Department Seminar

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.

Upcoming Seminar

A Path from Research to Clinic: Advancing Therapies for Common and Rare Human Diseases
Dr. Ricardo Ramirez, MED13L Foundation

February 25, 2026
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-105

From the 3D folding of DNA to first-in-human genomic medicines, this seminar follows how fundamental insights into gene regulation become real therapies. I’ll share how FoxP3 programs immune tolerance through higher-order chromatin interactions, how these principles enabled epigenetic silencing of hepatitis B virus now in Phase I trials, and how misregulation of MED13L disrupts brain development—pointing toward emerging therapeutic strategies. The throughline: understanding gene control at its roots can open new paths to treat immune, infectious, and rare neurodevelopmental diseases.

genome regulation and therapeutic development for rare diseases
Fig.: Genome regulation and therapeutic development for rare diseases: regulatory T cell genomic control, developing the first-in-human epigenetic editing therapeutic, therapeutic development for a rare disease MED13L syndrome.

Seminar Coordinator

For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:

Dr. Michael Schramm
Michael.Schramm@csulb.edu

Schedule

The schedule for Spring 2026 is as follows. Additional details may be added as the semester progresses.

Upcoming Seminars
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
February 25, 2026A Path from Research to Clinic: Advancing Therapies for Common and Rare Human DiseasesDr. Ricardo Ramirez, MED13L Foundation
March 4, 2026Energy Storage and Conversion: The Coupling Between Ion Insertion and Surface Reactivity in Oxygen ElectrocatalysisDr. J. Tyler Mefford, UC Santa Barbara
March 11, 2026TBAMartina Wiedau, UCLA
March 18, 2026TBAJenny Y. Yang, UC Irvine
March 25, 2026TBAJustin Wilson, UC Santa Barbara
April 8, 2026TBAElizabeth Lee, UC Irvine
April 15, 2026TBAWanlu Li, UC San Diego
April 22, 2026TBAJulia Chan, CSU Fullerton
April 29, 2026TBASkylar Chuang
May 6, 2026TBAHannah Shafaat, UCLA

Previous Seminars

Upcoming Seminars
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
February 4, 2026Ion transport under nanoconfinement: Insights from machine learning-based molecular dynamicsDr. Kara Fong, Caltech

The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.

The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.