Seminars, Grand Rounds, & Other Presentations* (Campus building abbreviations and addresses at bottom) > follow us on Twitter for breaking news and updates

Friday, October 5

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296
Won Kim, MD: "Increased survival with enzalutamide in prostate cancer after chemotherapy."
Catherine Smith, MD: "Heterodimeric JAK-STAT activation as a mechanism of persistence to JAK2 inhibitor therapy"
Contact: Christina Luu.

Radiation Oncology M&M
8:00am - 9:00am, Mount Zion, Radiation Oncology Conference Room H1031
With simulcast to Long Hospital Radiation Oncology Conference Room L-34, 505 Parnassus
"A 24-year-old With Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma and Brain Lesions: A Case of Diagnostic Uncertainty"
Presented By: Jennifer Chang, Ph.D., M.D., Resident Physician, UCSF, Department of Radiation Oncology
Contact: Miriam Gray.

"Winning Strategies in Life Sciences" Conference co-sponsored by QB3
8:00 am - 3:45 pm, Mission Bay, Conference Center
Panels include:
"Vantage Point: Positioning Strategies to Maximize Investment Appeal"
"Tomorrow's Wireless Health Care Applications: Investment, Regulation, and Implementation"
"Life Cycle Management: Ensuring Global IP Protection"
"Big Pharma M&A: Replenishing Pipelines and Creating New Opportunities"
[ view flyer | Register ]

Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology Seminar
10:30 am, Mission Bay, GH N114
"Reprogramming the Genetic Code"
Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Psycho-Oncology Journal Club
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3906
Contact: Molly Berman.

Thyroid Cancer Tumor Board,
2:00 - 4:30 pm Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3805
Contact: 885-7879.

Medical Physics Faculty Seminar
3:00 - 4:00 pm, Mount Zion, Rad Onc conf room H1031
Josephine Chen, PhD
"Applying Deformation Algorithms to Radiation Oncology"
Questions / RSVPs to: Nicole Robinson [ view flyer ]

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160) >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
Hans-Guido Wendel, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering
"Modeling Tumor Suppression with RNAi"
Contact: Geraldine Pacheco. [ view full schedule ]

Sunday, October 7

Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science
11:00 a.m. - 4:15 pm, Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St., San Francisco
Join us for this popular annual day of discovery exploring the impact that food and science have on breast health.
Features healthy food tastings offered by local chefs, nutritional information & easy recipes. Expert panel presentations by UCSF breast cancer specialists. Musical entertainment provided by Dr. Laura Esserman and her band. No charge.
Contact: tasteforthecure@gmail.com or (415) 353-7672 [ Register | more info ]

Monday, October 8

Hematology/Oncology Clinical Case Conference
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296
Raj; Fong
Contact: Christina Luu.

Immunology Seminar
9:00 am, Parnassus, N-225, simulcast to Mission Bay (GH-S271); live stream
Takaharu Okada, PhD, Riken, Japan
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GICD/CVRI Seminar
12:00 pm, Mission Bay, Gladstone Building, Mahley Auditorium
"Branch, expand or regress? Regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in vascular patterning"
Holger Gerhardt, Ph.D., London Research Institute
[ view full schedule | view flyer ]

Single Cell Lunch & Learn sponsored by Fluidigm
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Parnassus, Dolby Stem Cell Bldg Boardroom, RMB-1041
"Uncover the Heterogeneity in your Research: SINGLE-CELL GENOMICS"
Dr. Caroline Dando, Field Application Scientist, Fluidigm Corporation
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Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Grand Rounds
5:00 - 6:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero St., 2nd Floor, Herbst Hall
"Morbidity and Mortality"
Kevin Burke, Megan Durr, Jonathan George, Brandon Prendes (UCSF OHNS Residents)
[ Contact | view full schedule ]

Tuesday, October 9

Diller Building Research-in-Progress Seminar
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
10:00-11:15 am, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160
"Driving Synthetic Lethality in Glioblastoma"
Robyn Wong, Weiss Lab
Contact: Laura Yee, 502-4180.

Stem Cell Journal Club
12:00 noon, Parnassus, Room TBA
"Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis"
Christina Theodoris, Srivastava Lab
[ view papers and full schedule ]

Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium; Simulcast to Parnassus S161
"Chromatin Regulation: new methods and concepts"
Gerald Crabtree, Stanford University
Questions / RSVPs to: Marilyn Hersh. [ view full schedule ]

Wednesday, October 10

Head & Neck Tumor Conference
7:30 - 9:00 am, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3805
Contact: 885-7879.

Breast Oncology Program Weekly Seminar
8:30 - 10:00 am, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter Street
Zev Gartner, PhD, UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Contact: Sarah Goins, 415-502-2986. [ view full schedule ]

Diller Building Journal Club
12:00 noon, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium
Erin Richman
Contact: Kim Tong, 514-4835. [ view full schedule ]

Neuroscience Journal Club
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, N114
Robert Lindquist; Stavros Lomvardas
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CPMCRI Seminar
12:00 noon, CPMC, 475 Brannan Street, Conference Room 214
"Do neurosurgeons dream of electric pigs? Development of neuromodulation treatments for neurologic and psychiatric disorders"
Jens Christian H Sorensen, MD, PhD, DMSc, Scientific Chairman of the Danish Neuroscience Center Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Contact: Virginia Giblin.

CPMCRI: Albert R. Jonsen Bioethics Symposium
2:00 - 5:00 pm, The City Club, 555 Sansome St., SF
"The Journey of Bioethics: Past, Present and Future"
Speakers include Daniel Callahan, PhD, Senior Research Scholar and President Emeritus of The Hastings Center; William J. Winslade, PhD, JD, Professor of Philosophy of Medicine, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Ruth Faden, PhD, Director, John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and others.
Contact: Elin Horwedel [ view flyer ]

Thursday, October 11

BMS Journal Club
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225; videoconferenced to Mission Bay GH-S271; live stream
Nicolas Strauli (student); JJ Miranda (faculty): "HIV Infection in Motion"
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Non-malignant Hematology Case Conference
2:00 - 3:00 pm, Parnassus, M1296
"Insalata mista: a case of VWD and a case of iron overload"
Adam Giermasz, MD
Contact: Neda Mijatovic, 476-4170.

Friday, October 12

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296
HemPath Fellow: Michael Nystrom; Bergsland
Contact: Christina Luu.

Health Disparities Research Symposium VI at UCSF
8:00 am - 1:00 pm, Laurel Heights, Conference Center
Keynote Speaker: Anne C. Beal, MD, PhD, COO, Patient-Centered Outcomes Institute
An exciting scientific program and a showcase of UCSF's stellar disparities research and researchers
Contact: Eliseo Perez-Stable [ registration has closed for this event ]

Sharecase@UCSF
9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Conference Center
Sharecase has been created to expose the technology and IT services available to the UCSF community. The day will feature an exhibition area, how-to sessions, hands-on tutorials, demos on specific software you use every day, answers to your most challenging IT questions, and presentations by UCSF IT service providers, researchers, and industry leaders.
Keynote addresses from UCSF's Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Indiegogo's Danae Ringelmann.
view website for full details

CPMCRI Seminar
12:00 noon, CPMC, 475 Brannan Street, Conference Room 214
"Challenges in HIV Vaccine Development"
Girish Vyas, Ph.D., FRC Path (UK), Professor, UCSF School of Laboratory Medicine; Therabiol, President and CEO
Contact: Virginia Giblin.

Psycho-Oncology Journal Club
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3906
Contact: Molly Berman.

Cancer Center Seminar
Seminar has been cancelled for this date
Contact: Geraldine Pacheco. [ view full schedule ]

Men in Nursing event
5:00 - 8:00 pm, Parnassus, Nursing Mezzanine
Kick-off Social Event
[ view flyer ]

Monday, October 15

Hematology/Oncology Clinical Case Conference
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296
Candidate Talk: Phase 1 - A Drilon
Contact: Christina Luu.

Immunology Seminar
9:00 am, Parnassus, N-225, simulcast to Mission Bay (GH-S271); live stream
Harry Greenberg, MD, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
[ view full schedule ]

Cancer Epidemiology Seminar
3:00 - 4:00 pm, Mission Bay, HD-391
Kyle Walsh (co-present)
Contact: Elad Ziv.

Tuesday, October 16

QED@QB3 Seminar
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Byers Hall, room 212
"Finding your direction with data: navigating from idea to proof of concept to funding"
Elaine Allen, Babson College
Contact: Sun Kwon, 476-5716 [ Register ]

Cancer Center Special Seminar
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160
"Traptamers: artificial transmembrane proteins that modulate cell behavior and inhibit HIV"
Daniel Dimaio, MD, PhD, Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor and Vice Chairman of Genetics, Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Scientific Director, Yale Cancer Center
Contact: Julianne Burkett, 502-1710.

Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium; Simulcast to Parnassus S161
Leonid Kruglyak, Chair, Graduate Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology, Princeton University
Questions / RSVPs to: Marilyn Hersh. [ view full schedule ]

Immunotherapy and Tumor Immunology Journal Club
4:00 pm, Parnassus, HSW 1057
AmyJo Carbon; James Rubenstein
Contact: Lewis Lanier.

Wednesday, October 17

Head & Neck Tumor Conference
7:30 - 9:00 am, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3805
Contact: 885-7879.

Breast Oncology Program Weekly Seminar
8:30 - 10:00 am, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter Street
Zena Werb, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Anatomy, UCSF
Contact: Sarah Goins, 415-502-2986. [ view full schedule ]

Dermatology Research-in-Progress
11:00 am - 12:00 noon, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter St.
"From Studying Large Cohorts to Analyzing Single Molecules"
Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD, Henry Bachrach Distinguished Professor, UCSF
Contact: Ernesto Llamado [ view flyer ]

Diller Building Journal Club
12:00 noon, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium
Allan Balmain
Contact: Kim Tong, 514-4835. [ view full schedule ]

Biostatistics Seminar
3:00 pm, China Basin, Room 6704, Lobby 3, China Basin Landing, Wharfside Building
Jen Tom, University of California Berkeley
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BMS Seminar
4:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225; simulcast to Mission Bay GEN-S271
"Mutation, Network, and the Regulation of Evolvability"
Susan Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine
[ view full schedule ]

Developmental Biology Journal Club
5:30 pm, Mission Bay, CVRI SC159
Kate Woronowicz, Schneider Lab
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Thursday, October 18

BMS Journal Club
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225; videoconferenced to Mission Bay GH-S271; live stream
Ysbrand Nusse (student)
Jeff Bush (faculty): "A sense of closure in the neural-tube or just a polarized view?"
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Friday, October 19

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296
Paulson; Abrams
Contact: Christina Luu.

Psycho-Oncology Journal Club
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3906
Contact: Molly Berman.

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160) >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
J. Gregory Cairncross, MD, Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary
"Oligodendroglioma"
Contact: Geraldine Pacheco. [ view full schedule ]

* Unless noted otherwise, events are free and open to all interested researchers both within and outside UCSF.