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Seminar Archive

2023

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2022

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Genetic Factors & Long Range Circuit Dynamics Underlying Memory Processing"
Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)
Hosted by: Matt Love-Barron
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person: https://rajaseminar.eventbrite.com/

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
"Unexpected roles of ubiquitin and SUMO in cell homeostasis and endosymbiont interactions"
Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Hosted by: Huilin Zhou & Randy Hampton
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person: https://hochstrasserseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Chytrid fungi and the evolution and specification of actin networks"
Lilian Fritz-Laylin, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Hosted by:Karen Oegema & Andrew Muroyama
Location:Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://fritzlaylinseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Underexplored waters: growth, development, and molecular biology in brown algae"
Siobhan Braybrook, Ph.D. (UC Los Angeles)
Hosted by:Jazz Dickinson
Location:Zoom & The Marilyn G Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://braybrookseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"How can birds and mice teach us about human speech?"
Michael Long, Ph.D. (NYU Langone Health)
Hosted by:Takaki Komiyama
Location:Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://mlongseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Direct regulation of EGF and Insulin receptor transmembrane signaling by lipid-protein interactions"
Ünal Coskun, Ph.D. (Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering)
Hosted by:Arshad Desai & Andreas Ernst
Location:Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://coskunseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"The Goldilocks principle, just the right amount of growth"
Ross Sozzani, Ph.D. (NC State University)
Hosted by: Mark Estelle
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person: https://sozzaniseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration"
Pietro De Camilli, M.D.(Yale University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition"
Tirin Moore, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Hosted by: Cory Root & Takaki Komiyama
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
"Exodermal differentiation and function"
Siobhan Brady, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Hosted by: Julian Schroeder
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person: https://bradyseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Genetic Factors & Long Range Circuit Dynamics Underlying Memory Processing"
Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)
Hosted by: Matt Love-Barron
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://rajaseminar.eventbrite.com/

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 2:00 PM
"Unexpected roles of ubiquitin and SUMO in cell homeostasis and endosymbiont interactions"
Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Hosted by: Huilin Zhou & Randy Hampton
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://hochstrasserseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Chytrid fungi and the evolution and specification of actin networks"
Lilian Fritz-Laylin, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema & Andrew Muroyama
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://fritzlaylinseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Underexplored waters: growth, development, and molecular biology in brown algae"
Siobhan Braybrook, Ph.D.(UC Los Angeles)
Hosted by: Jazz Dickinson
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://braybrookseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"How can birds and mice teach us about human speech?"
Michael Long, Ph.D. (NYU Langone Health)
Hosted by: Takaki Komiyama
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://mlongseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Direct regulation of EGF and Insulin receptor transmembrane signaling by lipid-protein interactions"
Ünal Coskun, Ph.D. (Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai & Andreas Ernst
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://coskunseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"The Goldilocks principle, just the right amount of growth"
Ross Sozzani, Ph.D. (NC State University)
Hosted by: Mark Estelle
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://sozzaniseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration"
Pietro De Camilli, M.D. (Yale University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition"
Tirin Moore, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Hosted by: Cory Root & Takaki Komiyama
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Exodermal differentiation and function"
Siobhan Brady, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Hosted by: Julian Schroeder
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://bradyseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"The social genome"
Jenny Tung, Ph.D. (Duke University)
Hosted by: Aspen Reese
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://tungseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Regulation and function of noncoding RNAs in mammals"
Joshua Mendell, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Hosted by: Wendy Huang & Eric Bennett
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://mendellseminar.eventbrite.com/

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and human disease: Guardian and Executor of Gene Expression"
Lynne Maquat, Ph.D. (University of Rochester Medical Center)
Hosted by: Sue Ackerman
Location: Zoom & The Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For Zoom link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu
Register to attend in person at https://maquatseminar.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Neuroimmune mechanisms of neural circuit remodeling"
Anna Molofsky, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Hosted by: Chris Glass
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Decoding and Reprogramming T Cell Genetics with CRISPR"
Alexander Marson, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Hosted by: Maike Sander
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Transcription speed: why it matters and how to control it"
David Bentley, Ph.D. (University of Colorado Anschutz Campus)
Hosted by: Xiang-Dong Fu
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Emergent phenomena in biology across scales"
Tzer Han Tan, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology Genetics)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Quantitative single-cell physiology of growth and size regulation using label-free microscopy"
Seungeun Oh, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM
CANCELLED

Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Mechanobiology and bioenergetics of cell migration along the hard path forward"
Jian Zhang, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Ultra-sensitive detection of RNA and protein using DNA molecular programming and super-resolution microscopy"
Mingjie Dai, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 11:00 AM
"Self-organized morphogenesis of a stem-cell derived human neural tube"
Eyal Karzbrun, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98948113520

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Shaping signaling, digging tunnels, and other functions of dynamic cell morphology"
Meghan Driscoll, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Cytoskeletal dynamics generate active liquid-liquid phase separation"
Alexandra Tayar, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Monday, January 31, 2022 at 10:00 AM
"Next-generation optical imaging methods for probing the brain and spinal cord"
Cristina Rodríguez, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Hosted by: Karen Oegema
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Generation of morphogen gradients: the case for diffusion"
Jean-Paul Vincent, Ph.D. (Francis Crick Institute)
Hosted by: Karl Willert
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM
"Biology of Hyaluronan - What is Known, What is Unknown, and What is Still Uncertain"
Yu Yamaguchi, Ph.D. (Sanford Burnham Prebys)
Hosted by: Jeff Esko
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

2021

Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Bioluminescent tools for spying on cellular communication"
Jennifer Prescher, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)
Hosted by: Jazz Dickinson
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Visualizing microbial biofilms using mass spectrometry"
Laura Sanchez, Ph.D. (UC Santa Cruz)
Hosted by: Stanley Lo
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Hunting down the eagle killer - A novel cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes a mysterious wildlife disease"
Timo Niedermeyer, Ph.D. (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
Hosted by: Susan Golden
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"The human genetic and immunological determinants of life-threatening COVID-19"
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)
Hosted by: Matt Daugherty
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM
"RNA Modifications in Immunity"
Grace Chen, Ph.D. (Yale University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Gene Yeo
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Heterogeneity of the GFP fitness landscape and data-driven protein design"
Fyodor Kondrashov, Ph.D. (IST Austria)
Hosted by: Sergey Kryazhimskiy
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Imaging Single-mRNA Translation Dynamics Live"
Tim Stasevich, Ph.D. (Colorado State University College of Natural Sciences)
Hosted by: Eric Bennett
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 12:00 PM
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
CANCELLED

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Phage Therapy to Combat Infections by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria"
Paul E. Turner, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Hosted by: Susan Golden
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"The essential role of innate-like T cells in the response to microbes"
Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Hosted by: Jeff Esko
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Eco-evolutionary dynamics of fluctuating selection and climate change"
Carlos Botero, Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)
Hosted by: Aspen Reese
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Orchestrating cell cycle and cell-state switch during plant epidermal development"
Keiko Torri, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)
Hosted by: Yunde Zhao
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Plant responses to environments within and across generations"
Kathleen Donohue, Ph.D. (Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences)
Hosted by: Elsa Cleland
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2"
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (Yale School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Ananda Goldrath & Matt Daugherty
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"The impact of the peripheral nervous system on glandular development and regeneration"
Sarah Knox, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Hosted by: Xin Sun
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Cryptococcus to COVID-19: a new synthesis for antibody-mediated immunity"
Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Hosted by: Susan Golden
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"How does the nervous system respond to axon injury?"
Marc Freeman, Ph.D. (OHSU, Vollum institute)
Hosted by: Gulcin Pekkurnaz & Alysson Muotri
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM
"Macrophage Ontogeny and Biology"
Florent Ginhoux, Ph.D. (Agency for Science, Technology and Research | Singapore)
Hosted by: Chris Glass
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportilllo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic assembly and function: Lesson from C. elegans"
Daniel Colon-Ramos, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Hosted by: Yishi Jin & Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic assembly and function: Lesson from C. elegans"
Daniel Colon-Ramos (Yale University)
Hosted by: Yishi Jin & Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Mechanisms of Aging and Rejuvenation"
Anne Brunet, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Hosted by: Jack Houston & Maya Gosztyla
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link. please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Body Sculpting: Cell polarity, mechanics, and elongation of the vertebrate body axis"
John Wallingford, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)
Hosted by: Xin Sun & Deborah Yelon
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Body Scultping: How the embryo builds itself"
John Wallingford, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences)
Hosted by: Xin Sun & Deborah Yelon
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"New single-cell technologies to dissect reprogramming and development"
Samantha Morris, Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)
Hosted by: Maike Sander
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Deciphering mechanisms of human brain size determination using cerebral organoids"
Madeline Lancaster, Ph.D.(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Hosted by: Bruce Hamilton
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Imaging inflammation and its resolution"
Anna Huttenlocher, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)
Hosted by: Enfu Hui & Amy Kiger
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Peptide Signaling in Plant Reproductive Development"
Andreas Schaller, Ph.D. (University of Hohenheim)
Hosted by: Alisa Huffaker
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Control of RNA Binding Proteins during Early Embryogenesis"
Olivia Rissland, Ph.D. (University of Colorado)
Hosted by: Gene Yeo & Amy Pasquinelli
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Towards a mechanistic understanding of motile and primary ciliary assembly by CLEM and cryo-ET"
Gaia Pigino, Ph.D.(MPI-CBG)
Hosted by: Samara Reck-Peterson
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Genomic mechanisms of spatially determined randomness"
Stavros Lomvardas, PhD(Columbia University)
Hosted by: Stacey Glasgow
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Simple Complex Genetics"
Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D.(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago)
Hosted by: Jonathan Sebat
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMIANR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"The cell biology of lipid homeostasis: from lipid droplets to lipidtoxicity"
James Olzman, Ph.D.(UC Berkeley)
Hosted by: Sonya Neal & Susan Ferro-Novick
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Why we need to sleep: insights from small animals"
Amita Sehgal, Ph.D.(Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania )
Hosted by: Sue Ackerman
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

2020

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR"
Angelika Amon, Ph.D.(MIT)
Hosted by:
Location: CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR

Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Cell Organization Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation"
Michael Rosen, Ph.D.(University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Hosted by: Peter Novick & Andreas Ernst
Location: Zoom
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"The Spindle: Mechanical Robustness with Dynamic parts"
Sophie Dumont, Ph.D.(UC San Fransicso)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Clotting Factors to Cholesterol Regulation"
David Ginsburg, Ph.D.(HHMI, University of Michigan Medical School)
Hosted by: Ajit Varki
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Mechanisms of transgenerational inheritance of obesity epiphenotypes"
Victor G. Corces, Ph.D.(Emory University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Susan Golden
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Piecing Together the Puzzle to Understand the Evolution of the Ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes"
Corrie Moreau, Ph.D.(Cornell University)
Hosted by: Ida Naughton
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Tunnels for lipid transport across the bacterial cell envelope"
Gira Bhabha, Ph.D.(NYU Langone Health)
Hosted by: Andres Leschziner & Elizabeth Villa
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"A new bacterial defense pathway with parallels to mammalian innate immunity"
Kevin Corbett, Ph.D.(UC San Diego)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"The emergence of innovation in plant metabolism"
Gaurav Moghe, Ph.D.(Cornell University College of Agricultural and Life Sciences)
Hosted by: Eric Schmelz
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Remodeling the Chromatin Landscape: SWI/SNF complexes in Development and Disease"
Diana Hargreaves, Ph.D.(Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
Hosted by: Shannon Lauberth
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 1:00 PM
"Brain mechanisms for value-based decision making"
Takaki Komiyama, Ph.D.(UC San Diego)
Hosted by: Stefan Leutgeb
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM
"How do astrocytes sculpt synaptic circuits?"
Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D.(Duke University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Yimin Zou
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 12:00 PM
"Spatial Genomics: in situ single cell profiling by RNA seqFISH+"
Long Cai, Ph.D.(Caltech)
Hosted by: Maike Sander, Bing Ren & Shannon Lauberth
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 11:00 AM
"Multiplexed imaging: from DNA structure to olfactory sensing"
Bogdan Bintu, Ph.D. Candidate(Harvard University)
Hosted by: Bing Ren
Location: Zoom
SPECIAL JOINT ZOOM SEMINAR WITH BIOENGINEERING
For seminar link, please contact smportillo@health.ucsd.edu

Monday, March 30, 2020 at 11:00 AM
"CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR"
Gregory P. Downey, M.D. (National Jewish Health)
Hosted by: Wendy Huang & Nunzio Bottini
Location: CMM East Room 2047
SPECIAL MONDAY SEMINAR
NOTE: SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION

Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR"
Kevin Campbell, Ph.D. (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine)
Hosted by: Jeffrey D. Esko
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR"
Sophie Dumont, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 11:30 AM
"Interrogating Subcellular Organization with 3D Multicolor Nanoscopy"
Yongdeng Zhang, Ph.D. (Yale University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Chris Glass
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOENGINEERING

Monday, March 9, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"An imaging perspective on molecular and cellular organization: repurposing DNA for microscopy"
Sinem K. Saka, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Bing Ren
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT MONDAY SEMINAR WITH BIOENGINEERING

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Quality control of protein folding in the ER"
Linda Hendershot, Ph.D. (St Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Hosted by: Peter Novick & Maho Niwa Rosen
Location: Marilyn G Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"From GWAS to mechanism, are you crazy? Our journey towards a better understanding of neurological disease risk"
Andy McCallion, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Bing Ren
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Lessons for melanoma therapeutics from its unique pathogenesis"
David Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Hosted by: George Sen
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Nanobodies as discovery tools and imaging agents; anti-viral and anti-tumor responses"
Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D. (Boston Children's Hospital)
Hosted by: Enfu Hui
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Cytoplasmic organization and cell shape sensing: lessons from unexpected corners of the biosphere"
Amy Gladfelter, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Hosted by: Jim Wilhelm & Karen Oegema
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Accelerating Drug Discovery Through the Power of Microscopy Images"
Anne Carpenter, Ph.D. (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Hosted by: Bruce Hamilton
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Salmonella persisters during infection"
Sophie Helaine, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School, Imperial College London)
Hosted by: Sue Ackerman
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 4:00 PM
"Ouroboros, autophagy, mitochondria and disease"
Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Hosted by: Susan Ferro-Novick
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

2019

Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 12:00 PM
"Regulation of mitophagy by lipid-binding proteins"
Anne Simonsen, Ph.D.(University of Oslo
Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO)

Hosted by: Susan Ferro-Novick & Asa Gustafsson
Location: Leichtag Room 107
SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Eco-Evo-Devo and the origins of obligate endosymbiosis in ants"
Ehab Abouheif, Ph.D.(McGill University)
Hosted by: James Nieh & Mike Perry
Location: Natural Sciences Building Room 1205 (Auditorium)
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Metabolic regulation of anti-tumor immune responses"
Susan Kaech, Ph.D.(Salk Institute for Biological Sciences)
Hosted by: Chris Glass & Amanda Goldrath
Location: Natural Sciences Building Room 1205 (Auditorium)
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Theme and variations: circuit mechanisms of behavioral evolution"
Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D.(The Rockefeller University)
Hosted by: Cory Root
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"The developmental origin and evolution of a novel complex trait: butterfly eyespots"
Antonia Monteiro, Ph.D.(Yale-NUS College)
Hosted by: Scott Rifkin & Mike Perry
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Plant responses to environments within and across generations"
Kathleen Donohue, Ph.D.(Duke University)
Hosted by: Elsa Cleland & Julian Schroeder
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Diseases"
Jeff Brodsky, Ph.D.(University of Pittsburgh)
Hosted by: Peter Novick & Sonya Neal
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"The zygotic transition in plants and engineering asexual reproduction"
Venkatesan Sundaresan, Ph.D.(UC Davis)
Hosted by: Yunde Zhao
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Intracellular evolutionary forces acting on the fate of gene duplicates"
Christian Landry, Ph.D.(Laval University)
Hosted by: Scott Rifkin
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Cold-blooded cancer: tumor-host interactions in Drosophila"
David Bilder, Ph.D.(UC Berkeley)
Hosted by: Xin Sun & Kimberly Cooper
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"cGAS-like enzymes in immunity and host-microbe signaling"
Philip Kranzusch, Ph.D.(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Matt Daugherty & Kevin Corbett
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cellular Heterogeneity in Gene Expression"
Keji Zhao, Ph.D.(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH)
Hosted by: Bing Ren
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Integrative toxicogenomics of cancer-risk agents"
Jiri Zavadil, Ph.D.(International Agency for Research on Cancer,
World Health Organization)

Hosted by: Ludmil Alexandrov
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL SEMINAR

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Multiplexed DNA and RNA imaging using MERFISH"
Bogdan Bintu, Ph.D. Candidate(Harvard University)
Hosted by: Bing Ren & Quan Zhu
Location: Marylin G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL SUMMER SEMINAR

Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"From Lifespan to Membrane Trafficking: The Many and Diverse Functions of Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans"
Scott B. Selleck, M.D., Ph.D.(Pennsylvania State University)
Hosted by: Jeffrey D. Esko & Gulcin Pekkurnaz
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY AND THE GLYCOBIOLOGY RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"How paper wasps became the smartest insect in the world - population genomic insights into the dynamics of cognitive evolution"
Michael Sheehan, Ph.D.(Cornell University)
Hosted by: James Nieh
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"CANCELLED"
Christian Landry, Ph.D.(Laval University)
Hosted by: Scott Rifkin & Peter Novick
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Dynamics of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment"
Richard Lenski, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
Hosted by: Justin Meyer & Gene Yeo
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Getting to the Heart of Cell Fate Control"
Laurie Boyer, Ph.D.(MIT)
Hosted by: George Sen & Deborah Yelon
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM
"Phosphorylation Signaling by Phosphoprotein Phosphatases"
Arminja N. Kettenbach, Ph.D.(Dartmouth College)
Hosted by: Wendy Huang & Stephanie Stanford
Location: CMM East, Room 2047
SPECIAL SEMINAR

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Architectural Control of Cytotoxic T Cell Function"
Morgan Huse, Ph.D.(MSKCC, Sloan Kettering Institute)
Hosted by: Hedrick & Enfu Hui
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Protein-based inheritance: Epigenetics beyond the chromosome"
Daniel Jarosz, Ph.D.(Stanford University)
Hosted by: Kevin Corbett & Eric Bennett
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"The emergent organotypic landscape of the mammalian gut endoderm"
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Ph.D.(MSKCC, Sloan Kettering Institute)
Hosted by: Karl Willert & Deborah Yelon
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"The molecular mechanism of meiotic drive in maize"
Kelly Dawe, Ph.D.(University of Georgia)
Hosted by: Laurie Smith & Arshad Desai
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Analytics of Single Cell RNA-Seq: Identifying Actionable Targets in Autoimmunity"
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.(UC Berkeley)
Hosted by: Gene Yeo & Gen-Sheng Feng
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Orchestrating the many regulatory layers of gene expression"
L. Stirling Churchman, Ph.D.(Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Bing Ren & Sam Reck-Peterson
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGY

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Spatial genome organization and gene regulation"
Wendy Bickmore, Ph.D.(University of Edinburgh)
Hosted by: Arshad Desai
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Understanding selective autophagy"
Wade Harper, Ph.D.(Harvard Medical School)
Hosted by: Samara Reck-Peterson
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"ER-mitochondria contacts couple mtDNA replication to mitochondrial division"
Samantha C. Lewis, Ph.D.(UC Davis)
Hosted by: Sam Reck-Peterson
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Making organelles in the ER"
William Prinz, Ph.D.(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH)
Hosted by: Maho Niwa-Rosen & Peter Novick
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Role of the Mre11 complex in DNA double-strand break repair"
Lorraine S. Symington, Ph.D.(Columbia University)
Hosted by: Huilin Zhou
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Tumor stroma mechanical regulation of Metastasis"
Gregory Longmore, MD(Washington University School of Medicine)
Hosted by: Steve Dowdy & Jing Yang
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR
NOTE: DATE CHANGE

Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Mechanisms that maintain genome stability"
Andre Nussenzweig, Ph.D.(National Cancer Institute, NIH)
Hosted by: Richard Kolodner
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Brain, Bone and Fat: development and functions of tissue macrophages in health and diseases"
Frederick Geissmann, MD, Ph.D.(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Sloan Kettering Institute)
Hosted by: Chris Glass
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Dissecting GlcNAc-1-Phosphotransferase Function - The Key to Understanding Lysosomal Enzyme Trafficking"
Stuart Kornfeld, MD(Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis)
Hosted by: Ajit Varki
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room
Co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Program for Career Development in Glycosciences

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Unraveling the molecular bases of perturbed neurodevelopment in autism through systems biology"
Nathan Lewis, Ph.D.(UC San Diego)
Hosted by: Victor Nizet
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"The role of tRNA derived small RNAs in gene regulation"
Mark Kay, MD, Ph.D.(Stanford University)
Hosted by: Gene Yeo
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 4:00 PM
"Structure and assembly of the COPII coat"
Elizabeth Miller, MD, Ph.D.(MRC - London Institute of Medical Sciences)
Hosted by: Susan Ferro-Novick & Maho Niwa-Rosen
Location: Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room