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.
2018-19 Seminar Schedule
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.
Location: N-225, Parnassus, except as noted
Some (but not all) presentations may be available via livestream and recorded video. Links to the live stream and recorded video will be available in the sidebar at the start of each quarter.
October 3, 2018
"Chemical and genetic approaches to studying infertility and contraception."Martin Matzuk, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD
This talk will not be livestreamed or recorded.
October 10, 2018
"Alternative Cell Death Pathways in Antiviral Host Defense."Ed Mocarski, PhD
Emory University
Host: Lewis Lanier, PhD
October 17, 2018
"Learning from Viruses: CNS Immune Responses and Cognitive Dysfunction"Robyn Klein, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Host: Susanna Rosi, PhD
October 24, 2018
"Genomic mechanisms of glucocorticoid responses."Tim Reddy, PhD
Duke
Nadav Ahituv, PhD
October 31, 2018
"Genome-wide interrogation of extracellular vesicle biology"Suzanne Pfeffer, PhD
Stanford
Host: Jay Debnath, MD
November 7, 2018
"Regulation of stem cell number in the intestine."Benjamin Ohlstein, MD, PhD
Columbia
Host: Todd Nystul, PhD
This talk will not be livestreamed or recorded.
November 14, 2018
"Gene-environment interactions in pediatric brain disease"Joseph Gleeson, MD
UCSD
Host: Su Guo, PhD
November 28, 2018
"Living in the cold – adaptions during hibernation."Wei Li, PhD
NEI, NIH
Dengke Ma, PhD
January 9, 2019
"Remarkable cell behaviors: from collective cell migration to recovery from the brink of death."Denise Montell, PhD
UCSB
Host: Todd Nystul, PhD
This talk will not be livestreamed or recorded.
January 23, 2019
"Regulation of proliferation and differentiation in an adult stem cell lineage."Margaret T. Fuller, PhD
Stanford
Host: Marco Conti, MD
January 30, 2019
"Subcellular Architecture Controls a Bacterial Cell Cycle."Lucy Shapiro, PhD
Stanford
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
K.F. Meyer Memorial Lecture
February 6, 2019
"Defects in mRNA translation and neurodegeneration"Susan Ackerman, PhD
UCSD
Host: Saul Villeda, PhD
February 13, 2019
"How does the immune system adapt to co-exist with a persistent pathogen?"Elina Zuniga, PhD
UCSD
Host: BMS Students
This talk will not be livestreamed or recorded.
February 20, 2019
"Epigenetics of social behavior in ants."Roberto Bonasio, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Host: Saul Villeda, PhD
February 27, 2019
"Molecular Pathways of Energy Balance and Energy Expenditure: Thermogenic Fat and Exercise."Bruce Spiegelman, PhD
Harvard
Host: Shingo Kajimura, PhD
co-hosted by the UCSF Diabetes Center
March 6, 2019
"Deciphering idiopathic disorders: DISCovering the genetic basis of adolescent scoliosis."Carol Wise, PhD
UT Southwestern
Host: Nadav Ahituv, PhD
March 13, 2019
"Biological robustness: genetic compensation and transcriptional adaptation."Didier Stainier, PhD
Max Planck Inst.
Host: Wallace Marshall, PhD
March 20, 2019
TBAChristine Seidman, MD, PhD
Harvard
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Trefethen Family Visiting Professorship
co-hosted by the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program
April 3, 2019
"Tackling the Tsunami of Drug-Resistant Malaria."David Fidock, PhD
Columbia
Host: Stephanie Gaw, MD, PhD
April 10, 2019
TBAElaine Fuchs, PhD
Rockefeller
Host: TBD
April 17, 2019
"Prenatal inflammatory exposures and neonatal immune development."Claire Chougnet, PhD, PharmD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Host: Tippi MacKenzie, MD
April 24, 2019
"Sodium channels and epilepsy: mechanisms and interventions."Miriam Meisler, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School
Host: Lauren Weiss, PhD
May 8, 2019
"Epigenomic Signatures of Neuron Diversity and Connectivity in the Mammalian Brain"Joseph Ecker, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Host: Joseph Costello, PhD
May 15, 2019
"Targeting Intestinal Stem Cells in cancer"Frederic de Sauvage, PhD
Genentech
Host: TBD
This talk will be livestreamed, but not recorded.
May 22, 2019
"New approaches to understanding human alloimmunity and autoimmunity"Megan Sykes, MD
Columbia
Host: Audrey Parent, PhD
co-hosted by UCSF Diabetes Center
May 29, 2019
"The placenta is a pivotal target organ for reproductive health."Myriam Hemberger, PhD
University of Calgary
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD