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...
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,...
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...
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...
Dr. Ru Gunawardane Executive DirectorAllen Institute for Cell Science “Towards understanding cell states and transitions in hiPSCs: an integrated spatiotemporal approach” Abstract: The Allen Institute for Cell Science aims to understand the principles by which human...
Dr. Kaelyn Sumigray Assistant Professor of GeneticsYale School of Medicine “Fate and Form: Intestinal Morphogenesis and cell fate specification” Abstract: The mammalian intestinal epithelium undergoes constant renewal while simultaneously balancing cell fate...
Using Neuroscience to Transform Our Understanding of DepressionJoin us for a talk with Diego Pizzagalli, PhD You are invited to the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences’ Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Diego Pizzagalli, PhD on March 18, 2025, in...
Dr. Karen Schindler ProfessorRutgers University “Determining the genetic contributions to aneuploidy in eggs” Abstract: A healthy egg is essential for a successful pregnancy and full-term development. The chromosome content of the egg and sperm is an exquisitely...
Dr. Xin Jin Associate Professor, Department of NeuroscienceScripps Research “Scalable investigation of gene function and organ-wide action with in vivo Perturb-seq” Abstract: Human genetics have identified long lists of risk genes and loci associated with diseases,...
Dr. Fan Yang Associate Professor, Assistant Dean in the School of Basic Medical SciencesZhejiang University “From atoms to animals: Rational design of novel modulators to TRP ion channels for analgesia” Abstract: The Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) ion channels...