Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series

2021

June 14, 2021

Speaker: Albert Quintana, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Institute of Neurosciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Title: "Dissecting neuropathology in mitochondrial disease: one neuron at a time" (PDF)

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2020

December 14, 2020

Speaker: David Amaral, Ph.D., Director of Research, UC Davis MIND Institute, Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis

Title: "A Longitudinal Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder During Childhood: The Ups and the Downs" (PDF)

Host: Sergi Simo, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

December 7, 2020

Speaker: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

Title: "Centrosome biogenesis and human disease" (PDF)

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 9, 2020

Speaker: Robert Hufnagel, M.D., Ph.D., National Eye Institute

Title: "Genomic roadmaps forge paths to vision" (PDF)

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 26, 2020

Speaker: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

Title: "MicroRNAs in cell fate determination: developmental studies and implications for stem cell strategies" (PDF)

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 3, 2020

Speaker: Crystal Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Title: "Neural crest fate decisions: Defining the cells that make the vertebrate face" (PDF)

February 24, 2020

Speaker: Jens Lagerstedt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Protein Science, Lund University

Title: "ApoA-I in glycemic control and in rare amyloid diseases" (PDF)

Host: John Voss, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

February 4, 2020

Speaker: Francis Lin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba

Title: "Exploring Cell Trafficking: Discovery and Applications" (PDF)

Host: Min Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., Dermatology

2019

November 13, 2019

Speaker: Jing Ren, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Biology Department, Stanford University

Title: “Organization of the forebrain projecting serotonin system”

June 4, 2019

Speaker: Taran Gujral, Ph.D., Assistant Member, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Title: "Organotypic Tumor Slice Model System for Drug Discovery"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

May 21, 2019

Speaker: Alberto Cruz-Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University

Title: “Prefrontal cortex dysfunction with overexpression of schizophrenia-associated gene complement component 4”

April 16, 2019

Speaker: Sheila A Baker, Ph.D., University of Iowa

Title: "Location, location, location: Regulating the trafficking of HCN1 channels"

Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 2, 2019

Speaker: Pierre Mattar, Ph.D., Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

Title: "Role of chromatin remodeling complexes in neural lineage diversification"

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 19, 2019

Speaker: Sabine Fuhrmann, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Title: "Regulation of eye morphogenesis"

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 5, 2019

Speaker: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

Title: "The Importance of Signal Pathway Downregulation for Central Nervous System Development"

February 22, 2019

Speaker: Seth Blackshaw Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Title: “Building and regenerating the retina one cell at a time”

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

February 5, 2019

Speaker: Lu Chen, M.D., Ph.D., School of Optometry

Title: "Novel insights into ocular lymphatics"

Host: Min Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., CVS Faculty, Dermatology

January 22, 2019

Speaker: Ryoma Ohi, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Title: "Complete Pharmacological Arrest of Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Animal Cells"

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2018

December 18, 2018

Speaker: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

Title: "Noncanonical Wnt signaling in development and disease" (PDF)

November 6, 2018

Sponsored by the Center for Vision Science

Speaker: Andrew Stockman, Ph.D., Institute of Ophthalmology University College, London

Title: "Distorted Insights: Perceptual Distortions as Windows into Visual Processing"

November 2, 2018

Speaker: Simon Hippenmeyer, Ph.D., Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Title: "Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex"

Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

August 13, 2018

Speaker: Chu Wang, Ph.D., College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, China

Title: "Functional Target Discovery by Quantitative Chemical Proteomics"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

June 5, 2018

Speaker: Raymond Deshaies, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Vice President of Discovery Research, Amgen

Title: "Adaptive Exchange sustains a functional network of SCF ubiquitin ligases"

April 17, 2018

Speaker: John Williams, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University

Title: "Watching dopamine transmission"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

April 3, 2018

Speaker: Daniel Cifuentes, Ph.D., Boston University, School of Medicine

Title: "miR-144/451 cluster: the Trojan horse of hematopoietic microRNAs"

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 20, 2018

Speaker: Michael Rape, Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Title: “The other code: roles of ubiquitin in neuronal development and neurodegeneration”

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

February 6, 2018

Speaker: Joe Brzezinski, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Title: “Deciphering Retinal Development: Blimps, Enhancers, and Cones”

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

January 16, 2018

Speaker: M. Bryan Tsou, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Title: “The Love-Hate Relationship between Animal Centrosomes and Cilia”

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2017

February 7, 2017

Speaker: Valerie Wallace, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital/Research Institute

Title: “A fresh look at photoreceptor transplantation and retina repair”

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

February 21, 2017

Speaker: Anthony Barnes, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University

Title: “Molecular mechanisms of Cerebral Cortex Development”

Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 1, 2017

Sponsored by the Center for Vision Science

Speaker: David Calkins, Ph.D., The Denis M. O’Day Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vice-Chair and Director of Research, Vanderbilt University

Title: “What Optic Neuropathy Teaches Us About Neurons”

March 10, 2017

Speaker: Claude Desplan, Ph.D., Department of Biology, New York University

Title: “Generation of neural diversity in the visual system”

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 21, 2017

Speaker: David Prober, Ph.D., Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Title: “Genetic and neurological mechanisms that regulate sleep”

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 4, 2017

Speaker: Sean Collins, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UC Davis

Title: "Sensing direction in neutrophil chemotaxis"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 18, 2017

Speaker: Nestor Oviedo, Ph.D., School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

Title: "Regulation of Stem Cell Behavior During Tissue Repair”

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 25, 2017

Speaker: Robert Kennedy, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan

Title: “New Methods of Exploring Brain Chemistry In Vivo”

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

September 13, 2017

Speaker: Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., National Eye Institute of NIH

Title: "Gene therapy for a synaptic disease: X-linked retinoschisis"

Host: Edward N. Pugh, Jr., Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 17, 2017

Speaker: Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, UC Davis

Title: "A CRISPR approach to stem cell and cancer epigenomics"

December 5, 2017

Speaker: Rejji Kuruvilla, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Title: "Neurotrophin trafficking and signaling in neural development"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

December 7, 2017

Speaker: Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D., Duke University

Title: “Selectively targeting the Complement System for AMD Therapeutics”

Host: Paul FitzGerald, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

December 7, 2017

Speaker: Dan Stamer, Ph.D., Duke University

Title: “Restoring conventional outflow function: The next generation of glaucoma drugs”

Host: Paul FitzGerald, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2016

March 1, 2016

Speaker: Jeffrey Bush, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

Title: "Eph/ephrin signaling in morphogenesis and congenital disease"

Host: Sergio Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 15, 2016

Speaker: Michel Cayouette, Ph.D., University of Montreal, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

Title: "Lineage progression and asymmetric cell divisions in the developing mouse retina"

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 5, 2016

Speaker: Leopoldo Petreanu, Ph.D., Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal

Title: "Cortical afferent projections: from connectivity to function"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

April 19, 2016

Speaker: Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Title: "Lights, Sound, Action: in situ imaging of developing neurons in the eye and in the ear"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 26, 2016

Speaker: Diane Robins, Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan

Title: "Epigenetic Regulation by KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins – the Consequences of Sex on Metabolism"

Host: Tom Glaser, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

May 17, 2016

Speaker: Na Ji, Ph.D., HHMI Janelia Farm

Title: "Probing neural circuits with shaped light"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

June 7, 2016

Speaker: David Olson, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Title: "Chemical Tools for Studying Psychedelic Medicine"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

October 18, 2016

Speaker: Kassandra Ori-McKenney, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis

Title: “Defining the DYRK1 a signaling pathway involved in intellectual disability disorders"

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 1, 2016

Speaker: Deepak Lamba, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Title: “Breaking down barriers to photoreceptor integration”

Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

December 6, 2016

Speaker: Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, UC Davis

Title: “Wdfy3 links defective cortical neurogenesis to autism spectrum disorders"

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2015

December 1, 2015

Speaker: Brian Howell, Ph.D., SUNY Upstate, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Title: "Reelin Mutations in Autism: Do They Hint at Unknown Functions in Brain Chemistry?"

Host: Sergio Simó, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 17, 2015

Speaker: Megan Dennis, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Title: "Human-specific genomic duplications and their role in human evolution and disease"

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 3, 2015

Speaker: Kristen Kwan, Ph.D., University of Utah

Title: "Cellular and Molecular Dynamics Shaping the Vertebrate Eye"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 27, 2015

Speaker: Henry Lester, Ph.D., CalTech, Division of Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Title: "Inside-out pharmacology of nicotine (and perhaps psychiatric drugs)"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

October 20, 2015

Speaker: Bruce Appel, Ph.D., University of Colorado

Title: "Neural progenitor maintenance and specification – and end to self-renewal?"

Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 6, 2015

Speaker: Masato Nakafuku, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Title: "Transcriptional control of stem cells in the adult brain: What makes them unique?"

Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

September 15, 2015

Speaker: Joanna Chiu, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis

Title: "Interplay between post-translational modifications regulates the animal circadian clock"

Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

June 2, 2015

Speaker: Brian Link, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin

Title: "Polarized signaling is essential for properly determining retinal cell fates during ocular development in zebrafish"

May 19, 2015

Speaker: Dan Butts, Ph.D., University of Maryland

Title: “Precision of visual coding from retina to cortex”

April 21, 2015

Speaker: Robert Campbell, Ph.D., University of Alberta

Title: "Engineering optogenetic probes for visualization and control of cellular activity"

April 7, 2015

Speaker: Matthew Petroll, Ph.D., University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

Title: "Assessing the biomechanical behavior of corneal keratocytes in vitro and in vivo"

March 3, 2015

Speaker: Alex Nord, Ph.D., Department of NPB / CNS, University of California, Davis

Title: "Genomic perspectives of gene regulatory systems in the brain"

February 17, 2015

Speaker: Su Guo, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

Title: "Stem cell properties in the developing and adult zebrafish brain"

February 3, 2015

Speaker: Rajat Rohatgi, Ph.D., Stanford University

Title: "Signal transduction at primary cilia"

January 20, 2015

Speaker: Ben Novitch, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Title: "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neural Progenitor Fate and Differentiation"

2014

December 16, 2014

Speaker: Kenneth Campbell, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Title: "Genetic control of neural circuit formation in the basal ganglia: Implications for childhood neurological disorders"

December 2, 2014

Speaker: Gordon Fain, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Mechanism of Adaptation in Mammalian Rod Photoreceptors"

November 4, 2014

Speaker: Tianyi Mao, Ph.D., Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University

Title: "Circuitry mechanisms underlying sensori-motor integration in mice"

October 21, 2014

Speaker: Wolfgang Baehr, Ph.D., University of Utah

Title: "Membrane Protein trafficking in Photoreceptors"

October 7, 2014

Speaker: Alex Revzin, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis

Title: "Microsystems for sensing and shaping cell function"

September 16, 2014

Speaker: John Albeck, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Title: The response of signaling and metabolic networks to targeted inhibitors: what single cells can tell us"

December 17, 2013

Speaker: Bruce Draper, Ph.D., UC Davis Molecular Cell Biology

Title: "Sex changing fish: Germ cell development and their role in maintaining adult sexual identity"

November 19, 2013

Speaker: Samer Hattar, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Title: "Retinal and brain circuits underlying light effects on behavior in mammals"

November 5, 2013

Speaker: Lin Tian, Ph.D., UC Davis School of Medicine

Title: "Monitoring and Engineering of Neural Circuitry in Health and Disease"

September 17, 2013

Speaker: Dean Bok, Ph.D., UCLA/Jules Stein

Title: "Complement dysregulation in early onset and age-related macular degeneration"

July 18, 2014

Speaker: John McAvoy, Ph.D., University of Sydney

Title: "Understanding mechanisms of lens development. Will this help us regenerate lenses after cataract surgery?"

2013

June 19, 2014

Speaker: Sergi Simó, University of Washington

Title: "To stop or not to stop: Cullin-5 controls final neuron position"

April 28, 2014

Speaker: Tiffany Cook, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati

Title: “Dissecting Conserved Molecular Networks Regulating Photoreceptor Differentiation and Maintenance”

April 22, 2014

Speaker: Henk Roelink, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Title: "Ptch1 and Ptch2 interact to affect the response to Shh both cell autonomously and non autonomously"

April 8, 2014

Speaker: James Wells, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Title: "Using human pluripotent stem cells to model gastrointestinal organ development and disease"

March 18, 2014

Speaker: Doug Gould, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

Title: "Genetics and the pathology of a multi-system collagen disorder"

March 4, 2014

Speaker: Grant Mastick, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

Title: "From brain to eye: repulsion of neurons and axons"

February 18, 2014

Speaker: Neil Hunter, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Title: "Chromosomal Crossing Over And The Physical Basis Of Heredity"

February 4, 2014

Speaker: Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., NIH/NEI

Title: "Genesis of rod photoreceptors: genetic and epigenetic control, evolution, and treatment paradigms"