Pathology Research Seminars
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Seminar
12 - 1 p.m.
Wednesday, March 17, 2025
Yuanpei Li, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Biochemistry and molecular Medicine, UC Davis “Transformative Nanomedicine: From Bench To Clinic”Hosted by: Xiao-Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Robert E. Stowell Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology, Chief Science Office, Associate Director for Basic Science, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine Pathology, UC Davis |
This is a hybrid non-CME event.
Lunch will be served at: CHT 1341 Lecture Hall
Contact:
Soledad Sanchez-Walker, Administrative Officer
Email: solsanchez@ucdavis.edu
Yvonne Wan, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair, Research
UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Past Events
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
| February 26, 2025 | “HNC SPORE: A Journey of Team Science Building and the Real-Time Impact on Science and Patients” | Xiao-Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D. | Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño, Ph.D. |
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
| June 26, 2024 | “Cerebrovascular Pathology in Down syndrome: Impact of Aging and Alzheimer disease” | Elizabeth Head, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. | Brittany Dugger, Ph.D. |
| May 29, 2024 | “Dynamic in-vivo optical imaging microscopy in health and disease” | Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, Ph.D. | Richard Levenson, M.D. |
| April 17, 2024 | “FOLR1 Anchored Targeted Strategies to Improve Anti-tumor Cytotoxicity and Immunotherapy” | Jogender Tushir-Singh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis | Xiao-Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D. |
| February 28, 2024 | “Development of Gene Therapy for Rare Neurodevelopment Disorders” | Kyle Fink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology and Institute for Regenerative Cures UC Davis Medical Center |
Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. |
| January 31, 2024 | “A Visual-language Foundation AI for Pathology” | Zhi Huang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stanford University | Brittany Dugger, Ph.D. |
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
| November 15, 2023 | "Distant-Acting Enhancers in Development, Evolution, and Disease” | Axel Visel, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Deputy Director of Science at the Joint Genome Institute, U.S. Department of Energy | Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. |
| September 22, 2023 | "How Hypothermia Protects Post- Asphyxia Brain and Why Microglia Belong to the Neurovascular Unit?” | Chia-Yi Kuan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| September 20, 2023 | "To EV or not EV? Translations of Raman Spectroscopy in Clinical Diagnostics” | Randy Carney, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis | Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D. |
| August 16, 2023 | "Reproducible, Open, and Transparent Research Practices" | John Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Medicine of Epidemiology and Population Health, Biomedical Data Science, Statistics, Co-Director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center, at Stanford University | Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D. |
| July 19, 2023 | "Engineering Nanomaterials Harnessing Cell Function for Advance Theragnostic" | Jinhwan Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis | Richard Levenson, M.D. |
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
| June 16, 2021 | "Host Factor Targeted Drug Discovery for Sarscov-2 Through an International Collaboration" | Nevan Krogan, Ph.D., Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco | Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. |
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
| May 27, 2020 | "Research and Business Updates" | Catherine Diaz-Khansefid, C.R.A., Chief Administrative Officer; Dyana Greene, M.B.A., Business Operations Manager, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis | |
| June 24, 2020 | “Seeing Double: Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer and Fibrosis” | Ching-Hsien Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology; Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Davis | Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D. |
| July 22, 2020 | “Can We Talk? Exosomes on the Horizon of Cancer Biology” | Johnathon Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, UC Davis | Richard Levenson, M.D. |
| August 26, 2020 |
"Building the National and International Awards Portfolio and Increasing Faculty Recognition" and "Research and Business Updates" |
Gloria Hayes, Director, National and International Faculty Awards, Academic Affairs Catherine Diaz-Khansefid, C.R.A., Chief Administrative Officer, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis |
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| September 23, 2020 | TBD | John Newman, Ph.D., Research Chemist, Obesity and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center; Assistant Adj. Professor, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis | Brittany Dugger, Ph.D. |
| October 28, 2020 | TBD | John Olichney, M.D., Professor of Neurology, UC Davis | Brittany Dugger, Ph.D. |
| November 18, 2020 | TBD | Cristina Davis, Ph.D., Warren and Leta Geidt Endowed Professor and Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis | Richard Levenson, M.D. |
| December 16, 2020 | TBD | Pamela Lein, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, UC Davis | Brittany Dugger, Ph.D. |
