Molecular Biology Institute

MBI/BRI Seminar: Susan Ackerman, Ph.D.
2017-05-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Steven W. Kuffler Chair, Biology
Professor, Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
Professor, Cell & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego Medical School
“Translational Dysfunction & Neurodegeneration”
Ackerman Website
Cosponsored by the Brain Research Institute
Hosts Doug Black (MBI) and Chris Evans (BRI), MBIAsst@lifesci.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Roy Wollman
2017-05-09 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology and of Chemistry & Biochemistry
http://wollman.chem.ucla.edu/
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Victor Torres, Ph.D.
2017-05-04 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
NYU School of Medicine
“Staphylococcus Aureus Leukocidins: Unraveling Their Role in Pathogenesis”
Torres Lab Website
Hosted by The Immunity, Microbes & Molecular Pathogenesis Home Area, mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Megan McEvoy
2017-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
www.mbi.ucla.edu/faculty/megan-mcevoy/
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Tomas Kirchhausen, Ph.D.
2017-04-27 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Springer Family Chair, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor, Cell Biology & of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
“Picturing Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution”
Kirchhausen Lab Website
Hosted by Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Ph.D., arispe@mbi.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Alex Hoffmann
2017-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Director, Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences
Hoffmann Lab
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Chuck Murry, M.D., Ph.D.
2017-04-20 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Woods Professor of Pathology, Bioengineering & Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Biology
Interim Director, Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
“Cardiac Development, Maturation, & Regeneration”
Murry Lab Website
Hosted by The Cell and Developmental Biology Home Area, mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Andrew Goldstein
2017-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor in Residence, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology and of Urology
www.goldsteinlabucla.com
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Mark Khan, M.D.
2017-04-13 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Translational Research Center
“Cerebral Cavernous Malformation: From Mechanism to Therapy”
Khan Lab Website
Hosted by Steve Young, M.D., sgyoung@mednet.ucla.edu

MBI Member Seminar: Robert Schiestl
2017-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor of Pathology, Environmental Health, and of Radiation Oncology
www.mbi.ucla.edu/faculty/robert-schiestl/
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Steven Henikoff, Ph.D.
2017-04-06 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
“Genome-wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interaction Dynamics”
Henikoff Lab Website
Hosted by The MBIDP Gene Regulation Home Area, mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu
Cosponsored by the MBI & Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

MBI Member Seminar: Luisa Arispe
2017-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
Director, Molecular Biology Institute
www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Arispe
“MBIDP Update and Upcoming Review”
Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: David Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
2017-03-30 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor & Alfred G. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology
Raymond & Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology in Honor of Harold B. Crasilneck, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology & Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
“The Diverse Metabolic Actions of FGF21”
Mangelsdorf Lab
Hosted by Tom Vallim, Ph.D., tvallim@mednet.ucla.edu

MBI Annual Retreat
2017-03-17 - 2017-03-18 | Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach

MBI Seminar: Stephen Beverley, Ph.D.
2017-03-16 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Marvin A. Brennecke Professor
Chair of Molecular Microbiology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
“RNA Viruses as Virulence Factors in Parasitic Protozoa”
Beverley Lab Website
Host: Patricia Johnson (johnsonp@ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Fuyu Tamanoi
2017-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Director, Signal Transduction Program Area, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tamanoi Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Prashant Mali, Ph.D.
2017-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
UC, San Diego
“Multiplex Genome Engineering via CRISPR-Cas: New Approaches and New Challenges”
Mali Lab Website
Host Sri Kosuri, Ph.D., (sri@ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Elaine Hsiao
2017-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
Hsiao Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Frederic de Sauvage, Ph.D.
2017-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Vice President & Staff Scientist, Molecular Oncology
Genentech
“Targeting intestinal stem cells in cancer”
Sauvage Genentech Website
Host: Steve Young (sgyoung@mednet.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Beth Lazazzera
2017-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Lazazzera Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Fitnat Yildiz, Ph.D.
2017-02-23 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology
UC, Santa Cruz
“”Mechanism and Regulation of Biofilm Formation”
Yildiz Lab Website
Host: Beth Lazazzera (BethL@microbio.ucla.edu)

No MBI Faculty Seminar Today
2017-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall

MBI Seminar: Jan Karlseder, Ph.D.
2017-02-16 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology Laboratory
Donald & Darlene Shiley Chair
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla
“What Telomeres Can Teach Us About DNA Replication and Repair Pathway Choice”
Karlseder Lab Website
Host: Jeff Long (jeffalong@ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Yibin Wang
2017-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Professor of Anesthesiology, Physiology, & Medicine
Director of the Division of Molecular Medicine
Wang Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Wendell Lim, Ph.D.
2017-02-09 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Professor & Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, UCSF Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology
UC, San Francisco
“Programming and Perturbing Cell Signaling Networks“
Lim Lab Website
Host: The Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology Grad Students (mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Elizabeth Tarling
2017-02-07 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Tarling Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

Sigman Symposium: Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
2017-02-06 15:30 - 16:30 | California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
David B. Arnold Professor of Science
Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Professor of Physics
Harvard University
“Illuminating Biology at the Nanoscale and Systems Scale Using Single-molecule and Super-resolution Imaging”
Zhuang Lab Website
*Reception to follow

MBI Seminar: Marc Diamond, M.D.
2017-02-02 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Director, Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor, Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, Neuroscience
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“The Prion Model: Expanding Our Ability to Classify and Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Diamond Lab Website
Host: David Eisenberg (david@mbi.ucla.edu)

MBI Member Seminar: Siavash Kurdistani
2017-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 | 130 Boyer Hall
Chair & Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Kurdistani Lab Website
*Open to all MBI Members

MBI Seminar: Maria Barna, Ph.D.
2017-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 | WebEx, WebEx
Assistant Professor
Departments of Developmental Biology & Genetics
Stanford University
“Specialized Ribosomes: A New Frontier in Gene Regulation, Organismal Biology, and Evolution”
Barna Lab Website
