UCSF MSK Center & CCMBM Events
Bone Investigator Group
October 16, 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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CCMBM/CSR Hot Talks, Cool Science Seminar Series feat. Kelsey DeFrates, PhD (UCSF) & Sze Kwong Byron Chan, PhD (MGH)
October 21, 12:30-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
This seminar series focuses on musculoskeletal research from our Early Stage and Junior Investigators as an opportunity to share their research across UCSF and Harvard institutions through the CCMBM and CSR.
The October 2026 featured speakers are:
Kelsey DeFrates, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
"Understanding Staphylococcus aureus colonization of the canicular network during bone infection"
Sze Kwong Byron Chan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Endocrine Unit, Mass General Hospital
“The role of Ebf3-expressing progenitors in response to intermittent parathyroid hormone"
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
September 28, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, HSW-302
Shaun Jackson, MD, PhD, Professor of Nephrology and Rheumatology, University of Washington School of Medicine
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Hosted by ImmunoX
September 28, 9:00am-3:00pm & September 29, 1:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
Introduction to RNA-Seq Analysis
RNA-seq provides powerful insights into gene expression and cellular processes. Unlock the full potential of your RNA-seq data in this introductory, hands-on three-session workshop covering a typical bulk RNA-seq workflow, from processing raw sequencing reads to identifying differentially expressed genes and interpreting their biological significance.
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Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
September 29, 7:00-7:30am & October 1, 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.
Join via Zoom (Tuesdays).
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Hosted by the Office of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy
September 29, 10:45am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
Runa Cheng, Bioinformatics Graduate Student, UCSF
Jocelyn Chavez Rios, Biophysics Graduate Student, UCSF
Chad Buteo, CCB Graduate Student, UCSF
Eden Chun, PSPG Graduate Student, UCSF
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Hosted by the PhD Degree Program in Biophysics
September 30, 7:00am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds Series
Haley Oosterhouse, MD, Assistant Professor of Sports Medicine, UCSF
Join via Zoom.
Hosted by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
September 30, 11:00am-12:00pm; Mission Bay, Neuroscience Conference Center - Sandler Auditorium
Fumi Kobo, PhD, Team Director, Laboratory for Sensorimotor Integration, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Hosted by the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
October 1, 11:00am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Literature Searching in the Age of AI: Where to Begin
This hands-on workshop focuses on how to best start basic literature searching using a combination of databases, search engines, and AI tools. Discussion will cover questions to consider that guide whether an AI tool, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Consensus, and Perplexity, can be helpful in the literature searching process. Participants will practice searching a combination of databases, search engines, and AI tools to critique the results.
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Hosted by the UCSF Library
October 1, 11:00am-12:00pm; Mission Bay, RH-102
Annegret Falkner, PhD, Associate Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton Unviersity
"Hormonal Remodeling of Large-Scale Neural Dynamics During Naturalistic Social Behavior"
Hosted by the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
October 1, 11:30am-12:30pm; Parnassus, HSW-302
Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
Charles Crain, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Hosted by the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
October 1, 12:00-1:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
Zaida Luthey-Schulten, PhD, Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"4D Simulations of a Growing and Dividing Minimal Cell"
Watch via livestream.
Hosted by the PhD Degree Program in Biophysics
October 2, 9:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
Data Analysis with Python and SQL, Part 1
This workshop introduces Python and SQL through a series of common data analysis tasks. Through hands-on programming exercises, participants will learn to import tabular data in CSV and Excel format, specify columns, filter by row value, generate summarizations and descriptive statistics, and create pivot tables. This workshop will also introduce the Google Colab programming environment and strategies for, creating, reviewing, and validating code through Google’s generative AI coding assistant.
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Hosted by the UCSF Library
October 2, 9:30-11:00am; Virtual Event
A Slower Introduction to R is a 7-session workshop series on R, focusing on common data-related tasks. Each session will involve short presentations interspersed with hands-on exercises.
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Hosted by the UCSF Library
October 2, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
OCPD Office Hours: Conducting Successful Rotations (for 1st year PhD students)
This office hours is dedicated to talking about lab rotations. In our open discussion, you'll hear from senior students on the Career and Professional Development Interns Team. They'll share their insights and personal experiences with navigating lab rotations so you can learn from peers who went through the process before. Bring your questions or come just to listen!
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Hosted by UCSF Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs
October 2, 12:00-1:00pm; Parnassus, HSW-1057
Diabetes Center Seminar Series
Robert L. Raffai, PhD, Professor, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, UCSF
"Extracellular vesicles produced by human β-cells exposed to T1D-related inflammatory stress cytokines communicate adverse immunometabolic signaling to macrophages & CD4+ T lymphocytes"
Hosted by the Diabetes Center
October 2, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Core Teaching Skills Workshop: Microaggressions in the Learning Environment
This practical workshop will focus on recognizing bias and microaggressions in learning environments, and introduce participants to basic skills to mitigate microaggressions when they occur.
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Hosted by UCSF Medical Education
October 2, 4:00-5:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series
Pavithra Viswanath, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
"Developing an integrated metabolic therapy and imaging strategy for brain tumors"
Hosted by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center