QSB Seminar Series

Spring 2026 QSB Seminar Series

The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Thursdays, 10:30 AM - 11:45 am in SSM 116.

Date

Speaker Name, Institution

Seminar Information

Host Name

1/22/2026

Ali Abdul Sater, York University

Decording TRAF1 Signaling Networks: Mechanistic Insights into Inflammatory Arthritis

Jen Manilay

1/29/2026

Namkha Nguyen & Deepika Gunasekaran, UC Merced

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Matt Hutchinson & Bercem Dutagaci

2/5/2026

Yumary Vazquez, DOE Joint Genome Institute

Giant Viruses: 20-Years of Time-Series Metagenomics and Expanded Phylogenetic Framework

Suzanne Sindi

2/12/2026

Deborach Leckband, University of Illionois at Ubrana-Champaign

Force Transduction and Multicellular Organization in 2D and 3D Cultures

Roberto Andresen Eguiluz

2/19/2026

Minna Roh-Johnson, University of Utah

Visualizing and Manipulating Cell Behavior

Stephanie Woo

2/26/2026

Anne West, Duke University

Chromatin Regulation of Neuronal Maturation

Ramen Saha

3/5/2026

Moi Esposito-Alonso, UC Berkeley

Rapid Adaptation and Extinction Across Climates in Synchronized outdoor Evolution Experiments of Arabidopsis thaliana

Jason Sexton

3/12/2026

Richard Harland, UC Berkeley

Gastrulation Movements Regulated by a Rho GEF

Stefan Materna

3/19/2026

Bomi Lee, Stanford University

Decoding Immunopathogenic Cellular Crosstalk in Chronic Pancreatitis: Insights from Patient-Derived Samples

Den Lipata (Shepardson lab)

4/2/2026

M. Elizabeth Moore, Cornell Entomology

TBD

Greg Biddle (Bennett lab)

4/9/2026

Justine Smith, UC Davis

TBD

Matt Hutchinson

4/16/2026

Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside

TBD

Michele Nishiguchi

4/23/2026

Fabiola Pulido Barriga, UC Irvine

Microbial Ecology of Disturbance: Succession, Function, and Recovery Across Fire and Drought

Magda Argueta-Guzman

4/30/2026

Klementyna Gaecka, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Metacommunity perspectives on habitat destruction and restoration

Marilia Palumbo Gaiarsa

5/7/2026

Lisa Baik, UC Davis

TBD

Younghwan Kwak

 

Fall 2025

The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Thursdays at 10:30 AM in SSB 130.

Date

Speaker Name, Institution

Seminar Information

 Host Name

 8/28/2025 

Laura Sanchez, UC Santa Cruz

Mass spectrometry applications for studying ovarian cancer

Roberto Andresen Eguiluz

9/4/2025

QSB Alumni Career Industry Panel

QSB Career Panel

Matthew Hutchinson and Bercem Dutagaci

9/11/2025

Simon Roux, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes

Tomas Rube

9/18/2025

Trevor Price, University of Chicago

The evolving behavior of a bird

Michele Nishiguchi

 9/25/2025   

Anthony Wang and Maria Mendoza

Student Presentations - Anthony Wang & Maria Mendoza

Matthew Hutchinson and Bercem Dutagaci 

 10/2/2025   

Nadav Ahituv, UCSF

Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements

Stefan Materna

 10/9/2025   

Stephanie Correa, UCLA

Estrogens as coordinators of temperature balance in mice

Christopher Chin

10/16/2025   

Frederik Schulz, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

From New Lineages of Life to Novel Pathogen Detection

Fred Wolf

10/23/2025   

Kim Cooper, UC San Diego

 

Stephanie Woo

10/30/2025

Deepta Bhattacharya, University of Arizona

Imprinting Durable Antibody-mediated Immunity

Kirk Jensen

 11/6/2025

Justin Luong, Humbolt State University

GRASS-Net: Connecting restoration practitioners
to support restoration outcomes in maximizing
biodiversity and climate resiliency

Jason Sexton

11/13/2025

Arianna Daniel and Pedro Romero Marquez

 

Matthew Hutchinson

11/20/2025

Robert Riley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Assembling Terabases of Environmental
Metagenomes: Applications to Soils and Beyond

Tomas Rube

 12/4/2025 

Bridget Barker, Northern Arizona University

 

Kelly Shepardson

12/11/2025

Giulia Palermo, UC Riverside

 

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