Mentor Professor search

Mentor Professor seminars

The following candidates have been scheduled for seminars:

9am, 6th December: Mireille Kamariza, Harvard University  (MIMG)

“Environment-sensitive probes for point-of-care diagnosis of infectious diseases”

Contact Christopher Vonderach (CVonderach@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

9am, 7th December: Lena Parnas, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne  (MIMG)

“Microbial infection as a lens to study mitochondria and metabolism”

Contact Christopher Vonderach (CVonderach@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

9am, 8th December: Mehdi Bouhaddou, UCSF  (MIMG, BC)

"Omics to Mechanism: Decoding signaling networks from big data in infectious disease and cancer”

Contact Christopher Vonderach (CVonderach@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

9am, 13th December, Elizabeth Pollina, Harvard University (NB)

Contact Catherine Weston (CWeston@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

10am, 13th December: Debora Sobreira,University of Chicago  (BC, HG)

Contact Kristen Lorico (kristen.lorico@gmail.com) for Zoom details

 

10am, 13th December:Lillian Brady, Vanderbilt (NB)

"Sex-specific cholinergic regulation of dopamine release mechanisms in the nucleus accumbens"

Contact Catherine Weston (CWeston@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

1pm, 13th December: Edward Nieh, Princeton University (PHYS)

"Population Neural Dynamics in the Hippocampus (and Beyond)"

Contact Emma Planas (EPlanas@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

10am, 14th December: Lauren Casimere (Goins), UCLA (BC)

Contact Kristen Lorico (kristen.lorico@gmail.com) for Zoom details

 

2pm, 15th December: Rachel Niederer, Yale University  (BC)

Contact Kristen Lorico (kristen.lorico@gmail.com) for Zoom details

 

9am, 16th December: Mary Kay Lobo, University of Maryland Medical Center (NB)

"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of disrupted motivation"

Contact Catherine Weston (CWeston@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

1:30pm, 16th December: Cindy Poo, Champalimaud Centre  (PHYS)

"Cortical circuits for olfactory behavior"

Contact Emma Planas (EPlanas@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

9am, 17th December: Lydia Daboussi, Salk Institute (NB)

Contact Catherine Weston (CWeston@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

9am, 17th December:  Fayal Abderemane-Ali, UCSF (PHYS)

"How to survive in a toxic environment? Lessons from poisonous birds and frogs"

Contact Emma Planas (EPlanas@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

The following candidates have been scheduled for short talks:

3:30pm, 6th December, Tripara Sen, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center  (PHARM)

"DNA Damage Response in the Evolution and Treatment of Cancer"

3:30pm, 8th December, Hema Adhikari,  Duke University  (PHARM)

"Interrogating the RAS oncoprotein interactomes for therapeutic vulnerabilities"

10:30am, 9th December: Tanya Stoyanova, Stanford University  (PHARM)

"Developing Early Detection and Therapeutic Strategies for Cancer"

10:30am, 13th December, Roarke Kamber, Stanford University  (PHARM)

"Systematic approaches for investigating cancer resistance to macrophage-mediated immunotherapy"

Contact Bernadette Omote (BOmote@mednet.ucla.edu) for Zoom details

 

The following candidates are being scheduled for a more depth interview:

8th December: Trevor Sorrells, Rockerfeller University (HG)

10th December: Longzhi Tan, Stanford University (HG)

10th December: Zhuzhu Zhang, Salk Insitute (HG)

 

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Finalist's symposium:  21st January 2021