Research Seminars Calendar Week of March 26th, 2018
LEGENDS Weekly External Speakers Series Weekly Internal/External Speakers Series and Journal Clubs Special Seminars/Symposia • BRI Seminars (Tuesdays @ noon) • BSCRC Seminars (Thursdays @ noon) • Grand Rounds • JCCC Seminars (Thursdays @ noon) • Cardiovascular Seminars (Varies) • Others • MBI Seminars (Thursdays @ 4:00) • I3T Seminars (Tuesdays @ noon) • UCLA CTSI Distinguished Speaker • Metabolism Seminars (Varies) Series (Wednesdays @ noon) • Human Genetics Speaker Series (Varies) • Journal Clubs (Varies)
Monday, 11:00 – Noon, Cardiovascular Seminar March 26 53-105 CHS Chemical and Molecular Approaches for Understanding and Manipulating Death Mechanisms Richard N. Kitsis, MD Professor, Medicine and Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Contact - Laura Benscoter - [email protected] Website: http://medschool.ucla.edu/cardiovascular-seminar-series
4:00 -5:00 pm, Cancer Molecular Imaging Program Seminar Series A2-342 MDCC Invivo Pretargeting: Radiosynthesis at the Tumor Surface Brian Zeglis, PhD Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Hunter College, The City University of New York Contact – Elizabeth Arce – [email protected]
Tuesday, Noon – 1:00 pm, I3T Seminar March 27 53-105 CHS Chemical Dissection of Host-Microbe Interactions Howard C. Hang, PhD Associate Professor and Head Lab, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Rockefeller University Contact – Emma Planas – [email protected] Website: http://medschool.ucla.edu/immunology-seminar-series
Wednesday, 7:00 -8:00 am Grand Rounds/ Anesthesiology – Visiting Professor Program March 28 B-130 RRMC Global Challenges in Anesthesia Angela Enright, MD, FRCPC Professor and Head, Anesthesia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Island Contact - Arceli (Sally) Alvarez-deCordova - [email protected]
7:00 – 8:00 am, Grand Rounds/ Surgery 73-105 CHS Advances in Trauma education Using a Perfused Cadaver Model Elizabeth Benjamin, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles Country and USC Medical Center Contact – Valentin Ybiernas – [email protected] Website: http://surgery.ucla.edu/academic-calendar
Wednesday, 9:00 – 10:00 am, Grand Rounds/ Neurology March 28 NRB Auditorium Stem Cell Therapy in Neurodegenerative Diseases Eva Feldman, MD, PhD Professor, Neurology, University of Michigan Contact – Samantha Dearn – [email protected] Website: http://www.neurology.ucla.edu/education.jsp?m=3&s=10
12:30 – 1:30 pm, Tarjan Center Lecture Series 300 MP, #3200, ThinkSmart, Not Harder: Improving Executive Functioning in Youth Marisa Leif with Developmental Disorders Conference Rm Alissa Ellis, PhD Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact – Beth Stoffmacher- [email protected] Website: http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/tarjan/lecture-series
Thursday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Human Genetics/Integrative Biology & Physiology – Special Lecture March 29, 2320 LSB Genes and Epigenetics in Vertebrate Sex Determination Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, AO, FAA Professor, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Australia Contact – Charina McDonald – [email protected] Website: http://www.genetics.ucla.edu
Friday, March 30 NO SEMINARS - César Chávez University Holiday
Research Seminars Calendar Week of April 2, 2018
Monday, 11:00 – noon, Cardiovascular Seminar April 2 53-105 CHS Things that Learn versus Things that Don’t: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Biology James Weiss, MD Professor, Medicine - Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact - Laura Benscoter - [email protected] Website: http://medschool.ucla.edu/cardiovascular-seminar-series
4:00 – 5:00 pm Bioinformatics Seminar 53-105 CHS Integrated Analysis of Single Cell Data Across Modalities, Technologies and Species Rahul Satija, PhD Assistant Professor, New York University Center for Genomics and System Biology Contact – Mandy McWeeney – [email protected]
Tuesday, 11:00 – noon, Grand Rounds/ Psychiatry April 3 C8-183 Semel Marine Resiliency Study: A Community Partnership for Prevention William P. Nash, MD Director of Psychological Health, United States Marine Corps Contact – Lydia Nguyen – [email protected] Website - http://www.bri.ucla.edu/events/calendar
Tuesday, Noon – 1:00 pm, BRI / Charles H. Sawyer Distinguished Lecture April 3 NRB Auditorium Generating Episodic Activity in the Neuroendocrine Hypothalamus for Fertility Allan E. Herbison, PhD Professor, Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Contact – Anna Elias – [email protected] Website: http://www.bri.ucla.edu/events/calendar
Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:00 am, Grand Rounds/ Surgery April 4 73-105 CHS The Surgeon-Scientist: An Endangered Species Sundeep G. Keswani, MD Associate Professor, Surgery, Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Baylor College of Medicine Contact – Valentin Ybiernas – [email protected] Website: http://surgery.ucla.edu/academic-calendar
9:00 – 10:00 am, Grand Rounds/ Neurology NRB Auditorium TBD Michael Sofroniew, MD, PhD Professor, Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact – Samantha Dearn – [email protected]
Noon – 1:00 pm, UCLA CTSI Distinguished Speaker Seminar NRB Auditorium The Multifaceted Roles of Adipose Tissue: Therapeutic Targets for Diabetes and Beyond Phillip Scherer, PhD Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Contact - Iman Hussain - [email protected] Website: https://ctsi.ucla.edu/seminar/events/index-filter?category_id=167841&timing=future
Thursday, 11:00 – noon, Brain Mapping Center Seminar Series April 5 132 NRB Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation Cameron McIntyre, PhD Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio Contact – Mary Susselman – [email protected] Website: http://bmap.ucla.edu/seminars/
Noon – 1:00 pm, JCCC Seminar – Broad Stem Cell Research Center 53-105 CHS TBD Olivier Pourquie, PhD Professor, Genetics and Pathology, Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Contact - Nancy Presseau - [email protected] Website: https://cancer.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/grid-view/-curm-10/-cury-2018
4:00 – 5:00 pm, MBI Seminar 2033 Young Hall TBD Clodagh O’Shea, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Salk Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Contact - [email protected] Website: http://www.mbi.ucla.edu/calendar/thursday-seminars/
Friday, 8:00 – 9:00 am, Grand Rounds/ Pediatrics April 6 B-130 RRMC Substance Abuse – Marijuana Use in Teens Brian Hurley, MD Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact - Atkia Sadia - [email protected] Website: https://www.uclahealth.org/Mattel/grand-rounds-videos
9:00 – 10:30 am, BRI Seminar / CART 1357 Gonda Developmental Endophenotypes to Qualify Social Disability in Autism Warren Jones, PhD Assistant Professor and Chair, Autism and Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Contact – Monica Belli – [email protected] Website: http://www.bri.ucla.edu/events/calendar
9:00 – 5:00 pm, BRI/ UCLA Sleep and Cognition Symposium NRB Auditorium To register, and for poster abstracts, visit: http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/events/SleepCognition.html Contact – Ana Elias – [email protected] Website: http://www.bri.ucla.edu/events/calendar
Noon – 1:00 pm, BRI/ Integrative Center for Neural Repair Seminar (ICNR) 1357 Gonda How Close Are We to Repairing Epigenetic Multi-Cellular Neurological Diseases: Lesson from Rett Syndrome Gail Mandel, PhD Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University Contact – Ana Elias – [email protected] Website: http://www.bri.ucla.edu/events/calendar
Noon – 1:00 pm, General Internal Medicine - Health Services Research Seminar 911 Broxton Ave. TBD 2nd Floor Conf Rm John Mafi, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, GIM-HSR, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact - Victor Gonzalez - [email protected] Website: https://www.uclahealth.org/internal-medicine/seminar-series
1:15 – 2:15 pm, Grand Rounds/ Obstetrics-Gynecology B-124 RRMC The Influence of Hormones During Fertility Treatment on Placentation Lauren Sundheimer, MD Fellow, Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Contact – Leslie Henry – [email protected]
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Cell Division Bio/Embryo Club 130 Boyer Hall Transcriptional Programming of Beige Adipocytes and Their Therapeutic Potential Claudio Villanueva, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine Contact – Kady Albastro – [email protected]
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