Summer 2020 Lecture Series

 

Wednesday, June 24th

Aleena Arakaki, Graduate Student, Trejo Lab

The α-arrestin ARRDC3 regulates GPCR activation of the Hippo pathway in invasive breast cancer

Adi Saxena, Postdoc, Cooper Lab

How the Jerboa got its long feet: Identifying genes that control skeletal scaling

Wednesday, July 1st

Keolu Fox, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Wednesday, July 8th

Gabriela Goldberg, Graduate Student, Muotri Lab

Modeling neuroimmune interactions in Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome using stem cells

Andres Nevarez, Graduate Student, Hao Lab

Breaking stereotypes in science, while finding stereotypes in metastatic cancer

 

Wednesday, July 15th

Michelle Ragsac, Graduate Student, Farley Lab

Single-cell transcriptome profiling of Ciona intestinalis development

Tara Spencer, Graduate Student, Dutton Lab

The assembly, persistence and evolution of bacteriophage communities in cheese

Wednesday, July 22nd

Jon Schmok, Graduate Student, Yeo Lab

Engineering luciferase and fluorescence reporters for high-throughput identification of regulators of alternative splicing

Evan Boyle, Postdoc, Yeo Lab

Quantitation of Cas9 target interrogation by massively parallel filter binding and cleavage assays

Wednesday, July 29th

Ximena Garcia Arceo, Graduate Student, Zid Lab

mRNA-Mitochondria Localization in Simulated Cerevisiae

Monica Gonzalez Ramirez, Postdoc, Trejo Lab

Differential regulation of endothelial biased activated PAR1 by G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5

 

Wednesday, August 5th

Kevin White, Graduate Student, Patrick Lab

Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms Which Regulate Nedd4-1 Trafficking and Function at Synapses

Chandler Puritty, Ph.D., UCSD Alumna Teaching Faculty

Wednesday, August 12th

Josh Arriola, Graduate Student, Muller Lab

The Emergence of Ribozymes in the RNA World

Alina Garbuzov, Postdoc, Tuszynski Lab

Studying Spinal Cord Injury after Spinal Cord Injury

Wednesday, August 19th

Hannah Grunwald, Graduate Student, Cooper Lab

Engineering the Jerbouse: Understanding Genetic Changes that Underpin Evolutionary Divergence

Emily Diaz, Graduate Student, Reya Lab

Impact of Gfer on aggressive myeloid leukemia

Wednesday, August 20th

Carlos Vasquez, Graduate Student, Komor Lab

Using Base Editing to Investigate How Mutations in DNA Repair Proteins Drive Disease Phenotypes

Pablo Lara-Gonzalez, Postdoc

G2 quiescence in development: lessons from C. elegans

Wednesday, September 2nd

Daniela Zárate, Graduate Student, Komor Lab

23&BEE: genomic admixture in the western honey bee Apis mellifera

Rodrigo Dos Santos Chaves, Postdoc, Goldstein Lab

Sub-lethal stretch injury to human iPSC-derived neurons disrupts amyloid precursor protein axonal transport and enhances its amyloidogenic processing

Wednesday, September 9th

Nicole Suarez, Graduate Student, Sci Edu

Instructor Conceptions of Diversity in Higher Education

Christian Cazares, Graduate Student, Gremel Lab

Alcohol Dependence differentially alters Orbitofrontal Cortex Representations of Inferred Decision-Making and Outcomes