CCMBM & CSR Partner Events

The UCSF CCMBM has a collaborative partnership with our East Coast colleagues in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CSR), a similar Center that serves the greater Boston area and neighboring institutions.

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CCMBM/CSR Hot Talks, Cool Science Seminar Series

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. Sign up required to receive Zoom details to join each seminar.

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2025/2026 Hot Talks, Cool Science Seminar Series

Wednesday, October 15
Michael Davies, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
A multiomic approach to undertanding ischemia reperfusion injuries of skeletal muscle

Hana Kalco
Biomedical Engineering MS, PhD Candidate, Boston University
Inflammatory Crosstalk Between Rotator Cuff Tissues is Altered with Age and Sex
RECORDING

Wednesday, November 19
Priscilla Tjandra, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Collins Lab, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
Complement factor D is a regulator of fat-cartilage crosstalk that drives knee pain and joint damage in osteoarthritis

Guilia Montagna, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orthopedic Research Labs, Departmenet of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hosital & Harvard Medical School
(Almost) A new conditional mouse model to study Osteogenesis Imperfecta
 

Wednesday, January 21
Zsofia Torok, PhD 
Postdoctoral Scholar, Ingraham Lab, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
Identifying Key Hypothalamic Signaling Pathways That Drive Bone Homeostasis
 

Wednesday, June 17
Vikrant Piprode, PhD 
Staff Research Associate, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NICRE), San Francisco VA Medical Center, and UCSF
An inflammatory and bone anti-anabolic role of Progranulin in mice

W. Benton Swenson, DDS, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, Skeletalis Inc.
Reimagining Osteoporosis Therapy: From Academic Discovery to Translational Drug Development

 

Center for Musculoskeletal Research Summer Lecture Series

As part of this collaboration, trainees affiliated with CCMBM labs were invited to attend the CSR Skeletal Biology Summer Course. This six-week course, taught by experts in skeletal research had weekly meetings to review basic concepts in skeletal biology and skeletal research techniques.

The course is recommended for summer students and new members of CCMBM labs who will benefit from foundational training in skeletal research. All sessions will be presented & recorded through Zoom. Contact [email protected] for questions about these lectures.
 

2026 CSR Summer Lecture Series

Wednesday, June 3
Paola Divieti Pajevic, MD, PhD
Bone cells and their functions
Director, Center for Skeletal Research, Boston University

Wednesday, June 10
Petra Simic, MD, PhD
Calcium/phosphate metabolism
Department of Nephrology, Mass General Hospital
 

Wednesday, June 24
Brianne Connizzo, PhD
Tendon Biology
Department of Bioengineering, Boston University

Wednesday, July 1
Courtney Mazur, PhD
Gene editing and cell signaling
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Wednesday, July 8
Dan Brooks
Advanced Imaging Techniques and Analyses
Director, µCT and Mechanical Testing Core, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Wednesday, July 15
Lamya Karim, PhD
Biomechanics
Department of Bioengineering, UMass Dartmouth

Wednesday, July 22
Jae-Hyuck Shim, PhD & Li Zheng, PhD
Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Departments of Rheumatology, UMass Chan Medical School
Department of Immunology, Tufts University

Wednesday, July 29
Ata Kiapour, PhD
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Director, CSR Clinical Phenotyping Core, BCH, Boston Children's Hospital

Wednesday, August 5
Beth Bragdon, PhD
Overview of Fracture Biology and Repair Strategies
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, BU School of Medicine