BMS Seminar Series
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.
2016-17 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 on-demand. Spring 2017, Winter 2016, Fall 2016 (UCSF MyAccess login required) **Note: the Safari web browser may not work correctly when trying to view the video.**
10/12/2016 co-sponsored by the Vallee Foundation
Andreas Strasser, PhD
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia
"Which anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family member should be targeted for the treatment of which cancer?"
Host: Jason Cyster, PhD
10/19/2016
Deepak Srivastava, MD
UCSF
Title TBA
Host: Anna Bakardjiev, MD
10/26/2016
Richard Schultz, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"From egg to embryo: a peripatetic journey."
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD
11/2/2016
Stuart Orkin, MD
Harvard
Title TBA
Host: Trevor Burt, MD
11/9/2016
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD
Stanford
"Stem Cell Niche for Cells and Organs."
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
note: This seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed.
11/16/2016
Doug Wallace, PhD
Penn
"A Mitochondrial Etiology of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Aging, and Cancer."
11/30/2016
Aviv Regev, PhD
Broad Inst.
"Reconstructing circuits: from cells to tissues."
Host: Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
12/7/2016
Eric Betzig, PhD
HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus
"Imaging Cellular Dynamics from Molecules to Embryos."
Host: Max Krummel, PhD
1/11/2017
Fernando Camargo, PhD
Harvard
Title TBA
Host: Diana Laird, PhD
1/18/2017
Heidi Rehm, PhD
Harvard
"Community Driven Efforts to Decipher the Genome."
Host: Joseph Shieh, MD, PhD
1/25/2017
Ben Cravatt, PhD
Scripps Research Institute
Title TBA
Host: Jason Cyster, PhD
2/1/2017
James Wells, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Title TBA
Host: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
2/8/2017
Ivan Dikic, MD, PhD
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Title TBA
Host: Jay Debnath, MD
2/15/2017
Eric Greer, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Towards a Mechanism of Epigenetic Inheritance: DNA Methylation on N6-Adenine."
Host: Saul Villeda, PhD
2/22/2017
Sandra Barral Rodriguez, PhD
Columbia
"Genetic contributions to memory function in the aging brain."
3/1/2017
TBA
3/8/2017
Steven Henikoff, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title TBA
Host: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD
3/15/2017
Alysson Muotri, PhD
UCSD
"Modeling the human social brain using pluripotent stem cells."
3/22/2017
TBA
3/29/2017
Vishva Dixit, MD
Genentech
"Why so many ways to die? The Non-canonical Inflammasome Pathway."
Host: Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD
4/5/2017
Andrea McClatchey, PhD
Harvard
Title TBA
Host: Diane Barber, PhD
4/12/2017 Karl F. Meyer Memorial Lecture
Skip Virgin, MD, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis
"Immune and transkingdom control of the virome, and vice versa."
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
4/19/2017
Evan Eichler, PhD
University of Washington
"Autism: New Mutations, Pathways and Genetic Subtypes."
4/26/2017
Stephanie Sherman, PhD
Emory
5/2/2017 co-hosted by the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program
Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Washington University, St. Louis
5/10/2017
Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD
Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"New strategies for diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer."
Host: Zena Werb, PhD
5/17/2017
TBA
5/24/2017
Anjana Rao, PhD
LaJolla Institute
Title TBA
Host: Mark Ansel, PhD
5/31/2017
TBA