Events
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Past Events
Past Events
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.
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.
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