Current Theme: Interdisciplinary Research

All seminars are held Fridays at 12:10 p.m. at 1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF Main Auditorium).

Please note: All MMI 291 seminars will continue via Zoom.

Fall Quarter 2024

September 27, 2024

Speaker: Don Gammon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, W.W. Caruth Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Title: “Poxviruses Reveal the "FEAR" in You!” (PDF)


October 4, 2024

Speaker: Terza Brostoff, D.V.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis

Title: “Feline Infectious Peritonitis: A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Vaccination” (PDF)


October 11, 2024

Speaker: Ching-Hsien Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California Davis

Title: “From Cancer to Fibrosis: Deciphering Immune Microenvironments and Therapeutic Pathways" (PDF)


October 25, 2024

Speaker: Bruce W. Draper, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis

Title: “Development and function of the zebrafish ovary- Lessons learned from scRNA-seq” (PDF)


November 1, 2024

Speaker: Allen C. Gao, M.D., Ph.D., Ralph de Vere White Professor, Director of Urologic Research, Department of Urologic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis

Title: “Therapeutic strategies overcoming treatment resistance in advanced prostate cancer” (PDF)


November 15, 2024

Speaker: Harikrishna Nakshatri, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., Marian J. Morrison Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Title: “Impact of genetic ancestry on normal breast heterogeneity and breast cancer biology” (PDF)


November 22, 2024

Speaker: Robert ‘Bob’ Canter, Division Chief, Surgical Oncology, Professor of Surgery, Sarcoma Services, University of California, Davis

Title: “Canine Cancer Immunotherapy: Linking Mouse and Human Using Dog Natural Killer Cells” (PDF)


December 6, 2024

Speaker: Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Co-leader Molecular Oncology Program UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

Contact the IOR, Professor José V. Torres (jvtorres@ucdavis.edu), if you would like to meet with the speaker.