Fall 2026 Biology 870 Department Seminar

  • BIOL 870 Colloquium Instructor: Dr. Archana Anand
  • When: Thursdays 2:00–3:00 PM (student time 3:00–3:30 PM)
  • Location: SCI 210


     
Date Speaker Content Website
08/27/2026 Ashanti Matlok, PhD Senior scientist in the Biotech startup ecosystem linkedin.com/in/ashanti-matlock
09/03/2026 Aryan Taheri, PhD (candidate) Senior PhD student at UCBerkeley (Joint Graduate Student - Nogales & Yildiz Labs)  
09/10/2026 Nathan Gamarra, PhD Further developing and extending DiMeLo-seq to interrogate core questions in chromatin organization and gene regulation.  
09/17/2026 Jonelle Basso, PhD Research Scientist, Visel Lab (JGI/ LBNL) https://biosciences.lbl.gov/profiles/jonelle-tamara-basso/
09/24/2026 Avery Noonan, PhD Post doctoral fellow in the Arkin Laboratory: Genomics & Systems Biology https://arkinlab.bio/lab-member/avery-noonan/
10/01/2026 John R. Paul, Ph.D. Associate Professor at USF; Ecology and evolution of plants; molecular phylogenetics, population and genomics, greenhouse and field experiments  
10/08/2026 Nathan Schoepp, PhD Scientist in Biotech: Specialist and consultant   
10/15/2026 Kenisha A. Puckett, PhD Stem Cell Biologist- Maternal Fetal Medicine Kenisha.puckett@gmail.com
10/22/2026 Lucy Brennan, PhD Currently a Research Scientist at Genentech. Biophysicist/ Biochemist specializing in protein biochemistry, quantitative microscopy, and single-molecule biophysics linkedin.com/in/lucy-brennan-4936b9169
10/29/2026 Caroline Escoubas   https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-escoubas-g%C3%BCney/
11/05/2026 Roshanak Irannejad, PhD Associate Professor, UCSF (Department of Biochemistry & Biophysic/Cardiovascular Research Insitute) : GPCR Cell Biologist https://irannejadlab.ucsf.edu/index.php/projects/
11/12/2026 Frederic E Theunissen; Julie E Elie (twin talks) UC Berkeley (Frédéric Theunissen, Professor of Neuroscience, Director to Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, Helen Wills Neuroscience Graduate Group. Biophysics Graduate Group. theunissen@berkeley.edu) http://theunissen.berkeley.edu 
11/19/2026 Andrea Gomez, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Bio @ UCBerkeley. The Gomez lab uses molecular biology, electrophysiology, and functional imaging to decode the instructive cues that organize neural networks. THey focus on mechanisms that specify synaptic properties and determine how these properties bias the timescales of neuronal computation. https://www.andreagomezlab.com/
12/03/2026 Kristin (Rule) Gleitsman, PhD Discuss the use of AI & biological foundation models to answer key questions in human biology. m a biochemist by training, now working as CSO of a company that has built an RNA-based foundation model (www.eigenbioai.com). https://eigenbioai.com/
12/10/2026 Leah Guthrie, PhD.  Assistant Professor at UCBerkeley: The Guthrie lab investigates the principles that govern microbial metabolism and signaling in the context of kidney homeostasis and disease using mass spectrometry, chemoinformatics, and molecular biology approaches. https://www.theguthrielab.com/research