UCSF MSK Center & CCMBM Events
Bone Investigator Group
April 10, 10:30-11:30am; Virtual Event
Investigators can present their clinical research grants or data and receive feedback and informal consultation from peers and senior investigators.
Please contact Lucy Wu for more information or if you'd like to present your research at an upcoming meeting.
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MSK Center CCMBM Grant Review Sessions
*If you are not a member, you may concurrently join during your grants review period.
MSK Center CCMBM would like to help investigators strengthen their grant proposals for the next RAP cycle deadline for Pilot grant applications and/or NIH deadlines. We invite CCMBM MSK Center members* to participate in the Grants Review program to receive 1:1 feedback and/or live panel review with peers as well as coaching from experienced investigators.
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CCMBM Member Featured Publication Submissions
Are you a CCMBM member? Have you recently published new research that you're excited about sharing with the MSK Community? Let the CCMBM and UCSF Musculoskeletal Center help promote your science discoveries!
Simply complete the our submission form and we will spotlight your publication in a future newsletter and on social media. We are excited to learn about your research!
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Partner Events
April 6, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, HSW-302
Judy Lieberman, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Hosted by ImmunoX
April 6-7, 1:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
Introduction to R Data Analysis
The scripting language R is considered one of the most powerful languages for quantitative analysis, statistics, and graphics. This workshop will help you get started using R to analyze your datasets and create graphs for visualization. You’ll do hands-on exercises to demystify data analysis using R.
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
April 7, 7:00-7:30am & April 9, 12:00-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Compliance Educator Office Hours
Schedule time to meet with an Educator. Bring your coding and documentation concerns. We are here to help you.
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Hosted by the Office of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy
April 7, 10:00-11:00am; Parnassus, HSW-300
Jenny Zhang, Tetrad Graduate Student, UCSF
"A yeast co-cultured with bacteria must detox nitric oxide (NO) to survive"
Hosted by iMicro
April 7, 10:45am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
Katie Scukas, CCB Graduate Student, UCSF
Oliver Sampson-Tonge, CCB Graduate Student, UCSF
Keerthi Renduchintala, Biophysics Graduate Student, UCSF
Ben Sokol, CCB Graduate Student, UCSF
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Hosted by the PhD Degree Program in Biophysics
April 7, 11:00am-12:30pm; Mission Bay, Gladstone Institutes - Mahley Auditorium
2026 Lloyd "Holly" Smith Distinguished Lecture
Daniel J. Drucker, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, University of Toronto
"GLP-1 Medicines: Expanding Clinical Impact and Complex Mechanisms"
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
April 7, 12:00–1:00pm; Virtual Event
Education Scholarship Conference (ESCape)
Education Scholarship Conference (ESCape) is a weekly group consultation for scholarly work in health professions education with CFE faculty and other members of the UCSF education community.
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Hosted by the UCSF Center for Faculty Educators
April 7, 3:00-4:30pm; Parnassus, Cole Hall
2026 Zena Werb Memorial Lecture in Cancer Biology
Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009 & Professor Emerita of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF
"From Outside to Inside: Effects of Human Cells' Environments on Control of Telomere Integrity"
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
April 7, 4:00-5:00pm; Virtual Event
Navigating AI for Your Research: Tools, Tips, and Pitfalls
Curious how AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT might fit into your research? Already using them and want to get more out of them, or wondering where the pitfalls lie? Join Natalie Gill, Bioinformatician II, for an hour to talk through how you’re using AI in your work, get hands-on help with effective prompting strategies.You’ll also learn when these tools can genuinely accelerate your science and when they might lead you astray.
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
April 8, 7:00am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds Series
Kristine Godziuk, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, UCSF
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Hosted by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
April 8, 8:30-9:30am; Virtual Event
Samuel Thompson, MD, Fellow, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UCSF
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Hosted by the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
April 8, 11:00am-12:30pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
LCA Genome Seminar: Molecular Instruments
Join us for an in-depth look at the power of HCR Gold IF, powered by the HCR HiFi Encoder, for game-changing multiplex protein imaging! We'll also explore HCR Pro RNA-ISH, designed for challenging, low-abundance targets where maximizing sensitivity and signal-to-background matter most.
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Hosted by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
April 8, 12:00-1:00pm PT; Virtual Event
CMSR Wednesday Methods Workshop
Lin Han, PhD, Professor Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University
“Pivotal roles of pericellular matrix in cell-matrix cross-talk and disease initiation”
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Hosted by MGH CMSR
April 8, 12:00-1:00pm; Parnassus, HSW-302
Ortho Research in Progress Seminar (RIPS)
Jessica Wagner, PT, DPT, Rehabilitative Science Graduate Student, Collins Lab, UCSF
“Uncovering the Role of the Infrapatellar Fat Pad in Knee Osteoarthritis and Pain”
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Hosted by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
April 8, 1:00-2:00pm; Mission Bay, GenHall - Cafe 24
Get help with your questions at our bi-weekly office hours sessions.
Hosted by the UCSF Institutional Animal Care and Use Program
April 8, 1:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Michael Snyder, PhD, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford University
“Disrupting Healthcare Using Deep Data, Remote Monitoring and AI”
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Hosted by QB3
April 8, 3:00-4:00pm; Mission Bay, Gladstone 107 C/D
Crafting Your Elevator Pitch and Communicating with Donors and Non-Scientists
Join Brittany Anderton, Associate Director of Philanthropy at Gladstone, to discuss principles of communicating with non-scientific audiences to make you more effective in sharing your science and research with members of the public, donors, and more. This session will center on crafting your elevator pitch and also cover other topics to improve your science communication skills with non-scientists.
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
April 9, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, HSW-302
Sara Misiukiewicz, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Gabriella Kimmerly, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
April 9, 11:30am-12:30pm; Parnassus, HSW-302
Katie Herm, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Gilbert Herrera, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Hosted by the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
April 9, 12:00-1:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
Susan Shao, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
"Substrate selection by ubiquitin ligase complexes"
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Hosted by the PhD Degree Program in Biophysics
April 9, 1:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Epidemiology & Biostatistics Seminar Series
Pehui Qiu, PhD, Dean's Professor & Founding Chair of Biostatistics, University of Florida
"Recent Statistical Methods for Dynamic Disease Screening and Spatio-Temporal Disease Surveillance"
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Hosted by the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
April 10, 6:00am PT; Virtual Event
Avioli Musculoskeletal Research Seminar Series
Aline Martin, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Hosted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Musculoskeletal Research Center
April 10, 9:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
Intro to Python: Tabular Data and Visualization
This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of data analysis using Python, with a focus on the Pandas library for handling tabular data. Attendees will learn how to import, clean, and manipulate datasets efficiently, as well as perform common operations such as filtering, aggregating, and merging data. The session will also cover essential techniques for visualizing data using libraries like Matplotlib and Seaborn, enabling participants to create clear and informative charts. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid understanding of how to process, analyze, and visualize tabular data in Python.
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Hosted by the UCSF Library
April 10, 12:00-1:30pm; Parnassus, HSW-302
Ashley Fox, DSCB Graduate Student, UCSF
Max Hammer, DSCB Graduate Student, UCSF
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Hosted by the Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program
April 10, 4:00-5:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series
Kristen Pauken, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology, Division of Discovery Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Thinking outside the tumor to maximize PD-1 immunotherapy response"
Hosted by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center