CTB RIPS
2025 - 2026
| Luye An, PhD “Dry Eye Cornea: The Ball of Immune Cell Dancing Show - 3D Reconstruction of Autoimmune Cornea Micro-Environment” | September 12, 2025 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 |
| Christopher O'Brien “Dissecting CDK2 Function in Triple Negative Breast Cancer” | November 14, 2025 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-303 |
| Elliot Brooks, PhD “Leveraging Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Islet-like Clusters to Study Human Endocrine Development” | December 5, 2025 10:00 - 11:00 am | CL 221 & 222 |
| Harish Vasudevan, MD, PhD “A GAP in Space and Time: Building Better Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches for Neurofibromatosis” | January 16, 2026 10:00 - 11:00 am | CS-1111 |
| 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 |
2024 - 2025
| Luye An, PhD “Dry Eye Cornea: The Ball for Immune Cells "Dance Show" Bryan Chang “3D Confocal Microscopy for Quantitative Measurement of Islet Structure In Situ” | September 6, 2024 10:00 - 11:30 am | HSW-301 |
| Tania Singh “Spatial and Molecular Organization of Endothelial Notch1 Signaling in Response to Flow" Helen Vander Wende, PhD “Exploring the Function of the RNA Binding Protein PUM2 in Neural Crest Cell Development” | October 4, 2024 10:00 - 11:30 am | HSW-300 |
| Luke Lucido “Signaling Control of a Novel Morphologic Basis for Cleft Lip" Mashel Fatema Saifuddin, PhD “Just Keep Swimming: Swim Motor Memory Updates Crawl Motor Plan” | November 15, 2024 10:00 - 11:30 am | CS-0101 |
| Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD “Enhancing Cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes with Vascularized Stem CellDerived Pancreatic Islets” | January 10, 2025 10:00 - 11:30 am | HSW-302 |
| Kyle Kisor, PhD “Updates on pH Dynamics Regulating Transcription Factor DNA Binding Selectivity” | February 28, 2025 10:00 - 11:30 am | CS-0101 |
| Annie Kingsland “Targeting Mutant p53 as a Cancer Therapeutic” | April 18, 2025 10:00 - 11:30 am | S-214 |
| Nathan Griffin, PhD “Sexual Dimorphic Radioresistance in Murine Salivary Glands” Petria Thompson, PhD “Inhibiting CDK2 in Aggressive Breast Cancer” | May 16, 2025 10:00 - 11:30 am | HSW-303 |
2023 - 2024
| Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD “Engineering Human Pancreatic Stem Cell-Derived Islets for Cell Replacement For Diabetes” Cedric Yu, PhD “Functional Heterogeneity and Plasticity of Autonomic Ganglia Innervating the Salivary Glands” | September 22, 2023 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-302 |
| José Liboy-Lugo “Role of G3BP Stress Granules on mRNA Expression during the Stress Response” Marisol O'Neill, PhD “Investigating Transcriptional Regulation of Airway Cell Fate Specification” | October 20, 2023 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-302 |
| Kyle Kisor “pH-Dynamics RegulateTranscription Factor DNA Binding Selectivity” Marisol O'Neill, PhD “Investigating Transcriptional Regulation of Airway Cell Fate Specification” | November 17, 2023 10:00 - 11:00 am | N-517 |
| Mauricio Jacobo “Targeting the Mitotic Spindle in MYC Over-expressing Breast Cancers” Ziad Jowhar “A Ubiquitous GC Content Signature Underlies Multimodal mRNA Regulation by DDX3X” | December 8, 2023 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-302 |
| Kyle Jacobs “A Novel Axis Regulating Mitogenic Signaling and Contractility at Endothelial Cell-Cell Interfaces” Joël Lemiere, PhD “Quantification of Turgor Pressure in Fission and Budding Yeast” | January 19, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-303 |
| Paula Real Calderon “Mechanics of the Anaphase Spindle” Yoon-Gu Jang, PhD “Understanding the Developmental and Molecular Basis for a Craniofacial Metabolic Syndrome” Vahid Niknezhad, PhD “Injectable, Self-Healing Hydrogel for Salivary Gland Regeneration” | March 8, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-302 |
| Mariann Guzman-Espinoza “Characterizing a Post-Transcriptional Regulator in Neural Crest Cells” Mageshi Kamaraj, PhD “Integration of Cell Fate and Cell Mechanics by Notch Signaling” | April 19, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am | N-225 |
| Dan Van de Mark, PhD “CDK1 Analog Sensitive Mice Reveal CDK1 Inhibition Promotes Cellular Senescence” Sonia Infante, PhD “Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Model to Study Frontotemporal Dementia” | May 17, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am | CSB-0101 |
| Giulia Viola “The GFP Challenge: How Can We Find the Best?” | June 7, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am | HSW-303 |
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 |