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 7, 2023
"Timing is everything: interpreting Hedgehog signaling responses"Steven Vokes, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Host: Jeffrey Bush, PhD
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Monday, September 11, 2023
""Christina Alvira, MD
Stanford Medicine
Host: Brian Black, PhD
GICD/CVRI Seminar Series
Thursday, September 28, 2023
"Synthetic circuits for multicellular systems"Michael Elowitz, PhD
CalTech
Host: Audrey Kishishita
BBC Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
"Order and Disorder in Genome Organization"Tom Misteli, PhD
NIH Distinguished Investigator, Director NCI Center for Cancer Research
Host: Abby Buchwalter, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Thursday, October 5, 2023
""Karen Sears, PhD
UCLA
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
""Billy Li, PhD
Stanford University
Basic Science Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
""Stavroula Kousteni, PhD
Columbia University
Host: Tamara Alliston, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Thursday, October 19, 2023
"RNA promotes the formation of spatial compartments in the nucleus"Mitchell Guttman, PhD
CalTech
Host: B. Choy
BBC Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
"Focuses on the thermodynamics, kinetics and structures of these biomolecular assemblies and molecular motors"Ruben Gonzalez, PhD
Columbia University
Basic Sciences Seminar Series
Thursday, October 26, 2023
"Structural basis for circadian timekeeping"Carrie Partch, PhD
UCSC
Host: K. Delgado-Cunningham
BBC Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
"Molecular Engineering - focus on understanding the mechanics and dynamics of materials constructed out of mechanochemically active proteins"Margaret Gardel, PhD
University of Chicago
Biochem Basic Science Series
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
""Alistair Boettiger, PhD
Stanford University
Host: Licia Selleri MD, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
"The neuro-vascular interactions in the CNS"Chenghua Gu, MD
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Guo Huang, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Thursday, November 16, 2023
""Maksim Plikus, PhD
UC Irvine
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
"Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience - interest in how gene regulation operates in the olfactory system"Stavrous Lomvardas, PhD
Columbia University
Basic Science Seminar Series
Thursday, December 14, 2023
""Eric Van Otterloo, PhD
University of Iowa
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
""Shingo Kajimura, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Host: Jay Debnath, MD
BMS Seminar Series
Monday, February 12, 2024
""Marcia Haigis, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Host: Isha Jain, PhD
GICD/CVRI Seminar Series
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
"Dynamic RNA regulation during cortical development and disease"
Debra Silver, PhD
Duke University
Host: Elliott Sherr, MD, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
""Julie Siegenthaler, PhD
University of Colorado
Host: Erica Hutchins, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Monday, February 26, 2024
"Studies the mechanisms underlying differentiation and development in mammalian ectoderm and their relation to genetic diseases of the skin and nervous system"Elaine Fuchs, PhD
Rockefeller University
Host: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD
ImmunoX Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
""Marcia Haigis, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Host: Rushika Perera, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Monday, April 29, 2024
""Functional Genomics, Population Genetics, Natural Selection, Innate Immunity, Population Variation""Luis Barreiro, PhD
University of Chicago
Host: Jimmie Ye, PhD
ImmunoX Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
""Richard Mann, PhD
Columbia University
Host: Licia Selleri, MD, PhD
BMS Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
""Jason Spence, PhD
University of Michigan
Host: Tien Peng, MD
BMS Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
""Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD
Northwestern University
Host: Matt Kutys, PhD
BMS Seminar Series