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