Molecular Biology Institute

MBI Seminar: Scott Keeney, Ph.D.
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WebEx, WebEx
Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
HHMI Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Keeney Website
Hosted by Tracy Johnson

Tuesday Faculty Lunch: Hong Zhou
2018-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Zhou Lab

MBI Seminar: Vamsi Mootha, M.D.
2018-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mootha Website
Hosted by Steve Young & Sabeeha Merchant

MBI Seminar: Karen Adelman, Ph.D.
2018-01-18 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Adelman Website
Hosted by Tracy Johnson

Tuesday Faculty Lunch: Amander Clark
2018-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Clark Lab

MBI Seminar: David J. Rawlings, M.D.
2018-01-11 16:00 - 17:00
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Director, Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Chief, Division of Immunology
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Rawlings Website
Hosted by MBIDP Students
IMMP Home Area

Tuesday Faculty Lunch: Grace Aldrovandi
2018-01-09 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Aldrovandi Lab

MBI Seminar: Christopher Lima, PhD
2017-12-07 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Structural Biology Program Member,
Professor of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences & the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Nuclear quality control and the RNA exosome”
Lima Website
Hosted by Tracy Johnson (tljohnson@ucla.edu) & Doug Black (DougB@microbio.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Brigitte Gomperts, MD
2017-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Pulmonary Medicine
Gomperts Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Raymond Stevens, PhD
2017-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Provost Professor, Biological Sciences & Chemistry
Director of The Bridge Institute,
Departments of Biological Sciences & Chemistry,
University of Southern California
“TBA”
Stevens Website
Hosted by Ronald Kaback (RKaback@mednet.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Jose Rodriguez, PhD
2017-11-28 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Rodriguez Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Tamir Gonen, PhD
2017-11-16 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Departments of Physiology and Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Title TBA
Gonen Website

MBI Member Seminar: Grace Aldrovandi, MD
2017-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Pediatrics
Aldrovandi Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Len Zon, MD
2017-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Director, Stem Cell Program, Children’s Hospital Boston
Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Pathways regulating hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and migration”
Zon Website
Hosted by Carla Koehler (koehlerc@chem.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Alice Soragni, PhD
2017-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Hematology-Oncology
Soragni Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Peter K. Jackson, PhD
2017-11-02 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Professor
Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine

“Reforming adipogenesis: ciliary trafficking of fatty acid GPCR activates cAMP- dependent differentiation mesenchymal stem cells”
Jackson Website
Hosted by Jorge Torres (torres@chem.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Gerald Lipshutz, MD, DDS
2017-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor in Residence, Surgery, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Lipshutz Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Ray Deshaies, PhD
2017-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Senior Vice President, Discovery Research, Amgen
Visiting Associate, Division of Biology & Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology
“The Adaptive Exchange Hypothesis: Dynamic Specification of the SCF Ubiquitin Ligase Repertoire by Substrate”
Deshaies Website
Hosted by Steve Young (SGYoiung@mednet.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Don Puppione, PhD
2017-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Emeritus Member, Molecular Biology Institute
Puppione PubMed Link
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

Sigman Symposium: Yigong Shi, PhD
2017-10-19 16:00 - 17:00 | NRB Auditorium
Vice President, Tsinghua University
Dean, School of Life Sciences , Tsinghua University
Co-Director, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing
“Mechanism of pre-mRNA Splicing by the Spliceosome”
Shi Website
Sigman Symposium

MBI Member Seminar: Manish Butte, MD, PhD
2017-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, MIMG
Butte Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Elçin Ünal, PhD
2017-10-12 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
“Meiotic Differentiation: Uncovering Unique Modes of Gene Regulation and Organelle Remodeling”
Unal Webite
Hosted by Margot Quinlan (margot.quinlan@gmail.com)

MBI Member Seminar: Patrick Allard, PhD
2017-10-10 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics
Allard Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: Liana Lareau, PhD
2017-10-05 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Principal Investigator
California Institute for Quantitative Biology
University of California, Berkeley
“Ribosome Dynamics Captured by Deep Sequencing and Deep Learning”
Lareau Website
Hosted by the Gene Regulation Home Area

MBI Member Seminar: Luisa Arispe, PhD
2017-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
Director, Molecular Biology Institute
Arispe Lab Website
Open to all MBI Members
Lunch Served

MBI Seminar: John Eiler, Ph.D.
2017-06-08 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology
Professor, Geochemistry, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech
“Isotopic Structures of Natural Organic Molecules”
Eiler Website
Hosted by Steve Young, SGYoung@mednet.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Ye Zhang
2017-06-06 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
www.yezhanglab.org/
Open to all MBI Members

QCBio/MBI Seminar: Tobias Meyer, Ph.D.
2017-06-02 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Quantitative & Systems Biology Seminar
Presented by the QCBio and MBI
Tobias Meyer, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology,
Stanford University
“Using live-Cell Analysis to Elucidate the Logics of the Mammalian Cell Cycle Entry and Exit Decisions”
Meyer Lab Website
Hosted by Roy Wollman, rwollman@ucla.edu

CANCELLED: MBI Seminar: David Botstein, Ph.D.
2017-06-01 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
CANCELLED

MBI Member Seminar: Reza Ardehali
2017-05-30 12:00 - 13:00
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
https://ardehalilab.med.ucla.edu/
Open to all MBI Members
