Events

When: August 19- 29, 2024
Where: UC Davis Genome Center (Davis, CA)
Registration and payment: here 
Email: Jeannette Martins jmartins@ucdavis.edu
Phone: +1-530-754-5357
Time Commitment: 8 hours per day
Pace: Instructor-led

The David Weaver Endowed Lecture is a yearly event hosted by the Genome Center and supported by David Weaver's Family. The series honors the memory of David L. Weaver, a distinguished biophysicist and professor at Tufts University for whom the endowment was established in 2006. The 2022 speaker at the David Weaver Endowed Lecture was Dr.

The 2022 David L. Weaver Endowed Lecture in Biophysics and Computational Biology will feature Professor Jack W. Szostak. Szostak's talk is titled "The Origin of Cellular Life."

The UC Davis Genome Center DEI Committee will be hosting the 2022 Genome Center Halloween Symposium on Oct 31, 2022, from 9 am to 2 pm. The keynote speaker, Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona, will present "The need to diversify DNA databases and precision medicine tools: implications for advancing health equity."

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The UC Davis Genome Center DEI Committee is happy to announce that we'll be hosting the 2022 Genome Center Halloween Symposium on Oct 31, 2022, from 9 am to 2 pm. During this symposium, speakers share their research through talks and poster presentations. Throughout the day, labs compete for the best costume, with the winning lab receiving an award and bragging rights.

Date: October 31, 2022

Time: 9 am until 2 pm

Location: GBSF Auditorium Room 1005

Hosts: Genome Center DEI Task Force

More details to follow.

Register now for the free conference Biodiversity Genomics 2022: Sequencing Genomes All Around The World, which will be held online from October 3-7. The deadline for submitting abstracts is July 31, 2022.

The Biodiversity Genomics conference is hosted by the Earth BioGenome Project, which aims to sequence all of the eukaryotic organisms on Earth in 10 years. 

Click here to register to attend.

This year's speaker is Dr. Eva Nogales, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at UC Berkley. Nogales' talk is titled "Complexity and modularity in large human transcriptional cofactors."

The meeting is free to attend, will be held virtually, and is inviting scientists to submit abstracts for a short talk or poster.

Learn more about the conference here.