In collaboration with the PSL-Qlife Institute at Institut Curie in Paris, QBI announced a RFA in 2020 aimed to connect the quantitative biology worlds at UCSF and PSL-Qlife through a funding mechanism, "Quantitative Approaches for Studying Complex Biological Phenomena RFA". Four grants were awarded to collaborating researchers based at QBI and PSL-Qlife.

Co-organized by Drs. Bruno Goud and Nevan Krogan, the QBI/Qlife Collaborative RFA committee is inviting RFA recipients from QBI-UCSF and Qlife to present their progress on their collaborative proposals. 

8:00-8:10 AM PT – Opening Remarks by Olivier-Antoine Reynes, Nevan Krogan, and Bruno Goud

8:10-8:28 AM PT – Proposal 1: Jake Bieber (QBI), Elise Laruelle (Qlife): "Deciphering spatial patterning in the gut epithelium by computational tissue shuffling"

8:28-8:46 AM PT – Proposal 2: Advait Subramanian (QBI), Bruno Goud (Qlife): "An investigation into how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks Rab GTPase function to promote virion assembly and exocytosis" 

8:46-8:56 AM PT – Break

8:56-9:14 AM PT – Proposal 3: Judy Sakanari (QBI), Cillian O'Beirne (Qlife): "Novel bioorganometallic drugs to treat neglected tropical diseases"

9:14-9:32 AM PT – Proposal 4: Henry De Belly (QBI), Hudson Borja da Rocha (Qlife): "Quantitative approaches for studying complex biological phenomena" 

9:32-9:38 AM PT – Break

9:38-9:48 AM PT – QBI guest speaker: Hani Goodarzi: "Deciphering the combinatorial RBP code underlying post-transcriptional regulation"

9:48-9:58 AM PT – Qlife guest speaker: Nathalie Rouach: "Guardian stars of cerebral plasticity"

9:58-10:00 AM PT – Closing Remarks