CTB Events

CTB RIPS

2025 - 2026
Luye An, PhD
“Dry Eye Cornea: The Ball of Immune Cell Dancing Show - 3D Reconstruction of Autoimmune Cornea Micro-Environment”
February 27, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
HSW-303
Yasmeen Ibrahim
“Apicosome Biogenesis: Apical Surface Storage Organelles Unique to Pluripotent Stem Cells”

Ace Lewis
“NKX2-1 is Crucial for Formation of Secretory Cells in the Airway Epithelium”
October 3, 2025
10:00 - 11:00 am
HSW-303
Tonatiuh Montoya, PhD
“Targeting Alanine Catabolism in Liver Cancer”
February 27, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
CL 221 & 222
Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD
“Enhancing Cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes with Vascularized Stem Cell-derived Pancreatic Islets”

Yoon-Gu Jang, PhD
“Understanding the Developmental and Molecular Basis for a Craniofacial Metabolic Syndrome”
March 6, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
CL 221 & 222
Annie Kingsland
“Small Molecule Restoring Mutant p53-R273H DNA Binding and Activity”

Vahid Niknezhad, PhD
“New Approaches to Treating Salivary Gland Dysfunction”
April 17, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
CL 221 & 222
Annelise Prince
“Regulating Centriole Number through the p53 Surveillance Pathway”

Arvind Rajan, PhD
“Cellular Diversity of the Developing Chick Trigeminal Ganglion at Single-Cell Resolution”
May 15, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
CL 221 & 222
Max Hammer
Investigating the Role of Translational Control in Multiciliated Cell Differentiation”

John Vaughen, PhD
“Functional Neuronal Lipotype Specification via Developmental Activity, Diet, and the Lysosome”
June 12, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
HSW-303
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CTB Special Seminars

2025 - 2026
Juha Klefström, PhD
Research Professor at the University of Helsinki,
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology

“When MYC Becomes a Weakness: Exploiting Metabolic Dependencies in Cancer”
May 1, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
HSW-300
Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon)
Professor, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center,
David A. Wood Distinguished Professor of Tumor Biology & Cancer Research

“RAS Proteins in Human Disease”
May 29, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am
HSW-303