MCDB Weekly News & Events - June 30, 2025

Week-Long Events

July 3-July 5 – Employee Parking Lot Closures and Alternate Parking due to Phish concerts:

Lots 169 and 378: Closed to incoming traffic 5:00pm Monday, June 30, to 6:00am Tuesday, July 8
- If you arrive from 5:00pm June 30 through July 2, park in Regent parking garage lot 436 (located at Regent and Colorado)
- If you arrive at 6:00 am July 3 through 6:00am July 8, park in the garage under C4C, lot 327
- CU & ROTC service vehicles must relocate to east campus parking lots from 5:00pm Monday, June 30 through 6:00am Tuesday, July 8.
Lots 398 and 399: Closed at 5:00pm Monday, June 30, to 6:00am Wednesday, July 8
- Park in lot 439 (East side of Engineering off Colorado Ave) or any Circle M lot.
Lots 360 and 391: Closed to incoming traffic 11:30pm Wednesday, July 2, to 6:00am Sunday, July 6
- Park in in lot 327 (Parking garage under C4C)

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1:00pm – Ben Nebenfuehr Thesis Defense @ Gold A120:

Title: “Uncovering Genetic Interactions in the DNA Repair Network: Responses to Endogenous Damage and Ionizing Radiation”
Thesis Advisor: Nausica Arnoult, Ph.D.

9:00am-5:00pm – Mycoplasma Testing Service @ Porter B254:

https://www.colorado.edu/center/stemtech/events
Mycoplasma Test (MycoAlert) for more than 3 samples: $26 per sample
Mycoplasma Test (MycoAlert) for 1-3 samples: $32 per sample
Results will be emailed within 24 hours
For more information contact:
- Melody Conde: melody.conde@colorado.edu
- Lucia-Mayela Gayosso-Miranda, Ph.D., Core Director: Luga3285@colorado.edu

Campus Closed – Independence Day Holiday

Upcoming Stem Cell Research and Technology Resource Center Events:

July 7-18, 2025: Long Two-week hiPSC Culturing Workshop.
September 22-26, 2025: Assess and Maintain Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Quality Workshop.
October 20-24, 2025: Long-week hiPSC-derived Neural Culturing Workshop.
November 17-21, 2025: Long Two-week hiPSC-CRISPR-Cas-9 Genome Editing (knock in/out) Workshop.
December 15-19, 2025: Long-week 3D Culturing Workshop.
Prerequisite: Strong interest in working with Stem Cells
Details, Agenda, and Registration: Mayela Gayosso, Ph.D., iPSC Core Director: Luga3285@colorado.edu
Space is limited to 10 participants
Participants are responsible for travel and accommodation

July 7-18, 2025 – The DnA Lab Short Read Workshop @ JSCBB:

Registration is open!
Classes will be held from 9am-12pm Monday-Friday
Optional study sessions will be from 1-3pm each day
Click here to learn more about the workshop and click here to register.
The workshop is free to attend and will be limited to the first 25 attendees to sign up.
Contact Malia Fredrickson: malia.fredrickson@colorado.edu with any questions.

July 16, 2025 – 2:00pm – Jack Gugel Thesis Defense @ JSCBB B331:

July 17, 2025 – 10:00am – Bruce Proctor Thesis Defense @ Gold A120:

July 21, 2025 – 11:00am – Mostafa El-Kalliny Thesis Defense @ Gold A120:

August 7, 2025 -- 9:00am-4:00pm – MCDB Graduate Student Symposium @ JSCBB Butcher Auditorium A115 & Lobby:

Please send questions to MCDB Graduate Student Committee: Hope Townsend, Chelsea Drown, Colin Sempeck, Rachel Gessner