Register below to attend the 2025 BioSci Staff Service Awards. Event Details:Date: Tuesday, June 17Time: 11:30 a.m.Location: Natural Science I Room 114 Register to attend the BioSci Staff Service Awards If you have questions about this event, please...
A Role for Water Transport in the Regulation of the Optical Power in the Developing Mammalian and Zebrafish Lens: Professor Paul Donaldson and Dr. Irene Vorontsova
Professor Donaldson Director of the Molecular Vision Research ClusterUniversity of Auckland Dr. Irene Vorontsova Research FellowUniversity of Auckland “A role for water transport in the regulation of the optical power in the developing mammalian and zebrafish lens”...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Joshua Alcantara and Melissa Campos
Joshua Alcantara Kvon Lab "Dissecting how redundant transcriptional enhancers ensure robustness of mammalian embryogenesis" Melissa Campos Albrecht Lab "Lysosomal compartmentalization of phosphofructokinase-1 regulates skeletal muscle metabolism" Seminars will be in...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Guan-Yin Stevens and Yikai Huang
Guan-Yin Stevens Arora and Warrior Labs "Analyzing the transcriptional regulatory strategy of Dawdle, a TGF-β ligand essential for sugar homeostasis in Drosophila" Yikai Huang Blumberg Lab "Transgenerational Obesity Induced by Prenatal Tributyltin Exposure Is...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Travis Thomson
Dr. Travis Thomson Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Massachusetts “Dueling Transposons Regulate Structural Synaptic Plasticity” Abstract: Transposons are parasitic genome elements that can also serve as raw material for the evolution of new cellular...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Kyoko Yokomori
Dr. Kyoko Yokomori Professor, SOM - Biological ChemistryUniversity of California, Irvine “CRISPR-Engineered mutations and MERFISH single cell spatial transcriptomics reveal key processes of FSHD pathogenesis” Abstract: Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is a...
Graduate Honors Banquet 2025
Register below to attend the 2025 Graduate Honors Banquet. This formal event will include the presentation of awards and scholarships to recognize the remarkable accomplishments of our graduate students. It will be an evening of reflection, acknowledgment and...
BioSci Ambassadors + Alumni Mixer
Register below to attend the 2025 BioSci Ambassadors and Alumni Mixer. Event Details:Date: Tuesday, May 20Time: 6 p.m.Location: Aria Kitchen 2636 Dupont Dr, Irvine, CA 92612 Register for the BioSci Ambassadors and Alumni Mixer If you have questions about this event,...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Dennis Discher
Dr. Dennis Discher Robert D. Bent ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania “Mechanobiological insights into fat, genome integrity, and tumoricidal macrophages” Abstract: Fat is usually considered soft, but fat droplets accumulate within cells and remain round as they...
Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Scott Atwood
Dr. Scott Atwood Associate Professor, Developmental & Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Irvine “Defining tumor recognition and regression in basal cell carcinoma” Abstract: The Atwood lab is interested in how skin cancer develops and the ways to...