The Institute hosts a wide variety of outreach activities for faculty, students, and the public. An annual Distinguished Speaker Series brings leading academics from a wide variety of disciplines to UCI.  This past academic year IGB was pleased to host Eric Lander, M.I.T. Professor of Biology and Director of both the Whitehead Center for Genome Research and the Broad Institute. Dr. Lander's visit was generously supported by the UCI 04-05 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow Series, for which he gave a separate general-audience presentation (see http://www.chancellor.uci.edu/cdfs/).  The 2005-2006 Distinguished Speaker Series schedule is now posted.

IGB also hosts, co-hosts, and sponsors regional and international Conferences emphasizing one of its seven Program Areas. On September 17, 2004, the Chemical Biology Symposium, hosted by James Nowick, UCI Professor of Chemistry and IGB Chemical Biology Program Leader, welcomed a record group of interdisciplinary academic and industry participants.  In 2006, the IGB Systems Biology Symposium "Frontiers in Systems Biology" will be hosted by Eric Mjolsness, UCI Assoc. Professor of Computer Science and IGB Systems Biology Program Leader, in cooperation with Arthur Lander, UCI Professor and Chair Developmental and Cell Biology and Director of the Center for Complex Biological Systems.  

Periodically, IGB hosts visiting scientists from industry, academia and government. As with other IGB events, these Seminars are advertised through our website and email.

To have your name added to our email list, which is used almost exclusively for IGB event notification, please send an email to igb@ics.uci.edu.