Spring 2025

25

March 2025

10 am PT

Andy Alexander, PhD

University of California, Santa Barbara

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

“Association cortices and the egocentric sense”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


08

April 2025

10 am PT

Yoav Ben-Simon, PhD

Allen Institute for Brain Science

Assistant Investigator, Molecular Genetics Department

“Beyond mere tools: Insights from large scale screening for functional enhancer sequences”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


15

April 2025

10 am PT

Cameron S. Carter, MD

UCI Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Distinguished Professor and Chair
Editor-in-Chief Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

“The cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia: bridging from dysfunctional brain circuitry to symptoms, and to the underlying neurobiology”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


22

April 2025

10 am PT

Zheng-Yi Chen, PhD

Harvard University

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery,
Harvard Medical School

“A new era in gene therapy for genetic hearing loss”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


29

April 2025

10 am PT

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD

Vanderbilt University

Associate Professor of Psychology

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


06

May 2025

10 am PT

Mark Gerstein, PhD

Yale University

Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics
and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Of Computer Science, and of Statistics and Data Science

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


13

May 2025

10 am PT

Walter Royal III, MD

Morehouse School of Medicine

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Director, Neuroscience Institute
Associate Executive Director, Center for Visual and Neurorehabilitation Research, Atlanta VA Medical Center

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


20

May 2025

10 am PT

Peter Adams, PhD

University of California, San Diego

Director & Professor, NCI-designated Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 2020


27

May 2025

10 am PT

Ting Wang, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine

Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Genetics

“Transposable elements and cancer epigenome evolution”

In-Person: ISEB 1200

Fall 2025

23

September 2025

10 am PT

Jian Ma, PhD

Carnegie Mellon University

Associate Professor, Computational Biology

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


07

October 2025

10 am PT

Lingyan Shi, PhD

University of California, San Diego

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


21

October 2025

10 am PT

Euiseok Kim, PhD

University of California, Santa Cruz

Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


04

November 2025

10 am PT

Yang Xiao, PhD

University of Michigan

Associate Professor of Pathology

“Spatial Omics of Human Hippocampus Reveal Region-Specific Cell Neighborhoods and RNA States”

In-Person: ISEB 1200


18

November 2025

10 am PT

Francesca-Fang Liao, PhD

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200

Winter 2026

27

January 2026

10 am PT

Alessandra Angelucci, PhD

University of Utah

Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 2020


24

February 2026

10 am PT

Jerry Chen, PhD

Boston University

Associate Professor of Biology

“TBD”

In-Person: ISEB 1200