The Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology series is a long-running UC Davis forum that brings leading scientists to campus to share advances across the molecular life sciences.
Dr. Stephen E.P. Smith is a principal investigator at the Norcliffe Foundation Center for Integrative Brain Research and an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received a PhD from Caltech, where he trained under Dr.
Megan Martik, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development, University of California, Berkeley, presents "Harnessing the regenerative capacity of the neural crest for cardiac repair".
Angelo Forli, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, presents "From Social Networks to Neural Ensembles: Neural Mechanisms of Individual and Group Spatial Behaviors".
Jeffrey Farrell, Early Stadtman Investigator and Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, presents "Cell States and Cell Fates During Zebrafish Development".