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 | Decording TRAF1 Signaling Networks: Mechanistic Insights into Inflammatory Arthritis | 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 | TBD | Jason Sexton |
| 3/12/2026 | Richard Harland, UC Berkeley | TBD | Stefan Materna |
| 3/19/2026 | Bomi Lee, Stanford University | TBD | 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 | TBD | Magda Argueta-Guzman |
| 4/30/2026 | Klementyna Gaecka, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology | TBD | 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 | 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 |
