DSCB approved seminars for 2016-17
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Samantha Brugmann, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
PCB Seminar
"A primary cilia based etiology for craniofacial malformations"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
George Daley, MD, PhD, Harvard
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Robert Blelloch
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: HSW-303
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Richard Schultz, PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania
BMS Seminar, Host: Susan Fisher
"From egg to embryo: a peripatetic journey"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Rudolf Jaenisch, MD
Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar
If you have a UCSF MyAccess login, you can view a recording of this seminar here.
"Stem cells, epigenetics and diff states of pluripotency."
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Stuart Orkin, MD, Harvard
BMS Seminar, Host: Trevor Burt
"Solving the Human Hemoglobin Switch: what comes next?"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Hans-Willem Soeck, Columbia Univ
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Jason Rock
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: RMB Boardroom
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Kimberly Cooper, PhD, UCSD
PCB Seminar
Co-hosted by the UCSF DSCB program
"Evolution and development of the integrated musculoskeletal system of the jerboa hindlimb"
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: HSE-1511
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Filippo Rijli, PhD, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
PCB Seminar
"Hox genes in circuit formation and craniogacial development"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Aviv Regev, PhD, Broad Inst.
BMS Seminar, Host: Arnold Kriegstein
Co-hosted by the UCSF DSCB program
"Reconstructing circuits: from cells to tissues"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Guy Tanentzapf, PhD, University of British Columbia
DSCB Seminar, Host: Todd Nystul
Sponsored by the UCSF DSCB program
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: N-217
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Eric Betzig, PhD, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
BMS Seminar, Host: Max Krummel
"Imaging Cellular Dynamics from Molecules to Embryos"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Monday, December 12, 2016
Richard Young, PhD, Whitehead Institute and MIT
GICD/CVRI Seminar, Host: Deepak Srivastava
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Mahley Auditorium Gladstone Institute
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Sean Megason, PhD, Harvard
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Todd Nystul
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: RMB Boardroom
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Martin Garcia-Castro, PhD, UC Riverside
PCB Seminar
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Bing Rin, NYU
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar
Host: Yin Shen
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: RMB Boardroom
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Fernando Camargo, PhD, Harvard
BMS Seminar, Host: Diana Laird
SEMINAR CANCELLED - to be rescheduled
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Informal Seminar, Host: Peter Walter
click here for livestream link
"The development of color patterns in fish: Towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty."
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Rock Hall Auditorium RH-102
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Joan Richtsmeier, PhD, Penn State
PCB Seminar
"It's about time: evolution, disease, and development"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Brad Cairns, Univ. of Utah
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Barbara Panning
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: RMB Boardroom
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
James Wells, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
BMS Seminar, Host: Ophir Klein
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD, Columbia University
PCB Seminar
"The impact of bone on whole-organism physiology"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Eric Greer, PhD, Harvard
BMS Seminar, Host: Saul Villeda
Co-hosted by the UCSF DSCB program
"Towards a Mechanism of Epigenetic Inheritance: DNA Methylation on N6-Adenine"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Robb Krumlauf, PhD, Stowers Inst. for Medical Research
PCB Seminar
"Hox genes and head development: A story in segments"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Thursday, February 23, 2017
James Noonan, PhD, Yale University
BBC Seminar, Host: Nadav Ahituv
Mission Bay - Genentech Hall Auditorium
simulcast to Parnassus - Medical Sciences, S-161
"Genetic models of human evolution"
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Marc Caron, PhD, Duke University
PSPG/CERSI Seminar, Host: Brian Shoichet
Mission Bay - RH-102
Simulcast to Parnassus - N-225
"Physiological and Therepeutic Implications of GPCR Functional Selectivity"
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: RH-102
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD, Harvard
Neuroscience Seminar, Host: John Rubenstein
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Rock Hall Auditorium
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Rolf Zeller, PhD, DBM Centre for Biomedicine, University of Basel
PCB Seminar
Co-hosted by the UCSF DSCB program
Topic: Seminar on Evolution of Limb Development
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Ali H. Brivanlou, PhD, Rockefeller University
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Susan Fisher
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Yingzi Yang, PhD, Harvard
PCB Seminar
"Mechanism of Wnt/PCP signaling in development and disease"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
David A. Sassoon, PhD
ICAN, Paris
Host: Andrew Brack, PhD
"Identification of a stress-responsive vascular progenitor cell population resident in adult tissues."
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
David Scadden, MD, Harvard
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Andrew Brack
"Stem cells and their niche: lessons from the blood."
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: HSW-302
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Richard Harland, PhD, UC Berkeley
BMS Seminars, host: Susan Fisher, PhD
"Xenopus: Three vignettes: Evolution after tetraploidy, alternative splicing in development, and genome modification in the study of autism."
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: N-225
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Anne West, Duke University
Neuroscience Seminar, Host: Sam Pleasure
"Chromatin Regulation of Neuronal Maturation and Plasticity."
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Rock Hall Auditorium
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Lee Niswander, PhD, Univ. of Colorado
PCB Seminar
"Visualizing neural tube closure and uncovering the causes of neural tube defects."
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301
Monday, April 24, 2017
Denis Duboule, PhD, EPFL Lausanne and University of Geneva Life Sciences
PCB Seminar
Co-hosted by the UCSF DSCB program
"Long-range transcription control of Hox genes during development and evolution.'
Time: 4pm
Location: HSW-301
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Hongjun Song, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Single-Cell Analysis of Adult Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis
Time: 4:00 PM
Location:
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Judith Kimble, PhD, UW Madison
MBL Seminar
“Probability and plasticity in cell signaling, stem cells and sexual fate"
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: GH-106
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Gail Mandel, Vollum Institute
Neuroscience Seminar, Host: Lily Jan
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Rock Hall Auditorium
Friday, May 5, 2017
Iswar Hariharan, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley
Helen Diller Cancer Center Weekly Seminar Series, Host: David Toczyski
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HD-160, Mission Bay
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonkis, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jonah Platt Stem Cell Seminar, Host: Diana Laird
Friday, May 26, 2017
Sergiu Pasca, MD Stanford Univerisity
Neuroscience Seminar
"Tridimensional Models of the Human Cerebral Cortex to Study Development and Disease."
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Rock Hall Auditorium RH-102
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Michael Dixon, BDS, PhD, FDS, Univ. of Manchester
PCB Seminar
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HSW-301