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