2018 – 2019 Schedule
October 2, 2018
Dr. Sarah Purkey, (Assistant Researcher for UC San Diego and Oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Webpages: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/spurkey and https://www.ocean.washington.edu/story/Congratulations+to+Dr+Sarah+Purkey!
Seminar Title: “Deep and Abyssal Ocean Warming from 35 Years of Repeat Hydrography”
November 6, 2018
Dr. Omar Akbari, (Assistant Professor in the Cell and Developmental Biology Section, within the Division of Biological Sciences, at UC San Diego)
Webpages: https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/oakbari and https://www.akbarilab.com/
Seminar Title: “Innovating Genetic Technologies to Combat Disease-Causing Mosquitos”
December 4, 2018
Dr. Shirley Meng, (Professor of Nano Engineering and Materials Science, Founding Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center, and Zable Endowed Chair Professor for Energy Technologies at UC San Diego)
Webpages: http://smeng.ucsd.edu/faculty/, http://smeng.ucsd.edu/ and http://spec.ucsd.edu
Seminar Title: "The Global Race for Better Batteries: a Materials Science Perspective"
January 22, 2019
Dr. Christina Chambers, (Co-Director of the Center for Better Beginnings and Professor in the Dysmorphology and Teratology Division of the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego)
Webpages: https://profiles.ucsd.edu/christina.chambers#toc-id6, https://betterbeginnings.org/ and https://mothertobaby.org/
Seminar Title: “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Common, Under Recognized, But Preventable Disability”
February 19, 2019
Dr. Phil Baran, (MacArthur Fellow and Professor, Department of Chemistry and Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry for The Scripps Research Institute)
Webpages: https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/baran/, https://baranlab.org/ and https://vivo.scripps.edu/display/BaranPhil
Seminar Title: “Translational Chemistry”
March 12, 2019
Dr. Paul C. Grint (M.D.), (Chief Executive Officer of AmpliPhi Biosciences)
Webpages: http://www.ampliphibio.com/dr-paul-grint/, https://investor.ampliphibio.com/press-release/featured/ampliphi-biosciences-appoints-paul-c-grint-md-chief-executive-officer, and http://www.ampliphibio.com/about-us/
Seminar Title: “100 Years Later - Bacteriophages as a Potential Treatment for Antibiotic Resistant Infections”
April 9, 2019
Dr. Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, (Professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and Roger Guillemin Chair for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
Webpages: http://belmonte.salk.edu/ and https://www.salk.edu/news-release/early-gene-editing-success-holds-promise-preventing-inherited-diseases/
Seminar Title: “Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases”
May 7, 2019
Dr. Clarissa Anderson, (Executive Director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Webpages: http://andersonellis.net/pages/about.html and http://sccoos.org/
Seminar Title: “Toxins from Space”