Life Sciences

UCLA Psychology Presents: Shifting Values, Thoughts and Behaviors in the Time of COVID-19
2021-03-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
The UCLA Department of Psychology
invites you to a special virtual event

UCLA Psychology Presents:
Shifting Values, Thoughts and Behaviors in the Time of COVID-19
Join us for an illuminating conversation featuring
Patricia Greenfield, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
Bridget Callaghan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Keith Holyoak, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Annette Stanton, Ph.D.
Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
Join us to learn about the societal, cultural, behavioral and mental shifts that have taken place during the pandemic in the U.S. From parenting and survival to worldviews and silver linings, we invite you to hear from a few of our renowned psychology faculty on their research.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
5:00 p.m. PDT

Webinar Registration
The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session. Please submit your questions in advance via email tokoleary@support.ucla.edu by Friday, March 12 at 12:00 p.m.

Novel Technologies for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Treatments (UCLA Molecular Biology Institute)
2021-03-16 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA
invites you to a special virtual event
Novel Technologies for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Treatments
an illuminating conversation featuring
David Eisenberg, D.Phil.
The P.D. Boyer Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Molecular Biology Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Tamir Gonen, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Chemistry and Physiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, MicroED Imaging Center
Member, Molecular Biology Institute
Jose Alfonso Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Member, Molecular Biology Institute
with Q&A moderated by
Hilary Coller, Ph.D.
Interim Director, Molecular Biology Institute
Professor, Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Join us to hear about promising new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia being developed thanks to collaborations among research teams at the Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA. The Institute is providing researchers with a unique platform to develop methods to define the structure of proteins and then apply these methods to create new therapies.

Women in Science (UCLA Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology special virtual event)
2021-03-11 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Be inspired by renowned female scientists as they discuss their biomedical research focused on finding solutions to high impact problems. With an introduction by Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, this event will showcase the critical role women play in scientific discovery, education and innovation.
Panelists will include:
Hanna Mikkola, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Karen Lyons, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Orthopaedic Surgery,
David Geffen School of Medicine
Hilary Coller, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Interim Director, Molecular Biology Institute

with Q&A moderated by
Amander Clark, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research

Plant Stories Trapped in Tar: Paleobotany at the La Brea Tar Pits
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
The La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles, California are world famous for their preservation of Ice-Age mammals, especially the iconic, extinct megafauna such as saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, mammoths and mastodons. What is less known, is that the unique asphaltic preservation of past life at La Brea includes much more than mammals, but entire ecosystems of Los Angeles from the Late Pleistocene through the Holocene spanning the last ~57,000 years. While much attention has been given to the fauna, relatively little is known about plant life during this time. Fossil plants preserved at the La Brea Tar Pits include seeds, wood, leaves, needles, cones, pollen and phytoliths. We will detail how these ancient floras reveal a rich history of climatic and environmental change in Los Angeles and Southern California over the last several millennia leading to the formation of our modern day ecosystems.
Join scientists Dr. Regan Dunn, Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, and Jessie George, UCLA PhD Candidate, to explore the ancient flora of Los Angeles and learn about the fascinating field of paleobotany.

Dr. Regan Dunn is an Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. She is a paleobotanist whose research seeks to understand the interplay between climate, plants and animal evolution through time. She studies phytoliths, pollen, leaf fossils and wood to reconstruct ancient vegetation structure and composition. She has a PhD in Biology from the University of Washington, a M.S. in Botany from the University of Wyoming, and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Colorado State University. She recently completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the University of Wyoming and another at the Field Museum of Natural History. She has extensive field experience having worked in the Western U.S. (Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, Oregon), and in Central and South America. She has worked for the National Park Service as a Geologist and has extensive work experience in museums including the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Thomas Condon Paleontology Center in Kimberly, Oregon, the Burke Museum of Nature and Culture in Seattle, WA, and the Field Museum in Chicago, IL. Her work at La Brea Tar Pits focuses on understanding vegetation and vegetation change over the last 50,000 years in the Los Angeles Basin.

Jessie George is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UCLA. She has an MSc in Environmental Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London where she studied ancient agriculture through preserved plant material from archaeological sites. Her current PhD research is on the fossil plants of the La Brea Tar Pits, working to identify and radiocarbon date fossils in the collection to better understand how vegetation changed through time in the Los Angeles Basin in response to changing climates and fauna. Her research interests and work in biogeography and archaeology are focused on the interactions of climate, plant life, and society.
Support free educational programming at the Botanical Garden. Donations of any amount allow us to provide fascinating and free educational programs like this one. Become a Member today to support the Garden’s mission to promote botanical knowledge by curating collections that highlight biogeography, conservation, and natural history. The Garden seeks to inspire environmental and cultural appreciation of plants and their relationship to society through education, research, and public outreach. Our beautiful setting fosters health and tranquility for the community.

Our Home – How California's Landscape is Evolving ( UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology special virtual event)
2021-02-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Featuring:
Victoria Sork, Ph.D.
Director, UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and Herbarium
Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Distinguished Professor, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability

H. Bradley Shaffer, Ph.D.
Director, UCLA La Kretz Center
Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Distinguished Professor, UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Morgan Tingley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

With Q&A moderated by:

Karen Sears, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

A Special Fireside Chat with Nikole Hannah-Jones (DGSOM)
2021-02-16 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
About Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created—and maintains—racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the Black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity. Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of the New York Times’ major multimedia initiative, “The 1619 Project.”
Named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing series of essays and art on the relationship between slavery and everything from social infrastructure and segregation, to music and sugar—all by Black American authors, activists, journalists, and more. Hannah-Jones wrote the project’s introductory essay, which ran under the powerful headline “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True.” The essay earned Hannah-Jones her first Pulitzer Prize, for commentary. Random House has also announced it will be adapting the project into a graphic novel and four publications for young readers, while also releasing an extended version of the original publication, including more essays, fiction, and poetry.
Welcome Remarks and Moderation
Open of Show

Shawn Kang
Senior Director of Human Resources Strategy,
UCLA Health Sciences
Welcome Remarks

Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD
Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Gerald S. Levey, MD, Endowed Chair

Moderator

Eraka P. Bath, MD
Senior Advisor, DGSOM Anti-racism Roadmap
Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA
Special Guest

Nikole Hannah-Jones
MacArthur Genius awardee
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, Peabody recipient

Please visit the DGSOM website for more information.

Let’s Talk Science: Sleep, the Brain, and Human Health from Adolescents to Adults
2021-02-09 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
UCLA Life Sciences
invites you to a special virtual event

Let’s Talk Science:
Sleep, the Brain, and Human Health
from Adolescents to Adults

an illuminating conversation featuring
Gene Block, Ph.D.
UCLA Chancellor
Adriana Galván, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Dean, Undergraduate Education, UCLA College
Gina Poe, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Tracy Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Dean, Life Sciences, UCLA College
Join us for the inaugural event in a compelling new lecture series hosted by Dean of Life Sciences Tracy Johnson. The series highlights UCLA’s research expertise focused on today’s most urgent challenges, from diseases and treatments to mental health, the environment, and the role of science in society.

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session. Please submit your questions in advance via email to koleary@support.ucla.edu by Monday, February 8 at 12:00 p.m.

128th Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA: Michelle Craske, PhD, on how research can inform anxiety and depression treatment
2020-02-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Schoenberg Music Building

The La Kretz Garden Pavilion Open House
2017-09-26 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | Mathias Botanical Garden
Docent tours at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. (reservation not required)

2017 Mautner Memorial Lecture Series
2017-01-25 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
PUBLIC LECTURE:
“How Stress Kills — The Damage and Some Remedies”
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Ohio State University of Medicine
Date: January 25, 2017
Time: 6:30 p.m. Lecture • 7:30 p.m. Light Refreshments
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA
RSVP here

STEM Education Journal Club - Christopher Lee
2016-10-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Christopher Lee, Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Computer Science, will present an instructional seminar titled “Courselets – A Simple Platform in CCLE for Online, In-Class Active Learning.”
Check out the Courselets.org website to learn more.

2016 Science and Food Public Lecture Series
2016-03-08 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Kent Kirshenbaum, NYU ¥ÊDaniel Patterson, Loco’l ¥ Paul Thompson, Michigan State University

Racial Identity Matters: The Role of Racial Discrimination in the Psychological Well-Being of African Americans
2016-03-01 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by UCLA Department of Psychology. Reception to follow at 5PM.

120th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
2016-02-17 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn” RSVP for reception following lecture special events@support.ucla.edu

New Mentoring Course Offered This Winter Quarter 2016
2016-01-13 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
RSVP by Dec. 1

UCLA Science in the Media
2016-01-08 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Film Screening, Q&A and Reception

Sequencing the Human Past
2015-10-23 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Symposium of geneticists, historians, anthropologists and archaeologists to highlight opportunities, challenges and advancements in ancient DNA research and to discuss the scientific and ethical implications of the genetic study of human populations

Life Sciences Diversity Advisory Committee Seminar Series
2015-10-22 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Meyerhoff Scholars Program: Successful approaches for attracting and retaining a diverse STEM workforce

Announcing the Life Science Innovation Fund Call for Proposals
2015-10-21 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
For all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates who seek to bring basic discoveries in life sciences closer to translational research with potential for eventual commercialization.

UCLA CEILS Annual Faculty Workshop on Best Practices in Teaching
2015-09-17 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Learn interactive & inclusive teaching strategies, effective course design, & classroom technologyÑ helpful for large enrollment courses

Free Public Lecture Sponsored by UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics & Others
2015-05-11 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Professor Giuseppe Testa, MD, PhD., European Institute of Oncology and European School of Molecular Medicine Milan, Italy

The 8th Annual "Dealing for Duchenne"
2015-05-09 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
2015 Honorees: Chris Moore (Principal, Media Farm), Jenno Topping (President, Chernin Entertainment)

Oppenheim Lecture Series
2015-05-06 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Paul Barber, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

Ghost Dogs: Coyotes as Top Predators of the City
2015-04-18 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Stan Gehrt, Professor and Wildlife Specialist at The Ohio State University

Marschak Colloquium
2015-04-16 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Jessica Flack, Co-Director, Center for Complexity & Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

2015 Mautner Memorial Lecture Series
2015-02-18 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Barbara Romanowicz, Professor Geophysics, UC Berkeley

The Alfred Russel Wallace Centennial Celebration
2014-11-15 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Speakers include: Andrew Berry, Jared Diamond, Ed Larson, Michael Shermer, Frans de Waal, Tim Laman, Edwin Scholes, and Wade Davis. Link to register available here starting Sept. 20

117th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
2014-10-06 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.

FAC TECH
2014-09-25 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
An opportunity for all faculty to learn Box, CCLE UCLA, EndNote, i-clicker, Jing, Kaltura, lynda.com, Prezi, Qualtrics, Turnitin, Zaption. No RSVP required. For details contact Dawn Canfield; dawn@psych.ucla.edu 310-794-9326

Life Science Awards Ceremony
2014-06-03 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
RSVP by May 28th to Sandra Hwang: shwang@college.ucla.edu
