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
"Craniofacial Development"Speaker: Lindsey Barske, PhD
Cinicinnati Children's Hospital
Craniofacial Seminar Series
Time: Location: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:
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
"Super-resolution Imaging, Single Molecule Imaging, Biophysics"Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
HHMI/Harvard
Basic Seminar series
Time: Location:Tuesday, October 15, 2024
"“Keeping the developing brain afloat – crosstalk at the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neural stem cell niche”"Ryann Fame, PhD
Assistant Professor or Neurosurgery
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Stanford University
Newborn Brain Research Seminar Series
Time: 4:00pm Location: Mission Hall MH-1401Wednesday, 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
"Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology"Speaker: Anna Marie Pyle, PhD
Yale University
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"Cell Signaling, Developmental Patterning, Systems Biology, Optogenetics"Speaker: Jared Toettcher, PhD
Princeton University
Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Simulations, Bioinformatics, Systems biology"Speaker: Alex Holehouse, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis
Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Evolutionary Developmental Biology"Speaker: Matthew Harris, PhD
Harvard University
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: S-214Tuesday, 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
Monday, December 16, 2024
"The Science of Connections: Bridging Chromatin Folding, Synaptic Plasticity, and Neurophysiology"Speaker: Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, January 10, 2025
"Melanoma Initiation and the Cancer Niche"Leonard Zon, MD
Harvard University
Cancer Center Seminar Series
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
Friday, January 24, 2025
"Mechanistic Characterization of the Replication Stress Response"Richard Adeyemi, DVM, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Monday, January 27, 2025
"Hippo signaling in heart regeneration"James Martin, PhD
Baylor University
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
"Blood-Based Approaches to Rejuvenating the Aging Brain"Speaker: Saul Villeda, PhD
UCSF
CTMCT Seminar series
Monday, February 10, 2025
"A developmental roadmap to vreate diverse human cell-types"Kyle Loh, PhD
Stanford University
GICD/CVRI Seminar Series
Monday, February 24, 2025
"TBD"Luis Garza, MD, PhD
John Hopkins University
ImmunoX Seminar Series
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
"Building blood-brain barrier models from iPSCs to model neurovascular development and disease"Sean Palecek, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison
GICD/CVRI seminar speaker
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
"Human Genetics"Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD, MS
UCLA
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
"TBD"Victoria Bautch, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BMS Seminar Series
Thursday, March 13, 2025
"Understanding short- and long-term epigenome control of gene regulation in development and disease"Emily Hodges, PhD
Vanderbilt University
BBC Seminar Series
Monday, March 17, 2025
""Anna E. Beaudin, PhD
University of Utah
Thursday, March 20, 2025
"Genetics and Genomics"Speaker: Megan Martik, PhD
UC Berkeley
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: HSW-300Monday, March 24, 2025
"Form and Function: Uterine 3D Structure-Function Relationships in Early Pregnancy"Ripla Arora, PhD
Michigan State University
UCSF Broad Stem Cell Seminar Series
Thursday, March 27, 2025
"From molecules to development: Biological timing and patterning"Qiong Yang, PhD
University of Michigan
BBC Seminar Series
Monday, March 31, 2025
"TBD"Katia Georgopoulos, PhD
Harvard University
Thursday, 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
"In-vivo and Intra-vital Imaging"Speaker: Rachel S. Friedman, PhD
University of Colorado
ImmunoX series
Time: 9:00 Location:Monday, April 7, 2025
"Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology"Speaker: Crystal Rogers, PhD
UC Davis
Craniofacial Seminars
Time: Location:Friday, April 25, 2025
"Visualizing transcription in the context of genome organization"Speaker: Seychelle Vos, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
"TBD"Peter Zandstra, PhD, FEng, FRSC, CM
University of British Columbia
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
"TBD"Kristen Brennand, PhD
Yale University
BMS Seminar Series
Thursday, May 22, 2025
"Protein/Peptide Design"Speaker: Parisa Hosseinzadeh, PhD
University of Oregon