Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series
Past Seminars
2023
March 14, 2023
Speaker: Santos Franco, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver
Title: "Glia Cell Fates in Brain Development and Disease" (PDF)
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 21, 2023
» Seminar has been CANCELLED!
Speaker: Edward M. Levine, Ph.D., William A. Black Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Resolving genetic networks that regulate progenitor properties during early mouse retinal development"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Edward N. Pugh Jr., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 11, 2023
Speaker: Derek S. Welsbie, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Board Certification in Ophthalmology, Fellowship in Glaucoma, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Title: "Kinase multitargeting for glaucoma neuroprotection" (PDF)
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
May 9, 2023
Speaker: Carol Schuurmans, Ph.D., Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Title: "Identifying novel gene regulatory interactions that govern neocortical development" (PDF)
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
May 16, 2023
Speaker: Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Title: "Genetic reprogramming to prevent blindness" (PDF)
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 7, 2023
Speaker: Phyllis R. Robinson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: "Melanopsin from Molecule to Behavior" (PDF)
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2023
April 26, 2022
Speaker: Andres M. Lebensohn, Ph.D., Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Title: “New regulation in WNT/β-catenin signaling – probing beyond the core signaling module through haploid genetic screens” (PDF)
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
September 13, 2022
Speaker: Rachel W. Kuchtey, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: "The Fibrillin-1 and LOXL1 Nexus in Glaucoma" (PDF)
Host: Sara Thomasy, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, School of Medicine
September 27, 2022
Speaker: Mustafa Aydogan, Ph.D., Assistant Professional Researcher, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Title: “Cytoplasmic divisions without nuclei” (PDF)
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
October 18, 2022
Speaker: Audrey Bernstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Upstate Medical University
Title: "How Changes in Intracellular Proteostasis lead to Pathological Scarring" (PDF)
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 15, 2022
Speaker: Heidi Hehnly, Ph.D., Department of Sciences & Mathematics, Syracuse Upstate Medical College (SUNY)
Title: "Mechanisms coordinating lumen and cilia formation in vivo" (PDF)
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
December 6, 2022
Speaker: Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Title: "Non-canonical function of folate receptor 1 during neural tube formation" (PDF)
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2021
June 14, 2021
Speaker: Albert Quintana, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Institute of Neurosciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Title: "Dissecting neuropathology in mitochondrial disease: one neuron at a time" (PDF)
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2020
December 14, 2020
Speaker: David Amaral, Ph.D., Director of Research, UC Davis MIND Institute, Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis
Title: "A Longitudinal Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder During Childhood: The Ups and the Downs" (PDF)
Host: Sergi Simo, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
December 7, 2020
Speaker: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "Centrosome biogenesis and human disease" (PDF)
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 9, 2020
Speaker: Robert Hufnagel, M.D., Ph.D., National Eye Institute
Title: "Genomic roadmaps forge paths to vision" (PDF)
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
October 26, 2020
Speaker: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "MicroRNAs in cell fate determination: developmental studies and implications for stem cell strategies" (PDF)
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 3, 2020
Speaker: Crystal Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Title: "Neural crest fate decisions: Defining the cells that make the vertebrate face" (PDF)
February 24, 2020
Speaker: Jens Lagerstedt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Protein Science, Lund University
Title: "ApoA-I in glycemic control and in rare amyloid diseases" (PDF)
Host: John Voss, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
February 4, 2020
Speaker: Francis Lin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba
Title: "Exploring Cell Trafficking: Discovery and Applications" (PDF)
Host: Min Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., Dermatology
2019
November 13, 2019
Speaker: Jing Ren, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Biology Department, Stanford University
Title: “Organization of the forebrain projecting serotonin system”
June 04, 2019
Speaker: Taran Gujral, Ph.D., Assistant Member, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Title: "Organotypic Tumor Slice Model System for Drug Discovery"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
May 21, 2019
Speaker: Alberto Cruz-Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University
Title: “Prefrontal cortex dysfunction with overexpression of schizophrenia-associated gene complement component 4”
April 16, 2019
Speaker: Sheila A Baker, Ph.D., University of Iowa
Title: "Location, location, location: Regulating the trafficking of HCN1 channels"
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 02, 2019
Speaker: Pierre Mattar, Ph.D., Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa
Title: "Role of chromatin remodeling complexes in neural lineage diversification"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 19, 2019
Speaker: Sabine Fuhrmann, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Title: "Regulation of eye morphogenesis"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 05, 2019
Speaker: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "The Importance of Signal Pathway Downregulation for Central Nervous System Development"
February 22, 2019
Speaker: Seth Blackshaw Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Title: “Building and regenerating the retina one cell at a time”
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
February 05, 2019
Speaker: Lu Chen, M.D., Ph.D., School of Optometry
Title: "Novel insights into ocular lymphatics"
Host: Min Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., CVS Faculty, Dermatology
January 22, 2019
Speaker: Ryoma Ohi, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Title: "Complete Pharmacological Arrest of Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Animal Cells"
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2018
December 18, 2018
Speaker: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "Noncanonical Wnt signaling in development and disease" (PDF)
November 06, 2018
Sponsored by the Center for Vision Science
Speaker: Andrew Stockman, Ph.D., Institute of Ophthalmology University College, London
Title: "Distorted Insights: Perceptual Distortions as Windows into Visual Processing"
November 02, 2018
Speaker: Simon Hippenmeyer, Ph.D., Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Title: "Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex"
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
August 13, 2018
Speaker: Chu Wang, Ph.D., College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, China
Title: "Functional Target Discovery by Quantitative Chemical Proteomics"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
June 05, 2018
Speaker: Raymond Deshaies, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Vice President of Discovery Research, Amgen
Title: "Adaptive Exchange sustains a functional network of SCF ubiquitin ligases"
April 17, 2018
Speaker: John Williams, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University
Title: "Watching dopamine transmission"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
April 03, 2018
Speaker: Daniel Cifuentes, Ph.D., Boston University, School of Medicine
Title: "miR-144/451 cluster: the Trojan horse of hematopoietic microRNAs"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 20, 2018
Speaker: Michael Rape, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Title: “The other code: roles of ubiquitin in neuronal development and neurodegeneration”
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
February 06, 2018
Speaker: Joe Brzezinski, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Title: “Deciphering Retinal Development: Blimps, Enhancers, and Cones”
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
January 16, 2018
Speaker: M. Bryan Tsou, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: “The Love-Hate Relationship between Animal Centrosomes and Cilia”
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2017
February 7, 2017
Speaker: Valerie Wallace, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital/Research Institute
Title: “A fresh look at photoreceptor transplantation and retina repair”
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
February 21, 2017
Speaker: Anthony Barnes, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University
Title: “Molecular mechanisms of Cerebral Cortex Development”
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 1, 2017
Sponsored by the Center for Vision Science
Speaker: David Calkins, Ph.D., The Denis M. O’Day Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vice-Chair and Director of Research, Vanderbilt University
Title: “What Optic Neuropathy Teaches Us About Neurons”
March 10, 2017
Speaker: Claude Desplan, Ph.D., Department of Biology, New York University
Title: “Generation of neural diversity in the visual system”
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 21, 2017
Speaker: David Prober, Ph.D., Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Title: “Genetic and neurological mechanisms that regulate sleep”
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 4, 2017
Speaker: Sean Collins, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UC Davis
Title: "Sensing direction in neutrophil chemotaxis"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 18, 2017
Speaker: Nestor Oviedo, Ph.D., School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced
Title: "Regulation of Stem Cell Behavior During Tissue Repair”
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 25, 2017
Speaker: Robert Kennedy, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Title: “New Methods of Exploring Brain Chemistry In Vivo”
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
September 13, 2017
Speaker: Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., National Eye Institute of NIH
Title: "Gene therapy for a synaptic disease: X-linked retinoschisis"
Host: Edward N. Pugh, Jr., Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
October 17, 2017
Speaker: Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, UC Davis
Title: "A CRISPR approach to stem cell and cancer epigenomics"
December 05, 2017
Speaker: Rejji Kuruvilla, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Neurotrophin trafficking and signaling in neural development"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
December 07, 2017
Speaker: Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D., Duke University
Title: “Selectively targeting the Complement System for AMD Therapeutics”
Host: Paul FitzGerald, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
December 07, 2017
Speaker: Dan Stamer, Ph.D., Duke University
Title: “Restoring conventional outflow function: The next generation of glaucoma drugs”
Host: Paul FitzGerald, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2016
March 01, 2016
Speaker: Jeffrey Bush, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Eph/ephrin signaling in morphogenesis and congenital disease"
Host: Sergio Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
March 15, 2016
Speaker: Michel Cayouette, Ph.D., University of Montreal, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine
Title: "Lineage progression and asymmetric cell divisions in the developing mouse retina"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 05, 2016
Speaker: Leopoldo Petreanu, Ph.D., Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal
Title: "Cortical afferent projections: from connectivity to function"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
April 19, 2016
Speaker: Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Title: "Lights, Sound, Action: in situ imaging of developing neurons in the eye and in the ear"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
April 26, 2016
Speaker: Diane Robins, Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Title: "Epigenetic Regulation by KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins – the Consequences of Sex on Metabolism"
Host: Tom Glaser, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
May 17, 2016
Speaker: Na Ji, Ph.D., HHMI Janelia Farm
Title: "Probing neural circuits with shaped light"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
June 07, 2016
Speaker: David Olson, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Title: "Chemical Tools for Studying Psychedelic Medicine"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
October 18, 2016
Speaker: Kassandra Ori-McKenney, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Defining the DYRK1 a signaling pathway involved in intellectual disability disorders"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 1, 2016
Speaker: Deepak Lamba, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Title: “Breaking down barriers to photoreceptor integration”
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
December 6, 2016
Speaker: Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, UC Davis
Title: “Wdfy3 links defective cortical neurogenesis to autism spectrum disorders"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
2015
December 01, 2015
Speaker: Brian Howell, Ph.D., SUNY Upstate, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Title: "Reelin Mutations in Autism: Do They Hint at Unknown Functions in Brain Chemistry?"
Host: Sergio Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 17, 2015
Speaker: Megan Dennis, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Title: "Human-specific genomic duplications and their role in human evolution and disease"
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
November 03, 2015
Speaker: Kristen Kwan, Ph.D., University of Utah
Title: "Cellular and Molecular Dynamics Shaping the Vertebrate Eye"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
October 27, 2015
Speaker: Henry Lester, Ph.D., CalTech, Division of Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Title: "Inside-out pharmacology of nicotine (and perhaps psychiatric drugs)"
Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
October 20, 2015
Speaker: Bruce Appel, Ph.D., University of Colorado
Title: "Neural progenitor maintenance and specification – and end to self-renewal?"
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
October 06, 2015
Speaker: Masato Nakafuku, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Title: "Transcriptional control of stem cells in the adult brain: What makes them unique?"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
September 15, 2015
Speaker: Joanna Chiu, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis
Title: "Interplay between post-translational modifications regulates the animal circadian clock"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
June 02, 2015
Speaker: Brian Link, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "Polarized signaling is essential for properly determining retinal cell fates during ocular development in zebrafish"
May 19, 2015
Speaker: Dan Butts, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Title: “Precision of visual coding from retina to cortex”
April 21, 2015
Speaker: Robert Campbell, Ph.D., University of Alberta
Title: "Engineering optogenetic probes for visualization and control of cellular activity"
April 07, 2015
Speaker: Matthew Petroll, Ph.D., University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Title: "Assessing the biomechanical behavior of corneal keratocytes in vitro and in vivo"
March 03, 2015
Speaker: Alex Nord, Ph.D., Department of NPB / CNS, University of California, Davis
Title: "Genomic perspectives of gene regulatory systems in the brain"
February 17, 2015
Speaker: Su Guo, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Stem cell properties in the developing and adult zebrafish brain"
February 03, 2015
Speaker: Rajat Rohatgi, Ph.D., Stanford University
Title: "Signal transduction at primary cilia"
January 20, 2015
Speaker: Ben Novitch, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neural Progenitor Fate and Differentiation"
2014
December 16, 2014
Speaker: Kenneth Campbell, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Title: "Genetic control of neural circuit formation in the basal ganglia: Implications for childhood neurological disorders"
December 02, 2014
Speaker: Gordon Fain, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Mechanism of Adaptation in Mammalian Rod Photoreceptors"
November 04, 2014
Speaker: Tianyi Mao, Ph.D., Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
Title: "Circuitry mechanisms underlying sensori-motor integration in mice"
October 21, 2014
Speaker: Wolfgang Baehr, Ph.D., University of Utah
Title: "Membrane Protein trafficking in Photoreceptors"
October 07, 2014
Speaker: Alex Revzin, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Title: "Microsystems for sensing and shaping cell function"
September 16, 2014
Speaker: John Albeck, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title: The response of signaling and metabolic networks to targeted inhibitors: what single cells can tell us"
December 17, 2013
Speaker: Bruce Draper, Ph.D., UC Davis Molecular Cell Biology
Title: "Sex changing fish: Germ cell development and their role in maintaining adult sexual identity"
November 19, 2013
Speaker: Samer Hattar, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Retinal and brain circuits underlying light effects on behavior in mammals"
November 05, 2013
Speaker: Lin Tian, Ph.D., UC Davis School of Medicine
Title: "Monitoring and Engineering of Neural Circuitry in Health and Disease"
September 17, 2013
Speaker: Dean Bok, Ph.D., UCLA/Jules Stein
Title: "Complement dysregulation in early onset and age-related macular degeneration"
July 18, 2014
Speaker: John McAvoy, Ph.D., University of Sydney
Title: "Understanding mechanisms of lens development. Will this help us regenerate lenses after cataract surgery?"
2013
June 19, 2014
Speaker: Sergi Simó, University of Washington
Title: "To stop or not to stop: Cullin-5 controls final neuron position"
April 28, 2014
Speaker: Tiffany Cook, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
Title: “Dissecting Conserved Molecular Networks Regulating Photoreceptor Differentiation and Maintenance”
April 22, 2014
Speaker: Henk Roelink, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Ptch1 and Ptch2 interact to affect the response to Shh both cell autonomously and non autonomously"
April 08, 2014
Speaker: James Wells, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Title: "Using human pluripotent stem cells to model gastrointestinal organ development and disease"
March 18, 2014
Speaker: Doug Gould, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Genetics and the pathology of a multi-system collagen disorder"
March 04, 2014
Speaker: Grant Mastick, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "From brain to eye: repulsion of neurons and axons"
February 18, 2014
Speaker: Neil Hunter, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Title: "Chromosomal Crossing Over And The Physical Basis Of Heredity"
February 04, 2014
Speaker: Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., NIH/NEI
Title: "Genesis of rod photoreceptors: genetic and epigenetic control, evolution, and treatment paradigms"
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