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QSB Seminar Series

Fall 2024

The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Thursdays at 10:30 AM in SSM 104


 

Date Speaker Name, Institution Seminar Information  Host Name
 8/29/2024  Marc Swidergall, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Harbor-UCLA- The Lundquist Institute Mucosal antifungal immunity- Lessons from infection and colonization Kelly Shepardson
9/5/2024

 Malin Pinsky, UC Santa Cruz 

Rapid evolution in an age of global change Bailey Carlson   
9/12/2024 Christopher Bivins, Nathaniel Brown, Sam Fellows, UC Merced Graduate Student Panel Matthew Hutchinson & Bercem Dutagaci
9/19/2024 Laura Alencar, Yale University Biodiversity dynamics across scales: What shapes diversity in lizards and snakes? Marilia P. Gaiarsa   
9/26/2024    Meet Zandawala, University of Nevada, Reno  Synaptic and peptidergic pathways governing feeding and metabolism in Drosophila Frederick Wolf   
10/3/2024    Scott Edwards, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Using phylogenies to connect genomic and phenotypic variation under convergent evolution Chris Amemiya   
10/10/2024    Jackie Childers, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The evolution of elaborate nest design in weavers (Aves; Ploceidae) Sean Lyon   
10/17/2024    Kirk Jensen, UC Merced Leveraging genetic screens and mRNA vaccines to protect against Toxoplasma gondii Fred Wolf
10/24/2024    Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF Relay Neuronal Stem Cells and Postnatal Neurogenesis Xuecai Ge
11/1/2024  Yasunori Hayashi, Kyoto University Online- and offline-LTP during memory consolidation Ramendra Saha   
11/7/2024   Dan Wagner, UCSF A stress induced genetic program promotes suspended animation and canalization of developmental outcomes in zebrafish gastrulae Stefan Materna   
11/14/2024   Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison Responses of species and ecosystems to rapid environmental change, at local to global scales Jessica Blois   
12/5/2024   Jay Stachowicz, UC Davis Seagrasses as ecosystem engineers in a changing world: plant adaptation, microbiome, and associated faunal communities Maggie Sogin   
12/12/2024   Ricardo Betancur-R., UC San Diego Integrating phylogenetic and genomic approaches to study fish macroevolution Michael Dawson