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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 COB1 282.

Date Speaker Name, Institution Seminar Information Host Name
1/22/2026 Ali Abdul Sater, York University TBD Jen Manilay
1/29/2026 Namkha Nguyen & Deepika Gunasekaran, UC Merced TBD Matt Hutchinson & Bercem Dutagaci
2/5/2026 Yumary Vazquez, DOE Joint Genome Institute TBD Suzanne Sindi
2/12/2026 Deborach Leckband, University of Illionois at Ubrana-Champaign TBD Roberto Andresen Eguiluz
2/19/2026 Minna Roh-Johnson, University of Utah TBD Stephanie Woo
2/26/2026 Anne West, Duke University TBD Ramen Saha
3/5/2026 Moi Esposito-Alonso, UC Berkeley    
3/12/2026 Richard Harland, UC Berkeley    
3/19/2026 Bomi Lee, Stanford University    
4/2/2026 M. Elizabeth Moore, Cornell Entomology    
4/9/2026 Justine Smith, UC Davis    
4/16/2026 Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside    
4/23/2026 Fabiola Pulido Barriga, UC Irvine    
4/30/2026 Klementyna Gaecka, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology    
5/7/2026      

 

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   Bercem Dutagaci