Sept. 1, 2021

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Human Embryo

Martin Pera, Ph.D.
Professor
JAX Center for Precision Genetics
The Jackson Laboratory

Sept. 15, 2021

Using Stem Cells to Explore the Genetics Underlying Brain Disease

Kristen Brennand, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine

Oct. 20, 2021

From Melanoma models to Parkinson's disease - Applications of human pluripotent stem cells

Lorenz Studer, M.D.
Director
Center for Stem Cell Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute

Nov. 3, 2021

Dynamic Pluripotent Stem Cell States and Their Applications

Jun Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Nov. 17, 2021

Modeling Human Brain Development and Disease in Cerebral Organoids

Jurgen Knoblich, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dec. 1, 2021

Next Generation Cell Therapies for The Brain

Marius Wernig, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Director
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Dec. 15, 2021

Brain Responses to Injury (Axon Degeneration, Bystander Effect)

Marc Freeman, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health and Sciences University

Jan. 5, 2022

Ribosome collisions trigger cell fate signaling pathways

Rachel Green, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jan. 19, 2022

Chemogenetic and Optogenetic Technologies for Probing Molecular and Cellular Networks

Alice Ting, Ph.D.
Professor
Genetics and Biology
Stanford University

Feb. 2, 2022

Coordinating Cell Fate Decisions and Tissue Shape Changes During Mammalian Development

Marta Shahbazi, Ph.D.
Group Leader
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, UK

Feb. 16, 2022

Cellular and Genetic Contributions to Regeneration in Healthy and Diseased Livers

Hao Zhu, M.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Children's Medical Center Research Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center

March 9, 2022

Heterogeneity and Fate Decisions in the Developing Germline

Diana Laird, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Reproductive Sciences
University of California San Francisco

March 16, 2022

Using Stem Cell Technology to Combat Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease

Sally Temple, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Neural Stem Cell Institute

May 18, 2022

Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Cancer

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Aviv Regev, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
Research and Early Development
Genentech

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

David Bartel, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor of Biology
Whitehead Institute, MIT

Life and near death experiences at the cellular level

Denise Montell, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
UC Santa Barbara

Transcriptional regulation of heart development and disease

Benoit Bruneau, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Gladstone Institute
UC San Francisco

An International Collaborative Effort to Identify Therapeutics for COVID-19

Nevan Krogan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
UC San Francisco

Jacqueline Fabius
Chief Operating Officer
Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)
UC San Francisco

Immortal Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Epigenetic Regulation

Margaret Goodell, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

The role of long lived proteins in aging

Martin Hetzer, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Salk Institute

Embracing tumor heterogeneity with mouse models of cancer

Ben Stanger, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Big Data, Health and COVID-19

Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

Compact Cas9s and their Anti-CRISPR Inhibitors for Genome Editing In Vivo

Eric Sontheimer, Ph.D
Professor
RNA Therapeutics Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School

How lncRNAs shape nuclear structure to control gene expression

Mitch Guttman, Ph.D
Professor
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Mar. 3, 2021

4-5 p.m.

Generating Human Kidney Tissue from Stem Cells

Melissa Little, Ph.D
Director of Cell Biology
Murdoch Children's Research Institute 
Melbourne, Australia

Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs

Howard Y. Chang, M.D., Ph.D
Professor of Cancer Genomics
HHMI Investigator
Stanford University School of Medicine

Development, Renewal and Plasticity in Oral and Gastrointestinal Epithelia

Ophir Klein, M.D., Ph.D
Professor of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics
School of Dentistry and Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Metabolic Anomalies in Human Cancer and Other Diseases

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D
HHMI Investigator
Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Research Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center

RNA Regulation of Pancreatic Islet Cell Function

Lori Sussel, Ph.D.
Director of Basic and Translational Research
Barbara Davis Center
University of Colorado

Aging and Regeneration

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Gene Expression Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Form and function: From cell fate to tissue morphogenesis and back

Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The emergent organotypic landscape of the mammalian gut endoderm at the resolution of single cells

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Ph.D.
Chair, Developmental Biology Department
Sloan Kettering Institute

Adipocytes regulate tissue repair and remodeling

Valerie Horsley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Yale University

Overcoming chromatin barriers to change cell fate

Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

New signal transduction targets for cancer therapy

Tony Hunter, Ph.D.
Chair, Cancer Research 
Deputy Director, Salk Institute Cancer Center
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Stimulating coronary artery regeneration with developmental pathways

Kristy Red-Horse, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Stanford University

Microgenetics: The End of the End: What we can learn from bits of genes about protein stability

Stephen Elledge, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics and Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Principles of Epigenetics and Chromatin in Development and Human Disease

Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Paternal contributions to epigenetic inheritance across generations

Susan Strome, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
UC Santa Cruz

Molecular regulation of stem cell quiescence

Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine

mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism

Michael N. Hall, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Biozentrum, University of Basel

Ribosomes in Gene Regulation: Controlling the diversity of proteins that can be produced in specific cells, tissues & organisms

Maria Barna, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine