October 21, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Research Seminar Speaker Series – Dr. Jim Sterling – “Biocondensates: Membraneless Organelles that Organize Cellular Biochemistry” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI faculty member, Dr. Jim Sterling, Professor and PhD Program Director, Henry E. Riggs School of Applied Life Sciences Many macromolecular biocondensates have been observed as so-called intracellular membraneless organelles since their discovery in 2009 in the Hyman lab in Dresden Germany. Commercialization of drug discovery […] Free
October 27, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT KGI Consulting Club: Case Prep Workshop KGI Bldg. 121, Room 1113 121 Bucknell Ave, Claremont Join us for our 1st Consulting Case Prep Workshop on Thursday, October 27, from 12 -1:00 p.m. in classroom 1113, building 121. We will go over the basics of building a case framework and walk students through an example interview case study. This is a great way to prepare for upcoming consulting and operations internship […] Free
October 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Research Seminar Speaker Series – Dr. Subhrajit Bhattacharya – “Role of NMDARs in Various Diseases of the Brain and Targeted Drug Discovery” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI Faculty member, Dr. Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical and Applied Life Sciences NMDARs (N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptors) are an essential component of the excitation/inhibition complex in the brain that regulates precipitation of different neurodegenerative diseases. Dysregulated spatial and temporal expression of these receptors and their interactions with […] Free
November 1, 2022 - November 14, 2022 KGI Beer Club Beer Mug / Beer Stein Fundraiser Hello everyone! Thank you for supporting Beer Club's beer mug fundraiser! These steins can be used for beer and water alike and make the perfect holiday gifts for you and your loved ones. These will get here before we leave for winter break, so take advantage of our two for $25 deal to stock up […] $15.00 – $25.00
November 4, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT PhD Literature Mastery Presentation – Kent Young, PhD Student – “Manufacturing CAR-T Cell Therapy: Where do we go from here?” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for PhD Student, Kent Young, Senior Manager, Process Engineering, Kite Pharma PhD Dissertation Literature Mastery Presentation. There are patients alive today because chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy exists. CAR-T cell therapy is a unique treatment that utilizes a patient’s own cells as the starting material for their disease. After undergoing […] Free
November 10, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PST ABCAB Board Meeting – Student Poster Presentations – Industry : Student Networking Reception KGI Bldg. 555 555 West Arrow Highway, Claremont, CA Registration to attend the ABCAB Student Poster Presentations and Industry-Student Networking Reception. Please take a few moments to choose your RSVP option to attend this event. Thursday, November 10, 2022 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. 555 Bldg. - Room 640 Debrief Room & Hallway Area (KGI entrance next to the outdoor patio area - look for […] Free
November 10, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. PST ABCAB Industry: Student Poster Presentations and Networking Reception Registration to attend the ABCAB Student Poster Presentations and Industry-Student Networking Reception. Students, please register below if you plan to attend. Thursday, November 11, 2022 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 555 Bldg. - Hallway Area (KGI entrance next to outdoor patio area - look for the balloons) Light appetizers and drinks will be served. Free
November 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST Research Seminar Speaker Series-Dr. Animesh Ray-“The Noncoding RNA SPRIGHTLY Drives a Frequent Childhood Brain Cancer by Forcing Exon-Skipping” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI Faculty member, Dr. Animesh Ray, Professor of Systems Biology and Genomics Noncoding RNA (ncRNA) genes are even more conserved in evolution than are protein coding genes, suggesting that ncRNAs play important biological functions. One such ncRNA is SPRIGHTLY, which we had previously shown to be […] Free
November 18, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST PhD Literature Mastery Presentation – Ana Mena Amores, PhD Student – “Development of a Transient AAV Manufacturing Platform” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for PhD Student, Ana Mena Amores' PhD Literature Mastery Presentation. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for gene delivery for many diseases like retinal disorders and spinal muscular atrophy. Recent developments on the production of AAV capsids, vector design optimization, and cell culture techniques have contributed substantially to the growth […] Free
November 22, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PST PhD Dissertation Literature Mastery Presentation – Yi-Chun Lin, PhD Student – “Investigating Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel by Computational Approach” 121 Building Room 1111 or Online via Zoom Please join us for PhD Student Yi-Chun Lin, Research Assistant, Western University give her PhD Literature Mastery presentation. The voltage gated channel family is the third largest class of signal transduction proteins following GPCR and protein kinases. The activation of the voltage gated channel is by the change of the membrane potential. There are two […] Free