MBB Seminar Schedule 2024-2025

Date Speaker Institution Host Title
10/4/2024 Boris Stripen Upenn Celia Goulding The Biology of Parasite Sex
10/18/2024 Rachael Barry UCI David Fruman Student-centered approaches to understanding and improving engagement in STEM office hours
11/1/2024 Ernestina Schipani Upenn Olga Razorenova How hypoxia and mitochondria shape up the skeleton
11/15/2024 Shane Gonen UCI David Fruman Inhibition of voltage-gated sodium channels by animal toxins
12/6/2024 Michael Washburn KU Paul Gershon Integrative Structural Modeling of Human Chromatin Remodeling Complexes
1/10/2025 Elizabeth B Burgener USC Katrine Whiteston Pf Bacteriophage in the Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas Infection in Cystic Fibrosis
1/24/2025 William Ludington Carnegie Science Travis Wiles A conserved genetic basis for symbiont-host specificity in the gut microbiome
2/7/2025 Nina Steele Wayne State University Roberto Tinoco Extracting mechanisms of cell cross talk in pancreatic cancer using big data
2/21/2025 Douglas Chalker Washington University Naomi Morrissette Investigation of Protein Kinase A in Tetrahymena reveals its Key Role in Controlling Cellular Morphogenesis
3/7/2025 Dr. Chao Lu Columbia University Mei Kong Genetic Dissection of Chromatin Regulatory Network
3/21/2025 Kevin J. Cheung Fred Hutch Olga Razorenova TBA
4/11/2025 Naeha Subramanian Institute for Systems Biology Reggie Mcnulty
Innate immunity at the interface of host defense and immune disease
5/2/2025 Karen Guillemin Institute of Molecular Biology Travis Wiles Teaming with Microbes: Lessons from the Zebrafish
5/9/2025 Matthew Weitzman UPenn Nir Drayman TBA
5/9/2025 Steve Singer ARPA-E Markus Ribbe and Yilin Hu TBA
5/23/2025 Alec Kimmelman NYU Chris Halbroook TBA
6/6/2025 Daniel Cua
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
 Dequina Nicholas IL-23 Discovery and Clinical use: Cytokine Pathway Analysis and Single Cell Transcrioptomics to Predict Clinical Responses

For more information on the schedule, please contact Dr. Nir Drayman (nirdra@uci.edu).