2024 DSCB Symposium

Date: 
Friday, June 21, 2024
Time: 
9:30am-4:00pm
Place: 
Byers Auditorium Genentech Hall

The Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program at UCSF hosted the Annual DSCB Symposium on Friday, June 21, 2024. See agenda below.

Annual DSCB Symposium Schedule

9:45 AM- 10:15 AM Coffee & Check in Genentech Hall Atrium
10:15 AM- 10:20 AM Opening Remarks, Welcome Byers Auditorium
10:20-11:00 AM

Mark Pownall (Sandler Fellow, UCSF)

"An expanded view of transcription and chromatin"
11:05-11:45 AM

Helena Cantwell (Postdoc, UC Berkeley)

"Molecular Basis of Spindle Morphology Changes at the Meiosis to Mitosis Transition"
11:50 AM-12:30 PM Ali Shariati (Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz) "Self-organization of embryonic stem cells into a reproducible embryo model through epigenome editing"
12:30 PM-2 PM

Lunch

Genentech Hall Atrium
2:05 PM-2:45 PM Lauren Goins (Assistant Professor, Stanford) "Orchestrating a Spatiotemporal Symphony: How Combinatorial Signaling Factors Drive Blood Cell Development"
2:50 PM-3:30 PM Vanessa Barone (Assistant Professor, Stanford) "Echinoderm embryos from cell biology to evo-devo"
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM Closing Remarks