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San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center SDDRC

Upcoming Center Seminars


May 2025

Date:
Monday, May 19, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Online: Zoom Meeting

Password: 446593

Speaker:

Suzanne Devkota, PhD
Director, Cedars-Sinai Human Microbiome Research Institute
Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Associate Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Title: Gut Microbial Adaptations to Diverse Selection Pressures in Crohn’s Disease

Speaker’s Research Interests: Dr. Devkota has been studying the impact of diet on gut microbiome structure and function in metabolic and inflammatory diseases for the past 17 years. More recently, her lab has focused on the microbial ecology of gut bacterial translocation to adipose tissue in the human body and the body’s response to managing microbes in these atypical sites. Her particular interests include the selection pressures that drive certain commensal microbes toward pathogenic phenotypes, site-specific strain variation, and the influence of diet and medications on these processes.


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