All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. For previous years seminar info, go here.
Week |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
8/31 |
No Speaker | All Bio871 students are required to attend the first week of class to obtain enrollment/course information. | |
| 2 |
9/7 |
Rachel Jurd Assistant Research Scientist, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Department of Neurology, UCSF | Molecular mechanisms
of general anesthetics and hypnotics |
|
3 |
9/14 |
Sally Pasion Assistant Professor, Dept of Biology, SFSU | DNA replication
and genome integrity: insights on a novel fission yeast protein, Cdc24 |
|
4 |
9/21 |
Sam Pleasure
Assistant Professor Department of Neurology Programs in Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, UCSF |
Working on the
Margins: the Role of SDF1 in Controlling Migration and Positioning of Cortical Neurons |
|
5 |
9/28 |
Megumi Fuse Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, SFSU | Shedding
light on the neural regulation of ecdysis in insects |
|
6 |
10/5 |
Miguel Ramalho-Santos Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, UCSF | Transcriptional
Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cells |
|
7 |
10/12 |
Noelle L'Etoile Assistant
Professor |
Olfactory adaptation
in C. elegans |
|
| 8 |
10/19 |
Diedra Wrighting
Harvard University |
Transcriptional Regulation of Hepcidin:
A hormone that maintains iron Ms. Wrighting is an SFSU alumnus. Students are invited to come and meet her at a student lunch. Hensill Hall 543 12:30-2pm |
|
| 9 |
10/26 |
Krishna Niyogi
Associate Professor Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley |
Regulation of photosynthetic
light harvesting in algae and plants |
|
11/2 |
Tamira Elul
Assistant Professor Department of Basic Sciences, Touro University |
Role of beta-catenin in
axonal arborization |
||
10 |
11/9 |
Nipam Patel Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics and Development and of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley | The Evolution
of Animal Segmentation and Pattern Formation |
|
11 |
11/16 |
Didier Stainier Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, UCSF | Developmental plasticity
and regeneration during vertebrate organogenesis |
|
12 |
11/23 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | NO SEMINAR |
|
| 13 |
11/30 |
Dr. Amato Giaccia
Professor, Stanford University |
The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment
in Malignant Growth |
|
| 14 |
12/7 |
Manuel Penichet Assistant Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Division of Surgical Oncology, UCLA | Reprogramming
the immune system to fight cancer |
|
15 |
12/14 |
No Speaker | ||