MCDB Weekly News & Events - May 12, 2025

Week-Long Events

May 12-22, 2025: Long Two-week hiPSC 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

8:15am-3:45pm – 18th Annual Signaling and Cellular Regulation Symposium @ JSCBB A115 Butcher Auditorium:

Plenary speakers:
- Kevan Shokat (UC San Francisco & UC Berkeley) “Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene, K-Ras”
- Dr. Effie Apostolou (Weill Cornell Medical College) "(De)Constructing 4D Molecular Roadmaps of Cell Fate Decisions"
Additional talks by grad students and postdocs from SCR mentor labs
Poster session of current SCR trainees’ research
Held at JSCBB, no registration necessary
Signaling Program website

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All Day – Gold Symposium @ MUEN Auditorium:

All Day – Gold Symposium @ MUEN Auditorium:

4:00pm – MMB at Gold A120:

Upcoming Stem Cell Research and Technology Resource Center Events:

June 22-25, 2025: Long-week 3D Culturing Workshop.
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

May 19, 2025 @ 10:00am – Sharon Wu Thesis Defense @ JSCBB A104:

Thesis Title: “Exploring The Diversity of Virus-Host Compatibility: Cell Entry Receptor Usage by Clade D Arenaviruses.”
Advisor: Sara Sawyer, Ph.D.

May 20-22, 2025 – Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium @ Wolf Law School:

June 27, 2025 @ 9:30am-6:00pm – 2025 Front Range Cytoskeleton Meeting @ CU Anschutz Medical Campus:

We are excited to announce the upcoming Front Range Cytoskeleton Meeting. Dick McIntosh (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, MCDB CU Boulder) will be our Keynote speaker. Please register as soon as possible so that we can plan accordingly.
REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/aKhoYzPRvUixAG8q8
DETAILS: https://sites.google.com/view/2025frcmcuamc/home

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