Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Patrick Allard - "From worms to policy-making: A journey in deciphering the impact of environmental exposures on reproduction."
2025-10-31 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BSRB Rm 483
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In this interactive presentation, Dr. Allard will share his laboratory’s research focused on identifying environmental exposures that disrupt reproduction and on uncovering the mechanisms through which they act. He will also discuss how developing expertise in reproductive biology can open pathways to contributing to environmental chemical regulation in California.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Margot Quinlan - “Using Actin to Put Your Head and Heart in the Right Place”
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 483
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In this presentation, Dr. Quinlan will discuss her lab’s research on how the oocyte is developed and organized to produce a viable gamete. She will walk us from single molecule biochemical studies to whole organism research. At the end, Dr. Quinlan will discuss her lab’s related ongoing research.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Molly Fox - “Mothers, Minds, and Matrilines”
2026-01-16 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 483
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This talk explores how kin support—especially from grandmothers and othercaregivers—shapes health, development, and lifelong cognition. Drawing onevolutionary anthropology and biology, Dr. Fox will show how modern socialisolation may be an evolutionary mismatch with profound consequences formaternal and child health.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Chuchu Zhang - “Neural Mechanisms of Nausea”
2026-02-13 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB 483
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Nausea is a protective but often debilitating sensation that limits the use of many important therapies, and current anti-nausea drugs are frequently ineffective because the underlying brain mechanisms are poorly understood. Dr. Zhang will discuss the identification of specific neuron circuits in the brain’s area postrema that drive or suppress nausea in response to blood-borne signals, revealing new targets and a circuit framework for better predicting and therapeutically controlling nausea.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Karen Sears - “Unlocking the secrets of long life: What bats can teach us about healthy aging”
2026-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB Rm 483
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Bats show exceptional longevity with little biological aging despite high metabolic demands. Using methylation-based clocks across diverse species, Dr. Sears reveals that enhanced genome maintenance and cellular repair underlie their healthy aging and longevity.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Sriram Sankararaman - “Insights into the Evolutionary and Genetic Architecture of Human Complex Traits from Biobank-Scale Data”
2026-04-03 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB Rm 483
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This talk will explore how large-scale biobank data are transforming our understanding of the relationships between evolution, genetics, and complex traits across diverse populations. It will also highlight new insights into Neanderthal DNA contributions and reveal how gene-gene and gene-environment interactions play a significant role in shaping human traits beyond traditional additive models.

Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Dr. Teresa Woodruff: "Oncofertility: Bench to Bedside to Babies"
2026-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Campus, CNSI Building
The UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education welcomes National Medal of Science awardee Dr. Teresa Woodruff, a pioneer in merging the fields of oncology and fertility preservation and a recognized champion of women’s health research.

Monthly Seminar Series: Dr. Kathrin Plath - “Exploring X Chromosome Dosage and Blastoids to Model Human Development”
2026-05-01 11:00 - 12:00 | BSRB Rm 483
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This talk will explore how early human development is shaped by signaling pathways and gene regulation, using human stem cell–derived embryo models (blastoids) to study cell fate decisions. It will also highlight complementary research in mouse and human systems on how X chromosome dosage is established, offering new insights into how signaling and gene dosage control cell identity.
