September 29, 2022 - Sergiu Pasca: From stem cells to wiring human neural circuits in living systems

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of Stanford Brain Organogenesis

October 6, 2022 - Steve Horvath: Epigenetic clocks for aging and regeneration in different species

PI, Altos Labs, San Diego

October 13, 2022 talk 1- Kyle Loh: The brain has two embryonic origins, with implications for development, differentiation and evolution

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)

October 13, 2022 talk 2- Tushar Desai: Surprises in acute epithelial repair

Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)

October 20, 2022 talk 1- Ngan Huang: Engineering Skeletal Muscle--To Infinity and Beyond

Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Surgery Research) and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering

October 20, 2022 talk 2- Carla Shatz: Synapses Lost and Found

Sapp Family Provostial Professor, The Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology

October 27, 2022 - Howard Y. Chang: Reading and writing extrachromosomal DNA

 Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Genetics

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

November 3, 2022 talk 1 - Inma Cobos: Tangles: Drivers of toxicity or homeostatic response in Alzheimer’s Disease?

Assistant Professor of Pathology

November 3, 2022 talk 2 - Michael Greicius: APOE4: Weak Friend or Powerful Foe in Alzheimer’s Disease?

Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)

November 10, 2022 - James Ferrell: Signaling in 2D vs. 3D

Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

November 17, 2022 - Benoit Bruneau: Transcriptional regulation of heart development and disease

William H. Younger Investigator and Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease; Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

December 1, 2022 talk  - Karlene Cimprich: RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome

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

December 1, 2022 talk 2 - Peter Jackson: TBD

Professor, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

December 8, 2022 - Capucine van Rechem: Chromatin remodelers lost in translation

Assistant Professor of Pathology (Pathology Research)

SCI Cancer Biology & Cancer Stem Cell Talks

December 15, 2022 talk 1 - Daniel Jarosz: Protein condensation in cellular memory and adaptation: Epigenetics within and beyond the organism

Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology Chemical and Systems Biology Operations

December 15, 2022 talk 2 - Jeffrey Axelrod:  A lonely planar polarizing cell

Professor of Pathology