DSCB Approved Seminars

DSCB sponsors seminars throughout the year for the UCSF community to learn about current topics in developmental and stem cell biology as presented by renowned researchers from institutions worldwide. Seminars are open to the entire community. A variety of campus programs and entities also offer seminars in developmental and stem cell biology including the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, the Biomedical Sciences Program (BMS), the Neuroscience Program, the Biochemistry Department, the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), the Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology Program (CMB), the Oral and Craniofacial Biology Program (OCS), the Diabetes Center, the Liver Center, and the Gladstone Institutes. Seminars of interest to the DSCB community are listed below for Parnassus Heights (PH) and Mission Bay (MB).


DSCB 217 Seminar Series
Course Director: Brian Black, PhD
Students are required to attend seven seminars each quarter from the list of approved seminars.


Thursday, September 26, 2024

""How much detail about individual cells do you need to predict the emergent mechanics/morphology of a tissue?""

Speaker: M. Lisa Manning, PhD
Syracuse University

 


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Thursday, September 26, 2024

"Craniofacial Development"

Speaker: Lindsey Barske, PhD
Cinicinnati Children's Hospital

Craniofacial Seminar Series


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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

"Chromosome Biology and Evolution"

Speaker: Mia Levine, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Basic Seminar Sciences series


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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

"Developmental & Stem Cell Biology"

Speaker: Marcos Simoes-Costa, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital

BMS Seminar Series


Time: 4:00pm
Location: HSW-302

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

"In-vivo and Intra-vital Imaging"

Speaker: Rachel S. Friedman, PhD
University of Colorado

ImmunoX series


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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

"Super-resolution Imaging, Single Molecule Imaging, Biophysics"

Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
HHMI/Harvard

Basic Seminar series


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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

"Blood-Based Approaches to Rejuvenating the Aging Brain"

Speaker: Saul Villeda, PhD
UCSF

CTMCT Seminar series
canceled


Time: 1:00-2:00
Location: HSE-720

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

"Craniofacial Development"

Speaker: Janice Lee, DDS, MD, MS
NIDCR

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: HSW-301

Thursday, October 24, 2024

"Developmental Biology, Craniofacial Genetics, Skeletal Biology, and Regeneration"

Speaker: Gage Crump, PhD
University of Southern California

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: HSW-301

Thursday, October 24, 2024

"Computational Biology"

Speaker: Matt Thomson, PhD
CalTech

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Monday, November 4, 2024

"Maternal-Fetal Immunobiology"

Speaker: Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis

ImmunoX series


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Thursday, November 7, 2024

"Genetics of Development, Evolution, Disease"

Speaker: Paul Trainor, PhD
Stowers Institute

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: HSW-303

Thursday, November 7, 2024

"Emerging Bioinformatics Strategies to Enable Precision Medicine"

Speaker: Nicholas Schork, PhD
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

BBC Seminar Series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

"“Resilience in mammalian embryogenesis”"

Speaker: Sara Bowling, PhD
Stanford University

Stem Cell Seminar Series


Time: 1:00
Location: HSW-302

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

"Cell Signaling, Developmental Patterning, Systems Biology, Optogenetics"

Speaker: Jared Toettcher, PhD
Princeton University

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

"Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology"

Speaker: Anna Marie Pyle, PhD
Yale University

Basic Seminar Sciences series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Thursday, December 5, 2024

"Evolutionary Developmental Biology"

Speaker: Matthew Harris, PhD
Harvard University

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: S-214

Thursday, December 5, 2024

"Simulations, Bioinformatics, Systems biology"

Speaker: Alex Holehouse, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

"Multiciliated Cells"

Speaker: Camille Boutin, PhD
Marseille Developmental Biology Institute

Basic Seminar Sciences series


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Thursday, December 12, 2024

""Molecular Probes for the Study of Living Cells and Neurons""

Speaker: Alice Ting, PhD
Stanford University

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Thursday, January 16, 2025

"Cell and Developmental Biology"

Speaker: Linda Barlow, PhD
University of Colorado

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: HSW-300

Thursday, January 23, 2025

"Computational Biology"

Speaker: Heng Li, PhD
Harvard University

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

"Human Genetics"

Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD, MS
UCLA

BMS Seminar Series


Time: 4:00pm
Location: HSW-302

Thursday, March 20, 2025

"Genetics and Genomics"

Speaker: Megan Martik, PhD
UC Berkeley

Craniofacial Seminars


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: HSW-300

Thursday, April 3, 2025

""Machine learning for modeling dynamics in a tumor microenvironment""

Speaker: Elham Azizi, PhD, MSc
Columbia University

BBC Seminar series

 


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium

Monday, April 7, 2025

"Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology"

Speaker: Crystal Rogers, PhD
UC Davis

Craniofacial Seminars


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Thursday, May 22, 2025

"Protein/Peptide Design"

Speaker: Parisa Hosseinzadeh, PhD
University of Oregon

BBC Seminar series


Time: 12:00-1:00
Location: Genentech Hall Auditorium