Stem Cell Club

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

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

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?"

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"

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"

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

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

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

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