December
12/2, 3:00 PM – Dr. Oscar Vivas, Research Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, will be presenting “Mechanisms of Autonomic Dysfunction and the Loss of the Pacemaker’s Neural Control”.
12/6, 2:30 PM – Dr. Gerald Zamponi, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology from the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary will be presenting “Molecular physiology of pain: from T-type calcium channels to brain circuits” in the Pharmacology seminar series.
12/13, 2:30 PM – Dr. Kate Wassum, Associate Professor of Psychology from the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, will be presenting “Amygdala circuitry in reward learning and decision making” in the Pharmacology seminar series.
November
11/07, 3:30 PM: Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Utah, will be presenting “The Neurobiology of Social Isolation” in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
11/08, 10:30 AM: Dr. Jeanine Amacher, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry from Western Washington University will be presenting “All Residues Considered: Selectivity determinants in peptide-biding domains” in K069 HSB or zoom as part of the UW Biochemistry seminar series.
11/08, 2:30 PM: Dr. Behnam Nabet, Assistant Professor of Human Biology at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, will be presenting “Protein control using targeted degradation approaches to advance oncology drug discovery” in the Pharmacology Seminar series in D-209 HSB.
11/11: Veteran’s Day11/14, 3:30 PM: Dr. Gabriel Cler, Assistant Professor of UW Speech and Hearing Sciences Sinai will be presenting in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
11/15, 10:30 AM: Dr. Rosa Uribe, Assistant Professor of Biosciences from Rice University will be presenting in K069 HSB or zoom as part of the UW Biochemistry seminar series
11/18, 3:00 PM: Madelyn Hjort, Graduate Student in the Stuber lab, will be presenting in the NAPE Seminar series in J-156 HSB or Zoom
11/24: Thanksgiving
11/25: Native American Heritage Day
11/28, 3:30 PM: Dr. Noah Benson, Data Science Fellow and Research Staff from the UW eScience Institute and Dr. Kim Ingraham, Posdoc from the UW Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Rehab Medicine will be presenting in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
October
10/7, 3:00 PM: Dr. Ben Land, Research Associate Professor in the UW Department of Pharmacology will be presenting in the NAPE Seminar series in J-156 HSB or Zoom
10/10, 3:30 PM: Dr. Michele Basso, UW Professor of Biological Structure and Physiology and Biophysics will be presenting “Cognition and Movement in Parkinson’s Disease” in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
10/11, 2:30 PM: Dr. Smita Yadav, UW Professor of Pharmacology, will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series in D-209 HSB with a reception to follow.
10/14, 3:00 PM: Dr. Adam Gordon-Fennell, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stuber Lab, will be presenting in the NAPE Seminar series in J-156 HSB or Zoom]
10/17, 3:30 PM: Dr. Erin Rich, Associate Professor of Neuroscience from the Icahn Schoolk of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be presenting “Neural coding for flexible behavior in prefrontal cortex ” in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
10/24, 3:00 PM: Dr. Maureen Neitz, UW Professor of Ophthalmology, will be presenting “A solution to the worldwide myopia epidemic: a tale of translation from bench to clinic” in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
10/25, 2:30 PM: Dr. Champak Chatterjee, UW Professor of Chemistry, will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series in D-209 HSB with a reception to follow.
10/31, 2:30 PM: Dr. Bing Brunton, UW Associate Professor of Biology, will be presenting in HSB T-733 or zoom as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.
September
9/30: Dr. Lief Fenno, Assistant Professor at UT Austin Neuroscience & Psychiatry at Dell Medical School, invited by Dr. Andre Berndt, will be presenting “(Molecular) engineering bridges to span neuroscience and psychiatry.”
August
8/12: Dr. Nathan Sackett, MD, MS, RN, will be presenting at our NAPE seminar series at 3:00 PM (Location and seminar title TBA)
8/15 Registration Deadline: The NAPE Center will be hosting a free five-day Imaging and Genetics Workshop this October! Dr. Charles Zhou is directing this event and we have a crew of fantastic trainees who will lead the various sessions. Please see the attached flyer and program for more details and information on how to register. Deadline to register is August 15, 2022. Faculty: please share the attached flyer extramurally; while everyone is welcome to apply, we would also like to extend this invitation outside of the University of Washington. More information can be found here. http://depts.washington.edu/uwnape/training-opportunities/imaging-genetics-workshop/
8/19: NAPE Undergraduate Professional Development session “The Postdoc Experience”. NAPE Undergrads and graduate students are welcome to come ask questions and join a discussion with our panelists (Drs. Eric Szelenyi, Kevin Coffey, and Meagan Quinlan) about post-doc life.
July
June
6/17, 3:00 PM: Britahny Baskin, PhD Candidate in the Schindler Lab will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. She will be presenting “Timing matters: Sex differences in acute and chronic outcomes following blast injuries”
6/24, 4:00PM, Nastacia Goodwin, graduate student in the Golden lab, will be presenting for the computing seminar. Her talk title is: Pose estimation basics and making the most of Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) for behavioral classification
May
5/6, 3:00 PM: Dr. Jennifer Deem, Acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Medicine will be presenting “Does neuronal intrinsic glucose sensitivity matter?” in the NAPE seminar series.
5/9, 3:30 PM: Dr. John Krakauer, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for the study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins, will be presenting in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series. Health science D-209 or via the livestream.
5/12, 10:30 AM: Dr. Sherilynn Black, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education at Duke University will be presenting in the Pharmacology seminar series.
5/13, 11:00 AM: Postdoctoral Professional Development Series: 2nd session
5/13, 3:30 PM: Dr. Nick Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of UW Biological Structure, will be presenting at the NAPE Seminar series.
5/16, 3:30 PM: Dr. Ramkumar Sabesan, Assistant Research Professor of UW Opthalmology will be presenting “Mechanisms and applications of human cone optoretinography” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series.
5/20, 3:00 PM: Dr. Raaj Gowrishankar, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Bruchas lab, will be presenting “Dynorphinergic control of amygdalo-striatal circuits for action-outcome behaviors”at the NAPE seminar series.
5/27, 11:00 AM: Postdoctoral Professional Development Series: 3rd session
5/26, 10:30 AM: Dr. Ajay Kumar Dhaka, Associate Professor of UW Biological Structure will be presenting in the Pharmacology seminar series.
5/27, 3:00 PM: Dr. Michele Basso, UW Professor of Biological Structure and Physiology and Biophysics and Director of the Washington National Primate Research Center will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.
April
4/4, 3:30 PM: Dr. Ania Majewska, Professor at the Department of Neuroscience Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, will be presenting “Microglia shape synaptic function in health and disease” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series.
4/11, 3:30 PM: Dr. Elizabeth Buffalo, Professor and Chair, UW Department of Physiology & Biophysics will be presenting in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series.
4/14, 10:30 AM: Dr. Joseph (Joey) Davis, Whitehead Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be presenting “Visualizing dynamic structures with deep learning and single particle cryo-electron microscopy” in the Pharmacology seminar series.
4/18, 3:30 PM: Dr. Franck Kalume, Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurological Surgery, Principle Investigator, Seattle Children’s Research Institute will be presenting “Disentangling Epilepsy From Other Symptoms of Mitochondrial Disease: The Leigh Syndrome Case” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series.
4/21, 10:30 AM: Dr. Steven Henikoff, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will be presenting “Genome-wide mapping of chromatin dynamics” in the Pharmacology seminar series.
4/22, 3:00 PM: Dr. Liangcai Gu, Assistant Professor of UW Biochemistry and the Institute for Protein will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.
4/25, 3:00 PM: Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, will present “defining the neural basis for spontaneous behavior” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience seminar series.
4/28, 10:30 AM: Dr. Gaurav Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor of UW Medicinal Chemistry, will be presenting “Computational peptide design for diverse structures and functions” in the Pharmacology seminar series.
4/29, 11:00 AM: NAPE Postdoctoral Professional Development Series Kickoff & Welcome!
4/29, 3:00 PM: Dr. Alex Whitebirch, visiting postdoc hosted by the Ferguson Lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.
March
3/3, 10:30 AM: Dr. Tianyi Mao, Associate Professor from the Oregon Health & Science University Vollum Institute, hosted by Dr. Bruchas and Dr. Zweifel, will be presenting “Understanding Functional Architecture and Neuromodulation of Brain circuitry using Connectomic and Novel Imaging Approaches” in the Pharmacology Seminar Series
3/4, 11:00 AM: 5th session of the Graduate Student Professional Development Series. Graduate students are invited to join a discussion about career planning, CV optimization, and more.
3/7, 3:30 – 5:40 PM: Dr. David Schoppik, Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology NYU Grossman School of Medicine, will be presenting “Functional development of a sensorimotor circuit in space and time”
3/10, 10:30 AM: Dr. Meaghan Creed, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Washington University School of Medicine will be presenting in the Pharmacology seminar series.
3/11, 3:00 PM: David Bergkamp, Graduate Student in the Neumaier lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.
3/18, 3:00 PM: Carlie Neiswanger, Graduate Student in the Chavkin lab, and Dr. Aaron Garcia, Postodc in the Ferguson lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.
February
2/4, 11:00 AM: Third Session of NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series.
2/4, 3:00 PM: Dr. Meagan Quinlan, Postdoc in the Zweifel Lab, will be presenting “Development of a virally delivered tool for targeted gene editing in vivo” in the NAPE seminar series.
2/8, 10:30 AM: Dr. Sonya Neal, Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego will be presenting “The role of rhomboid proteins in protecting the membrane proteome” in the Pharmacology Seminar series
2/11, 3:00 PM: Carlee Ann Toddes, PhD Candidate in the lab of Dr. Patrick Rothwell at the University of Minnesota, invited by Dr. Sam Golden, will be presenting “Mu Opioid Receptor Modulation of Social Behavior” in the NAPE seminar series
2/14, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM: Dr. Carlos Campos, Assistant Professor of UW Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, will be presenting “Valence assignment in thalamus” as part of the Neuroscience seminar series
2/18, 3:00 PM: Rhiana Simon, Graduate Student in the Stuber lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.
2/18: 11:00 AM: 4th session of Graduate Student Professional Development series
2/25, 3:00 PM: Phillip Silva, PhD Candidate in the Neumaier lab will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series
2/24, 10:30 AM: Dr. Mazen Kheirbek, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series
2/28, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM: Dr. Naoshige Uchida, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University will be presenting “Diversity of Dopamine Neurons: Toward a normative understanding” as part of the Neuroscience seminar series
January
1/10, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM: Dr. Mario Penzo, Principle Investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health will be presenting “The paraventricular thalamus and the control of active avoidance behavior” in the Neuroscience seminar series
1/13, 10:30 AM: Dr. Heidi McBride, Professor from McGill University will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series
1/14, 3:00 PM: Dr. Li Li, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of UW Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, physician-scientist in the Bruchas lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series
1/20, 10:30 AM: Dr. Matthias W. Hentze MD, FAA, ML, Director of European Molecular Biology from Heidelberg, Germany will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series
1/21, 11:00 AM: Second Session of NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series.
1/24, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM: Dr. Ysabel Giraldo, Assistant Professor in Entomology from the University of California – Riverside will be presenting
1/28, 3:00 PM: Dr. Leandra Mangieri, Postdoc in the Bruchas Lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series