Stem Cell Club
Stem Cell Club is held every second Wednesday of the month*, 12:00 pm - 1:15pm
Currently all meetings are scheduled as remote meetings:
Please contact Alessandra Rodriguez y Baena, Julien Menendez, or the the IBSC if you would like to receive Stem Cell Club announcement or if you would like to present.
Faculty advisor: Camilla Forsberg
*except for November 2020 (meeting will be held on the first Wednesday) and no meetings will be held during Summer session
Upcoming meetings (2020/2021):
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99727825879?pwd=VVNpeUVVU040aWNyazVsNUhkOUVzZz09
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
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
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?"
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"
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"
March 10, 2021
Speaker: D'Juan Farmer, PhD (djuanfar@usc.edu)
Lab: Postdoc at Crump Lab at USC
Title: TBD
Speaker: Rut Molinuevo Llaria, PhD (rmolinue@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Postdoc at Hinck Lab at UCSC
Title: TBD
April 14, 2021
Speaker: Ryan Hoffman (rnhoffma@ucsc.edu)
Lab: Grad Student at Haussler-Salama Lab at UCSC
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD
Lab: TBD
Title: TBD
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
June 9, 2021
Speaker: TBD
Lab: TBD
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD
Lab: TBD
Title: TBD