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11/3/2014
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Monday,
November 3, 2014
11:00 am
“Rearranged Spongian Diterpenes: Linking Chiral Rings at
Stereocenters”
Larry E. Overman, Professor, University of California, Irvine
Organic Seminar
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
NSB Auditorium (NSB 1205)
Host: Steven Nguyen and Matt Del Bel
Contact: Angela Douglas, (858) 534-357, [email protected]
11:00 am
“The Lilly Open Innovation Drug Discovery Program”
Dr. Maria Alvim-Gaston, Senior Research Scientist, Computational Chemistry,
External Environment, Discovery Chemistry
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, Room 1170
Contact: Kathryn A. Nguyen, [email protected]
4:00 pm
“Cytoskeletal Remodeling Modulates Cardiomyocyte Contractile
Function during Aging”
Adam J. Engler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of
California, San Diego; Resident Scientist, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative
Medicine
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Leichtag Biomedical Building, Room 107
Contact: Graham Ryan [email protected] or (858) 822-5650
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Tuesday,
12:00 pm
November 4, 2014
“Through the Sphingosine 1-phosphate Receptor Looking-Glass”
Hugh Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps
Research Institute
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Leichtag Biomedical Building, Room 107
Host: Paul Insel
Contact: Lizette Cerf, [email protected]
12:00 pm
“Regulation of Stem Cell Function by Alternate Polyadenylation”
Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D.,Prof., Dept. of Neurology & Neuro. Sci., Director, The
Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging, Stanford Univ. Schl. of Med.; Dep. Dir.,
Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford Univ.
President’s Lecture Series
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Fishman Auditorium
Hosts: Malene Hansen and Rolf Bodmer
Contact: Tara Mabry [email protected]
2:00 pm
“Spatiotemporal Regulation of T cell Signaling by Reactive Oxygen
Species”
Dr. Melissa Kemp, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
BCI/SDCSB Fall Seminar Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room (formerly CNCB)
Contact: Cookie Santamaria, 858-534-1981, [email protected]
4:00 pm
“Taste Perception and Internal Nutrient Sensing in Drosophila”
Hubert Amrein, Texas A&M University
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room (formerly CNCB)
Host: Margot Wohl
Contact: Linh Vandermar, [email protected]
4:00 pm
“Rearranged Spongian Diterpenes: Linking Chiral Rings at
Stereocenters”
Dr. Stephan Caron, Pfizer
Pfizer Drug Discovery and Development Symposium Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
NSB Auditorium (NSB 1205)
Host: Kim Albizati
Contact Angela Douglas, (858) 534-357, [email protected]
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4:00 pm
“Developing an API Commercial Synthesis: Expectations and Recent
Examples”
Stephane Caron, Ph.D., Pfizer Worldwide R&D, Groton
Pfizer – UCSD Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Natural Science Building, Room 1205
Contact: Kim Albizati, [email protected]
5:00 pm
“Targeted Cancer Prevention”
Zigang Dong, M.D., Ph.D., McKnight Presidential Professor in Cancer Research;
Hormel-Knowlton Professor; and I.J. Holton Professor, The Hormel Institute;
University of Minnesota, Austin
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W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, Beckman Chemistry Center
Host: Peter K. Vogt
Wednesday,
4:00 am
November 5, 2014
“Roles for Actin and Myosin in Mitochondrial Fission”
Henry N. Higgs, Ph.D., Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University
CMM/LICR Seminar Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room (formerly CMG)
Co-Hosts: Maho Niwa & Karen Oegema
Contact: CMM/LICR Seminar Series: Judy Johns, 858-534-9684, [email protected]
8:30 am
“A Symposium in Honor of Frederick Sanger”
Various Speakers -- See Website for Full Listing
Registration is FREE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Medical Education Telemedicine (MET) Auditorium
Host: Ted Friedman, Tony Hunter and Susan Taylor
Contact: Gregory Best, [email protected]
12:00 pm
“How to Train the Brain in the 21st Century: Translating CognitiveNeuroscience Approaches into Novel Psychotherapeutics”
Charles T. Taylor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Hillcrest Biomedical and Clinical Research Seminar
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Hillcrest Campus, Clinical Teaching Facility (CTF) Bldg. C, Room 301
Host: Mitch Diccianni, [email protected], 619-543-2436
Contact: Jenna Mielke, [email protected]
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12:00 pm
“Can we Induce a Primary Antibody Response like a Memory One?
How Foxp1 Influences Tfh Differentiation”
Hui Hu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of
Alabama at Birmingham
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Ishizaka Seminar Room
Thursday,
12:00 pm
November 6, 2014
“Genome and Transcriptome Dynamics in Cancer Cells”
Thomas Ried, M.D., Chief, Section of Cancer Genomics, Center of Cancer Research,
National Cancer Institute
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Leichtag Biomedical Building, Room 107
Contact: Darla Schell, [email protected]
12:00 pm
“Multisubunit Machines in Intracellular Trafficking (Tentative)”
Professor Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Duke University
Biochemistry Seminar
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
NSB Auditorium (NSB 1205)
Host: Professor Ulrich Muller (858) 534-6823
Contact Angela Douglas, (858) 534-357, [email protected]
3:30 pm
“Regulated mRNA Modification in Yeast and Human Cells ”
Wendy Victoria Gilbert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, Beckman Chemistry Center
Host: Ian MacRae, Ph.D
Contact: Ella Blanc, 858-784-8377
4:00 pm
“Talk Title TBA”
Peter A. Crawford, M.D., Associate Director, Cardiovascular Pathobiology Program;
Associate Professor, Diabetes and Obesity Research Center; Sanford-Burnham
Medical Research Institute - Lake Nona
SANFORD | BURNHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Bldg. 2, Room 2224
Contact: Rebecca Kaercher, [email protected]
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Friday,
November 7, 2014
“Stem Cell Biology in Regeneration: Mechanistic Insights from the
Zebrafish”
Various Speakers -- See Website for Complete Details
2014 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Local Meeting
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, Room 1013
Registration is FREE: http://tinyurl.com/ascb2014zebrafish
Contact: Xin-Xin Zeng, [email protected]
11:00 am
“A Temporal Basis for Predicting the Sensory Consequences of
Motor Command in an Electric Fish”
Nate Sawtell, Columbia University
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES
Trustees Room
Host: John Reynolds
Contact: Ramona Marchand, [email protected]
11:00 am
“Development of Gallium Nitride Based Interfaces using Surface
Functionalization Techniques and Characterization”
Professor Albena Ivanisevic, North Carolina State University
Inorganic Seminar
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
PACH 4500
Host: Professor Nathan Gianneschi
Contact: Angela Douglas, (858) 534-357, [email protected]
11:00 am
“Evolutionary Aspects of Dictyostelium Development”
William Loomis, Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences,
University of California San Diego
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Seminars
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Muir Biology Building, Room 1103
Host: Lin Chao [email protected]
2:00 pm
“Cyclotides, A New Molecular Scaffold to Target Protein-Protein
Interactions”
Julio A. Camarero, Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry, College of Letter, Arts & Science;
Dept. of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University
of Southern California
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BCC1 – W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Host: Phil Dawson, Ph.D
Contact: Ella Blanc, 858–784-7052, [email protected]
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2:00 pm
“Progress and Challenges in Engineering Functional Tissue
Replacements”
Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Yale University
Bioengineering 281 Seminar Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Fung Auditorium
Contact: Pam Murphy, [email protected]
Monday,
November 10, 2014
3:00 pm
“Measuring Age and Turnover of Cells and Pathological Structures in
the Adult Human Brain”
Bruce A. Buchholz, Ph.D., Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Neuroplasticity of Aging Seminar Series
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Center for Neural Circuits Behavior Bldg (CNCB), Large Conf. Room
Host: Sakina Palida
Contact: Brenda Denny, [email protected] 858-246-1261
4:00 pm
“The Anti-Oncogenic Effects Of Pro-Oncogenic Molecules in Liver
Cancer”
Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology
School of Medicine, Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences,
University of California, San Diego
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Leichtag Biomedical Building, Room 107
Contact: Graham Ryan [email protected] or (858) 822-5650
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