Past Events
2021-2022
The Biology of a Changing Climate
View event poster [PDF]2020-2021
Biological Stress: From Cells to Societies
View event poster [PDF]2019-2020
Edit, revise, rewrite: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century
January 10, 2020
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Atkinson Hall, UCSD Campus
Speakers
![Pamela Silver](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/pam-silver.jpg)
Pam Silver - Keynote Speaker
Designing Living Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
Harvard Institute
![Michael Kalichman](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/michael-kalichman.jpg)
Michael Kalichman
Bioethics panel moderator.
University of California, San Diego
![Alexis Komor](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/alexis-komor.jpg)
Alexis Komor
Investigating enzymatic mechanisms of adenine base editors.
University of California, San Diego
![Bruce Conklin](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/bruce-conklin.jpg)
Bruce Conklin
Decoding and Repairing Genetic Disease with CRISPR and iPS cells
University of California, San Francisco
![Betul Kacar](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/betal-katar.jpg)
Betul Kacar
Time traveling in the laboratory with the methods of evolution and synthetic biology.
University of Arizona
![Kim Cooper](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/kim-cooper.jpg)
Kim Cooper
Tools and technologies to tackle complex genetic problems using mice
University of California, San Diego
![Markita Landry](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/markita-landry.jpg)
Markita Landry
Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants
University of California, Berkeley
![Maria Montiel-Gonzalez](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/maria-montielgonzalez.jpg)
Maria Montiel-Gonzalez
Site-directed RNA editing using engineered Adenosine Deaminases
BEAM Therapeutics Inc.
![Keolu Fox](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/kfox.jpg)
Keolu Fox
University of California, San Diego
![Alex Weitzel](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/alex-weitzel.jpg)
Alex Weitzel (Ph.D. student)
A strategy for fast compound conditional knockouts in mice
University of California, San Diego
![Stephanie Gamez](../../_images/events/speakers/19-20/stephanie-gamez.jpg)
Stephanie Gamez (Ph.D. student)
Broad Dengue neutralization in mosquitoes expressing an engineered antibody
University of California, San Diego
2018-2019
The RNA Revolution
CMG Symposium
January 25, 2019 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
The CMG Symposium is a student organized event designed to bring together innovative reseachers and discuss cutting-edge research.
View event poster [PDF]Speakers
- Susan Ackerman, University of California, San Diego
- tRNA, modifier genes, and neurodegeneration
- Brenda Bass, University of Utah
- ADARs, Dicer, and the dsRNAome
- Ross Buchan, University of Arizona
- Novel P-body assembly mechanisms in yeast - a role for RSP28B 3'UTR scaffolding
- Nick Conrad, UT Southwestern
- Host destruction versus viral protection for nuclear herpesviral RNAs
- Heidi Cook-Andersen, University of California, San Diego
- Post-transcriptional mechanisms driving the transition from oocyte to embryo in mammals
- Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside
- Cross-Kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
- Tracy Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Coordinated regulation of RNA processing in response to the metabolic needs of the cell
- Ian MacRae, The Scripps Research Institute
- Mechanisms of gene regulation by small RNAs
- Colleen McHugh, University of California, San Diego
- Long non-coding RNA interactions and functions in human cancers
- Frank Slack, Harvard University
- The potential for personalized microRNA therapeutics
2017-2018
Host-Pathogen Interactions: Mechanism, Medicine, and Meaning
CMG Symposium
January 19, 2018 | 9AM - 5PM
The CMG Symposium is a student organized event designed to bring together innovative reseachers and discuss cutting-edge research.
View event poster [PDF]Speakers
- Nels Elde, University of Utah
- Evolutionary innovations from biological collisions
- Kelly Doran, University of Colorado
- Mechanisms of Blood-Brain Barrier Penetration by Group B Streptococcus
- Kristian G. Andersen, The Scripps Research Institute
- From Ebola to Zika - tracking large-scale outbreaks using genomics
- Pascal Gagneux, University of California, San Diego
- Mammalian Sperm as Pathogens – Interplay between Natural and Sexual Selection
- Nick Shikuma, San Diego State University
- Stimulation of Animal Metamorphosis by Bacteria
- Marygorret Obonyo, University of California, San Diego
- Helicobacter-induced inflammation: Role of MyD88
- Floyd Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
- Development of antibiotics that inhibit protein secretion
- Erica Ollman Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute
- Antibodies against Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: It takes a Village
- Wenbo Ma, University of California, Riverside
- Effector proteins as molecular probes to understand pathogenicity
- Victor Nizet, University of California, San Diego
- Immune Evasion by Invasive Group A Streptococcus: The Flesh-Eating Bacteria
- James Nieh, University of California, San Diego
- The milkmaid strategy: Using immune priming to activate honey bee immunity against a common microsporidian pathogen, Nosema ceranae
- Roland Liu, University of California, San Diego
- Minor modifications alter antibiotic mechanism of action of plant defense metabolites
- Andrew Ryan, University of California, San Diego
- Investigating the antiviral role of mammalian PARP proteins