Archived Seminars | Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2025

March 11, 2025

Speaker: Kwonmoo Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: "AI-Driven Exploration of Cellular Heterogeneity and Phenotype Discovery"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 1, 2025

Speaker: Philip Ruzycki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Uncovering the role of H3.3 in retinal development and disease"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

May 13, 2025

Speaker: Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Title: "To and Fro in the Auditory System"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 21, 2025

Speaker: Nicholas Baker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of California Irvine
Title: “Cell competition, nucleolar stress, and cancer”
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2024

January 23, 2024

Speaker: James Trimmer, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Title: "Renewable, recombinant antibodies for diverse basic research applications"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

February 20, 2024

Speaker: Alan Moses, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Title: "Systematic cell biology from microscope images and intrinsically disordered protein regions"
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 12, 2024

Speaker: Edward M. Levine, Ph.D., William A. Black Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Resolving Genetic Networks That Regulate Progenitor Properties During Early Mouse Retinal Development"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

March 19, 2024

Speaker: Jonathan Cooper, Ph.D., Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Title: "Timing is everything: signaling dynamics at focal adhesions"
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 16, 2024

Speaker: Silvia C. Finnemann, Ph.D., Professor, Bepler Chair in Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University
Title: “Photoreceptor outer segment renewal: Molecular mechanisms and link to retinal disease”
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 12, 2024

Speaker: Cynthia Schumann, Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The MIND Institute
Title: "Brain changes across the lifespan in neurodevelopmental disorders"
Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 19, 2024

Speaker: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "Microglia, Monocytes and Muller cells at the onset of photoreceptor degeneration"
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2023

March 14, 2023

Speaker: Santos Franco, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver
Title: "Glia Cell Fates in Brain Development and Disease"
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

April 4, 2023

Speaker: Edward N. Pugh Jr., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Title: "How water movement in the eye enables Optical Coherence Tomography Optoretinogram (OCT-ORG) to measure phototransduction in rod and cone photoreceptors in vivo"

April 11, 2023

Speaker: Derek S. Welsbie, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Board Certification in Ophthalmology, Fellowship in Glaucoma, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Title: "Kinase multitargeting for glaucoma neuroprotection"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

May 9, 2023

Speaker: Carol Schuurmans, Ph.D., Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Title: "Identifying novel gene regulatory interactions that govern neocortical development"
Host: Sergi Simó, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

May 16, 2023

Speaker: Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Title: "Genetic reprogramming to prevent blindness"
Host: Nadean Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 7, 2023

Speaker: Phyllis R. Robinson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: "Melanopsin from Molecule to Behavior"
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

2022

April 26, 2022

Speaker: Andres M. Lebensohn, Ph.D., Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Title: “New regulation in WNT/β-catenin signaling – probing beyond the core signaling module through haploid genetic screens”
Host: Henry Ho, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

September 13, 2022

Speaker: Rachel W. Kuchtey, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: "The Fibrillin-1 and LOXL1 Nexus in Glaucoma"
Host: Sara Thomasy, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, School of Medicine

September 27, 2022

Speaker: Mustafa Aydogan, Ph.D., Assistant Professional Researcher, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Title: “Cytoplasmic divisions without nuclei”
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

October 18, 2022

Speaker: Audrey Bernstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Upstate Medical University
Title: "How Changes in Intracellular Proteostasis lead to Pathological Scarring"
Host: Marie Burns, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

November 15, 2022

Speaker: Heidi Hehnly, Ph.D., Department of Sciences & Mathematics, Syracuse Upstate Medical College (SUNY)
Title: "Mechanisms coordinating lumen and cilia formation in vivo"
Host: Li-En Jao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

December 6, 2022

Speaker: Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Title: "Non-canonical function of folate receptor 1 during neural tube formation"
Host: Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy

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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"

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"
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"
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, 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"

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?"

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"

2013

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"

Seminars are held Fridays from 12–1 p.m. in Tupper Hall 2133/2135.

2025

May 2, 2025

"Molecular mechanisms of cell fate and neuronal migration in mammalian corticogenesis"
Simó Lab: Steven Decker, GSR and Alexia Cossard, Postdoc

May 23, 2025

“Olfactory mucosa: a critical site for smell and innate immune protection”
Gong Lab: Brianna Ramirez, GSR and Jiaying Liu, Junior Specialist

May 30, 2025

“Leveraging zebrafish to functionally characterize genes implicated in human brain development”
Dennis Lab: Nicholas Haghani, GSR and Aidan Baraban, Undergrad Researcher

June 13, 2025

“Understanding the role of genetic mosaicism in bone fibrous dysplasia”
Anisha Kandala, GSR, Fierro Lab
“Investigating Mechanisms of Impaired Mineralization for Deficient Spermine Synthase Activity”
Amin Cressman, GSR, Fierro Lab

June 20, 2025

“Unravelling the mystery of Dvl in Wnt signaling and Robinow syndrome”
Morgan Krueger, Junior Specialist, Ho Lab
“The Kif26 kinesin family in mammalian nervous system development”
Srisathya Srinivasan, Postdoc, Ho Lab

2024

April 1, 2024

"Understanding Olfactory Mucosa as an Immune Barrier"
Shoaib Akhtar, Postdoc and Brianna Ramirez, GSR, Gong Lab

April 8, 2024

"Role of Polyamines in osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells"
Amin Cressman, GSR, Fierro Lab
"Role of sialylated N- glycans on cellular electrotaxis"
Bryan Le, GSR, Fierro Lab

April 22, 2024

"miRNA’s Coordinate Cell Fate Decisions and Migration During Cortical Development"
Steven Decker, GSR, Simo Lab

April 29, 2024

“CRISPR-mediated photoreceptor reprogramming in an optogenetic atrophy in AMD"
Lien Tu, Jr. Specialist, Yiu Lab
“Role CRISPR-based VEGFA Ablation as treatment of neovascular AMD"
Tzu-Ni Sin, Jr. Specialist, Yiu Lab

June 10, 2024

“Wnt5a-Ror signaling: lessons from development and disease"
Sathya Srinivasan, Postdoc and Kayla Louie, Jr. Specialist, Ho Lab

June 17, 2024

"Mechanisms and functional significance of co-translational transport in centrosome maturation"
Jia-Lin Shiu, Postdoc and Owen Zhang, Grad Student, Jao Lab

June 24, 2024

La Torre Lab

2020

January 27, 2020

"Regulation of centrosome assembly through liquid-liquid phase separation in vertebrates"
Li-En Jao Lab

February 3, 2020

"Studying Retinal Ganglion Cell genesis in vivo and in vitro"
"Overcoming the barriers to Retinal Ganglion Cell replacement"
Anna La Torre Lab

February 24, 2020

"The role of N-glycan sialylation on mesenchymal stromal cells"
"Characterization of human skeletal stem cells derived from orthopedic surgical procedures"
Fernando Fierro Lab

March 9, 2020

"Tools for interrogating Wnt5a-Ror signaling"
Henry Ho Lab

March 23, 2020

Tom Glaser Lab

April 6, 2020

Nadean Brown Lab

April 20, 2020

Megan Dennis Lab

May 4, 2020

Qizhi Gong Lab

May 18, 2020

Glenn Yiu Lab

June 1, 2020

Paul Knoepfler Lab

2019

November 18, 2019

"CRL5-dependent regulation of Arl4c and Arf6 signaling controls pyramidal neuron migration and dendritogenesis in the developing hippocampus"
Jisoo Han, Graduate Student Researcher, Sergi Simó Lab

December 16, 2019

"Studies in genetic retinal disease using small and large animal models"
Ala Moshiri, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor

2018

January 8, 2018

"Novel biallelic STRA6 mutations in a case of isolated anophthalmia"
"A homeotic hotspot in the human genome"
Tom Glaser Lab

January 22, 2018

"Galectin-1 inhibitors discovered through OB2C combinatorial library methods have potent anti-cancer activities"
Kit Lam Lab

January 29, 2018

"Innate Immunity in the Olfactory Neuroepithelium"
Qizhi Gong Lab

February 5, 2018

"Dual-transformable, "Trojan Horse" nanoparticles for Cancer Eradication"
Yuanpei Li Lab

February 12, 2018

"Co-translational protein targeting of centrosomal proteins during mitosis"
Li-En Jao Lab

February 26, 2018

"Genetically encoded indicators for high-resolution imaging of dopamine dynamics in mammals"
Lin Tian Lab

March 5, 2018

"Targeting the H3.3 epigenetic pathway in pediatric glioma with gene editing"
"Modeling pediatric glioma in human cerebral organoids"
Paul Knoepfler Lab

March 19, 2018

"Let-7 regulates cell cycle dynamics in the embryonic retina and cortex"
"Developing cell replacement strategies for retinal neuropathies"
Anna LaTorre Lab

March 26, 2018

"Epigenetic regulation of KSHV replication by viral transactivator-cellular zinc finger protein interplay"
"Studying Epigenetic Gene Regulation with Herpesvirus Infection as Unique Model System"
Yoshihiro lzumiya Lab

April 2, 2018

"Progress towards targeting mesenchymal stem cells to tissues of interest"
Fernando Fierro Lab

April 9, 2018

"Engineering epigenetic memory requires both DNA and histone methylation"
David Segal Lab

April 16, 2018

"Optic nerve head formation in the embryonic mouse eye"
Nadean Brown Lab

April 23, 2018

"Investigating Kif26 Kinesins in Wnt5a-Ror Signaling."
Henry Ho Lab

April 30, 2018

"Duplicated genes and their role in neurological development and disease"
"The regulatory landscape within human-specific duplicated regions associated to neurodevelopmental disorders"
Megan Dennis Lab

May 7, 2018

"Understanding the role of DEC1 in prostate cancer"
Paramita Ghosh Lab

May 14, 2018

"CRISPR-based Genomic Disruption of VEGF in the Mouse Eye"
"Optogenetic Control of Reactive Oxygen Species as a model for Age-Related Macular Degeneration"
Glenn Yiu Lab

June 4, 2018

"Tools to study frog optic nerve regeneration"
"Imaging optic nerve debris"
Nick Marsh-Armstong Lab

June 11, 2018

Flora Tassone Lab

November 5, 2018

"Animal Models of Inherited Retinal Disease"
Ala Moshiri Lab

November 26, 2018

"Atoh7 cis regulation during retinal ganglion cell development: A multi species approach"
Tom Glaser Lab

December 3, 2018

"CRL5 and ARL4C as Novel Regulators of Axon and Dendrite Morphogenesis"
"miRNA Function in Regulating Progenitor Competency during Cortical Development"
Sergi Simó Lab

December 17, 2018

"Regulation of centrosome maturation in vertebrates"
Li-En Jao Lab

2017

January 9, 2017

"Clearing out neuroinflammation"
Wenbin Deng Lab

January 23, 2017

"Requirements of Neurogenin2 on the developing mammalian retina"
Nadean Brown Lab

January 30, 2017

"Recent advances on cancer genetics: examples on thyroid and gastric cancer"
Luis Carvajal Lab

February 6, 2017

"Regulation of centrosome maturation by localized RNA"
Li-En Jao Lab

February 13, 2017

Kit Lam Lab

February 27, 2017

Paul Hagerman Lab

March 6, 2017

"Identification of Novel Genes Required for Eye Function by Coordinated and Systematic Genome-wide Screening of Mouse Knockouts"
Ala Moshiri Lab

March 13, 2017

"Galvanotaxis: Electrical signal stimulates cell movement"
"Herpesvirus Reactivation as a model system to study 3D gene regulation"
Yoshihiro lzumiya Lab

March 20, 2017

"Neuronal Migration in Cerebral Cortex during Development"
"Studying the role of the CRL5 complex in adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus"
Sergi Simo Lab

March 27, 2017

"Ocular Imagine in Nonhuman Primates: Insight into Age-Related Macular Degeneration"
Glenn Yiu Lab

April 3, 2017

"Cell membrane glycosylation and cancer"
Caruto Lebrilla Lab

April 24, 2017

"FGF-2 induces migration of bone marrow stromal cells by modifying glycosylations of integrins"
Fernando Fierro Lab

May I, 2017

"Regulation of RTK signaling in mammary gland development and carcinogenesis"
Colleen Sweeney Lab

May 8, 2017

"Atoh7 cis regulation during retinal ganglion cell development"
"Exploring the high incidence of eye malformations in Chuuk, Micronesia -- genes, diet or both?"
Tom Glaser Lab

May 15, 2017

"Allosteric activation of Integrin's"
Yoshi Takada Lab

May 22, 2017

"Understanding the role of Kif26b in non-canonical Wnt signaling: a biochemical and genetic approach"
Henry Ho Lab

June 5, 2017

"Parallel assessment of synaptic genes using zebrafish"
Megan Dennis Lab

June 12, 2017

"Psychedelics and the Next Generation of Neurotherapeutics"
David Olson Lab

October 16, 2017

"Protein assembly studied by EPR spectroscopy of site-directed spin labels"
John Voss Lab

October 17, 2017

"Extreme Genome Editing (EGE®) CRISPR-based Technology & Applications"
Amalia Avila-Figueroa (Biocytogen)

October 30, 2017

"Past Research on: Macular Telangiectasis Type 2"
Sook Chung

November 6, 2017

"Exploring novel mouse models of retinal degeneration"
Ala Moshiri Lab

November 20, 2017

"Computational modeling of anti-tumor agents targeting p53 translation"
Tom Jue Lab

November 27, 2017

"Post-translational Regulation of the ErbB3 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase in Breast Cancer by Otubain1"
Kermit Carraway Lab

December 18, 2017

"Contribution of CRL5 complex to hippocampal development and its implications in adult neurogenesis"
Sergi Simó Lab

2016

October 10, 2016

"Debris clearance by optic nerve astrocytes"
Nick Marsh-Armstong Lab

October 17, 2016

"A Re-examination of Myoglobin Function"
Tom Jue Lab

October 24, 2016

"Updates on research with teneurins and WISPs"
Richard Tucker Lab

October 31, 2016

"Two Tales from the World of Enzyme Design: Discovery of Novel Function & Academic Crowd Sourcing of Design"
Justin Siegel Lab

November 14, 2016

"Getting epigenetics into your head"
David Segal Lab

November 28, 2016

"In vivo imaging of distal and local axons in mammalian cortex with an axon-targeted GCaMP"
"Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for interrogating neuronal circuits" (PDF
Lin Tian Lab

December 5, 2016

"Reelin Signaling Termination in Retinal Lamination"
Anna LaTorre Lab

December 12, 2016

"ErbB3 nuclear localization in prostate cancer"
Paramita Ghosh Lab

December 19, 2016

"Profiling tufted cells in the olfactory bulb"
Qizhi Gong Lab