The Lawrence Family Bone Disease Program of Texas presents monthly seminars given by internationally recognized scientists who have conducted extensive research in the field of skeletal biology.
Unless otherwise noted, lectures are held on the first Friday of each month, 1:30-2:30 p.m. in person.
If you wish to be included to the e-mail distribution list to receive reminders about upcoming lectures, please e-mail Charlotte Cherry (ccherry@bcm.edu).
2024-2025 PROGRAM
- Friday, April 4 – Seminar cancelled. Talk will be rescheduled.
- Friday, March 7
“Unraveling the Fundamental Role of Adipose-Joint Interogan Crosstalk in Osteoarthritis”
Kelsey Collins, Ph.D
Assistant Professor,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Anatomy
UCSF Parnassus Campus
- Friday, February 7
“Skeletal Interoception Regulates Bone Homeostasis: Implication of Joint Disease and Pain”
Xu Cao, Ph.D
Professor and Director,
Departments of Orthopedics Surgery and Biomechanical Engineering
Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, January 24
“Bony Guard Against Cancer Invasion”
Masayuki Tsukasaki, D.D.S.,Ph.D
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
School of Dentistry, Showa University
Friday, December 6
“Mechanisms of Hypertrophic Chondrocyte Cell Fate During Endochondral Bone Development”
Matthew Hilton, PhD
Professor & Associate Chair,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine
- Friday, November 1st
Yuxiao Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor,
J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
- Friday, October 4
“Forward genetic and genomic analysis of size regulation uncovers novel signaling mechanism of skeletal growth, proportion and repair”
Matthew P. Harris, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Orthopedic Research Laboratories, Boston Children’s Hospital
2023-2024 PROGRAM
- Friday, April 5th
“New twists in an old story: “PTHrP, Hypercalcemia and Breast Cancer”
John Wysolmerski, MD
Professor and Section Chief, Endocrinology (Medicine)
Yale School of Medicine
- Friday, March 1st
“FGF23 Deficiency: Manifestations, Pathomechanisms, and Treatment”
Michael Collins, MD
Senior Investigator, Skeletal Disorders and Mineral Homeostasis Section
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- Friday, February 9th
“Mechanical interventions to improve skeletal health in metastatic breast cancer”
Liyun Wang, PhD
Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Sugery
University of Delaware
- Friday, January 4th (McGovern Medical School Room 2.103)
“Cancer and the musculoskeletal system: moving from bedside-to-bench and back again”
Christopher D. Collier, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Sugery,
Indiana University School of Medicine
- Friday, December 1 (McGovern Medical School Room 2.103) (- cancelled)
“Forward genetic and genomic analysis of size uncovers novel signaling mechanism of skeletal growth, proportion and repair”
Matthew P. Harris, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
OrthopaedicResearch Laboratories, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Friday, November 11(McGovern Medical School, Room B.100)
“G.O.O.D for Kids: What we have learned from Texas children”
Carol Wise, PhD
Professor, McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development
Director, Scottish Rite for Children Center for Translational Research,
UT Southwestern
- October 6 (McGovern Medical School, Room B.100)
“Acid induced signaling and immune suppression in breast cancer bone metastases”
Kathy Weilbaecher, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Section of Molecular Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine
2023 PROGRAM
- Friday, April 7
“Osteocyte and Osteoclast Cell Dynamics in Bone”
Sarah Dallas, PhD
Professor, Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
University of Missouri Kansas City
- Friday, March 3
“Osteoarthritis: A Tale of Neuroplasticity“
Anne Marie Malfait, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Rheumatology, Rush University
- Friday, February 3
“Tumor-Stromal Interactions in Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis”
Yibin Kang, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
Associate Director, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
- Friday, January 6
“When the bone meets inflammation”
Baohong Zhao, PhD
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell
Associate Scientist, HSS Research Institute
2022 PROGRAM
- Friday, December 2nd
“Fractures in diabetes: challenges of risk assessment and prevention”
Ann Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
University of California, San Francisco, CA
- Friday, November 5, 2022
“The fallacy of “no pain no gain” in musculoskeletal healing and research”
Benjamin Levi, MD
Division Chief of General Surgery and Director, Center for Organogenesis & Trauma
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
- Friday, October 7, 2022 (Zoom seminar)
“Craniofacial development and phenotype in disorders of collagen defects”
Janice Lee, DDS, MD, MS
Clinical Director, NIDCR – Division of Intramural Research
Co-Director, NIDCR Clinical Research Fellowship
Deputy Director for Intramural Clinical Research, NIH
- Friday, May 6, 2022
“Dense Bone Diseases: Too Much of a Bad or Good Thing?”
Michael P. Whyte, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatric and Genetics,
Washington University School of Medicine St Louis
- Friday, April 1, 2022
“Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Tumor Induced Osteomalacia”
Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Friday, March 4th, 2022
“Mechanisms of joint dysfunction in Osteogenesis Imperfecta”
Joohyun Lim, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Molecular & Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
- Friday, February 4th, 2022
“BMP/TGFβ crosstalk in cartilage and bone”
Karen Lyons, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
UCLA School of Medicine
- Friday, January 7, 2022
“Endoplasmic reticulum stress in Osteogenesis Imperfecta – Impact on bone and cartilage”
Deborah Krakow, MD
Professor of Human Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Pediatrics,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
2021 PROGRAM
- Friday, December 3, 2021
“SOX and SEX interplay in bone formation”
Veronique Lefebvre, PhD
Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
- Friday, November 5, 2021
“Cell Signaling: Hippo, Wnts and Hedgehogs in the jungle of skeletal biology and diseases”
Yingzi Yang, PhD
Professor, Developmental Biology
Harvard School Dental Medicine-Boston
- Friday, September 3rd, 2021
“The evolving cancer niche interaction during bone metastasis progression”
Xiang Zhang, PhD
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
- Friday, June 4, 2021
“Bone, blood and fat: an osteocyte centered view”
Paola Divieti Pajevic, PhD
Associate Professor of Translational Dental Medicine
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
- Friday, May 7, 2021
“The Challenges of Osteoporosis Treatment”
Robert A. Adler, MD
Chief Endocrinology and Metabolism
Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System
- Friday, April 2, 2021
“Regulation of primary tumor growth by cells from the bone microenvironment”
Roberta Faccio, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine
- Friday, March 5, 2021
“BMP2 Regulation of the Periosteal Skeletal Stem Cell Niche”
Vicki Rosen, PhD
Professor & Chair of Developmental Biology
Harvard University School of Dental Medicine
- Friday, February 5, 2021
“Osteocytes and the Bone Cancer Niche”
Teresita Bellido, PhD
Professor & Chair
Physiology and Cell Biology
University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS)
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Friday, December 4, 2020
“Reprogrammed marrow adipocytes contribute to myeloma-induced bone disease”
Jing Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Houston Methodist Cancer Center
Houston Methodist Research Institute
- Friday, November 6, 2020 – Zoom talk
“Large-scale Bone Repair in a Mouse Model”
Francesca Mariani, PhD
Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Director for the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Friday, October 2, 2020 – Zoom talk
“Muscle and Tendon Stem cells: Regeneration and Aging”
Chen-Ming Fan, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
2019 PROGRAM
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Friday, September 6, 2019
“A Stem Cell Basis for Intramembranous Versus Endochondral Bone Formation”
Matthew B. Greenblatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
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Friday, November 1, 2019
“Skeletal/Mesenchymal Stem Cells: How Much Do We Know About Them?”
Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthodontics & Pediatric Dentistry
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Ann Arbor, MI
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Friday, December 6, 2019
“TGF-ß Signaling in Skeletal Development and Disease”
Rosa A. Serra, PhD
Professor, Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
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Friday, January 3, 2020
“Shh signaling during intervertebral development and aging”
Chitra Dahia, PhD
Assistant Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine Grad School of Medical Sciences
HSS Research Institute
New York, NY 10021
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Title: TBD
Elaine Yu, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Friday, March 6, 2020
“Matricellular Protein Regulation of Bone Formation and Regeneration”
Kurt Hankenson, DVM, PhD
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI
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Friday, April 3, 2020
“The Contribution of Marrow Adipocytes to Myeloma Bone Disease”
Jing Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma – Research
MD Anderson Cancer Center
2018-2019 PROGRAM
Nov. 2, 2018
Struan F.A. Grant, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Daniel B. Burke Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Center for Spatial & Functional Genomics, Division of Human Genetics & Endocrinology
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Dec. 7, 2018
Paul Trainor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
Jan. 4, 2019
Ophir Klein, M.D., Ph.D.
Larry L. Hillbolm Distinguished Professor in Craniofacial Anomalities
Professor, Orofacial Sciences & Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Medical Genetics
Director, Program in Craniofacial Biology
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Feb. 1, 2019
Nancy Perrier, M.D.
Professor, Surgical Oncology
Chief, Section of Surgical Endocrinology
Fellowship Program Director, Surgical Oncology
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
April 5, 2019
Matthew T. Drake, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and nutrition
Joint Appointment, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic – Rochester, MN
May 3, 2019
Francis Y. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Wayne O. Southwick Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
Professor of Pathology, Secondary Appointment
Adult and Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Musculoskeletal Oncology, Smilow Cancer Hospital Orthopaedic Research
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT