Stem Cell Club
Stem Cell Club is held every second Wednesday of the month, 12:30 pm - 1:30pm
Please contact the IBSC if you would like to receive Stem Cell Club announcement or if you would like to present. The presentation can be your research or a review of a published paper.
Faculty advisor: Camilla Forsberg
2022/23 Schedule
October 12, 2022 - Biomed 200
Invited Speaker: Xiaoai Zhao M.D., Ph.D.
How to pronounce my name: Shaw-eye (Xiaoai) Jow (Zhao)
Affiliation: Brunet Lab @ Stanford University
Title: "Lipidomic profiling reveals age-dependent changes in complex plasma membrane lipids that regulate neural stem cell aging"
Talk Location: Biomed300 (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm
November 9, 2022 - No Stem Cell Club (Research Review Day 11/15-11/16)
December 14, 2022 - Biomed 200
Talk Location: Biomed200 (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm
Invited Speaker A: Rut Molinuevo Llaria, Ph.D.
Title: "DNA damage regulates endometrial endoreplication"
Invited Speaker B: Victor Tse
Affiliation: Sanford Lab @ UCSC
Title: "Designing RNA Drugs for Inherited Diseases"
January 11, 2023 - Biomed 300 (room change)
Invited Speaker: Rohit Nagare
How to pronounce my name: Ro-hit (Rohit) Na-ga-reh (Nagare)
Affiliation: Dept. of Obestetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago
Title: "Ovarian cancer: Origin and Stem cells"
Talk Location: Biomed300 (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96370013168?pwd=aWxxaHlndktGSXFwaTZSQUgrNE5TQT09
February 8, 2023 - Alumni Room @ University Center
Talk Location: Biomed200 (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
March 8, 2023 - Biomed 200
Talk Location: Biomed200 (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Tentative Speaker: Joint UCSF | Stanford Journal Club
April 12, 2023 - TBD
Talk Location: TBD (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Tentative: Antonion Korcari (Genentech)
May 10, 2023 - TBD
Talk Location: TBD (Map of Building Location Here)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
2021/22 Schedule
June 8, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Ashley Webb
Lab: Webb lab at Brown University
Title: Mechanisms of neural stem cell aging
Speaker: Dr. Kelsie Rodriguez
Lab: Dr. Rubin (UCSC)
Title: Identifying CDK2 interacting proteins in embryonic stem cells
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
May 11, 2022 (joint meeting with Stanford University and UCSF)
Speaker: Dr. Ajay Kumar
Lab: Dr. Y. Joyce Liao (Stanford)
Title: Stem "Cell-Free" Therapy To Preserve Vision: A New Paradigm in Regenerative Medicine
Speaker: Dr. Sangeetha Kandoi
Lab: Dr. Deepak A. Lamba (UCSF)
Title: Modeling autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa associated with copy number variants in rhodopsin and rescue using Photoregulin3 in patient-specific retinal organoids
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Topacio
Lab: Dr. Ali Shariati (UCSC)
Title: Elucidating the dynamics and regulation of MAPK signaling in embryonic stem cells
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
UCSC Contacts: Dr. Alka Gupta (agupt112@ucsc.edu) and Ryan Hoffman (rnhoffma@ucsc.edu)
Stanford Contact: Rahul Nagvekar (rahuln@stanford.edu)
UCSF Contact: Dr. Shabrina Amirruddin (Nurshabrina.Amirruddin@ucsf.edu)
April 13, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Abhimanyu Thakur
Lab: Dr. Huanhuan Joyce Chen (University of Chicago)
Title: Exosome: A tiny nanovesicle as non-invasive liquid biopsy platform for cancer diagnosis
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Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
March 9, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Ambrosi
Lab: Dr. Charles Kwok Fai Chan
Title: Skeletal Stem Cells in Space and Time: Deciphering Stem Cell Biology to Target Skeletal Aging and Disease
Speaker: Dr. Valerie Cortez
Lab: Dr. Valerie Cortez (UCSC)
Title: Crypt-to-tip dynamics: goblet cell migration and maturation
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
February 9, 2022 (joint meeting with Stanford University and UCSF)
Speaker: Carolyn Dundes
Lab: Dr. Kyle Loh (Stanford)
Title: A New Model: Is the brain formed from two separate cellular origins?
Speaker: Dr. Deniz Gökbuget
Lab: Dr. Robert Blelloch (UCSF)
Title: Phasic Transcriptional Repression Protects Genome Integrity In Embryonic Stem Cells
Speaker: Donna Poscablo
Lab: Dr. Camilla Forsberg (UCSC)
Title: An age-specific platelet differentiation pathway arising from hematopoietic stem cells
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
January 12, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Xinyue Chen (Gladstone Institutes)
Lab: Dr. Leor Weinberger
Title: A DNA repair pathway can regulate transcriptional noise to promote cell fate transitions
Speaker: Dr. Jess Sevetson (UCSC)
Lab: Drs. Salama/Haussler
Title: Advancing stem cell based organoid models of brain development
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
December 8, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Jelena Perovanovic
Lab: Dr. Dean Tantin (Recursion and the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah)
Title: Oct1 recruits histone modifiers to drive mesoderm lineage specification
Speaker: Kendy Hoang (PhD candidate)
Lab: Dr. Bin Chen (UCSC)
Title: Lineage progression of embryonic neural stem cells in the developing cerebral cortex
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
November 10, 2021
Speaker: Hannah Yan (Baylor College of Medicine)
Lab: Dr. Katherine King
Title: The bacterial microbiota promotes normal hematopoiesis by metabolite-induced type I interferon signaling pathway
Speaker: Dr. Shaheen Sikandar (UCSC)
Lab: Dr. Shaheen Sikandar
Title: Molecular regulators of normal and malignant mammary stem cells
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
October 13, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Christina Termini
Lab: Dr. John Chute
Title: Syndecan-2 expression enriches for hematopoietic stem cells and regulates stem cell repopulating capacity
Speaker: Dr. Gina Mawla
Lab: Dr. Olena Vaske
Title: Comparative RNA-sequencing analysis enables individualized treatments for pediatric cancers
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98960939918?pwd=YS9zOW41YlJETTZaNkVuTktlWTllZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6093 9918
Passcode: 837812
2020/21 Speakers
June 9, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Bryce Manso
Lab: Postdoc at Forsberg Lab at UCSC
Title: "Determining how inflammation controls age-specific platelet production by hematopoietic stem cells"
Speaker: Dr. Li Xin
Lab: PI at Xin Lab at Washington University
Title: TBD
October 14, 2020
Speaker: Sudhir Thakurela, Ph.D. (sudhir_thakurela@harvard.edu)
Lab: Postdoc at Alex Meissner lab at Harvard Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology
Title: "When do differentiating stem cells establish a barrier to reprogramming?
Speaker: Gerrald Lodewijk, Ph.D. (gjlodewi@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Shariati Lab at UCSC
Title: "A primate-specific KRAB zinc finger gene linked to brain development affects HES1 autoregulation"
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99727825879?pwd=VVNpeUVVU040aWNyazVsNUhkOUVzZz09
May 12, 2021
Speaker: Matthew Bell (mbell@nexusscientific.com)
Lab: Technical Sales Specialist at NanoLive
Title: "Label-free 3D Live Cell Imaging in Drug Discovery: Introducing the CX-A, saying good bye to phototoxicity and end point assays"
Speaker: Quinton Smith, PhD (qbsmith@mit.edu)
Lab: Smith lab at UC Irvine
Title: TBD
April 14, 2021
Speaker: Ryan Hoffman (rnhoffma@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Grad Student at Haussler-Salama Lab at UCSC
Title: "Using stem cell derived organoids to understand the ventricle's role in human forebrain development"
Speaker: Dr. Srinjan Basu, PhD (srinjan@srinjan.com)
Lab: Group leader in stem cell science at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Title: Probing genome organisation and dynamics in pluripotent cells at the single-cell and single-molecule level
March 10, 2021
Speaker: D'Juan Farmer, PhD (djuanfar@usc.edu)
Lab: Postdoc at Crump Lab at USC
Title: Molecular and cellular control of skeletal progenitors in the vertebrate skull
Speaker: Rut Molinuevo Llaria, PhD (rmolinue@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Postdoc at Hinck Lab at UCSC
Title: Physiological DNA damage regulates endoreplication and milk production during lactation
February 10, 2021
Speaker: Clara Lopes Novo, PhD (c.lopes-novo@imperial.ac.uk)
Lab: Research Fellow at Imperial College London
Title: "Heterochromatin organization in embryonic stem cells"
Speaker: Shaheen Sikandar, Ph.D (ssikanda@ucsc.edu)
Lab: PI at Sikandar Lab at UCSC
Title: "A minority population of immature cells in breast cancer initiates metastasis"
January 13, 2021
Speaker: Tisha Bohr, Ph.D. (tishabohr@gmail.com)
Lab: Postdoc at Adler lab at Cornell University
Title: "Planarian stem cells sense the identity of missing tissues to launch targeted regeneration"
Speaker: Shaheen Sikandar, Ph.D (ssikanda@ucsc.edu) - POSTPONED
Lab: PI at Sikandar Lab at UCSC
Title: "A minority population of immature cells in breast cancer initiates metastasis"
December 9, 2020
Speaker: Liz Kirby, Ph.D. (kirby.224osu@gmail.com)
Lab: PI at Kirby Lab at The Ohio State University (https://u.osu.edu/kirbylab/)
Title: "Adult neural stem cells shape their niche through a potent secretome."
Speaker: Paola Angulo (pangulo@ucsc.edu) and Natalie Fillipi (nmfilipp@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Junior specialists (previous undergraduates) at Haussler-Salama Wet Lab at UCSC
Title: "Do retrovirus invasions shape human evolution and early development?"
November 4, 2020 (November 11, 2020 is a holiday)
Speaker: Melanie Eckersley-Maslin, Ph.D. (eckersleym@babraham.ac.uk)
Lab: Senior Postdoc at Babraham Institute in UK, soon to be group leader at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia
Title: "Epigenetic priming of early embryonic cell fate transitions"
Speaker: Eric Martin, M.S. (ewmartin@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Grad Student at Forsberg Lab at UCSC
Title: “Indecision 2020... epigenetics and fate decisions in hematopoiesis."
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99727825879?pwd=VVNpeUVVU040aWNyazVsNUhkOUVzZz09