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San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center SDDRC

Upcoming Center Seminars


October 2026

Date:
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: MET Room 143
Online: Zoom Meeting
Password: 244896

Speaker: 
William W. Agace, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor of Mucosal Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
Lund University, Sweden

Title: Unravelling the intestinal CD4+ T cell compartment in health and Crohn’s disease

Speaker’s Research Interests: Dr. Agace's research focuses on intestinal immunology. His laboratory has made significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms that regulate T cell migration to the intestine, as well as the diversity and function of intestinal dendritic cells. More recently, his group has concentrated on characterizing immune cell populations and immune compartments throughout the human intestine in both health and disease.


October 2026

Date:
Monday, October 26, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Speaker: 
Takeshi Saito, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Pathology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Los Angeles CA

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


November 2026

Date:
Monday, November 30, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Speaker: 
Lee A. Denson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Schubert-Martin IBD Center
Director, Digestive Health Center
Research Director, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


December 2026

Date:
Monday, December 14, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Speaker: 
Stephen A. Duncan, DPhil
Professor and Chair
Department: Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology
Programs: Cell Injury, End Organ Disease
Cell Models Core
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Charleston, SC

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


December 2026

Date:
Wednesday, December 16, 2026, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: MET Lower Auditorium

Speaker: 
Hans Clevers, PhD
Hubrecht Institute
Netherlands

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


January 2027

Date:
Monday, January 25, 2027, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Speaker: 
Scott T. Magness, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Joint Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NCSU/UNC-CH
Dept. of Cell & Molecular Physiology
Director, CGIBD Advanced Analytics Core
School of Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


March 2027

Date:
Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: TBD

Speaker: 
Reza Shaker, MD
Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


April 2027

Date:
Wednesday, April 28, 2027, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: TBD

Speaker: 
Suthat Liangpunsakul, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology
Associate Chief of Staff for Research, Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD


May 2027

Date:
Monday, May 24, 2027, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting

Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)

Speaker: 
Arielle Klepper, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University of California, San Francisco

Title: TBD

Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD