{"id":869,"date":"2018-04-13T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:53:54","slug":"pvm-guest-lecture-features-leading-stem-cell-researcher-from-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/pvm-guest-lecture-features-leading-stem-cell-researcher-from-cornell.php","title":{"rendered":"PVM Guest Lecture Features Leading Stem Cell Researcher from Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"img-responsive img-thumbnail wp-image-871 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0098_copy2_Nikitin_1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alexander Nikitin, Dr. Sanjeev Narayanan, and Dr.Harm HogenEsch\" \/>\n<p>\u201cTransitional Zones and Cancer\u201d was the title of a special guest lecture given in Lynn Hall recently by <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.vet.cornell.edu\/research\/faculty\/alexander-nikitin-md-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Nikitin<\/a>, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.vet.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell University<\/a> and leading stem cell researcher, who spoke to an audience of Purdue Veterinary Medicine graduate students, faculty, and staff.\u00a0 The presentation was hosted by the PVM <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Research<\/a> as part of the College\u2019s Graduate Student Research Seminar Series.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_873\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-873 img-responsive img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0098_Nikitin_2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alexander Nikitin visits with Dr. Harm HogenEsch\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Alexander Nikitin visits with Dr. Harm HogenEsch, PVM associate dean for research, at a reception held in Dr. Nikitin\u2019s honor in the Continuum Caf\u00e9 as part of the PVM Graduate Program Research Seminar Series.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Nikitin leads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stemcell.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell Stem Cell Program<\/a> and is director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.vet.cornell.edu\/research\/awards\/201608\/cornell-training-program-stem-cell-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell Training Program in Stem Cell Research<\/a>, director of the Cornell Stem Cell Pathology Unit, and co-director of the Cornell Stem Cell Modeling and Phenotyping Core. His research aims to understand how aberrations in molecular and cellular mechanisms governing tissue homeostasis may lead to cancer initiation and progression.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nikitin\u2019s work has offered important conceptual insights into the mechanisms by which stem cell niches contribute to cancer pathogenesis.\u00a0 As a part of his interests in pathology, Dr. Nikitin is developing the concept of \u201cstem cell pathology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PVM Graduate Program Research Seminar Series was initiated last year as a means of providing graduate students exposure to accomplished scholars giving high quality scientific lectures that are open to the entire college.\u00a0 Both PVM faculty and outside guest lecturers are invited speak.\u00a0 The seminar series also gives the graduate students experience in making their own scientific presentations.\u00a0 Dr. Nikitin\u2019s guest lecture on March 29 in Lynn 1136 was followed by a reception in the Continuum Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTransitional Zones and Cancer\u201d was the title of a special guest lecture given in Lynn Hall recently by Alexander Nikitin, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at Cornell University and leading stem cell researcher, who spoke to an audience of Purdue Veterinary Medicine graduate students, faculty, and staff.  The presentation was hosted by the PVM Office of Research as part of the College\u2019s Graduate Student Research Seminar Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,36,35,11],"tags":[26,244,173,56,243,150,245],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-cancer","category-one-health","category-research","tag-featured-story","tag-graduate-program-research-seminar-series","tag-harm-hogenesch","tag-homepage","tag-lecture","tag-research","tag-sanjeev-narayanan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31590,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/31590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}