September 26, 2024 - Elizabeth Chen, PhD:  Cell-Cell Fusion: Lessons from Flies, Fish, and Mice

Professor, Molecular Biology Department,  UT Southwestern Medical Center

October 3, 2024 talk 1 - Julia Salzman, PhD:  Biological discovery from any genomic sequencing data

Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biology

October 3, 2024 talk 2 - Daniel Jarosz, PhD:  Evolution and regulation of self-assembly in FoxP2 and other glutamine-rich transcription factors

Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology

October 10, 2024  - Gheorghe Chistol, PhD: Uncovering Molecular Mechanisms of Genome Maintenance via Single-Molecule Imaging

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

October 17, 2024 talk 1  - Sarah Bowling, PhD: Resolving the routes to building and re-building the mammalian embryo using DNA barcoding

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology    

October 17, 2024 talk 2  - Capucine Van Rechem, PhD:  Diffuse Midline Gliomas: From cell cycle to therapeutic opportunities

Assistant Professor of Pathology (Pathology Research)     

October 24, 2024 talk 1  - William Allen, PhD: Mapping perturbations to phenotypes in tissue at scale

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology    

October 24, 2024 talk 2  - Alexander Dunn, PhD: Mechanisms underlying the amplification of asymmetry in planar cell polarity

Professor of Chermical Enginerring

October 31, 2024 - Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD:  talk title TBA

Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech

November 7, 2024 talk 1  - Ovijit Chaudhuri, PhD: Pushing shapes early embryos

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering  

November 7, 2024 talk 2  - Katrin Andreasson, MD:
Fueling the mind: cellular metabolism and healthy brain aging

Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

November 14, 2024  - Kacper Rogala, PhD: Membrane transporters as a vulnerability of nutrient-addicted cancers

Assistant Professor of Structural Biology and of Chemical and Systems Biology

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

November 21, 2024 - Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD:  Genomic insights into Human Brain Development, Evolution, and Disease

Professor of Neurology,  UCSF School of Medicine

December 5, 2024 - Allan Spradling, PhD:  The role of follicle waves during oogenesis in Drosophila and mice

Investigator, HHMI; Staff Member and Director Emeritus, Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science

December 12, 2024  - Onn Brandman, PhD:  Mechanochemical forces regulate the composition and fate of stalled nascent chains

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks