Past Talks

January 31, 2023: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology’s Focus on Evolution seminar series at UC Irvine in Irvine, CA.

January 19, 2023: Chang will speak at the Biologic Therapeutic Discovery Research & Innovation Retreat at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA.

December 4-8, 2022: Chang will speak at the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics conference in San Diego, CA.

October 26, 2022: Chang will speak (virtually) at Amgen in San Francisco, CA.

October 17, 2022: Chang will speak (virtually) at the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA.

August 24-27, 2022: Chang will speak at the Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

July 10-15, 2022: Chang will speak at the Biocatalysis Gordon Research Conference in Manchester, NH.

May 2-6, 2022: Chang will speak at the PEGS Boston Summit in Boston, MA.

April 13-15: Chang will give a virtual keynote for the 2022 Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (KSBB) annual meeting in Daejeon, Korea.

April 5, 2022: Chang will give a seminar in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin in Austin, TX.

March 21, 2022: Chang will give a seminar in the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.

February 16, 2022: Chang will give a graduate-student-invited lecture in the George Connell Seminar Series at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.

January 25, 2022: Chang will give a virtual seminar in the Genes-Systems-Computation seminar series at the NYU School of Medicine in New York, NY.

January 4-7, 2022: Chang will speak at the Annual BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference in Indian Wells, CA.

December 16-21, 2021: Chang will speak in the Directed Protein Evolution session at Pacifichem in Honolulu, HI.

December 8, 2021: Chang will give a virtual seminar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland and the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.

October 17, 2021: Chang will speak (virtually) at the International Directed Evolution Competition at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.

October 3, 2021: Theresa will speak (virtually) at the 4th International Conference on CRISPR Technologies.

August 13-20, 2021: Chang will give a virtual talk at the 2021 IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Montreal, QC, Canada.

July 19, 2021: Theresa will give a virtual talk at the 2021 Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop.

July 12, 2021: Chang will give a student- and postdoc-invited virtual Mößbauer Colloquium talk at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany.

June 29, 2021: Chang will give a talk at the UC Irvine COVID Research Fund Virtual Symposium.

June 10, 2021: Theresa will give a virtual talk at the 2021 Leading Edge Symposium.

May 14, 2021: Chang will give a virtual seminar at Calico in South San Francisco, CA.

April 15, 2021: Chang will give a virtual seminar at the Institute of Integrative and Systems Biology at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec.

March 28, 2021: Chang will give a virtual talk to high school and college students at the STEM World II workshop.

February 10, 2021: Chang will give a virtual seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry (School of Medicine) at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, CA.

January 20, 2021: Chang will give a virtual seminar at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.

December 11, 2020: Chang will give a virtual talk at the NeurIPS 2020 LMRL workshop.

October 29, 2020: Chang will give a virtual seminar in the Department of Biochemistry at UCSD in San Diego, CA.

October 28, 2020: Chang will give a virtual seminar in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Distinguished Colloquium Series at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL.

October 15, 2020: Chang will give an undergraduate-invited virtual seminar at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.

October 6, 2020: Chang will speak in the Frontiers in Bioengineering Research virtual seminar series organized by the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University.

September 30, 2020: Chang will speak at the EMBL Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology conference in Heidelberg, Germany. (switched to online conference)

August 26, 2020: Chang will speak at the Engineering with Evolution online event organized by the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology.

July 12-17, 2020: Chang will speak at the Gordon Research Conference on Biocatalysis in Manchester, NH. (postponed)

June 26, 2020: Chang will speak at the 2nd annual Chemical Biology in Greater Los Angeles Meeting at UC Irvine in Irvine, CA. (postponed)

June 18, 2020: Chang will give a virtual seminar at Sanofi.

April 6-9, 2020: Chang will give a keynote at the 17th Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience in Snowbird, UT. Replaced with online talk, video here.

December 13, 2019: Chang will be a co-organizer and panelist for the NeurIPS workshop on Learning Meaningful Representations of Life in Vancouver, Canada.

December 11, 2019: Chang will speak at the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics conference in San Diego, CA.

December 4, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Riverside in Riverside, CA.

November 22, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.

October 25, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

October 17, 2019: Chang will give a talk at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

October 10, 2019: Chang will give the Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering at Caltech in Pasadena, CA.

October 7, 2019: Chang will give a talk at the Codexis Protein Engineering Forum in Palo Alto, CA.

September 11, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Models, Inference, and Algorithms Initiative at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA.

August 3, 2019: Chang will give a talk at the 2019 Beckman Symposium in Irvine, CA.

June 23-27, 2019: Chang will give a talk at the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design conference in New York, NY.

June 6, 2019: Chang will speak at the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Symposium at the NIH, Bethesda, MD.

May 22, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University in Boston, MA.

May 3, 2019: Chang will give a talk at the Campus-wide Symposium on Basic Cancer Research at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.

April 2, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University in Stanford, CA.

March 23, 2019: Gordon will give a talk at the EBRC Spring Retreat at Boston University in Boston, MA.

March 22, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Science Program at the Broad Institute in Boston, MA.

March 21, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Biological Design Center at Boston University in Boston, MA.

January 22, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in Houston, TX.

January 11, 2019: Chang will speak at the Caltech CEMI Winter Lecture Symposium at Caltech in Pasadena, CA.

January 8, 2019: Chang will co-chair and speak at the 9th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering in Newport Beach, CA.

January 3, 2019: Chang will give a seminar in the Green Center for Systems Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

December 5, 2018: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA.

October 31, 2018: Chang will give a featured talk at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

September 13-14, 2018: Chang will give a talk at the EBRC Fall Retreat at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.

August 12-14, 2018: Chang will present at the Beckman Symposium in Irvine, CA.

June 3-7, 2018: Arjun, Garri, and Ziwei will present posters at the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

June 6, 2018: Theresa will give a talk at the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

May 31, 2018: Chang will give a seminar in the Developmental and Cell Biology department at UC Irvine in Irvine, CA.

April 16-18, 2018: Chang will give a talk at the Synthetic Biology “Crossing Kingdoms” Symposium at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK.

April 5, 2018: Chang will give a seminar in the Chemical Engineering department at Caltech in Pasadena, CA.

March 23-24, 2018: Theresa will give a talk at the EBRC retreat at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

March 18, 2018: Chang will give a talk at the Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Bioengineering Symposium at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

March 14, 2018: Chang will give the undergraduate-invited Beckman Seminar at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.

March 9, 2018: Chang will speak at the UCI MB&B Retreat in Lake Arrowhead, CA.

February 15-17, 2018: Chang will present at the NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science meeting in Irvine, CA.

October 27-28, 2017: Chang will speak at the Sixth Sino-USA Chinese Collaborative Workshop on Synthetic Biology in Hangzhou, China

July 30, 2017-August 4, 2017: Chang will speak at the Gordon Research Conference in Synthetic Biology in Stowe, VT

June 30, 2017: Chang will give a seminar at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark

March 28, 2017: Chang will give a seminar hosted by the Center for Center for Theoretical Biophysics and the PhD Program in Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology at Rice University in Houston, TX

January 19, 2017: Chang will give a seminar at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA

November 30, 2016: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine in Irvine, CA

August 9, 2016: Chang will be a guest speaker at the Cold Spring Harbor Course on Synthetic Biology in Cold Spring Harbor, NY

August 4-6, 2016: Chang will present at the 2016 Beckman Symposium in Irvine, CA. Our group will also host a lab tour for symposium guests on August 4.

July 30, 2016: Chang will speak at a Symposium in honor of Peter Schultz’s 60th birthday at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA

July 9, 2016: Chang will speak at the Hertz Foundation Summer Workshop in Asilomar, CA

May 24-26, 2016: Chang will speak at the Second Conference on Xenobiology in Berlin, Germany

May 18-19, 2016: Chang and members of the group will present at the DARPA BRICS review meeting in Chicago, IL

February 16-17, 2016: Chang will speak at the NIH/NCI workshop on Synthetic Biology Approaches to Cancer Systems in Washington DC

February 5, 2016: Chang will be a panelist at an interdisciplinary symposium on Gene Editing, Artificial Life, and Ethics at the Newkirk Alumni Center at UCI in Irvine, CA

January 29, 2016: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at UCI in Irvine, CA

December 10, 2015: Chang will give a talk at the Tsukuba-UCI Science Partnership Conference in Irvine, CA

December 7-9, 2015: Chang will present at the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Symposium in Washington DC

November 20, 2015: Chang will give a seminar at Dupont Headquarters in Wilmington, DE

November 12-13, 2015: Chang, Alex, and Arjun will speak and present a poster at the DARPA BRICS program review meeting in Pasadena, CA

October 9, 2015: Chang will be a panelist at the 2015 BMES meeting in Tampa, FL

September 19, 2015: Arjun will speak at the SynBERC Retreat at MIT in Cambridge, MA

September 18, 2015: Chang will speak at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Retreat in Palm Springs, CA

September 8, 2015: Chang will speak at an ERASynBio team meeting in London, England

August 7, 2015: Chang will present at the Beckman Symposium in Irvine, CA

July 9, 2015: Chang will speak at the NCSB Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM

June 28 – July 3, 2015: Chang will attend the Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Biology in Newry, ME

May 29, 2015: Chang will speak at the DARPA Biological Robustness in Complex Settings Meeting in New Orleans, LA

May 12, 2015: Chang will give a seminar at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

May 11, 2015: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Chemical Biology at Peking University, Beijing, China

May 9, 2015: Chang will deliver a keynote speech at the Young Scholars Frontier Symposium on Quantitative Biology Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

January 29, 2015: Chang will give a seminar at Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla, CA

January 21, 2015: Chang will give a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA

January 13, 2015: Chang will speak at the 5th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering in Austin, TX

December 8, 2014: Chang will give a seminar at DuPont in Palo Alto, CA

September 28, 2014: Chang will speak at the Synberc Meeting at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

July 15, 2014: Chang will speak at the Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution & Design conference in Manhattan Beach, CA.

June 19, 2014: Xiang will speak at the 15th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in Irvine, CA.

June 19, 2014: Chang will chair the Synthetic Biology session at the 15th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in Irvine, CA.

May 9, 2014: Chang will give a seminar at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.

May 6, 2014: Chang will speak at the First Xenobiology Conference in Genoa, Italy.

February 18, 2014: Chang will speak at the winter q-bio meeting on the Big Island of Hawaii.

January 26, 2014: Chang will speak at the Southern California Systems Biology Conference in Irvine, CA.

November 6, 2013: Chang will give a seminar for the Molecular Evolution and Display Group at UCI in Irvine, CA.

June 5, 2013: Chang will give a seminar for the Department of Chemistry at UCI in Irvine, CA.