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Spring 2025
29
April 2025
10 am PT

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Psychology
“A novel supply-limited framework for understanding cortical development and evolution”
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
“AI Approaches for Understanding Brain Disorders”
In-Person: ISEB 1200
13
May 2025
10 am PT

Walter Royal III, MD
Morgan State University
Found Director of Brain Health Institute
“HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders: Pathogenic Insights”
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
“Epigenetics of cell senescence, cancer, and aging”
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
13
January 2026
10 am PT

Charles Wang, PhD
Loma Linda University
Professor
Basic Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Director of Center of Genomics
“TBD”
In-Person: ISEB 1200
27
January 2026
10 am PT

Alessandra Angelucci, PhD
University of Utah
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
“TBD”
In-Person: ISEB 1200
10
February 2026
10 am PT

Laszlo Zaborszky, PhD
Rutgers University
Distinguished Professor
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
“Forebrain Cholinergic System: Architecture, Function and Dysfunction”
In-Person: ISEB 1200
24
February 2026
10 am PT

Jerry Chen, PhD
Boston University
Associate Professor of Biology
“TBD”
In-Person: ISEB 1200