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
Time: Location:
Thursday, September 26, 2024
"Craniofacial Development"Speaker: Lindsey Barske, PhD
Cinicinnati Children's Hospital
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Time: Location:Tuesday, October 1, 2024
"Chromosome Biology and Evolution"Speaker: Mia Levine, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Basic Seminar Sciences series
Time: Location:Wednesday, October 2, 2024
"Developmental & Stem Cell Biology"Speaker: Marcos Simoes-Costa, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
"In-vivo and Intra-vital Imaging"Speaker: Rachel S. Friedman, PhD
University of Colorado
ImmunoX series
Time: Location:Tuesday, October 8, 2024
"Super-resolution Imaging, Single Molecule Imaging, Biophysics"Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
HHMI/Harvard
Basic Seminar series
Time: Location:Wednesday, October 16, 2024
"Blood-Based Approaches to Rejuvenating the Aging Brain"Speaker: Saul Villeda, PhD
UCSF
CTMCT Seminar series
canceled
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
"Craniofacial Development"Speaker: Janice Lee, DDS, MD, MS
NIDCR
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: HSW-301Thursday, 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-301Thursday, October 24, 2024
"Computational Biology"Speaker: Matt Thomson, PhD
CalTech
Monday, November 4, 2024
"Maternal-Fetal Immunobiology"Speaker: Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis
Thursday, November 7, 2024
"Genetics of Development, Evolution, Disease"Speaker: Paul Trainor, PhD
Stowers Institute
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: HSW-303Thursday, November 7, 2024
"Emerging Bioinformatics Strategies to Enable Precision Medicine"Speaker: Nicholas Schork, PhD
The Translational Genomics Research Institute
BBC Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"“Resilience in mammalian embryogenesis”"Speaker: Sara Bowling, PhD
Stanford University
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"Cell Signaling, Developmental Patterning, Systems Biology, Optogenetics"Speaker: Jared Toettcher, PhD
Princeton University
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology"Speaker: Anna Marie Pyle, PhD
Yale University
Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Evolutionary Developmental Biology"Speaker: Matthew Harris, PhD
Harvard University
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: S-214Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Simulations, Bioinformatics, Systems biology"Speaker: Alex Holehouse, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
"Multiciliated Cells"Speaker: Camille Boutin, PhD
Marseille Developmental Biology Institute
Thursday, December 12, 2024
""Molecular Probes for the Study of Living Cells and Neurons""Speaker: Alice Ting, PhD
Stanford University
Thursday, January 16, 2025
"Cell and Developmental Biology"Speaker: Linda Barlow, PhD
University of Colorado
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: HSW-300Thursday, January 23, 2025
"Computational Biology"Speaker: Heng Li, PhD
Harvard University
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
"Human Genetics"Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD, MS
UCLA
Thursday, March 20, 2025
"Genetics and Genomics"Speaker: Megan Martik, PhD
UC Berkeley
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: HSW-300Thursday, April 3, 2025
""Machine learning for modeling dynamics in a tumor microenvironment""Speaker: Elham Azizi, PhD, MSc
Columbia University
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
Time: Location:Thursday, May 22, 2025
"Protein/Peptide Design"Speaker: Parisa Hosseinzadeh, PhD
University of Oregon