2014-15 UCSF Seminars in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Friday, September 5, 2014
4pm, SC-159, Mission Bay
Speaker: Inder Verna, Salk Institute
"Cancer Stem Cells: Reprograming/Dedifferentiation, and Transdifferentiation"
Host: Gabriele Bergers, PhD
Sponsor: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
12pm, N-225, Parnassus
Speaker: David Traver, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego
Specification of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Host: Katja Brueckner, PhD
Sponsor: UCSF Jonah Platt Stem Cell Lecture Series
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
12pm, HSW-302, Parnassus
Speaker: Craig Jordon, Division of Hematology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
"Characterization and Targeting of Metabolic Properties in Leukemia Stem Cells"
Host: Emmanuellle Passegué, PhD
Sponsor: UCSF Jonah Platt Stem Cell Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Stanford
"Young blood for old brains"
Host: Saul Villeda, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Wednesday, October 18, 2014
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc Associate Professor, Center of Reproductive Sciences, UCSF
"Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency and inheritence"
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Antonio Giraldez, PhD, Yale
"The domino of life: activation of the zygotic program during the maternal to zygotic transition, a model for in vivo reprogramming"
Host: Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Benjamin Ohlstein, MD, PhD, Columbia
"Regulating Intestinal Stem Cell Number: 'You Can Go Home Again'"
Host: Todd Nystul, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD, UCLA
Host: UCSF Jonah Platt Stem Cell Lecture Series
Wednesday November 19, 2014
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Yosuke Mukoyama, PhD, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
"Patterning Mechanisms Responsible for Generating a Complex Branching Network in the Nervous and Vascular Systems"
Host: Takashi Mikawa, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
TBD Time & Location
Speaker: Rick Young, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
Topic TBD
Host: UCSF Jonah Platt Stem Cell Lecture Series
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
4pm Mission Bay Genentech Hall Auditorium
Speaker: Laura Landweber, PhD, Princeton University
Topic TBD
Host: Hiten Madhani, MD, PhD
Host: Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Anne Brunet, PhD, Stanford
"Aging and regeneration"
Host: Saul Villeda, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Thursday, January 22, 2015
11am, CVRI Bldg Room SC-159 Mission Bay
Speaker: Steffen Scholpp, PhD
"In-vivo analysis of Wnt/ß-catenin transport in vertebrates"
Host: Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Sponsor: DSCB Graduate Program
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
4pm, Mission Bay Genentech Hall Auditorium
Speaker: John Wallingford, PhD University of Texas, Austin
"The PCP effectors, A novel protein complex in ciliogenesis and cell polarity"
Host: Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Sponsor: DSCB Graduate Program
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 (CANCELLED)
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Ed Morrisey, PhD University of Pennsylvania
"Epigenetic regulation of lung development and regeneration"
Host: Jason Rock, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program and DSCB Graduate Program
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
"Altered Matrix to Cell Signaling in the Human Skeletal Dysplasias"
Host: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Monday, February 9, 2015
4 pm, CVRI Bldg Room SC-159 Mission Bay
Speaker: Tao Peter Zhong, PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
"Regulation of Vertebrate ciliogenesis and heart development"
Host: Su Guo, PhD
Sponsor: DSCB Graduate Program
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, PhD University of Toronto
"Controlling T-Cell Developmental Outcomes"
Host: Trevor Burt, MD, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Thursday, February 19, 2015
4pm, HSW-301 Parnassus
Speaker: Paul Kulesa, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
"Neural Crest Migration, Building the Facial Architecture"
Host: Jeff Bush, PhD
Sponsor: Craniofacial/CMB
Monday, February 23, 2015
12pm, CVRI SC-159 Mission Bay
Speaker: Jeff Molkentin, PhD, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati
Topic TBD
Host: Brian Black, PhD
Sponsor: GICD/CVRI
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Feng Zhang, PhD, MIT
"Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Editing
Host: BMS Students
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Matthew Lorincz, PhD, University of British Columbia
"Impact of LTR Retrotransposons on the Transcriptome and Methylome in the Mouse Germline"
Host: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Thursday, March 5, 2015
4pm, Rock Hall Auditorium Mission Bay
Speaker: Songhai Shi, PhD, Sloan Kettering
"Lineage-dependent circuit assembly in the mammalian neocortex"
Host: Sam Pleasure, PhD
Sponsor: Neuroscience
Wednesday, March 19, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Joyce Bischoff, PhD, Harvard
"Cellular and Molecular Dissection of a Vascular Tumor of Infancy - from Endothelial of Infancy - from Endothelial Cells, to Pericytes, to Facultative Stem Cells"
Host: Rong Wang, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Live stream available
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Jennifer Doudna, PhD, UC Berkeley
"The World of CRISPRS: From Biology to Technology"
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Thursday, April 16, 2015
4pm, HSW-301 Parnassus
Speaker: YiPing Chen, PhD, Tulane University
"BMP signaling in tooth development"
Host: Ophir Klein, PhD
Sponsor: Craniofacial/CMB
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Heinrich Jasper, PhD, Buck Institute
"Stem cell aging and tissue homeostasis: lessons from Drosophila"
Host: Emmanuellle Passegué, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Thursday, April 23, 2015
4pm, Rock Hall Auditorium, Mission Bay
Speaker: Michael Greenberg, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Topic TBD
Host: Grae Davis, PhD
Sponsor: Neuroscience
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: Kevin Eggan, PhD, Harvard
"New ideas about motor neuron disease from emerging stem cell and animal models"
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
4pm, N-225 Parnassus
Speaker: David Sabatini, MD, PhD, MIT
"Regulation of Growth and Metabolism"
Host: Michael McManus, PhD
Sponsor: BMS Graduate Program
Monday, May 18, 2015
12pm CVRI SC-159, Mission Bay
Speaker: Ken Poss, PhD, Duke University
Topic TBD
Host: GICD Postdoctoral Students
Sponsor: GICD/CVRI
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
4pm Mission Bay Genentech Hall Auditorium
Speaker: Valentina Greco, PhD, Yale
Topic TBD
Host: Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Sponsor: DSCB Graduate Program
Thursday, May 21, 2015
4pm, Rock Hall Auditorium, Mission Bay
Speaker: Vittorio Gallo, PhD, George Washington University
Topic TBD
Host: Sam Pleasure, PhD
Sponsor: Neuroscience
Thursday, May 21, 2015
4pm HSW-301 Parnassus
Speaker: Martin J. Cohn, PhD
Topic TBD
Host: Ralph Marcucio, PhD
Sponsor: Craniofacial/CMB
Thursday, May 28, 2015
4pm Rock Hall Auditorium, Mission Bay
Speaker: Florian Engert, PhD, Harvard
"Modular neural circuit architecture for optic flow processing in the larval zebrafish"
Host: Su Guo, PhD
Sponsor: Neuroscience
Monday, July 27, 2015 (Informal Seminar)
4pm, CVRI SC-159, Mission Bay
Speaker: Sudipto Roy, PhD, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Proteos, Singapore
"Transcriptional regulation of ciliary differentiation"
Host: Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Sponsor: DSCB Graduate Program