Dr. Celina Juliano Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California, Davis “Mechanisms of development and regeneration in Hydra” Abstract: Hydra vulgaris is a small and simple aquatic animal capable of whole-body regeneration. The entire...
Dr. Edward Chuong Associate Professor, Biofrontiers InstituteUniversity of Colorado Boulder “Transposon-mediated evolution of immune gene regulatory networks” Abstract: Mammalian genomes harbor millions of transposon insertions, but most are expected to be inert or...
Dr. Xing Dai Professor, SOM - Biological ChemistryUniversity of California, Irvine “Beauty is Skin Deep: Epithelial Stem Cell Plasticity, Immune Crosstalk, and Metabolism” Abstract: Skin is a dynamic organ that relies on the proper regulation of adhesive properties...
Dr. Jeff Farrell Stadtman Investigator/Assistant ProfessorNIH “Developmental regulation of best4+ intestinal epithelial cells” Abstract: My lab investigates the transcriptional basis of cell fate decisions and cellular function during zebrafish development. We use and...
Dr. Elphege Nora Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, Irvine “Molecular Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding and Enhancer Wiring” Abstract: I will discuss how cohesin proteins tune chromosomes folding patterns inside cells and how this enables long-range...
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 third...
Research in Progress Talk Mia Brantley Thompson-Peer Lab “Modeling Real-World Neuronal Injury: How Surrounding Tissue Damage Affects Dendrite Regeneration in Drosophila” David Bojorquez Lara Gonzalez Lab “Cyclin B3 Orchestrates Early Cell Fate Specification in C....
Research in Progress Talk Rosty Brichko Thompson-Peer Lab “Investigating Insulin Signaling to Boost Dendrite Regeneration in Adult Neurons” Seminar will be held in person only. For questions about this event, please contact Mayra Rubio at...
Research in Progress Talk Elnaz Abdollahzadeh Mortazavi Lab “Direct RNA transcriptomic and epitranscriptomic profiling of human brain cortex” Ryan Weber Mortazavi Lab “Characterizing cis and trans regulatory variation in diverse mouse strains at...
Dr. Evgeny Kvon Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology University of California, Irvine “How Variation in Non-Protein-Coding Regions of Our Genomes Contributes to Disease” Abstract: Our genomes contain crucial yet poorly understood...