BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:308b001a089ebe1b460bf3ae83b64cb6946 CATEGORIES:Orange County SUMMARY:Orange County October Meeting DESCRIPTION:
The Orange County Chapter of Br uin Professionals will be hosting Gay M. Crooks M.B.B.S, Co-Director, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research and Melody Li. Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Microbi ology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics as our guest speakers at our Octob er zoom meeting
Dr. Gay Crooks is a stem cell scientist and physician and is co-director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Rege nerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. Dr. Crooks’ interest in s tem cells was born from her clinical work as a bone marrow transplant physi cian, caring for children with leukemia and genetic diseases of the blood a nd immune system. Through this experience, she developed a fascination with blood stem cells and has since dedicated her research to understanding how these stem cells create the immune system. Her ultimate goal is to develop methods to produce immune cells that help patients fight disease more effe ctively.
Dr. Melody Li received her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 and Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2011. As an undergrad, she trained with Dr. Bert Semler, who studies poliovirus, and ventured into the fascinating world of molecular virology. Melody then studied with Dr. Michael Emerman, where sh e elucidated how genetic variations in a host antiviral gene affects an ind ividual’s susceptibility to HIV.
Melody subsequently complete d her postdoctoral work studying how the host immune system fights mosquito -borne viruses at Rockefeller University with Dr. Peggy MacDonald and Dr. C harlie Rice who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in 2020. Melody started her own lab at UCLA in fall 2017 to investigate how cellula r pathways including innate immunity interact with mosquito-borne viruses a nd recently SARS-CoV-2.
Time will be set aside for attendee introduct ions, so using the video feature throughout the meeting is encouraged. Plea se watch the training and read the documents on the BP ZOOM Resource Center , so you are prepared for the meeting.
Cost: Free
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