To be rescheduled

Title: TBA

Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos, PhD

Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology

Jan 21, 2021

Title: TBA

Yauri Diao, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine

Feb 25, 2022

Title: TBA

Zhijian “James” Chen, PhD

Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center

Mar 4, 2022

Title: TBA

Joel Kramer, PsyD

Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology
Director of the Memory and Aging Center Neuropsychology Program, UCSF

April 22 2022

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Adam Hughes, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah

October 9, 2020

Uncovering the role of Alzheimer’s disease risk genes using stem cells and human brains

Li-Huei Tsai, PhD

January 17, 2020

Signals and forces patterning the intestinal smooth muscle

Cliff Tabin

Chairman and Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 12, 2019

Stem cells in silence, action and cancer

Elaine Fuchs

HHMI Investigator, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Lab of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development, HHMI, The Rockefeller University

June 4, 2021

Inosine RNA modifications in oocytes

Pavla Brachova, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

May 21, 2021

Mitochondrial Behavior

Jodi Nunnari, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis

May 14, 2021

Niche control of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation

Ting Xie, PhD

Division Head and Kerry Holdings Professor of Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

April 16, 2021

Dynamics of muscle stem cells in tissue growth and repair

Alessandra Sacco, PhD

Associate Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Neuroscience and Aging Research Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys, Medical Discovery Institute

April 9, 2021

Pharmacologic Adaptation of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Aging-associated Degenerative Diseases

Jeff Kelly, PhD

Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor
of Chemistry, The Scaggs Institute for Chemical Biology / The Scripps Research Institute

April 2, 2021

Anatomical Biology as a Key into Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Aging

Scott A. Small, MD

Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology
Columbia University, NY

March 19, 2021

Immunesenescence: Consequences within and without the immune system

Janet Lord, PhD

Director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, England

March 5, 2021

New ways to prevent protein aggregation inside and outside the cell

Della C. David, PhD

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Germany

February 26, 2021

Intertwined Roles of Two Parkinson’s Disease Genes in Autophagy of Mitochondria and Inflammation

Richard J. Youle, PhD

Senior Investigator, Biochemistry Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, Bethesda, MD

January 15, 2021

Systems Approach to Identify Resilience-based Targets for Aging and Alzheimer’s

Catherine Kaczorowski, PhD

Associate Professor and Evnin Family Chair in Alzheimer’s Research, The Jackson Laboratory

November 20, 2020

Targeting hypothalamic microglia to regulate energy and glucose homeostasis

Martin Valdearcos Contreras, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Diabetes Center, UCSF

October 23, 2020

Perception and response to metabolic stress

Scott Leiser, PhD

Assistant Professor Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

September 18, 2020

Counting mitochondria via the mitochondrial UPR: Do old cells lose count?

Cole Haynes, PhD

Professor of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School

September 11, 2020

Mutagenesis screens define unexpected roles of metabolism and protein synthesis in longevity

Martin Denzel, PhD

Professor of Metabolic and Genetic Regulation of Ageing, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

September 4, 2020

How neurons bend without breaking

Miriam Goodman, PhD

Professor and Chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

August 21, 2020

From Football Players To Aging Brains: The Role of The Blood Brain Barrier

Daniela Kaufer, PhD

Associate Dean, Biological Sciences and Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley.

July 17, 2020

Cellular recycling: role of autophagy in aging and disease

Malene Hansen, PhD

Professor, Faculty Advisor, Postdoctoral Training and Associate Dean, Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

February 21, 2020

Interactions and Polymorphisms of Protein Aggregates in Neurodegenerative Disease: Implications for Drug Development

Rakez Kayed, PhD

Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Anatomy, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch

February 7, 2020

Mechanisms of pathogenesis tauopathies

Karen Duff, PhD

Professor, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, University College London

January 24, 2020

Metabolic Signatures of Mating, Sex Peptide and Mifepristone/RU486 in Female Drosophila

John Tower, PhD

Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California

January 10, 2020

Making a break for it: meiotic DSBs and germline DNA repair

Judith Yanowitz, PhD

Associate Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

November 15, 2019

Fast Mimicking Diets, Regeneration, and Age-related Diseases

Valter Longo, PhD

Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology, Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Longevity Institute

November 8, 2019

Messenger RNA translation and oocyte competence to develop as an embryo: a genome-wide perspective

Marco Conti, MD

Professor & Director, Fred Gellert Chair in Reproductive Medicine & Biology, Center for Reproductive Sciences and the Eli and the Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCSF

November 1, 2019

Lipids and the demise of neurons

Hugo Bellen, DVM, Ph.D

Investigator and Professor, Departments of Molecular & Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Neurological Research Instistute, HHMI and Baylor College of Medicine

October 11, 2019

Developmental Origins of Reproductive Aging and Infertility

Aleksander Rajkovic, MD, PhD

Stuart Lindsay Distinguished Professor in Experimental Pathology I, Department of Pathology, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, UCSF

October 4, 2019

Systems Biology of the Mitochondria in Aging

Pinchas Cohen, MD

Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California

March 8, 2019

Targeting Dysregulated Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Linda Van Eldik, PhD

Director, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging University of Kentucky

March 1, 2019

C. elegans discriminate colors without eyes or opsins

Michael Nitabach, PhD, JD

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Yale University

February 22, 2019

Genomic parasites and aging

Vera Gorbunova, PhD

Doris Johns Cherry Professor, Professor of Biology, Assoc. Professor of Oncology, University of Rochester

February 8, 2019

Messenger Metabolites in Longevity Regulation

Meng Wang, PhD

Investigator, HHMI
Professor, Robert C. Fyfe Endowed Chair on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine

January 25, 2019

To sleep or not to sleep: How the brain decides to wake us up

Luis de Lecea, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine

December 7, 2018

ER proteostasis unbalance: from aging to neurodegenerative diseases

Claudio Hetz, PhD

Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Geroscience, Brain Health & Metabolism, University of Chile, Dept. of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; Adjunct Professor, Buck Institute

November 30, 2018

Modeling Human Development Using Insights from Organoids and Embryos

Jason Spence, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine
Dept. of Cell and Development Biology, University of Michigan

November 12, 2018

Modeling of Human Neurological/Psychiatric Disorders using iPS cells and Transgenic Non-Human Primates

Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD

Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine & Professor, Dept. of Physiology
Tokyo, Japan

October 26, 2018

Ovarian aging and the menopause: evaluating strategies to prevent or delay ovarian failure

Dori Woods, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology, Northeastern University

Octobre 12, 2018

Turning the Oxygen Dial as a Therapy: Hypoxia as a Treatment for Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Isha Jain, PhD

Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF

October 5, 2018

The genomics of flightlessness in birds

Scott V. Edwards, PhD

Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Septemeber 28, 2018

Beyond Sarcopenia

Stephen Kritchevsky, Ph.D

Professor of Internal Medicine & Translational Research (with tenure), Section on Gerontology
& Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC

September 21, 2018

A genetic model of rapid life-history evolution in the sea

Matthew Rockman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, NYU

September 7, 2018

On the Road to New Therapies for Intractable Epilepsies

Scott Baraban, PhD

Professor & William K. Bowes Jr. Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research, Neurological Surgery
Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF

July 9, 2018

Enhanced protein turnover as a healthy aging strategy

Liesbet Temmerman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Ku Leuven, Belgium

June 1, 2018

Proteostasis and Inflammation: Converging Pathways in Neurodegeneration

Li Gan, PhD

Professor, Neurology, Associate Director & Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, UCSF

May 11, 2018

Cellular heterogeneity in response to chemotherapy or micro-environmental signals

Steven Altschuler, PhD

Professor, UCSF School of Pharmacy

May 11, 2018

Cellular heterogeneity in response to chemotherapy or micro-environmental signals

Lani Wu, PhD

Professor, UCSF School of Pharmacy

April 27, 2018

TAF1 and X-Linked Dystonia- Parkinsonism

Cristopher Bragg, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

March 30, 2018

Stem cells and organ regeneration in immortal planarian flatworms

Carrie Adler, PhD

Principal Investigator, Dept. of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University

March 23, 2018

Building Hearts and Heart Parts

Kit Parker, PhD

Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering & Applied Physics, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

March 16, 2018

What is RNAi good for? Lessons from flies and mice, tales of sex and blood

Eric Lai, PhD

Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

March 9, 2018

A synaptic basis of Age-Induced Memory Decline

Stephan Sigrist, PhD

Professor, Institute of Biology, Freie Universtät Berlin & Neurocure, Charité University Medicine Berlin

March 2, 2018

Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells: Regeneration and Aging

Andrew Brack, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF