If you are interested in attending a NAPE event, contact NAPE Program Manager Dr. Lydia Joy ( lgordonf@uw.edu ) for additional details.
2026
June
06/02 – Dissertation Defense by Monica Tschang (Schindler Lab). Monica will present “Microbial Mediators of Trauma: The Gut-Brain Axis in Adverse Outcomes Following Blast Injury”
06/02 – Dissertation Defense by Cassidy Burke (Stuber Lab). Cassidy will present “Multimodal interrogation of cell type-specific transcriptional states and brain-wide activity profiles in maladaptive opioid use”
06/05 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Scott Sternson, HHMI Investigator, Professor of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego. Dr. Sternson will present “Algorithms for Appetite”
06/08 – NAPE Seminar by a postdoctoral candidate for Ferguson lab Monica Dawes, PhD student in Dr. Sara Jones’ lab at Wake Forest University. Monica will present “This is so METH’d up: How methamphetamine co-use worsens behavioral and neurobiological outcomes of fentanyl self-administration”
06/10 – Dissertation Defense by Victoria Hones (Mizumori Lab). Victoria will present “Flexibility & adaptability: the role of the lateral habenula & medial prefrontal cortex”
06/12 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Garret Stuber, Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at UW. Dr. Stuber will present “Neural Circuits for Motivation and Reward”
06/15 – NAPE Fare Start Shift: Farm Gleaning.
06/16 – NAPE Fare Start Shift: Food Resourcing Kitchen Support.
06/18 – NAPE Undergraduate Professional Development Series Kick-Off Event.
May
05/01 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Stephen Zhang, Assistant Professor of Neural Science, Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY. Dr. Zhang will present “Biochemical Computation in Behavioral Regulation”
05/07 – NAPE Symposium with Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
05/08 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Marta Soden, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at UW. Dr. Soden will present “Neurotensin and Dopamine: The Power Couple of Motivated Behavior”
05/14 – NAPE Seminar by a postdoctoral candidate for Heshmati lab Matthew Mosso, PhD candidate in Dr. Alison Barth’s lab at Carnegie Mellon. Matthew will present “Subtype specific regulation of neocortical somatostatin interneurons during associative learning”
05/15 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Abigail Schindler, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW. Dr. Schindler will present “Translational models for studying trauma and substance use + My journey past the Brain Disease Model of Addiction”
05/29 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Richard Palmiter, HHMI Professor of Biochemistry UW. Dr. Palmiter will present “How our research evolved from studying body-weight regulation to nociplastic pain”
05/29 – NAPE Artisan Lab!
April
04/03 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Ajay Dhaka, Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics at UW. Dr. Dhaka will present “Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Pain”
04/10 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Benjamin Land, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at UW. Dr. Land will present “Exploring the role of opioid receptors in the analgesic and antidepressant effects of ketamine.”
04/17 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Nathan Baertsch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, at UW. Dr. Baertsch will present “Separable roles of enkephalinergic neurons and opioid-receptor signaling in respiratory control.”
04/23 – Harm Reduction Q&A and Hygiene Kit Making Workshop event hosted by NAPE Community Engagement Committee
04/24 – NAPE Seminar by Dr. Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, Associate Professor of Neurology, Scott Alan Myers Endowed Professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Namboodiri will present “Dopamine and behavior across timescales.”
04/30 – NAPE Discussion with Dr. Stephen Zhang, Assistant Professor of Neural Science, Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY. We will be discussing Fluorescence-Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
March
03/03 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Faculty Interview Process
03/10 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: LinkedIn, CV/Resume, Networking, and more!
03/13 – NAPE Seminar by Dez Coleman, Pharmacology PhD student in the Grill Lab. Dez will present “G protein regulatory network shapes magnitude and kinetics of behavioral responses in an engineered opioid receptor model”
03/20 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Nick Steinmetz, Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics at UW. Dr. Steinmetz will present “Closed-loop neuroscience at the brain-wide scale”
03/20 – NAPE Artisan Lab! We will be making macrame keychains!
03/23 – 03/24 – SPEAR Conference at University of Calgary Field Station
February
02/03 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Effective Science Presentation Skills
02/06 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. John Neumaier, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW. Dr. Neumaier will present “Next steps for fentanyl research”
02/10 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Grant Writing
02/13 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Marco Pravetoni, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Director of Center for Medication Development for Substance Use Disorders and Overdose at UW. Dr. Pravetoni will present “Antibody-based strategies to treat substance use disorders and overdose”
02/17 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Publication Preparation
02/20 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Yijie Geng, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UW. Dr. Geng will present “Unveiling the environmental-epigenetic regulations of social behavior”
02/27 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Li Li, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at UW. Dr. Li will present “Neuromodulatory integration of arousal and its implications in drugs of abuse”
02/30 – NAPE Artisan Lab! We will be building mini animals!
January
01/13 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Thriving in Science
01/16 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Paul Phillips, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW. Dr. Phillips will present “Neural regulation of cocaine consumption”
01/20 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Non-Academic Careers
01/23 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Nephi Stella, Professor of Pharmacology at UW. Dr. Stella will present “Analyzing natural mouse behavior in a linear track: Impact of THC as a case study”
01/27 – NAPE Professional Development Session. Topic: Mentorship
01/30 – NAPE Distinguished Speakers Talk by Dr. Abigail Schindler, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW. Dr. Schindler will present “Translational models for studying trauma and substance use + My journey past the Brain Disease Model of Addiction”
01/30 – NAPE Artisan Lab! We will be making Diamond Coasters