Archive: 2022 Seminar Schedule
All* seminars will begin 15:30 GMT (11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT)
For information on how to access the seminars, please check the Contacts page for how to get in touch
Seminars:
June 9 *(Special start time at 23:00 GMT/7:00pm EDT/4:00pm PDT
Keynote Speaker: Shinya Kuroda, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science
“Systems Biology of Insulin Action and Metabolism”

June 16 (Original start time at 15:30 GMT/11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT
Keynote Speaker: Hana El-Samad, PhD
Kuo Family Endowed Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Deputy-Director of the Cell Design Institute
UCSF
Joining Altos Labs, spring 2022
“Respect the loops”
Join us for a virtual Poster Session after the seminar!
Register here to present a poster by June 10th

June 23
Speaker 1: Beverly Naigles (Graduate Student, Hao Lab, UC San Diego)
“Tracking the dynamics of immune responses at a single-cell level”

Speaker 2: Veronica Biga, PhD (Research Fellow, Papalopulu Lab, University of Manchester)
“Multiscale, dynamic and spatially-periodic coordination of gene expression in spinal cord progenitor cells”

June 30
Speaker 1: Marwa Afifi, PhD (Postdoc, Cappell Lab, NCI)
“MYC inactivation is necessary for the commitment to and maintenance of cellular senescence”

Speaker 2: Carla Mulas, PhD (King’s Prize Fellow, King’s College London)
“Signalling dynamics during cell state transitions”

July 7
Speaker 1: Timm Schroeder, PhD (Professor, ETH Zurich)
“Long-term single-cell dynamics quantification: New tools for old questions”

Speaker 2: Tobias Kull, PhD (Postdoc, Schroeder Lab, ETH Zurich)
“NF-κB signaling dynamics throughout the hematopoietic system”

July 14
Speaker 1: Devan Murphy (Graduate Student, Albeck Lab, UC Davis)
“Combinatorial signaling dynamics of NF-kB, ERK, and AMPK that regulate IL-8”

Speaker 2: Rachel Gottschalk, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
“Computational modeling of STAT activation features that predict gene expression profiles”

July 21
Speaker 1: Humza Ashraf (Graduate Student, Spencer Lab, UC Boulder)
“Beta-galactosidase marks long durations of cell cycle exit rather than exclusively cellular senescence”

Speaker 2: Josh Leonard, PhD (Associate Professor, Northwestern University)
“Probing and programming mammalian gene expression programs using synthetic biology”

July 28
Speaker 1: Shah Md Toufiqur Rahman, PhD (Postdoc, Sung Lab, NIA)
“NF-κB reporter mouse models: a new tool for monitoring endogenous NF-κB activity at single-cell resolution”

Speaker 2: Davide Mazza, PhD (Associate Professor, San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
“Single molecule tracking to probe the transcription factor search mechanism in eukaryotes”

August 4
Speaker 1: Stefan Lundgren (Graduate student, Collins lab, UC Davis)
“Signaling dynamics distinguish high and low priority neutrophil attractant receptors”

Speaker 2: Ran Kafri, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)
Title: TBD

August 11
Speaker 1: Michelle Frei, PhD (Postdoc, Zhang lab, UC San Diego)
“A new dimension: HaloTag variants for fluorescence lifetime multiplexing”

Speaker 2: David Suter, PhD (Associate Professor, EPFL)
“Dynamics of H2A.Z through the cell cycle”

August 18
Speaker 1: Nick DeCuzzi (Graduate student, Albeck lab, UC Davis)
“Lung Epithelial Micro-Environment Modulates Spatial ERK Signaling Dynamics”

Speaker 2: Jen Oyler-Yaniv, Phd (Principal Investigator, Harvard Medical School)
“Plasticity in cell fate during infection shapes the inflammatory response”

August 25
Speaker 1: Debasish Paul, PhD (Postdoc, Cappell lab, NCI)
“An mTOR-APC/C-phosphatase loop mediates a metabolic switch during cell-cycle entry”

Speaker 2: Lucas Pelkmans, PhD (Professor, University of Zurich)
“Multimodal perception links cellular state to decision making in single cells”

September 1
Speaker 1: Gregor Neuert, PhD (Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University)
“Determining mechanisms of regulation by antisense long noncoding RNAs”

Speaker 2: Matthias Heinemann, PhD (Professor, University of Groningen)
“Metabolic dynamics during the cell cycle”

September 8
Speaker 1: Hugh Ford, PhD (Postdoc, Chubb lab, UCL)
“The signal coding properties of rotating spiral waves”

Speaker 2: Tatiana Netterfield (Graduate Student, Yaffe Lab, MIT)
“Elucidating how MAPK pathways control the senescence/proliferation decision after DNA damage”

Workshops:
March 10, 2022
Optogenetics workshop: from the fundamentals to the cutting edge.
Learn how to construct your own optogenetic tools for the modulation of intracellular signaling, how to use a simple LED-device for precise temporal activation, and how to set up a platform for single-cell feedback-control experiments.
Workshop leaders:
Lucien Hinderling, University of Bern
Thomas Hӧhener, University of Bern
Lorena Benedetti, Janelia Research Campus
16:30 GMT/11:30am EST/8:30am PST
April 21, 2022
Long-term imaging and quantification of mRNAs in live single cells using SunRISER and dNEMO
This workshop will provide an overview of how to implement the SunRISER approach for live-cell imaging of single mRNAs and a demonstration for rapid automated and semi-automated detection of fluorescent puncta from time-lapse images using the dNEMO interface.
Workshop leaders:
Gabriel Kowalczyk (Lee Lab, University of Pittsburgh)
Yue Guo (Lee Lab, University of Pittsburgh)
Zachary Hemminger (Wollman Lab, UCLA)
16:30 GMT/11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT
May 19, 2022
Analysis of single-cell time series data
Workshop leaders:
Mathias Heltberg (Niels Bohr Institute)
Michael Pargett (University of California, Davis)
Adrian Granada (Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, Berlin)
15:30 GMT/11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT