Life Sciences

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.

Our Home – How California's Landscape is Evolving ( UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology special virtual event)
2021-02-23 17:30 - 18:30
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

Plant Stories Trapped in Tar: Paleobotany at the La Brea Tar Pits
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Women in Science (UCLA Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology special virtual event)
2021-03-11 17:30 - 18:30
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

Novel Technologies for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Treatments (UCLA Molecular Biology Institute)
2021-03-16 17:30 - 18:30
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.

UCLA Psychology Presents: Shifting Values, Thoughts and Behaviors in the Time of COVID-19
2021-03-17 17:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Let's Talk Science: Understanding Memory: From the Mind to Immunity
2021-05-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom
UCLA Life Sciences
invites you to a special virtual event
Let’s Talk Science:
Understanding Memory: From the Mind to Immunity
an illuminating conversation featuring
Alan Castel, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
David Glanzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Professor, Department of Neurobiology
Maureen Su, M.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology
with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Tracy Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA College
Join us for the second 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. “Memory” has taken on a whole new meaning in the last several years, and we are excited to explore the science of memory from a molecular, psychological and immunological perspective.

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session. Please submit your questions in advance via email to koleary@support.ucla.edu by Friday, May 21 at 12:00 p.m.

10 Questions: If not now, when? - with Professor Adriana Galvan
2021-09-27 19:00
10 Questions: If not now, when? is a public event series series that brings together some of the most compelling thinkers from UCLA and beyond, in an effort to consider the actions we can take to address the healing that is called for in this moment.
Join the online conversation with developmental neuroscientist Adriana Galvan; assembly member, public policy expert, social justice scholar Isaac Bryan; artist Lauren Lee McCarthy, and Victoria Marks, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “How do we connect?”

10 Questions: If not now, when? - with Professor Christina Palmer
2021-10-04 19:00
10 Questions: If not now, when? is a public event series series that brings together some of the most compelling thinkers from UCLA and beyond, in an effort to consider the actions we can take to address the healing that is called for in this moment.
Join the online conversation with genetic counselor and UCLA society and genetics professor Christina Palmer; public health educator Ping Ho; interdisciplinary artist Sylvan Oswald, and Victoria Marks, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “How do we begin?”

10 Questions: If not now, when? - with Professor Naomi Eisenberger
2021-10-11 19:00
10 Questions: If not now, when? is a public event series series that brings together some of the most compelling thinkers from UCLA and beyond, in an effort to consider the actions we can take to address the healing that is called for in this moment.
Join the online conversation with ; psychology professor Naomi Eisenberger; playwright Luis Alfaro; inspired storyteller and communicator Mary Osako , and Victoria Marks, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “How do we connect?”

Genetically Engineering Brown Algae to Reduce Greenhouse Gases • CNSI Noble Fund Seminar
2021-10-13 12:00
CNSI Noble Fund Seminar with MCDB Professor Siobhan Braybrook and Law Professor Timothy Malloy.

Lunch & Learn: Stuffed Birds in the Dickey Collection
2021-10-18 12:00 - 12:30

10 Questions: If not now, when? - with Professor Vickie Mays
2021-10-25 19:00
10 Questions: If not now, when? is a public event series series that brings together some of the most compelling thinkers from UCLA and beyond, in an effort to consider the actions we can take to address the healing that is called for in this moment.
Join the online conversation with clinical psychologist and health policy expert Vickie Mays; interdisciplinary scholar David Shorter; and composer, performer, conductor, educator, speaker, and minister Diane White-Clayton, and Victoria Marks, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “How do we heal?”

Noble Family Innovation Fund Seminar Series: Improving the taste and texture of lab-made meat
2021-10-28 12:00
As one of the inaugural awardees of the California NanoSystems Institute’s Noble Family Innovation Fund, associate professor of integrative biology and physiology, Amy Rowat, will give a brief presentation about the research her lab is undertaking to create a better-tasting, lab-grown meat, in hopes of reducing the environmental burden of livestock farming.

"California's Urban Forests in a Changing Environment"
2021-11-04 17:00 | La Kretz Garden Pavilion
UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is hosting author and professor Matt Ritter, Ph.D. who will share how we can promote healthy urban forests in cities around California. RSVP https://linktr.ee/uclabotanical

The Future of Food and the Brain-Body Connection
2021-11-08 17:00 - 18:00
UCLA’s Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology is hosting a special virtual event: “The Future of Food and the Brain-Body Connection”, a conversation with:
Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D.– De Logi Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
Amy Rowat, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair in Food Studies
Q&A moderated by Integrative Biology and Physiology Chair and Professor, Rachelle H. Crosbie, Ph.D.
Find more information and register for the event, here.

UCLA Psychology Presents: The Science of Relationships: How We Connect, and Why It Matters
2021-12-01 17:30
Join us for an illuminating conversation featuring
Benjamin Karney, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Carolyn Parkinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Rena Repetti, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Annette Stanton, Ph.D.
Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology
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, November 29 at 12:00 p.m

Psychology Presents: The Neuroscience of Cravings, Comas and Cross-Ideological Conversations (a free webinar)
2022-02-22 17:30
Join us for an illuminating conversation featuring
Lara Ray, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Martin Monti, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Annette Stanton, Ph.D.
Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology

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 14, 2022.

REGISTER HERE

LGBTQIA+ Faculty and Staff Meet Up
2022-03-08 17:00 - 18:00

Mentoring Seminar for Life Sciences' Community: Drawing on Inclusive Practices to Mentor Effectively
2022-04-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Hershey Hall Salon, Rm. 158
Dr. Beronda L. Montgomery is MSU Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology, she was named one of 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America in 2020.

Dr. Montgomery is a writer, researcher, and scholar who pursues a common theme of understanding how individuals perceive, respond to, and are impacted by the environments in which they exist. Her primary laboratory-based research is focused on the responses of photosynthetic organisms (i.e., plants and cyanobacteria) to external light cues. Additionally, Dr. Montgomery pursues this theme in the context of effective mentoring and leadership of individuals, and the role of innovative leaders in supporting success. http://www.berondamontgomery.com/
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/qGe7DxTsjJASoD7S9

EVENT: Why Historically Excluded STEM (Educational) Researchers Can Help Save the Planet! (Free Webinar)
2022-05-04 11:00 - 12:30
CSU COAST and the UCLA Center for Diverse Leadership in Science are pleased to host a webinar, ‘Why Historically Excluded STEM (Educational) Researchers Can Help Save the Planet!’ featuring Dr. Ebony McGee on May 4, 2022, from 11: 00 am-12:30 pm.
Dr. Ebony McGee is a professor of diversity and STEM education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. She investigates what it means to be racially marginalized while minoritized in the context of learning and achieving in STEM higher education and in the STEM professions. She studies the racialized structures and institutional barriers that adversely affect the education and career trajectories of underrepresented groups of color, particularly focusing on STEM entrepreneurship. This involves exploring the social, material, and health costs of academic achievement and problematizing traditional forms of success in higher education, with an unapologetic focus on Black folx in
these places and spaces.
Dr. McGee has a NSF CAREER award to investigate how marginalization undercuts success in STEM through psychological stress, interrupted STEM career trajectories, impostor phenomenon, and other debilitating race-related trauma for Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx doctoral students. With funding from eleven NSF grants, she cofounded and directs the Explorations in Diversifying Engineering Faculty Initiative (EDEFI, pronounced “edify”). She also cofounded the Institute in Critical Quantitative and Mixed Methodologies Training for Underrepresented Scholars (ICQCM), which aims to be a go-to resource for the development of quantitative and mixed-methods skillsets that challenge simplistic quantifications of race and marginalization.
REGISTER HERE: https://csumb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BpIfScqGSZyfYrmGahRrlw

2022 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Awards
2022-05-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall Salon (click above to RSVP)
Please join us for the 2022 Life Sciences Excellence Awards on May 19th from 3-5 PM in Hershey Salon, 158 Hershey Hall.
Please RSVP by Friday, May 13th – https://forms.gle/HSCfmmvvYg9L4CXp7.

UCLA Life Sciences' LGBTQIA+ Faculty, Staff & Graduate Student Social Hour
2022-06-02 17:00 - 19:00
UCLA Life Sciences’ LGBTQIA+ Faculty, Staff & Graduate Students:
Join us for an opportunity to meet and engage in informal conversations with colleagues and peers.
Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlYTqVy7opjlV3QinUzHF7O8oX4eHG7caCzjC8xQ7_ovJktw/viewform

UCLA Psychology Presents • Risk and Resilience: How Stress and Adversity Shape Youth
2022-06-07 17:30 | Free Public Webinar (click above to register)
The UCLA Department of Psychology
invites you to a special virtual event

UCLA Psychology Presents
Risk and Resilience: How Stress and Adversity Shape Youth

Join us for an illuminating conversation with
Jennifer Silvers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
and
Jaana Juvonen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
with introductory remarks and moderated Q&A by
Annette Stanton, Ph.D.
Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology

Join us for a conversation with two developmental psychology faculty to learn about building resilience in youth and their research on how early experiences, social emotional health, peer relationships and adversity shape development. Following the chat, attendees are invited to ask questions during the moderated Q&A.

Register for the free webinar here: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_21V9hJiaRSWIBOqV7-sNCA

People, Food, & Climate: Thinking holistically about what we eat
2022-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 | California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
How can our individual food choices support the climate crisis together with human and planetary health?

About this event

Beyond carbon emissions, how can soil science, regenerative agriculture, the built environment, and the policies that connect food cultures and communities, work holistically to make climate-conscious, transformative practices accessible in our own communities and ecosystems?
Join us for a discussion at the intersection of science, agriculture, policy, architecture, and the restaurant industry with:

Aaron Blaisdell, PhD, Professor of Psychology, UCLA (Moderator)
Paula Daniels, JD, Co-Founder and CEO, Center for Good Food Purchasing
Jorge Gaviria, Co-founder of Masienda and author of MASA
Paige L. Stanley, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at Cotrufo Soil Innovation Lab, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University
Christian Stayner, M.Arch, Founder and Managing Principal, Stayner Architects & co-founder of Bacetti

This in-person event is FREE and open to the public with limited capacity. Please register on Eventbrite by 11:59pm, Monday, September 26.
If you have any questions, please email info@scienceandfood.org.

Venue accessibility and directions:

Please visit CNSI’s website for, current COVID-19 guidance, accessibility, and other details for this venue.
You can also view UCLA’s campus accessibility map here.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please email info@scienceandfood.org or let us know through your eventbrite registration.
Transportation and parking directions to CNSI auditorium can be found here.

Science&Food at UCLA is organizing this event as part of the 2022 LA Times FoodBowl in partnership with EatWell Pod and Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center, with support from UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, UCLA Food Studies Minor, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA Law, Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS), National Science Foundation, and California Nanosystems Institute, and UCLA Integrative Biology and Physiology (IBP).

About the featured speakers:
Dr. Aaron Blaisdell (Moderator) is a UCLA Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and a member of the Brain Research Institute, the Integrative Center for Learning & Memory, and the Evolutionary Medicine program. He received a BA in Anthropology (SUNY Stony Brook), an MS in Anthropology (Kent State University), a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience (SUNY Binghamton), and had 2 years of postdoctoral training (Tufts University). Dr. Blaisdell studies behavioral neuroscience and ancestral health. He co-founded the Ancestral Health Society and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolution and Health.
Paula Daniels is Co-founder, Chief of What’s Next, and Founding Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing. She is a lawyer, and has held a number of senior executive positions in government on water policy in California and Los Angeles. She served as Senior Advisor on Food Policy to Mayor Villaraigosa of Los Angeles and taught food and water policy at UCLA for several years. She is an Ashoka Fellow, and a Stanton Fellow of the Durfee Foundation.
Jorge Gaviria is the founder of Masienda, a supplier of high-quality masa and masa products, and the company at the center of the heirloom masa movement in the US. Jorge trained at top restaurants, including Maialino and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, before founding his company in 2014. He has been recognized by top international press outlets for his work and was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 for food and wine in 2017. He lives in Los Angeles. His passion is palpable in Masa, where he shares his research and expertise, including the knowledge he’s gained successfully working through tens of thousands of questions from home cooks – inquiries that cover everything from the best equipment to how to prevent a tortilla from falling apart during reheating.
Paige Stanley, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scientist working to understand how grazing management can sequester carbon (C) in soils to help mitigate climate change and build more resilient rangeland ecosystems. With a B.S. in Biology and Economics (Georgia College), M.S. in Animal Science (Michigan State University), and PhD in Environmental Science (University of California, Berkeley), she draws on a wide range of disciplines including soil biogeochemistry, grazing and rangeland ecology, agroecology, rancher sociology, and political ecology to approach research questions holistically. She is particularly interested in the use of “regenerative grazing” (or adaptive multi-paddock grazing) by ranchers on rangelands, and prioritizes on-ranch soil science work rather than highly controlled grazing experiments to ensure that her research captures soil C changes on real-life ranches, including from adaptive grazing management on large scales and long timeframes. Core to Paige’s work is centering ranchers throughout the research process, ensuring that research contributes to solving their on-the-ground challenges. To greatly improve real-world applicability, she incorporates social science methods to understand rancher mental models, including drivers and barriers of adoption for regenerative grazing, and works with a goal of creating science-informed policy for working rangelands.
Christian Stayner is a founding partner of Stayner Architects, a Los Angeles-based design practice that provides comprehensive architectural services across a broad range of scales and programs. He received his Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and his B.A. in Architecture and Human Rights Theory from Harvard College and the experimental liberal arts institution, Deep Springs College. Operating from its studio in Echo Park, Stayner Architects is a LGBTQ-led practice engaging exclusively with projects by non-profit public-benefit organizations such as schools, arts and culture organizations, and social service providers. They collaborate with entities who share a commitment to non-extractive business models. Beyond their architectural portfolio, Stayner Architects expresses ecological impact through self-directed missions like Tools & Utensils, an online resource for educational, cultural, and philanthropic institutions looking to advance the future of food on their campuses.

UCLA Psychology Presents "The Impact of Traumatic Stress: Understanding Implications for Health and Treatment"
2022-10-20 17:30 - 18:30 | Free Public Webinar (click above to register)
The UCLA Department of Psychology invites you to a special virtual event with:
Lauren Ng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Jennifer Sumner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Traumatic experiences are common and have potential widespread impacts on mental and physical health.
Join us for presentations from our psychology faculty to learn about the potential consequences of trauma on health and how we can intervene to offset these effects.
Following these presentations, attendees are invited to ask questions during a Q&A moderated by Annette Stanton, Ph.D., Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology.

133rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture: Pandemic Culture: Adapting to Survival Threat and Small-Scale Social Environments
2023-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Free Online
133rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture: “Pandemic Culture: Adapting to Survival Threat and Small-Scale Social Environments”
Professor Patricia Greenfield will discuss the social, cultural, behavioral, and psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim of helping the audience make sense of its own pandemic experience.

Let’s Talk Science: Conversations About the Future of Reproductive Health
2023-02-16 17:30 | Free Webinar (Click above to register)
UCLA Life Sciences invites you to this special virtual event featuring

Amander Clark
Director, Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology

Hannah Landecker
Co-Director, Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education
Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics

Patrick Allard
Associate Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics

with Q&A ​​​​​​moderated by
Tracy Johnson
Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA College
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology

Click to register for webinar

Hosted by Dean of Life Sciences Tracy Johnson, the “Let’s Talk Science” series highlights UCLA’s research expertise focused on today’s most urgent challenges.
Recognizing the importance of reproductive science to human health and the wellbeing of society, UCLA established a new Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) to serve as a unique national and international home for research, training, career development and public outreach.
Join us to hear from the leaders of CRSHE to learn about major scientific research themes of national and international importance, the societal aspects of this field, and the groundbreaking work addressing the impact of environmental exposures on reproductive health today and for future generations.

Looking for Memory Outside the Brain
2023-02-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Free Online
Looking for Memory Outside the Brain: a special virtual event hosted by UCLA Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
Memory is commonly associated with brain activity, but recent evidence indicates that memory can be expressed by single cells, inherited, and possibly encoded by molecules. The following speakers will offer fresh perspectives on memory based on new research from their labs:
David L. Glanzman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, UCLA Integrative Biology and Physiology
Professor, Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Michael Levin, Ph.D.
Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor, Biology
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
Associate Faculty, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

Coleen T. Murphy, Ph.D.
James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences
Professor, Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Director, Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research, Princeton University
Director, Simons Foundation’s Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Introduction by Rachelle H. Crosbie, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of UCLA Integrative Biology and Physiology; Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Following the presentations, attendees will be invited to ask questions of the speakers during a moderated Q&A.

MAPPING THE BRAIN – With 100 Billion Cells, Is This an Impossible Task?
2023-03-01 17:30 - 18:30 | Free Online
The UCLA Institute for Quantitative & Computational Biosciences invites you to a special virtual event: “MAPPING THE BRAIN With 100 Billion Cells, Is This an Impossible Task?”
Our brains process information to navigate rush-hour traffic, learn to compete on Jeopardy, and imagine unknowns in art and science. These amazing capabilities depend on a network involving tens of thousands of different types of neurons with specialized functions. A major bottleneck to better understanding brain functions is that we still do not have a brain map showing what types of cells occupy different locations in the brain and how they are all connected to each other. Though an estimated 100 billion cells exist in the brain, these presenters are undaunted:
Roy Wollman, Ph.D.
Professor, UCLA Integrative Biology & Physiology and Chemistry & Biochemistry

Jingyi Jessica Li, Ph.D.
Professor, UCLA Statistics, Biostatistics, Computational Medicine and Human Genetics

Hong-Wei Dong, Ph.D.
Professor, UCLA Neurobiology
Director, UCLA Brain Research & Artificial Intelligence Nexus (B.R.A.I.N.)

Introductory remarks by Alexander Hoffmann, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Quantitative & Computational Biosciences and Thomas M. Asher Professor of Microbiology, UCLA Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Following presentations and discussions, attendees will be invited to ask questions of the speakers during a moderated Q&A.
