2024

2/2: Graduate Professional Development session on “Mental Health and Well-Being in Graduate School” by Dr. Lusine Eyde.

2/5:  Dr. Nathan Baertsch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UW and Seattle Children’s will be presenting, “How Breathing is Generated and Regulated by the Brain” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.

2/6: Dr. Azad Bonni, MD, PhD, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Neuroscience and Rare Diseases, Pharma Research and Early Development at Roche, will be presenting “Deregulation of Ubiquitin Signaling in Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders” hosted by Weill NeuroHub.

2/8:  Dr. Sven Dorkenwald, PhD, Shanahan Foundation Fellow at the UW and Allen Institute, will be presenting “Reconstructing the Synaptic Wiring Diagram of the Fruit Fly Brain”, hosted by eScience Institute.

2/9:  Dr. Mark Duncan, MD, UW Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, will be presenting “The Clinical Practice of Treating Addiction” in the NAPE seminar series.

2/9: Graduate Professional Development session on “Barriers to Success in Graduate School and How to Circumvent Them” with panelists Drs. Raaj Gowrishankar, Carlee Toddes, and Kevin Schneider.

2/12: Dr. Mitra Heshmati, MD, PhD, UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Biological Structure, will be presenting “Investigating Brainwide Anesthesia-Activated Ensembles in Mice” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.

2/15: Dr. Karla Kaun, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University, woill be presenting “Molecular Changes Underlying Alcohol Reward” in the Physiology and Biophysics seminar series.

2/16: NAPE Lightsheet Informational Session. Attendance is required for persons wanting to participate in the July 2024 hands-on session.

2/16: Graduate Professional Development session on “Tips and Strategies for Giving a Better Science Talk” by Dr. Alex Whitebirch, Postdoc in the Ferguson lab.

2/20: Dr. Sachin Patel, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University will be presenting “Endocannabinoid Signaling in the CNS: Translational Implications for Stress-Related Disorders and Addiction” in the Pharmacology seminar series.

2/22: Dr. Zach Danziger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University will be presenting “Learning and Control in High-Dimensional Human-Machine Interfaces” in the Bioengineering seminar series. Flyer

2/23: Dr. David Ottenheimer, Postdoc in the Stuber and Steinmetz lab, will be presenting “Transcriptionally diverse cell types in the rodent ventral pallidum” in the NAPE seminar series.

2/23: Graduate Professional Development session on “How to Make Your Research Project Fundable” by Dr. Jingyi Chen, Postdoc in the Bruchas lab.

2/27: Dr. Jorge E. Contreras, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology at the University of California will be presenting “Connexin-43 hemichannels as mediators of cardiac stress-induced arrhythmias and myocardial injury” at the Pharmacology seminar series.

2/29: Dr. Theanne Griffith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology at UCLA will be presenting “Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage-gated sodium channels” in the Physiology and Biophysics seminar series.

1/11: Dr. Marco Pravetoni, UW Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pharmacology, will be presenting “Development of vaccines and antibody-based interventions to treat opioid use disorders and overdose… and beyond” in the Bioengineering seminar series.

1/12: Graduate Professional Development session on “Pursuing an Academic Career” – featuring Dr. Anna Bowen and Dr. Brandy Briones

1/16:  Dr. Maria Sweetwyne, UW Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, will be presenting in the Pharmacology seminar series.

1/18: Dr. Li Li, UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, PI at the Seattle Children’s, will be presenting “Precision anesthesia: towards neural circuit-specific modulation of arousal” in the Bioengineering seminar series.

1/19: Graduate Professional Development session on “How to Make Your Research Sparkle” – featuring Dr. Sean Piantadosi and Dr. Adam Gordon-Fennell

1/19: NAPE seminar featuring Kaylin Ellioff, PhD Candidate in the Land and Bruchas lab. 

1/26: Graduate Professional Development session on “Exploring Careers in Science” by Dr. Lusine Eyde

1/30: Dr. Sabrina Spencer, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and the University of Colorado Boulder will be presenting the Pharmacology seminars series.