Past Events

The Biology of a Changing Climate

Biological Stress: From Cells to Societies

Edit, revise, rewrite: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century

January 10, 2020
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Atkinson Hall, UCSD Campus

Speakers

Pam Silver - Keynote Speaker
Designing Living Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
Harvard Institute

Michael Kalichman
Bioethics panel moderator.
University of California, San Diego

Alexis Komor
Investigating enzymatic mechanisms of adenine base editors.
University of California, San Diego

Bruce Conklin
Decoding and Repairing Genetic Disease with CRISPR and iPS cells
University of California, San Francisco

Betul Kacar
Time traveling in the laboratory with the methods of evolution and synthetic biology.
University of Arizona 

Kim Cooper
Tools and technologies to tackle complex genetic problems using mice
University of California, San Diego

Markita Landry
Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants
University of California, Berkeley

Maria Montiel-Gonzalez
Site-directed RNA editing using engineered Adenosine Deaminases
BEAM Therapeutics Inc.

Keolu Fox
University of California, San Diego

Alex Weitzel (Ph.D. student)
A strategy for fast compound conditional knockouts in mice
University of California, San Diego

Stephanie Gamez (Ph.D. student)
Broad Dengue neutralization in mosquitoes expressing an engineered antibody
University of California, San Diego 

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.

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

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.

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