BMS Seminar Series 2012-13

The weekly Seminars in Biomedical Sciences attract renowned faculty from all over the world to present cutting-edge research related to human health and disease, and are open to the entire community.  

2012-13 Seminar Schedule

Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.
Location: N-225, Parnassus, except as noted
Presentations will be simulcast to Room GEN-S271, Mission Bay
Some (but not all) presentations may be available via livestream and on-demand: Fall 2012,Winter 2013, and Spring 2013 (UCSF MyAccess login required):


9/19/2012
Gadi Schuster
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
"The evolution of polyadenylation and degradation of RNA"
Host: Long-Cheng Li, MD

9/26/2012
*No Seminar*

10/3/2012
Co-sponsored with Developmental and Stem Cell Biology (DSCB)
Oliver Rando
University of Massachusetts
"Epigenetic inheritance in yeast and mouse"
Host: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc

10/10/2012
*No Seminar*

10/17/2012
Susan Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
"Mutation, Network, and the Regulation of Evolvability"
Host: Carol Gross, PhD

10/24/2012
*No Seminar*

10/31/2012 (rescheduled for July 2013)
S.K. Dey
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
"Muscle segment homeobox (MSX) genes direct embryo implantation by regulating the luminal epithelial cell polarity"
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD

11/7/2012
Michael Skinner
Washington State University
"Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease and Reproductive Phenotypes: Ancestral Ghosts in your Genome"
Host: Paolo Rinaudo, MD, PhD

11/14/2012
Wolfram Ruf
The Scripps Research Institute
"Mechanisms Linking Coagulation and Cancer Progression"
Host: Andrew Leavitt, MD

11/28/2012
Iannis Aifantis
New York University
"Ubiquitin-mediated stem cell pluripotency, differentiation and malignant transformation"
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD

12/5/2012
M. Celeste Simon
University of Pennsylvania
"Hypoxia, HIFs, and Tumor Progression"
Host: Emin Maltepe, MD, PhD

12/12/2012
Jeffery Miller
UCLA
"Diversity-Generating Retroelements in Phage, Pathogens and the Human Microbiome"
Host: Anna Bakardjiev, MD

1/9/2013
Jeff Friedman
The Rockefeller University
"Leptin and the Neural Circuit Regulating Food Intake and Body Weight"
Host: Louis Ptacek, MD

1/16/2013 *HSW-303, 2:15pm*
*Co-sponsored with the Helen Diller Cancer Center*
Craig Thompson
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Cancer Cell Metabolism: Why Some Cancers Forage for Food"
Host: Jeff Bluestone, PhD

1/23/2013
Robert Schreiber
Washington University in St. Louis
"Using genomics to elucidate cancer immunoediting and inform cancer immunotherapy"
Host: Art Weiss, MD, PhD

1/30/2013
James Versalovic
Baylor College of Medicine
"The Intestinal Microbiome and Chronic GI Diseases"
Host: Susan Lynch, PhD

2/6/2013
Mark McCarthy
University of Oxford
"Diamonds In The Dirt: Deriving Biological And Translational Value From Large-Scale Human Genetics Studies In Type 2 Diabetes"
Host: Mark Seielstad, PhD

2/13/2013
Ying-Hui Fu
UCSF
"Clock Sugar Rush!"
Host: Yadong Huang, MD, PhD

2/20/2013
Emmanuelle Passegué
UCSF
"Ménage à trois: hematopoietic stem cells, aging and stress-response mechanisms"
Host: Michael McManus, PhD

2/27/2013
Carla Kim
Harvard
"Mechanisms regulating lung injury repair and lung tumor-propagating cells"
Host: Jason Rock, PhD

3/6/2013
Doug Green
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"LC3-associated phagocytosis: A novel mechanism linking autophagy, innate immunity, and other processes"
Host: Jay Debnath, MD

3/13/2013
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

University of Utah
"Using planarians to uncover first principles of regeneration"
Host: Diana Laird, PhD

3/20/2013
Robert Tjian
UC Berkeley
"New Players and Transcriptional Mechanisms in ESC Pluripotency and Differentiation"
Host: Shingo Kajimura, PhD

3/27/2013
Phil Sharp
MIT
"The synthesis and functions of non-coding RNAs"
Host: BMS Students

4/3/2013
Brigid Hogan
Duke University
"The Life of Breath: Stem Cells in Lung Repair and Disease"
Host: Jason Rock, PhD

4/10/2013
Zhigang He
Harvard
"Re-building neuronal circuits after CNS injury"
Host: Yadong Huang, MD, PhD

4/17/2013
Lin He
UC Berkeley
"miRNAs at the Crossroads between Cancer and Stem Cell Biology"
Host: Michael McManus, PhD

4/24/2013
Pietro De Camilli
Yale University
"Membrane Dynamics and Phosphoinositide Signaling in the Endocytic Pathway: Insights from the Neuronal Synapse"
Host: Robert Nussbaum, MD

4/30/2013
Co-sponsored by the UCSF MSTP Trefethen Family Visiting Professorship
Helen Hobbs
UT Southwestern
"Lipids, Lipases & Liver Disease"
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD

5/15/2013
Bruce Beutler
"How we sense and respond to microbes"
UT Southwestern
Host: Matthias Wabl, PhD

5/22/2013
Gwendalyn Randolph
Washington University School of Medicine
"Mononuclear phagocytes, lymphatic transport, and chronic inflammatory disease"
Host: Qizhi Tang, PhD

5/29/2013
John Rinn
Broad Institute
"Linking RNA to Human Health and Disease"
Host: Lukas Jeker, MD, PhD

6/19/2013
Rajesh Thakker
University of Oxford
"Disorders of the CaSR Signaling Pathway: Insights into GPCR Signaling"
Host: Robert Nussbaum, MD & Dolores Shoback, MD

6/26/2013
Jan Kitajewski
Columbia University Medical Center
"Notch Signaling Regulates Angiogenesis by Diverse Mechanisms"
Host: Rong Wang, PhD