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Research Overview
The Pathology & Laboratory Medicine research programs are located in laboratories at UC Irvine Medical Center, as well as on the university campus in Irvine. Our laboratory-based research programs include:
- Investigations in immunology
- Microbial pathogenesis
- Inflammation
- Wound healing
- Tumor microenvironment
- Developmental neurobiology
- Oxidative stress response
Pathology research labs at UC Irvine School of Medicine include:
- Chan Lab
- de la Maza Lab
- Edwards Lab
- Head Lab
- La Spada Lab
- Mercola Lab
- Monuki Lab
- Park Lab
- Peterson Lab
- Rahmatpanah Lab
Experimental Pathology Research Conferences Schedule: Meetings typically take place at 12 noon on the 4th Monday of each month, excluding holidays and unless otherwise listed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the following seminars will meet via zoom.
| Thursday, 8/06/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD Harvard |
Pathology for Cancer as Complex Multifactorial Diseases: Now & Future To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 8/24/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Anshu Agrawal, PhD UC Irvine School of Medicine |
Immune Mechanisms Underlying Aged Lung and Neurodegenerative Diseases To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 8/31/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Sharel Figueredo, PhD Quanterix Corp |
Monitoring Health and Disease Progression with Ultra-Sensitive Simoa Assays RSVP to reserve your spot! |
| Monday, 9/14/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS UC Irvine Health |
Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: Time for Paradigm Shift in Diagnosis and Treatment To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 9/28/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Olga Razoranova, PhD UC Irvine School of Medicine |
Synthetic Lethality Screens to Discover Kidney Cancer Therapeutics
To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monady, 10/5/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Farah Rahmatpanah, PhD UC Irvine School of Medicine |
Endogenous Retroviruses in Ovarian and Prostate Cancer To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 10/12/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Shahrdad Lotfipour, PhD UC Irvine |
Functional Role of a Human 3'UTR Polymorphism of the Alpha6 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit in Adolescent Nicotine Seeking Behavior To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 10/26/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Michael Keiser, PhD UC San Francisco |
Classifying Amyloid Beta Deposits Using Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks Trained from Multiple Experts To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 11/23/20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Todd Golde, MD, PhD University of Florida |
New Twists on the Amyloid Cascade Hypthesis Inform Therapeutic Discovery To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 1/11/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH UC Irvine |
Macro and Micro Characteristics of Hodgkin Lymphoma To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 1/25/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | George Shaw, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania |
Recapitulation of HIV-1 Envelope-Antibody Coevolution in Rhesus Macaques Leading to Neutralization Breadth To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 2/22/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Peter Nelson, MD, PhD University of Kentucky |
LATE: What it is, Why it's important, and How we might beat it To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 3/29/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Dan Geschwind, MD, PhD UCLA School of Medicine |
Biological Insights from High Throughput Analyses of the Functional Impact of Human Genetic Variation in Dementia To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 4/5/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Christopher Douglas GSR - Bota lab |
The Role of LonP1 in GBM Tumor Progression To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 4/12/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Javier Lepe GSR - Bota Lab |
Mitochondrial Protein Trafficking as a Therapeutic Target for Glioblastoma To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 4/19/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Jacob Deyell & |
The Neuroprotective Role of PPAR-delta in Microglia & Isoliation of Plasma Extracellular Vesicles for Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 4/26/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Sidi Chen, PhD Yale University |
Gene Editing and Immunotherapy To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 5/3/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Leonard Petrucelli, PhD Mayo Clinic |
Mechanistic and Therapeutic Insights into Expansion Repeat Disorders To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 5/10/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Thomas Caldwell & |
Utilizing In-Vivo and In-Vitro Models to Recapitulate and Study the Genetic Bottleneck fo SIV/HIV Transmission & Biondi Inclusions: Characterizing an Aging-Related Amyloid of the Human Choroid Plexus To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 5/24/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Laura van 't Veer, PhD UC San Francisco |
Optimal Treatment of Breast Cancer: Science to Healthcare To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| Monday, 6/7/21 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Zhuoli Zhang UC Irvine School of Medicine |
MRI-Guided Dendritic-Cell-Based Vaccine Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer To Join Zoom Meeting: |
| To be rescheduled | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Tarik Haydar, PhD George Washington University |
Maturation of the oligodendrocyte lineage in Down Syndrome: Lessons from forebrain, spinal cord, and from stem cells |