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).


2023-2024 PROGRAM

  • Friday, November 1st
“Multi-Scale Mechanical Characterization of Bone and Tooth: From Biomechanics to Pathology”

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”

Suzanne  M. Jan de Beur, MD

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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday, February 7, 2020

Title: TBD

Elaine Yu, MD, MMSc

Assistant Professor

Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

  • 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

  •  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