Division of Regenerative Medicine (DRM) Seminar Series

DRM Seminar Series (CME Accredited)

Series Schedule

Tentative scheduling:

Date: First or Second Monday of each month
Location: Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Conference Room 1013 A/B
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Contact: drmseminarseries@ucsd.edu

Seminar Schedule below: for upcoming seminar topics and past recordings

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of each activity, participants will be able to:

Treat Patients with Stem Cells more effectively as a result of multidisciplinary discussion
Disseminate the latest research and clinical advances on stem cells and regenerative medicine to promote improved strategies and methodologies
Promote further investigation into topics involving stem cells and regenerative medicine
Translate stem cell and regenerative medicine research from bench to bedside

Accreditation Statement

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Seminar Schedule

2024

List of 2023 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
1/8/24
2/5/24 Dr. Jarrod Dudakov, Ph.D (Fred Hutch)
3/11/34
4/8/24 Ophir Klein, MD, PhD (UCSF)
5/6/24
6/3/24
7/8/24
8/5/24
9/16/24 John Crispino, Ph.D., M.B.A. (St. Jude Children's Hospital)
10/7/24
11/4/24
12/2/24

2023

List of 2023 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
1/20/23 *HELD ON FRIDAY AT 2:00PM* Sheila Chari, Ph.D. (Cell Press) "Publishing with Cell Press: Inside the Editorial Process" VIEW RECORDING
1/25/23 *HELD ON WEDNESDAY* Tim Fenton, Ph.D. (University of Southampton) "APOBEC3 enzymes: from retroviral restriction factors to cancer drivers… and beyond?" VIEW RECORDING
2/6/23 Mia Petljak, Ph.D. (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) "Causes and consequences of somatic mosaicism in age-related diseases"
2/13/23 Pantelis Rompolas, Ph.D., M.B.A. (University of Pennsylvania) "Regenerative strategies using mRNA technology"
3/13/23 Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) "Teaching new tricks to an old thymus"
4/24/23 Hanna Mikkola, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) "Decoding human hematopoietic stem cell genesis and self-renewal"
5/8/23 Elsy Buitrago-Delgado, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology) "Spatial analysis of RNA distribution during early mammalian embryogenesis"
Matthew Romero, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) "Skeletal Muscle in Three Dimensions: Uncovering Connections Across Development" VIEW RECORDING
6/5/23 *Held at Center for Novel Therapeutics in La Jolla Shores Conference Room* Paul Northcott, Ph.D. (St. Jude Children's Hospital) "Genomic Unraveling of Biological & Clinical Heterogeneity in Medulloblastoma"
8/14/23 Sydney Lu, M.D., Ph.D. (Stanford University)
10/30/23 Anne Brunet, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
12/4/23 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University)

2022

List of 2022 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
2/7/22 *Starts at 12:00 P.M.* Katja Simon, Ph.D. (University of Oxford) "Autophagy in hematopoietic and immune cell fate" VIEW RECORDING
3/14/22 Ken Shields (Sierra Space) "Orbital Reef: Paving the Way for New Discoveries and a New Economy in Space" VIEW RECORDING
4/4/22 Christina Termini, Ph.D. (Fred Hutch) "Leveraging proteoglycans for hematopoietic stem cell regeneration" VIEW RECORDING
5/2/22 Vikram Paralkar, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania) "Regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription in Hematopoiesis" VIEW RECORDING
6/6/22 *Starts at 12:00 P.M.* Michaela Frye, Ph.D. (DKFZ) "Targeting RNA modifications in cancer"
7/18/22 Darcie Moore, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin) "Identifying signatures of neural stem cell state" VIEW RECORDING
8/8/22 Armando Villalta, Ph.D. (UC Irvine) "Immune and stromal interactions in the regulation of skeletal muscle disease" VIEW RECORDING
9/12/22 Kara McKinley, Ph.D. (Harvard) "Regeneration in the uterus"
9/19/22 Kentson Lam, M.D., Ph.D. (UCSD) "Targeting the protein homeostasis network in acute myeloid leukemia"
10/31/22 Leslie Crews, Ph.D. (UCSD) "Zombie blood: can hematopoietic stem cells age without turning into malignant monsters?"
11/14/22 Justin Taylor, Ph.D. (Fred Hutch) "Analysis and Engineering of Antigen-Specific B cells"
12/5/22 *Starts at 12:00 P.M.* Ubaka Ogbogu, LL.B., B.L., LL.M., S.J.D. (University of Alberta) "Towards practical justice in the inequitable biotechnology revolution" VIEW RECORDING

2021

List of 2021 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
1/11/21 Aaron Ring, MD, Ph.D. (Yale) "Engineered cytokines in cancer immunotherapy" VIEW RECORDING
2/08/21 Frank Furnari, Ph.D. (UCSD) "Deciphering therapeutic vulnerabilities in brain cancer" VIEW RECORDING
3/15/21 Julia Maxson, Ph.D. (OHSU) "Therapeutic targeting of CSF3R-mutant leukemias" VIEW RECORDING
4/12/21 Shiri Gur-Cohen, Ph.D. (Rockefeller) "Socializing with the Neighbors: Stem Cells Reshape Their Environment to Coordinate Tissue Regeneration" VIEW RECORDING
5/10/21 Yanhong Shi, Ph.D. (City of Hope) "Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Development"
5/17/21 Hanna Mikkola, MD, Ph.D. (UCLA) "Search for the Self-Renewing Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell" VIEW RECORDING
9/20/21 Jeremy Mao, DDS, Ph.D. "Stem Cell Homing"
11/15/21 Nina Cabezas Wallscheid, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute) "Multilayer-omics analysis reveals a non-classical retinoic acid signaling axis that regulates hematopoietic stem cell identity"
12/6/21 Johannes Schoeneberg, Ph.D. (UCSD) "4D Cell Biology: Adaptive optics lattice light-sheet imaging and AI powered big data processing of live stem cell-derived organoids" VIEW RECORDING

2020

List of 2020 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
1/13/20 Ryan Corces, Ph.D. (Stanford University) "Functional Dissection of the Epigenome in Cancer and Neurodegeneration" VIEW RECORDING
7/06/20 Amanda Olson, M.D. (MD Anderson) "Viral-specific T cell immunotherapy for the treatment of Polyomavirus infections" VIEW RECORDING
8/10/20 Paul Mischel, M.D. (UC San Diego) "Form follows function: ecDNA topology drives cancer pathogenesis through altered chromatin organization" VIEW RECORDING
9/21/20 Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. (UC San Francsico) "Escaping the Immune System: Prevention of stem cell transplant rejection by genetic engineering" VIEW RECORDING
10/19/20 Daniel Utzschneider, Ph.D. (University of Melbourne) "T Cell exhaustion: Limitation or prerequisite of function immunity in chronic infection and tumor?"
11/16/20 Anna Beaudin, Ph.D. (University of Utah) "Unraveling layered immunity: how perturbation of hematopoietic development shapes disease susceptibility"
12/14/20 Hao Zhu, M.D. (UT Southwestern) "Molecular and cellular mechanisms of wound healing and regeneration" VIEW RECORDING

2019

List of 2019 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
1/07/19 Lei Ding, Ph.D. (Columbia University) "The regulation of hematopoietic stem cells: the niche and beyond" "The regulation of hematopoietic stem cells: the niche and beyond" VIEW RECORDING
2/04/19 Daniela Bota, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Irvine) "Finding the Grail: The Fine Line between Chemotherapy and Neurotoxicity (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly stem cells" VIEW RECORDING
4/29/19 Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) "Understanding and Targeting the Stem Cell Origins of M.D.S and AML"
5/03/19 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. (The Rockefeller University) "Tissue Stem Cells: Coping with Stress" Friday, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Goldberg Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center
6/10/19 Karl-Johan (Kalle) Malmberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Oslo University Hospital) "A Temporal Transcriptional Map of Human NK Cell Differentiation"
7/01/19 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, MSc, Ph.D. (UC San Diego) "Aging and Long Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids – Retina Perspective"
8/05/19 Angela Fleischman, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Irvine) "Role of Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasm" VIEW RECORDING
8/26/19 Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D. (UMC Utrecht) "Organoids to Model Human Disease" VIEW RECORDING
8/29/19 Tracy Grikscheit, M.D. (USC) Not a CME accredited seminar "Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies for Enteric Neuropathies and Intestinal Failure: Advances toward Translation"
11/04/19 Andrew Dillin, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley) "Neuroendocrine Regulation of ER Stress, Metabolism and Aging" VIEW RECORDING
11/15/19 Not a CME accredited seminar Ritwick Sawarkar, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics) "Linking Transcription with Proteostasis: the Missing Pieces of the Puzzle"
12/02/19 Marius Wernig, Ph.D. (Stanford University) "Next Generation Cell Therapies for the Brain" VIEW RECORDING

2018

List of 2018 DRM Seminar speakers and dates
2/20/18 Leslie Crews, Ph.D. (UC San Diego) "Inflammation-response pathways promote malignant regeneration in Multiple Myeloma" *Comer Commons,2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center
3/20/18 Tiffany Tanaka, M.D. (UC San Diego) "Personalized Adoptive T cell Therapy in Myelodyplastic Syndromes" *Goldberg Auditorium, 2^nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center
4/09/18 Stephanie Cherqui, Ph.D. (UC San Diego) "From Cystinosis to Friedreich's ataxia: Therapeutic Mechanism and Clinical Translation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy"
5/07/18 Dannielle Engle, Ph.D. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) "Aberrant Glycosylation promotes Pancreatic Disease and yields novel biomarkers"
6/11/18 Kenneth Dorshkind, Ph.D. (UCLA) "Evolving Patterns of Lymphopoiesis from Embryogenesis through Senescence"
7/09/18 Andrew Lowy, M.D., FACS (UC San Diego) "Identifying Novel Targets in the Pancreatic Cancer Chimera" VIEW RECORDING
8/06/18 Sergei Doulatov, Ph.D. (University of Washington) "Pluripotent stem cell models for blood disorders"
9/10/18 Jeanne Loring, Ph.D. (The Scripps Research Institute) "Translational applications of stem cells and genomics: Autologous neuron replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease" VIEW RECORDING
10/15/18 Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School) "Genetic Studies of Human Hematopoiesis" VIEW RECORDING *Goldberg Auditorium,2nd Floor, Moores Cancer Center
11/5/18 Qingfei Jiang, Ph.D. (UC San Diego) "Inflammation-driven-A-to-I RNA editing in Leukemia Stem Cell Maintenance" VIEW RECORDING
12/10/18 Alexander Boiko, Ph.D. (UCI) "Identification of Melanoma Vulnerability: Lessons Learned from Neural Crest Stem Cell Development" VIEW RECORDING
12/17/18 Tanya Siddiqi, M.D. (City of Hope) "Shaping the way of the future: CAR-T cell therapy leading to potential cures in relapsed/refractory B-cell NHL/CLL" VIEW RECORDING

Department of Medicine
Division of Regenerative Medicine