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Division of Regenerative Medicine (DRM) Seminar Series

DRM Seminar Series (CME Accredited)

Series Schedule

Tentative scheduling:

  • Date: First or Second Monday of each month
  • Location: Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Conference Room 1013 A/B
  • Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Contact: drmseminarseries@ucsd.edu

Seminar Schedule below: for upcoming seminar topics and past recordings


Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of each activity, participants will be able to:

  • Treat Patients with Stem Cells more effectively as a result of multidisciplinary discussion
  • Disseminate the latest research and clinical advances on stem cells and regenerative medicine to promote improved strategies and methodologies
  • Promote further investigation into topics involving stem cells and regenerative medicine
  • Translate stem cell and regenerative medicine research from bench to bedside

Accreditation Statement

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

April Seminar Flyer

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Seminar Schedule

2025

List of 2025 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

1/13/25

Ophir Klein, MD, Ph.D (UCSF)

2/3/25

Katherine King MD, Ph.D (Baylor College of Medicine)

2024

List of 2024 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

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Ahmad Nabhan, Ph.D (Genentech)

"De-coding and Re-coding Stem/Niche Crosstalk in Regeneration and Fibrosis"

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Dr. Jarrod Dudakov, Ph.D (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) 

"Aging, Injury, and Inflammation: Understanding the Limitations of Tissue Regeneration in the Thymus"

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Hojun Li, M.D., Ph.D (UCSD Pediatrics)

"Dissection and Engineering of Proliferative Blood Cell States"

4/10/24

Cédric Blanpain, M.D., PhD (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

6/3/24 

Laura G Schuettpelz, M.D., Ph.D (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO)

7/1/24

Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D (Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto CA)

8/12/24

Britta Will, Ph.D (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

9/9/24 

April Pyle, Ph.D (UC Los Angeles)

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John Crispino, Ph.D., M.B.A. (St. Jude Children's Hospital)

 

 

11/4/24

Kellie Machlus, Ph.D (Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children’s Hospital)

11/18/24

Grant A. Challen, Ph.D (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO)

12/2/24

Lisa Wagar PhD (UC Irvine)

2023

List of 2023 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

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Sheila Chari, Ph.D. (Cell Press)

"Publishing with Cell Press: Inside the Editorial Process"

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Tim Fenton, Ph.D. (University of Southampton)

"APOBEC3 enzymes: from retroviral restriction factors to cancer drivers… and beyond?"

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Mia Petljak, Ph.D. (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

"Causes and consequences of somatic mosaicism in age-related diseases"

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Pantelis Rompolas, Ph.D., M.B.A. (University of Pennsylvania)

"Regenerative strategies using mRNA technology"

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Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

"Teaching new tricks to an old thymus"

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Hanna Mikkola, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Decoding human hematopoietic stem cell genesis and self-renewal"

 

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Elsy Buitrago-Delgado, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology)

"Spatial analysis of RNA distribution during early mammalian embryogenesis"

 

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Matthew Romero, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Skeletal Muscle in Three Dimensions: Uncovering Connections Across Development"

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Paul Northcott, Ph.D. (St. Jude Children's Hospital) 

"Genomic Unraveling of Biological & Clinical Heterogeneity in Medulloblastoma"

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Sydney Lu, M.D., Ph.D. (Stanford University)

"Modulating RNA Processing to Shape the Immune Response in Cancer" 

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Anne Brunet, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

"Mechanisms of Brain Aging and Rejuvation" 

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Manuela Gago, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S. (Health Institute of Santiago de Compstela IDIS)

"Targeting Lipid Metabolism and Immune Pathways: A Promising Multi-Dimensional Approach for Cancer and Degenerative Diseases"

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Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)

"Learning How to Think: How Stem Cells Aquire and Recall Memories"

 

2022

List of 2022 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

Katja Simon2/7/22 *Starts at 12:00 P.M.*

Katja Simon, Ph.D. (University of Oxford)

"Autophagy in hematopoietic and immune cell fate"

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Ken Shields (Sierra Space)

"Orbital Reef: Paving the Way for New Discoveries and a New Economy in Space"

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Christina Termini, Ph.D. (Fred Hutch)

"Leveraging proteoglycans for hematopoietic stem cell regeneration"

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Vikram Paralkar5/2/22 

Vikram Paralkar, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

"Regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription in Hematopoiesis"

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Michaela Frye6/6/22 *Starts at 12:00 P.M.*

Michaela Frye, Ph.D. (DKFZ)

"Targeting RNA modifications in cancer"

Darcie Moore7/18/22 

Darcie Moore, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)

"Identifying signatures of neural stem cell state"

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Armando Villalta8/8/22 

Armando Villalta, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)

"Immune and stromal interactions in the regulation of skeletal muscle disease"

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Kara McKinley9/12/22 

Kara McKinley, Ph.D. (Harvard)

"Regeneration in the uterus"

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Kentson Lam, M.D., Ph.D. (UCSD)

"Targeting the protein homeostasis network in acute myeloid leukemia"

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Leslie Crews, Ph.D. (UCSD)

"Zombie blood: can hematopoietic stem cells age without turning into malignant monsters?"

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Justin Taylor, Ph.D. (Fred Hutch)

"Analysis and Engineering of Antigen-Specific B cells"

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Ubaka Ogbogu, LL.B., B.L., LL.M., S.J.D. (University of Alberta)

"Towards practical justice in the inequitable biotechnology revolution"

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2021

List of 2021 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

Aaron Ring, MD, Ph.D.1/11/21

Aaron Ring, MD, Ph.D. (Yale)

"Engineered cytokines in cancer immunotherapy"

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Frank Furnari, Ph.D.2/08/21

Frank Furnari, Ph.D. (UCSD)

"Deciphering therapeutic vulnerabilities in brain cancer"

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Julia Maxson, Ph.D.3/15/21

Julia Maxson, Ph.D. (OHSU)

"Therapeutic targeting of CSF3R-mutant leukemias"

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 Shiri Gur-Cohen, Ph.D.4/12/21

Shiri Gur-Cohen, Ph.D. (Rockefeller)

"Socializing with the Neighbors: Stem Cells Reshape Their Environment to Coordinate Tissue Regeneration"

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Yanhong Shi, Ph.D.5/10/21

Yanhong Shi, Ph.D. (City of Hope)

"Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Development"

Hanna Mikkola, MD, Ph.D.5/17/21

Hanna Mikkola, MD, Ph.D. (UCLA)

"Search for the Self-Renewing Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell"

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Jeremy Mao, DDS, Ph.D.9/20/21

Jeremy Mao, DDS, Ph.D.

"Stem Cell Homing"

Nina Cabezas Wallscheid, Ph.D.11/15/21

Nina Cabezas Wallscheid, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute)

"Multilayer-omics analysis reveals a non-classical retinoic acid signaling axis that regulates hematopoietic stem cell identity"

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Johannes Schoeneberg, Ph.D. (UCSD)

"4D Cell Biology: Adaptive optics lattice light-sheet imaging and AI powered big data processing of live stem cell-derived organoids"

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2020

List of 2020 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

Ryan Corces, Ph.D.1/13/20

Ryan Corces, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

"Functional Dissection of the Epigenome in Cancer and Neurodegeneration"
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Amanda Olson, M.D.7/06/20

Amanda Olson, M.D. (MD Anderson)

"Viral-specific T cell immunotherapy for the treatment of Polyomavirus infections"
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Paul Mischel, M.D. 8/10/20

Paul Mischel, M.D. (UC San Diego)

"Form follows function: ecDNA topology drives cancer pathogenesis through altered chromatin organization"
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Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. 9/21/20

Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. (UC San Francsico)

"Escaping the Immune System: Prevention of stem cell transplant rejection by genetic engineering"
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Daniel Utzschneider, Ph.D.10/19/20

Daniel Utzschneider, Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)

"T Cell exhaustion: Limitation or prerequisite of function immunity in chronic infection and tumor?"

Anna Beaudin, Ph.D.11/16/20

Anna Beaudin, Ph.D. (University of Utah)

"Unraveling layered immunity: how perturbation of hematopoietic development shapes disease susceptibility"

Hao Zhu, M.D. 12/14/20

Hao Zhu, M.D. (UT Southwestern)

"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of wound healing and regeneration"
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2019

List of 2019 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

Lei Ding, Ph.D. 1/07/19

Lei Ding, Ph.D. (Columbia University)

"The regulation of hematopoietic stem cells: the niche and beyond" "The regulation of hematopoietic stem cells: the niche and beyond"
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Daniela Bota, M.D., Ph.D. 2/04/19

Daniela Bota, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Irvine)

"Finding the Grail: The Fine Line between Chemotherapy and Neurotoxicity (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly stem cells"
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Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D.4/29/19

Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

"Understanding and Targeting the Stem Cell Origins of M.D.S and AML"

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.5/03/19

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)

"Tissue Stem Cells: Coping with Stress"

*Friday, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Goldberg Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center*

Karl-Johan (Kalle) Malmberg, M.D., Ph.D. 6/10/19

Karl-Johan (Kalle) Malmberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Oslo University Hospital)

"A Temporal Transcriptional Map of Human NK Cell Differentiation"

 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, MSc, Ph.D.7/01/19

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, MSc, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)

"Aging and Long Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids – Retina Perspective"

Angela Fleischman, M.D., Ph.D.8/05/19

Angela Fleischman, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Irvine)

"Role of Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasm"
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 Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D.8/26/19

Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D. (UMC Utrecht)

"Organoids to Model Human Disease"
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Tracy Grikscheit, M.D.8/29/19

Tracy Grikscheit, M.D. (USC) *Not a CME accredited seminar*

"Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies for Enteric Neuropathies and Intestinal Failure: Advances toward Translation"

Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.11/04/19

Andrew Dillin, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)

"Neuroendocrine Regulation of ER Stress, Metabolism and Aging"
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Ritwick Sawarkar, Ph.D.11/15/19 *Not a CME accredited seminar*

Ritwick Sawarkar, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics)

"Linking Transcription with Proteostasis: the Missing Pieces of the Puzzle"

Marius Wernig, Ph.D.12/02/19

Marius Wernig, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

"Next Generation Cell Therapies for the Brain"
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2018

List of 2018 DRM Seminar speakers and dates

Leslie Crews, Ph.D.2/20/18

Leslie Crews, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)
"Inflammation-response pathways promote malignant regeneration in Multiple Myeloma"

*Comer Commons,2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center

Tiffany Tanaka3/20/18

Tiffany Tanaka, M.D. (UC San Diego)
"Personalized Adoptive T cell Therapy in Myelodyplastic Syndromes"

*Goldberg Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center

Stephanie Cherqui, Ph.D. 4/09/18

Stephanie Cherqui, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)

"From Cystinosis to Friedreich's ataxia: Therapeutic Mechanism and Clinical Translation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy"

Dannielle Engle, Ph.D.5/07/18

Dannielle Engle, Ph.D. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

"Aberrant Glycosylation promotes Pancreatic Disease and yields novel biomarkers"

Kenneth Dorshkind, Ph.D.6/11/18

Kenneth Dorshkind, Ph.D. (UCLA)

"Evolving Patterns of Lymphopoiesis from Embryogenesis through Senescence"

Andrew Lowy, M.D., FACS7/09/18

Andrew Lowy, M.D., FACS (UC San Diego)

"Identifying Novel Targets in the Pancreatic Cancer Chimera"
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Sergei Doulatov, Ph.D.8/06/18

Sergei Doulatov, Ph.D. (University of Washington)

"Pluripotent stem cell models for blood disorders"

Jeanne Loring, Ph.D.9/10/18

Jeanne Loring, Ph.D. (The Scripps Research Institute)

"Translational applications of stem cells and genomics: Autologous neuron replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease"
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Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D.10/15/18

Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School) "Genetic Studies of Human Hematopoiesis"
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*Goldberg Auditorium,2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center

Qingfei Jiang, Ph.D.11/5/18

Qingfei Jiang, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)

"Inflammation-driven-A-to-I RNA editing in Leukemia Stem Cell Maintenance"
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Alexander Boiko, Ph.D.12/10/18

Alexander Boiko, Ph.D. (UCI)

"Identification of Melanoma Vulnerability: Lessons Learned from Neural Crest Stem Cell Development"
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Tanya Siddiqi, M.D.12/17/18

Tanya Siddiqi, M.D. (City of Hope)

"Shaping the way of the future: CAR-T cell therapy leading to potential cures in relapsed/refractory B-cell NHL/CLL"
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