2024-25 Seminars

October 2, 2024

A genomic toolkit for sensing cellular states in neural crest development

Marcos Simoes-Costa, PhD
Associate Professor 
Department of Systems Biology 
Harvard Medical School

Host:  Erica Hutchins, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302

 

October 9, 2024

No Seminar

 

October 16, 2024

"Expanding the cytokine alphabet for immunotherapy"
Christopher Garcia, PhD
Stanford University

Host: Jeroen Roose, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302

 

October 23, 2024

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease

Sara Suliman, PhD, MPH
UCSF
Topic: Tuberculosis
In-person in room HSW-302

 

 

October 30, 2024

Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD
Yale University

Host: Tien Peng, MD
Seminar canceled

 

November 6, 2024

"Structure-Function and Evolutionary Relationships of Alphavirus Entry Receptors"

 

Michael Diamond, MD, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis

Host: Joel Ernst, MD
Seminar canceled

 

 

November 13, 2024

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease
Raymond Swanson
UCSF
Topic: Ischemic Stroke
In-person in room HSW-302

 

November 20, 2024

No Seminar

 

December 4, 2024

No Seminar

 

December 11, 2024

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease

Ezequiel Goldschmidt, MD, PhD
UCSF
Topic: Neurosurgery
In-person in room HSW-302

 

January 15, 2025

No Seminar

 

January 22, 2025

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease

 

Carolyn Sangokoya, MD, PhD
UCSF
Topic: Growing Up With Obesity
In-person in room HSW-302

Seminar canceled

 

January 29, 2025

"Adaptive control of innate immunity"

Taia Wang, MD, PhD, MSCl
Stanford University
Host: Maggie Feeney, MD
In-person in room HSW-302
This seminar will not be recorded

 

February 5, 2025

No Seminar

 

February 11, 2025

*This seminar will be exceptionally held on Tuesday*

"RNA-Targeted Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

Timothy Miller, MD, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis
Host: Aimee Kao, MD, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302

This seminar will not be recorded

 

February 19, 2025

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease

Robert Lustig, MD
UCSF
Topic: Growing Up With Obesity
In-person in room HSW-302

 

February 26, 2025

Kathrin Plath, PhD
UCLA
Host: Elphege Nora, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302
This seminar will not be recorded

 

March 5, 2025

No Seminar

 

March 12, 2025

"LINCing the nucleus to endothelial cell function in blood vessels"

Victoria Bautch, PhD
University of North Carolina
Host: Matt Kutys, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302
This seminar will not be recorded

 

March 19, 2025

Special Talk in Biology of Human Disease

Speaker: Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD & Michael Wilson, MD
Institution: UCSF
Topic: Autoimmune Encephalitis
In-person in room HSW-302

 

April 2, 2025

"Scaling up Genome writing in yeast and other creatures"

Jef Boeke, PhD
NYU Langone Health

Host: Elphege Nora, PhD
In-person in room HSW-302

 

April 9, 2025

No Seminar

 

April 16, 2025

Evan Macosko, MD, PhD
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, MGH

Host: Daniel Mordes, MD, PhD

In-person in room HSW-302

 

 

April 23, 2025

Erika Holzbaur, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Host: Daniel Mordes, PhD

In-person in room HSW-302

Seminar canceled

 

April 30, 2025

Peter Zandstra, PhD, FEng, FRSC, CM
University of British Columbia

Host: Julie Sneddon, PhD
​​​​​In-person in room HSW-302

Seminar canceled

 

May 7, 2025

Charles Sawyers, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Host: Joel Ernst, MD

Virtual Seminar: 

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/93601408852?pwd=0lbku19EDUsoF1qLdkCdsGdVqJSIpk.1 

Meeting ID: 936 0140 8852

Password: 445682

 

May 14, 2025

Kristen Brennand, PhD
Yale University

Host: Nadav Ahituv, PhD

In-person in room HSW-302

 

May 21, 2025

Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Harvard University

Host: William Weiss, MD, PhD

In-person in room HSW-302

 

May 28, 2025

Marion Pepper, PhD
University of Washington

Host: Mark Ansel, PhD

Seminar canceled