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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