Pathology Research Lecture Series

PRLS - Winter/Spring 2026

PRLS seminars are held Mondays at 4:00 p.m. Please email Tyler Badilla for conference details.

Monday, January 5
Ruben Luo, PhD
Stanford University

“Top-Down High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry as an Advanced Technology for Clinical Testing of Protein Biomarkers”

Monday, January 12
Cyrus Ghajar, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

"What is 'relative scarcity' and how might it guide elimination of dormant cancers?"

Monday, January 19
Holiday - No PRLS

Monday, January 26
Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD
UC San Diego

“Uncovering the Mutagenic Origins of Never-Smoking Lung Cancer and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer”

Monday, February 2
No PRLS This Week

Monday, February 9
Peter Adams, PhD
Sanford Burnham Prebys

“The role of aging in cancer: from mechanisms to interventions”

Monday, February 16
Holiday - No PRLS

Monday, February 23
Kara Lynch, PhD
UC San Francisco

"Talk Title TBD"

Monday, March 2
Michael Bouvet, MD
UC San Diego

"Research in Fluorescence Guided Surgery for GI and Endocrine Cancers – Working with Pathologists"

Monday, March 9
Dara Aisner, MD, PhD
University of Colorado - Anschutz

"Scoring the GOAL: Multi-institutional cooperation in genomic medicine"

Monday, March 16
Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD & Denise Shapiro, MD
UC San Diego

"Focused Wellness Support for Pathology"

Monday, March 23
Ben Spike, PhD
University of Utah

"Onco-Fetal Cell State Control: A Key to New Cancer Vulnerabilities"

Monday, March 30
Elizabeth Neumann, PhD
UC Davis

"Multimodal imaging methods for understanding complex biology"

Monday, April 6
Daohong Zhou, MD
University of Texas Health San Antonio

"DT2216, a BCL-XL Selective Degrader: from Laboratory to the Clinic"

Monday, April 13
Kathleen Fisch, PhD
UC San Diego

"Placental Genomic Instability: A Driver of Maternal and Fetal Health Outcomes?”

Monday, April 20
Carolyn Sangokoya, MD, PhD
UC San Francisco

"Functional and Spatial Molecular Imaging of Iron Metabolism"

Monday, April 27
Sanjay Nigam, MD
UC San Diego

"Talk Title TBD"

Monday, May 4
Ron Heeren, PhD
Maastricht University, Netherlands

"Pathology, spatial biology and translational innovations: Getting more out of cells and tissue"

Monday, May 11
Kellie Church, PhD
UC San Diego

"Talk Title TBD"

Monday, May 18
Miguel Reina-Campos, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

“Tissue Immune Networks in Health and Disease”

Monday, May 25
Holiday - No PRLS

Monday, June 1
Ryan Hibbs, PhD
UC San Diego

"Talk Title TBD"

Monday, June 8
Nina Brodsky, MD
Yale University School of Medicine

"Early-life T cell function and immunophenotypes in health and RSV bronchiolitis"

Monday, June 15
To Be Determined

Monday, June 22
To Be Determined