Perspectives on Science-Announcing the 2021-2022 Speaker Series

Dr. Arnab Chatterjee, (Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry at California Institute for Biomedical Research "CALIBR" for The Scripps Research Institute)

Webpages: 

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Seminar Title:  “Repurposing Proven Drugs and Discovering New Drugs for the Fight Against COVID19 and Other Human Pathogens”

Dr. Allyson Muotri, (Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine; Director of the Stem Cell Program Institute for Genomic Medicine)

Webpages: https://profiles.ucsd.edu/alysson.muotri and https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/pediatrics/research/labs/muotri-lab/Pages/default.aspx 

Seminar Title:  “Re-constructing the Human Brain in the Lab”

Dr. Wolfgang Busch, (Professor; Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab; Integrative Biology Lab; and Hess Chair in Plant Science for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

Webpages: https://www.salk.edu/scientist/wolfgang-busch/ and https://busch.salk.edu/

Seminar Title:  "Roots to the Rescue! Using Plant Genetics to Fight the Climate Crisis"

Dr. Simon C. Bott-Suzuki, (Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator of the Pulsed Power Plasmas Group for UC San Diego, Center for Energy Research, and Visiting Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics for Cornell University)

Webpages:  https://cer.ucsd.edu/_profile-pages/bott.html and https://www.p3ucsd.com/

Seminar Title:  “Plasma Science: Powering the Sun, the stars…….and Earth?”

Dr. Gentry Patrick, (Professor of Neurobiology, Director of Mentorship and Diversity, and Director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health for UC San Diego)

Webpages: https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/gpatrick and https://empathyandcompassion.ucsd.edu/centers/center-for-empathy-and-social-justice-in-human-health/index.html

 Seminar Title:  “Destruction for the Sake of Remodeling: The Many Roles of Ubiquitin at CNS Synapses”

Dr. Jennifer Smith, (Professor of Marine Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)

Webpages:   https://coralreefecology.ucsd.edu/people/smith-cv/ and https://coralreefecology.ucsd.edu/

Seminar Title:  "TBD: How Benthic Marine Communities are Structured and Function Under Different Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance Regimes”

Dr. Brian Keating, (Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego)

Webpages: https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ and http://cosmology.ucsd.edu/

 Seminar Title:  “Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Mental Models That Convert Knowledge Into Wisdom”

Dr. Susan Kaech, (Professor, Director, and Foundation Chair of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

Webpages:  https://kaech.salk.edu/

Seminar Title:  “Chewing through the fat: Metabolic Regulation of Anti-Tumor Immunity”