Featuring Michael Greenberg, PhD, the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD (1956-2020), was UC Irvine Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chemistry and director of the campus’s Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism. During his significant scientific career, he made seminal discoveries in the field of gene expression and signal transduction in the 1980s and later on circadian clocks and metabolism. Dr. Sassone-Corsi was regarded as a true pioneer by the scientific community. Honoring Dr. Sassone-Corsi’s legacy, the Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship features a renowned epigenetics researcher and brings together outstanding scientists and students to carry on the conversations and discoveries that inspired him.

Date: October 20, 2025, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Sue Gross Auditorium
Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences
856 Health Sciences Quad
Irvine, CA 92697

Join us for a scientific symposium featuring scholars from KAIST! Speakers will discuss their biomedical research on RNA, gene regulation, and disease.

Dates: June 5, 1:00pm to 4:30pm & June 6, 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Sprague Hall 105

Featuring a day of seminars from luminaries in the field of epigenetics, cellular metabolism, disease mechanisms, and more.

Date: October 18, 2024 at 8:30am to 6:00pm
Location: UCI Beall Applied Innovation

Featuring Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Dr. Edith Heard and the awarding of the second Estée Lauder Epigenetics Fellowship Award, in honor of Paolo Sassone-Corsi, to Carolina Franco.

Date: October 17, 2024 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: UCI Beall Applied Innovation

Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo: “Cell states and fate transition revealed by synthetic locus control regions”

Dr. Ernesto Guccione: “Oncofetal reprogramming fuels phenotypic plasticity in WNT-driven colorectal cancer”

Date: April 11, 2024 at 11am
Location: David G. Sills Conference Room (Sprague Hall 105)

“Long-Range Gene Regulation in Development and Disease”

Date: February 28, 2024 at 11am
Location: Plumwood House/Showa Denko Lecture Hall

Featuring Dr. Ron Evans from the Salk Institute and the awarding of the first Estée Lauder Epigenetics Fellowship Award, in honor of Paolo Sassone-Corsi, to Bridget Fortin.

Date: October 19, 2023 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Beckman Center