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.
2011-12 Seminar Roster
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 (UCSF MyAccess login required):
Spring 2012
Winter 2012
Fall 2011
9/21/2011
Thomas Clemens
Johns Hopkins
Integration of Glucose Metabolism by the Osteoblast
Host: Wenhan Chang, PhD
10/5/2011
Laura van't Veer
UCSF
Breast Cancer Biology Trumps Stage
Host: Cliff Lowell, MD, PhD
10/19/2011
Co-sponsored by DSCB
Jennifer Zallen
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Shaping the embryo: Cellular dynamics in development
Host: Diana Laird, PhD
10/26/2011
Maria Jasin
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Protecting the genome through homologous recombination
Host: David Toczyski, PhD
11/2/2011
Joel Hirschhorn
Broad Institute
Genetics of human height, obesity and other polygenic traits
Host: Walter Miller, MD
11/9/2011
Aravinda Chakravarti
Johns Hopkins
Hirschsprung Disease: Genetic Defects of the "Second Brain"
Host: Robert Nussbaum, MD
11/16/2011
Peter Sarnow
Stanford
Subversion of a liver-specific microRNA by hepatitis C virus
Host: Michael McManus, PhD
11/30/2011
Bruce Conklin
UCSF
Regulation of Cellular Signaling in Engineered Tissues
Host: Deepak Srivastava, MD
12/7/2011
Joe Bass
Northwestern University
Molecular Clocks in Behavior and Cell Metabolism
Host: Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD
12/14/2011
Co-sponsored by DSCB
Leonard Zon
Harvard University
Pathways that regulate stem cell self renewal
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
1/4/2012
Jeff Lichtman
Harvard University
Imaging the Connectome
Host: BMS Students
1/11/2012
No Seminar
1/18/2012
Elizabeth Blackburn
UCSF
Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Health and Disease
Host: J. Michael Bishop, MD
1/25/2012
Abul Abbas
UCSF
Controlling Autoimmunity: The Regulatory/Effector T Cell Balance
Host: Art Weiss, MD, PhD
2/1/2012
Co-sponsored by DSCB
William Kelly
Emory University
Host: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc
2/8/2012
Arnold Kriegstein
UCSF
Building a bigger brain: Neural stem and progenitor cells in human cortical development
Host: Rik Derynck, PhD
2/15/2012
No seminar
2/22/2012
Co-sponsored by DSCB
Paul Frenette
Einstein College of Medicine
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Microenvironment
Host: Steven Rosen, PhD
2/29/2012
Laurent Coscoy
UC Berkeley
[Talk Title]
Host: Anna Bakardjiev, MD
3/7/2012
Owen Witte
UCLA
Imaging Cancer and the Immune Response with Positron Emission Tomography
Host: Zena Werb, PhD
3/14/2012
No seminar
3/21/2012
No seminar
3/28/2012
Carlo Croce
Ohio State University
Causes and consequences of microRNA dysregulation in cancer
Host: Michael McManus, PhD
4/4/2012
Tim Mosmann
University of Rochester
Committed and flexible cytokine phenotypes of human T cells
Host: Tony DeFranco, PhD
4/11/2012
No seminar (this seminar is being rescheduled)
4/18/2012
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Rockefeller University
Life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood: single-gene inborn errors of immunity?
Host: Mark Seielstad, PhD
4/25/2012
Co-sponsored by DSCB
Nancy Speck
University of Pennsylvania
Runx1-CBFb function in hematopoiesis
Host: Ann Zovein, MD
5/1/2012
Charles Sawyers
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Overcoming Resistance to Targeted Cancer Therapies
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD
5/2/2012 **CANCELLED**
Jeff Friedman
The Rockefeller University
Host: Louis Ptacek, MD
5/9/2012
Alexander Chervonsky
University of Chicago
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
5/16/2012
Bruce Walker
Harvard University
Immunogenetics of HIV Control
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD