Upcoming Center Seminars
April 2025
Date:
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: ACTRI Conference Room 2E-111
Online: Zoom Meeting
Password: 575429
Speaker:
John Mark Gubatan, MD
Instructor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Title: Multi-omics to Understand Host Immune Gut Microbiome Interactions and Therapy Resistance in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Speaker’s Research Interests: Dr. Gubatan's research focuses on the role of inflammatory fibroblasts in neutrophil polarization and function in ulcerative colitis (UC), the interaction of Ig-bound gut bacteria with the immune system in IBD, the use of machine learning to analyze scRNA-seq and immune repertoire PBMC datasets in IBD to model therapy response, and single-cell profiling of mouse models of IBD.
May 2025
Date:
Monday, May 19, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Suzanne Devkota, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Cedars-Sinai Microbiome Research Institute
Division of Gastroenterology
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
June 2025
Date:
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Jessica B. Rubin, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
July 2025
Date:
Monday, July 28, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Renée M. Tsolis, PhD
Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Chair, Microbiology Graduate Group
Associate Director, NIH T32 Animal Models of Infectious Disease
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
August 2025
Date:
Monday, August 25, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Arthur "Art" Beyder, MD, PhD, AGAF
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Associate Professor, Medicine and Physiology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
September 2025
Date:
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH
Vice President, Learning Health System
Margaret M and Albert B Alkek Professor
and Chair, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
October 2025
Date:
Monday, October 06, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Wen-Xing Ding, PhD, FAASLD
William Warner Abercrombie Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
November 2025
Date:
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Folasade (Fola) P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil
Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
Director, Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program
Associate Director, UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Staff Gastroenterologist, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
December 2025
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Howard Hang, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Immunology & Microbiology and Chemistry
Scripps Research
La Jolla, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD