loading – Roles of Wnt Signaling and Aging” |
11/10 | Dongsheng Duan, PhD University of Missouri, Columbia, MO “Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy: microdystrophin, CRISPR, and SERCA” |
11/17 | Regis O’Keefe, MD, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Targeting COX-2/PGE2 to enhance fracture repair: EP1 receptor inhibition regulates progenitor cells and accelerates bone regeneration in a systemic injury models.” |
11/24 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
December 2023
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
Date | Speaker |
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12/01 | Megan McGee-Lawrence, PhD August University, Augusta, GA |
12/08 | Sydney Neal & Xiaohong Tan | PhD Candidates WU Biomedical Engineering |
12/15 | Hank Kronenberg, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA “PTH: Builder and Destroyer of Bone” |
12/22 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
12/29 | NO SEMINAR – Holiday |
January 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
Date | Speaker |
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01/05 | Sade Williams Clayton, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Characterization of the roles of the immune system in the intervertebral disc repair response” |
01/12 | Gabriel Mbalaviele, PhD WU Bone & Mineral Diseases “Bone is constantly threatened by inflammasome-mediated inflammation” LOCATION CHANGE: BJCIH 11th Floor A/B Conf. Rm. |
01/19 | Lisbet Haglund, PhD McGill University, Montreal, QC “Cell Senescence in Intervertebral Disc Disease; From Basic Knowledge to Therapeutic Opportunities” |
01/26 | ORS Practice Talks Tim Hung, Leyi Chen, Remy Walk, Rachana Vaidya, Gaurav Swarnkar |
February 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
Date | Speaker |
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02/02 | No Seminar |
02/09 | Aaron Johnson, PhD WU Developmental Biology “A brain-muscle signaling axis promotes muscle wasting” |
02/16 | Guilia Furesi, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Adult-Derived Osteolineage (Osterix +) Cells As New Regulators Of Breast Cancer Progression” |
02/23 | Naomi Dirckx, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Differential effects of the PTH-responsive citrate transporter SLC13A5 during growth and aging.” |
March 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
Date | Speaker |
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03/01 | Katherine Weilbaecher, MD WU Medical Oncology “Acid Signaling promotes immune suppression in breast cancer bone metastasis.” |
03/08 | Gaurav Swarnkar, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “Investigating the Impact of Inflammation on the function of Osteoblasts and Osteocytes” Location Change: BJCIH 11th Floor A/B Conference Room |
03/15 | Debabrata Patra, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery “FGF Signaling and Skeletal Development.” |
03/22 | Roberto Civitelli, MD WU Bone and Mineral Diseases “N-Cadherin in Tumor Associated Osterix+ Cells Restrains Tumor Growth Via Modulation of a TGF-β Paracrine Loop” |
03/29 | Baohong Zhao, PhD Cornell Medical College, New York, NY “Gas or Brake: How Inflammatory Osteoclastogenesis is Regulated” |
April 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page for details)
Date | Speaker |
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04/05 | Jie Shen, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery |
04/12 | Wei Zou, PhD WU Pathology-Anatomic & Molecular Pathology (AMP) |
04/19 | Gretchen Meyer, PhD WU Physical Therapy, Neurology, Orthopaedic Surgery |
04/26 | Michael Zusick, PhD University of Colorado, Aurora, CO |
May 2024
Virtual meetings (see top of page)
Date | Speaker |
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05/03 | Heather Himberg, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
05/10 | Rebekah Lawrence, PhD WU Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Surgery |
05/17 | No Seminar |
05/24 | Audrey McAlinden, PhD WU Orthopaedic Surgery |
05/31 | TBA |
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