Spring 2020
The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Fridays, 10:30-11:45 AM, in COB-110. Anna Beaudin and Emily Jane McTavish are the seminar series coordinators for the semester.
1/24/2020 - Rachel Meyer, UC Conservation Genomics Consortium. Host: Jay Sexton
1/31/2020 - Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley. Host: Gordon Bennett
2/7/2020 - Petra Kranzfelder, UC Merced. Host: Seminar Commitee
2/14/2020 - Canceled
2/21/2020 - Grad Lightining talks for Grad Visitation Weekend. Host: Seminar Committee
2/28/2020 - Scott Roy, SFSU
3/6/2020 - Devavani Chatterjea, Macalester. Host: Jennifer Manilay
3/13/2020 - Kimberly Tanner, UC San Francisco. Host: RadioBio/SACNAS
3/20/2020 - Angela Stathopoulos, Caltech. Host: Stephanie Woo
3/27/2020 - Cesar Chavez Day, no seminar
4/3/2020 - Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley. Host: Jay Sexton
To access Brent Mishler's Seminar, click here for the Zoom recording.
4/10/2020 - Joseph Shen, UCSF. Host: Susan Ge
4/17/2020 - Gordon Bennet, UC Merced
4/24/2020 - Ken Cho, UC Irvine. Host: Nestor Oveiedo
5/1/2020 - Onn Brandman, Stanford. Host: Shahar Sukenik
5/8/2020 - Jeroen Saeij, UC Davis. Host: Kirk Jensen
Previous Seminars
Fall 2019
9/13/2019 - Ruth Timme, Food and Drug Administration. Host: Emily Jane McTavish
9/20/2019 - Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz, UC Merced. Host: Seminar Committee
9/27/2019 - Jeramiah Smith, University of Kentucky. Host: Chris Amemiya
10/4/2019 - Jason Shepherd, University of Utah. Host: Ramen Saha
10/11/2019 - Angela Brooks, UC Santa Cruz. Host: Seminar Committee
10/18/2019 - Rachael Bay, UC Davis. Host: Jessica Blois
10/25/2019 - Nitin Phadnis, University of Utah. Host: Seminar Committee
11/1/2019 - Bin Chen, UC Santa Cruz. Host: Xuecai Ge
11/8/2019 - Dion Dickman, University of Southern California. Host: Fred Wolf
11/15/2019 - Sydney Glassman, UC Riverside. Host: Steve Hart
11/22/2019 - Frank Burbrink, American Museum of Natural History. Host : Dan Edwards
12/6/2019 - Ashkaan Fahimipour, UC Davis. Host: Justin Yeakel
12/13/2019 - Orion Weiner, UC San Francisco. Host: Stephanie Woo
Spring 2019
1/25/2019 – Ned Wingreen, Princeton U. Host: Ajay Gopinathan
2/1/2019 – Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley. Host: RadioBio
2/8/2019 – Eric Delwart, UC San Francisco. Host: Juris Grassis
2/15/2019 – Deborah Gordon, Stanford University. Host: Dave Ardell
2/22/2019 – Sam Wasser, U. Washington. Host: Chris Amemiya
3/1/2019 – Joanne Emerson, UC Davis. Host: Carolin Frank
3/8/2019 – Sara Baguskas, San Francisco State U. Host: Jason Sexton
3/15/2019 – Kaoru Saijo, UC Berkeley. Host: Anna Beaudin
3/22/2019 – Joseph Bondy-Denomy, UCSF. Host: Kirk Jensen
4/5/2019 – Kathryn Milligan-Myhre, U. Alaska. Host (Sabah Ul-Hasan and Angel Kongsomboonvech (graduate student-invited speaker)
4/12/2019 – Britt Koskella, UC Berkeley. Host: Mark Sistrom
4/19/2019 – Roberta Pelanda U. Colorado, Denver. Host: Katrina Hoyer
4/26/2019 – Todd Holmes, UC Irvine. Host: Andy LiWang
5/3/2019 – David Neale, UC Davis. Host: Emily Moran
Fall 2018
Aug. 24 – Faculty lightning talks
Aug. 31 – Faculty lightning talks
Sept. 7 – Allison Hansen, UC Riverside. It’s a small, small world: function of small RNAs in small genomes. Host: Gordon Bennett
Sept. 14 – Gregory Mutumi, UC Merced. Morphological diversification under high integration in a hyper diverse mammal clade. Host: Jessica Blois
Sept. 21 – Jacquelyn Gill, U. Maine. The once and future forests: ice age experiments for a warming world. Host: Jessica Blois
Sept. 28 – Shaeri Mukherjee, UC San Francisco. Turning pathogens into Cell Biology Tools. Host: Clarissa Nobile
Oct. 5 – Danielle Grotjahn, UC San Diego/Scripps. Host: Jing Xu
Oct. 12 – Whendee Silver, UC Berkeley. Host: Steve Hart
Oct. 19 – Shona Mokerjee, Touro U. Host: Miriam Barlow
Oct. 26 – TBD
Nov. 2 – Felipe Zapata, UC Los Angeles. Host: Emily Jane McTavish
Nov. 9 – Jarrod A. Dudakov, Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Host: Joel Spencer
Nov. 16 – Daron Freedberg, FDA. Host: Patti LiWang
Nov. 30 – Rajat Rohatgi, Stanford U. Host: Xuecai (Susan) Ge
Dec. 7 – Peter Bradley, UC Los Angeles. Hosts: Anh Diep and Angel Kongsomboonvech (graduate student-invited speaker)
Spring 2018
The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Fridays, 1:30-2:45pm, in SSM 104. Fred Wolf is the seminar series coordinator for the semester.
Jan 19 — Color vision in Heliconius erato: Genes, Physiology and Behavior Adriana Briscoe, UC Irvine Host: Dave Ardell
Jan 26 — Partnering as a Strategy to Increase the Impact of Research Peter Schuerman, UC Merced Host: Fred Wolf
Feb 2 —Flying Lizard Phylogenomics and Sulawesi Biogeography Jim McGuire, UC Berkeley Host: Dan Edwards
Feb 9 — Genomic control mechanisms that establish T-cell identity Ellen Rothenberg, Caltech Host: Jennifer Manilay
Feb 16 — No seminar
Feb 23 — Drunken Sailors, Coin Flips and How to Read Genomes Robert Phillips, Caltech Host: Ajay Gopinathan
Mar 2 — Negative regulation of B cell autoimmunity Julie Zikherman, UC san Francisco Host: Anna Beaudin
Mar 9 — Identification of a special Treg subset acting as stem cell protectants—possible therapeutic target for transplantation, tissue regeneration, and cancerJoji Fujisaki, Columbia Host: Katrina Hoyer
Mar 16 —Regulation of cell shape and virulence by temperature in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum Anita Sil, UC San Francisco Host: RadioBio & SACNAS
Mar 23 — Genome Evolution in Animals Daniel Rokhsar, UC Berkeley Host: Chris Amemiya
Apr 6 — Good Drugs Gone Bad: Antimicrobial Resistance Research at Fresno State Tricia Van Laar, CSU Fresno Host: Mark Sistrom
Apr 13 — I will survive! A macroevolutionary perspective on the drought physiology of conifers and ferns Jarmila Pittermann, UC Santa Cruz Host: Emily Moran
Apr20 — Deconstruction of and modulation of thalamocortical circuits in Epilepsy Jeanne Paz, UC San Francisco Host: Ramen Saha
Apr 27 — Coexistence in close relatives: a nexus of historical and ecological processes Sharon Strauss, UC Davis Host: Jay Sexton
May 4 — Trait evolution in mimicry systems: A big data approach to the study of convergence Alison Davis Rabosky, Michigan Host: QSB Students
May 11 — No Seminar
Fall 2017
The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Fridays 1:30-2:45 in COB2 170. Jessica Blois is the seminar series coordinator for the semester.
8/25/17 — Fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution. Claudia Bank, Gulbenkian Institute. Emily Jane McTavish hosting
9/1/17 — Faculty lightning talks
9/8/17 — Faculty lightning talks
9/15/17 — Seeing the grass through the trees: Effects of Neogene vegetation change on mammalian evolution in eastern Africa. Kevin Uno, CUNY. Justin Yeakel hosting
9/22/17 — Peter Schuerman, UC Merced Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development Cancelled!
9/29/17 — Simple model systems provide insight into mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases. Aaron Gitler, Stanford University. Xuecai (Susan) Ge hosting
10/6/17 — The American Gut Project: Utilizing Citizen Science to Advance Our Understanding of the Role of the Human Microbiome in Health and Disease. Embriette Hyde, UCSD. Student Hosted!
10/13/17 — Linking molecules with morphology in the -Omics age: computational taxonomy pipelines for microbial metazoa. Holly Bik, UC Riverside. Emily Jane McTavish hosting
10/20/17 — Plant–Soil Microbe Interactions in Semi-Arid Systems: Who’s Driving the Bus? John Stark, Utah St. Steve Hart hosting
10/27/17 — Mechanical control of tissue morphogenesis. Otger Campas, UC Santa Barbara. Stephanie Woo hosting
11/3/17 — Disentangling proximate and evolutionary mechanisms of sexual dimorphism. Marie-Claire Chelini, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Merced.
11/10/17 — No seminar: Veteran's Day
11/17/17 — Metabolic regulation of the circadian clock: rethinking your midnight snack. Joanna Chiu, UC Davis. Andy LiWang hosting
11/24/17 — No seminar: Thanksgiving
12/1/17 — How HIV evolves within a patient : fast adaptation, fitness costs, PrEP resistance and treatment success. Pleuni Pennings, San Francisco State U. Emilia Huerta-Sanchez hosting.
12/8/17 — Age-related stem cell dysfunction: lessons from Drosophila. Heinrich Jasper, Buck Institute. Fred Wolf hosting
Spring 2017
The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series will be held Fridays 12-1:20 in COB2 170. Fred Wolf is the seminar series coordinator for the semester.
1/27/17 — Surveying the Bioenergetic Landscape for New Therapeutic Targets. Nathan Lanning, CSU Los Angeles. Fabian Filipp hosting
2/3/17 — Mercedes Rincon, University of Vermont. Katrina Hoyer hosting
2/10/17 — Adaptation to changing climate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Johanna Schmitt, UC Davis. Emily Moran hosting
2/17/17 — Blind fish provide big insights. Suzanne McGaugh, University of Minnesota. Emily Jane McTavish hosting
2/24/17 — Identification of biological novelty using comparative genomics: Looking for the good stuff in genomes. Chris Amemiya, University of Washington. Nestor Oviedo hosting
3/3/17 — Chemo-Transcriptomic Methods to Measure RNA Structure Inside Living Cells. Rob Spitale, UC Irvine. Mike Cleary hosting
3/10/17 — Lizards as Model Organisms in Evolutionary and Ecological Studies. Jack Sites, Brigham Young University. Dan Edwards hosting
3/17/17 — Daniel Weinreich, Brown University. Suzanne Sindi hosting
3/24/17 — Pheromone Perception: Structure and Function of Pheromone-Binding Protein. Smita Mohanty, Oklahoma State University. Patti LiWang hosting
3/31/17 — No seminar
4/7/17 — Paul Ashwood, UC Davis. Student Hosted!
4/14/17 — Alex Nord, UC Davis. Neuro/Ramen Saha hosting
4/21/17 — Todd McDevitt, Gladstone Institute @ UCSF. Kara McCloskey hosting
4/28/17 — Multilayered B cell immunity to influenza virus infection. Nicole Baumgarth, UC Davis. Anna Beaudin hosting
5/5/17 — Artificial Cells from Paper. Anand Bala Subramaniam, UC Merced
Fall 2016
The Quantitative and Systems Biology Seminar Series is held Fridays from 1:30 - 2:45 pm in CLSSRM (COB) 267.
8/26/16 — No seminar. Students enrolled in the class should still attend for a brief organizational meeting.
9/2/16 — James Hurley, UC Berkeley. Structural snapshots of the HIV replication cycle. Patti LiWang hosting
9/9/16 — Hana El-Samad, UCSF. Anticipators and Procrastinators, Synthetic Biology and Big Data. Aaron Hernday hosting
9/16/16 — Rachel S. Friedman, University of Colorado Medical School. Modulating the dynamics of the autoimmune response in the pancreatic islets in type 1 diabetes. Katrina Hoyer hosting
9/23/16 — Yonggang Chang, UC Merced. A dynamic day of a three-protein circadian clock. Jessica Blois hosting
9/30/16 — Steve Finkel, USC. Mechanisms of Long-Term Survival & Evolution of Bacteria. Dave Ardell hosting
10/7/16 — Matthias Hess, UC Davis. Systems Microbiology Techniques for Enhanced Ecosystem Health. Clarissa Nobile hosting
10/14/16 — Elsa Cleland, UC San Diego. Plant invasions alter community and ecosystem responses to climate change. Jay Sexton hosting
10/21/16 — Rebecca Yang, Duke University. Optogenetics-assisted reinforcement learning in Drosophila. Fred Wolf hosting
10/28/16 — Sergei Nachaev, University of North Dakota. Beyond the promoter: regulating gene activation through transcriptional pausing. Ramen Saha hosting
11/4/16 — Kara Juneau, Roche Sequencing division. Morgan Quail and QSB Graduate Students hosting
11/18/16 — Marjorie Matocq, U. Nevada-Reno. Genetic and ecological interactions across woodrat hybrid zones. Jessica Blois hosting
12/2/16 — Steven Brown, UCSD. Cell Death and Division Site Maintenance in E. coli. Jing Xu hosting
12/9/16 — Alan Hastings, UC Davis. Justin Yeakel hosting
Spring 2016
*Non-standard dates and times are indicated
1/22/16 — Roger Tseng, UC Merced (PhD Dissertation Defense). Structural Basis of Day/Night transition in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock. Andy LiWang hosting
1/29/16 — No seminar scheduled
2/5/16 — Amro Hamdoun, UC San Diego. How the bad guys distract the bouncers: Persistent organic pollutants in yellowfin tuna from the Gulf of Mexico inhibit mammalian P-gp. QSB Graduate Students hosting
2/12/16 — Norman Ellstrand, UC Riverside. Is gene flow the most important evolutionary force in plants? Emily Moran hosting
2/19/16 — Michael Greenfield, University of Kansas. Chorusing emerges from receiver psychoacoustics: on the origin of elaborate forms of synchrony and alternation in acoustic animal species. Marilyn Fogel hosting
2/24/16, 3:30-4:30pm* — Laura Burrus & Carmen Domingo, SFSU. Connecting the dots: Linking the biochemistry and cell biology of Wnt lipid modifications to embryonic development. Laura Beaster-Jones hosting (KL360)
3/4/16 — Uma Ramakrishnan, NCBS, Bangalore. Understanding tiger conservation through a genetic lens. Jessica Blois hosting
3/11/16 — Tom Whitham, Northern Arizona University. Common garden arrays and community genetics approaches enable adaption to global change. Stephen Hart hosting
3/18/16 — Jean-Philippe Pellois, Texas A&M University. Cellular Trojan horses and trapdoors: transport of macromolecules into a cell by escaping the endocytic pathway. Ramen Saha hosting
4/1/16 — Ian Wang, UC Berkeley. The evolution of intraspecific color and toxin diversity in poison frogs. Danielle Edwards hosting
4/8/16 — Julie Simpson, UC Santa Barbara. The circuit logic of motor program selection in fly grooming behavior. Fred Wolf hosting
4/15/16 — Ben Chan, Yale. Mark Sistrom hosting
4/22/16 — Jon Zehr, UC Santa Cruz. Unusual marine nitrogen-fixing symbiosis: implications for evolution and global nitrogen fixation. Carolin Frank hosting
4/29/16 — Paul Straight, Texas A&M University. Battling Bacteria: Enzymatic and Chemical Interfaces. Andy LiWang hosting
5/6/16 — David Low, UC Santa Barbara. Mechanisms of contact-dependent communication between bacteria. Clarissa Nobile hosting
Fall 2015*
*This list will be updated as we receive more information about seminars. For students enrolled in QSB 291, there is no need to show up for class/seminar until the first talk on Sept. 11
**Non-standard dates and times are indicated
Sept. 11 — Dr. Sunil Gandhi, Opening a new critical period using inhibitory neuron transplantation. Ramendra Saha hosting
Oct. 16 — Dr. Susannah Tringe, Impact of salinity and restoration status on microbial greenhouse gas cycling in coastal wetlands. Carolin Frank hosting
Oct. 23 — Dr. Rakefet Schwarz, To be or not to be planktonic? Regulation of Biofilm Development in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. AndyLiWang hosting
Nov. 6 — Dr. Hana El-Samad. Aaron Hernday hosting [cancelled, to be rescheduled]
Nov. 13 — Dr. Tanya Woyke, The ABC of Single Cell Genomics. Carolin Frank hosting
Nov. 17** — 3pm, SE1 270. Stuart Gallagher, Centenary Institute, Tumor immunology of malignant melanoma. Fabian Filipp hosting
Nov. 20 — Dr. Denise M. Monack, Mechanisms of persistent Salmonella infection and transmission. Kirk Jensen hosting
Dec. 4 — Dr. Jonathan Maltzman, Regulatory T cells need more foxes than FOXP3. Katrina Hoyer hosting
Spring 2015
Jan 23 — Ivo Grosse Dave Ardell hosting
Feb 13 — Todd Lowe, UCSC Dave Ardell hosting
Feb 20 — Ulrike Luderer, UC Irvine Masashi Kitazawa hosting
Mar 20 — Elva Diaz, UC Davis Fred Wolf hosting
Apr 10 — Taekyung Kim, University of Texes Southwestern Ramendra Saha hosting
Apr 17 — Rob Gunsalus, UCLA. Miriam Barlow hosting
Apr 24 — Sarah Brown, UC Merced Jessica Blois hosting
May 1 — Yongjie Yang, Tufts University Masashi Kitazawa hosting
May 8 — Marcelo Wood, UC Irvine Ramendra Saha hosting
Fall 2014
Sep. 15 — Hillary Young (UCSB) "Cascading effects of biodiversity loss across spatial scales." Host: Jessica Blois
Oct. 10 — Jeff Coller (Case Reserve Western University) Hosts: Michael Cleary and David Ardell
Oct. 24 — Joel Rothman (UCSB) Host: Nestor Oviedo
Oct. 31 — Jing Wang (UCSD) Host: Fred Wolf
Nov. 7 — Diana Laird (UCSF) "Dynamic microenvironments in the development of the germ line." Host: David Ardell
Nov. 14 — Paul Knoephler (UC Davis) "A variant path to plasticity: histone H3.3 function in stem cells." Host: Ramen Saha
Nov. 21 — Isaac Pessah (UC Davis) Host: Masashi Kitazawa
Dec. 5 — Robert Tinoco (UCSD) Host: Katrina Hoyer
Dec. 12 — Kelley Tseng (UNLV) Host: Nestor Oviedo