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2026 MCHD Meetings

Date
Speaker
Title
1/12/26
External Advisory Committee Meeting
External Advisory Meeting
1/29/26SPT Labtech (Lunch and Learn)CANCELLED
2/25/26Michael Garrett, PhD, MBA
& 
Jake Johnston, MS, MB(ASCP)		EAC Debrief and Core B- New Technologies
3/25/26Lavanya Challagundla, PhD

Updates on HPC, Bioinformatics and Data Science
4/22/26Laura Hendon, MA, MS,CGC/ Pawel Pomianowski, MD
Douglas McLaurin, PhD		Update on MCHD Partner Programs: Pediatrics and Adult Genetic Research
5/27/26Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, PhDEstablishment and updates on GREAT Core: Genome editing Research, Education and Animal genome Targeting Core
6/24/26Brigitte Martin, PhDInfluenza-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction and Antiviral Intervention
7/22/26No MeetingNo Meeting
8/26/26Jawed Siddiqui, PhDObesity-Associated Prostate Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
9/30/26Barbara Gisabella, PhDGrowth hormone signaling in fear and reward memory consolidation
10/19/26

Alan Tackett, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Deputy Director, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Leveraging ATF6 activiation to increase efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors
10/28/26TBATBA
11/5/26Illumina
(Lunch and Learn Series)

TBA

11/25/26No Meeting

Thanksgiving Break

12/23/26No MeetingChristmas Break