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.
2015-16 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 2016,Winter 2016, Fall 2015 (UCSF MyAccess login required) **Note: the Safari web browser may not work correctly when trying to view the video.**
9/30/15
James Ferrell, MD, PhD
Stanford
"Trigger waves in mitosis and apoptosis."
Host: Jeroen Roose, PhD
10/7/15
No seminar scheduled.
10/14/15
Carole Mendelson, PhD
UT Southwestern
"Fetal to Maternal Signaling in the Timing of Birth."
Host: Tippi MacKenzie, MD
10/21/15
Daniel Portnoy, PhD
UC Berkeley
"Innate immunity to intracellular pathogens: Implication for vaccine development and cancer immunotherapy."
Host: Anna Bakardjiev, MD
alternate location for this seminar only: S-214, Parnassus
10/28/15 co-hosted by the DSCB Graduate Program
Cassandra Extavour, PhD
"From Egg to Immortality: The Evolution of the Germ Line."
Harvard
Host: Diana Laird, PhD
note: this seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed
11/4/15
William Wickner, MD
"Membrane fusion: 5 lipids, 4 SNAREs, 3 chaperones, 2 nucleotides, and a Rab, All Dancing in a Ring."
Dartmouth
Host: Tom Kornberg, PhD
11/18/15
Joesph Witztum, MD
UCSD
"Innate Immune Responses to Oxidation-Specific Epitopes: Potential Implications for Health and Disease."
Host: Trevor Burt, MD
12/2/15
Sandra Schmid, PhD
UT Southwestern
"A Dual Role for Dynamin in Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis."
Host: Sarah Knox, PhD
1/6/16
Margaret Goodell, PhD
Baylor
"DNA Methylation, Stem Cells, and Cancer."
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
1/13/16 co-hosted by the DSCB Graduate Program
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Stanford
"Building coronary arteries during mammalian heart development."
Host: Susan Fisher, PhD
1/20/16
Marc Freeman, PhD
Univ. of Massachusetts
"Context matters — Diverse genetic pathways drive axon degeneration."
Host: Erik Ullian, PhD
1/27/16
Christian Siebel, PhD
Genentech
"Notch Control of Transdifferentiation in the Adult Lung."
Host: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
Note: This seminar will be livestreamed, but will not be recorded.
2/3/16
Seminar Canceled
2/10/16
Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD
Harvard
"Progression of myeloid neoplasia from pre-malignancy to acute leukemia."
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD
2/17/16
No seminar scheduled.
2/24/16
Charles Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"Recent insights from mining the leukemia genome."
Host: Markus Muschen, MD, PhD
3/2/16
Marcelo Nobrega, PhD
University of Chicago
"Regulatory genetic variants and human diseases."
Host: Nadav Ahituv, PhD
note: this seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed
3/9/16
Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD
Chief, Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Autophagy and checkpoints for intracellular pathogen defense."
Host: Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
3/16/16
No seminar scheduled.
3/23/16
No seminar scheduled.
3/30/16 Karl F. Meyer Memorial Lecture
Bonnie Bassler, PhD
Princeton
"Bacterial Quorum Sensing and its Control."
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
4/6/16
Hal Dietz, MD
"The Extracellular Matrix in Homeostatic, Autoimmune and Fibrotic Disease Processes."
Johns Hopkins
Host: Lindsey Criswell, MD, MPH, DSc
4/13/16
Andrew Dillin, PhD
UC Berkeley
"Orchestrating aging across a troubled soma."
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
4/20/16
Ed Morrisey, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Generation and regeneration of the respiratory system."
Host: Tien Peng, MD
4/27/16
David Bilder, PhD
UC Berkeley
"Cold-blooded cancer and elongating eggs: studying growth and morphogenesis in Drosophila."
Host: Todd Nystul, PhD
note: this seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed
5/3/16 co-hosted by the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program
NOTE SPECIAL DATE: Tuesday, 5/3/16
Suzanne Topalian, MD
Johns Hopkins
"PD-1 blockade in cancer therapy: Precision medicine meets immunotherapy."
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
note: this seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed
5/11/16
Randy Schekman, PhD
UC Berkeley
"Unconventional secretion of proteins and RNA from cultured human cells."
Hosts: BMS Students
5/18/16
Anthony Letai, MD
Harvard
"Mitochondria – cancer’s crystal ball."
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
5/25/16 co-hosted by the UCSF Diabetes Center
Diane Mathis, PhD
"Immune/metabolic system crosstalk."
Harvard
note: this seminar will not be recorded or livestreamed
6/1/16
Jan Lammerding, PhD
Cornell Univ.
"Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics in 3-D cell migration."
Host: Susan Fisher