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
Mar 31, 2025
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
Mar 31, 2025
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...

Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Ru Gunawardane
Mar 31, 2025
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...

Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Kaelyn Sumigray
Mar 31, 2025
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...
Exercise is Medicine: Exploring Exercise in the Treatment and Prevention of Chronic Disease
Mar 7, 2025
Exercise is Medicine: Exploring Exercise in the Treatment and Prevention of Chronic Disease, is a lecture part of the Mind, Body, World & You lecture series. This presentation will examine how regular physical activity enhances cardiovascular, metabolic, and...
Mentor Program Closing Event
Mar 6, 2025
Please join us for pizza at the Mentor Program Closing Event. This event will be located at Natural Sciences 1, Room 1114.

Donuts with the Dean: Winter 2024
Feb 7, 2025
Join us for the return of Dunlop BioSci’s quarterly Donuts with the Dean! Please join us on Thursday, October 24 from 4 – 5 p.m. on the 5th Floor of Natural Sciences II. Join Dean Frank LaFerla and hear from our guest speaker, Nan Wu Hultgren, PhD....

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture – Winter 2025
Jan 23, 2025
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...
Rebuilding Trust in Science: What Can Researchers Do?
Jan 15, 2025
Overview: The aim for this symposium is to start a conversation among faculty and other senior-level researchers about what can be done to increase confidence in the scientific enterprise, both within society at large, but also — and especially — among the scientists...
