Ophir Klein: From mouth to gut: development and renewal in the gastrointestinal tract

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• MDC students (sign the attendance list in the room OR via Zoom)
• External students (sign the attendance list in the room; online participation possible without credits)

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Short Bio

Ophir Klein serves as the inaugural Executive Director of Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s and Executive Vice Dean for Children’s Services at Cedars-Sinai. He is the David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children’s Health and is also an Adjunct Professor of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he was previously the Larry L. Hillblom Distinguished Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies and the Charles J. Epstein Professor of Human Genetics. Until 2022, he served as Director of the Institute for Human Genetics, Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics, Chair of the Division of Craniofacial Anomalies, and Director of the Program in Craniofacial Biology at UCSF. Dr. Klein was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature. He subsequently attended Yale University School of Medicine, where he received a Ph.D. in Genetics and an M.D. He then completed residencies at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Pediatrics and at UCSF in Clinical Genetics. Dr. Klein has received several honors, including a New Innovator Award from the NIH and the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Klein was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Klein’s research focuses on understanding how organs form in the embryo and how they regenerate in the adult, with a particular emphasis on the processes underlying craniofacial and dental development and renewal, as well as understanding how intestinal stem cells and their niche enable GI tract regeneration.

Read more about his research here.

This lecture is part of the SysBio Lecture Series Microbes.

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Ophir Klein (University of California, San Francisco)
From mouth to gut: development and renewal in the gastrointestinal tract

The event is taking place onsite and online via Zoom