2023

12/8 – Dr. Sam Golden, PhD, UW Assistant Professor of Biological Structure, will be leading an introduction on Lightsheet Microscopy, followed by short talks highlighting the use of LSFM by Drs. Eric Szelenyi, Ken Ishii, Jingyi Chen, Jordan Elum, Anna Bowen, and Nastacia Goodwin in the NAPE seminar series.

12/13 – Dr. Peter Lwigale, Associate Professor of BioSciences at Rice University, will be presenting in the Biological Structure seminar series. His group’s research is focused on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in ocular development and embryonic corneal wound healing.

11/1: Dr. Viviana Gradinaru, Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, will be presenting in the Physiology and Biophysics seminar series.

11/2: Dr. Theanne Griffith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology at UCLA will be presenting in the Physiology and Biophysics seminar series.

11/3: Dr. Andre Berndt, PhD, UW Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.

11/7: Dr. Stephen Smith, PhD, UW Associate Professor of Pediatrics and fthe Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s, will be presenting “Cellular decision-making through dynamic protein-protein interaction networks”. Hosted by the Department of Pharmacology.

11/8: Dr. David Weissman, PhD, Postdoc in Psychology at Harvard, will be presenting “State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. Children”.

11/9: Dr. Sam Reiter, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroethology at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology graduate University in Japan will be presenting in the Physiology and Biophysics seminar series.

11/13: Dr. Gregory Morton, PhD, UW Research Professor of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, will be presenting “Obesity, diabetes and the brain”. Hosted by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

11/14: Dr. Arun Anantharam, PhD, Associate Professor Neurosciences at the University of Toledo, will be presenting in the Biochemistry seminar series.

11/17: Dr. Jaime McCutcheon, Professor in Biological Psychology
from The Arctic University of Norway, will be presenting “Neural and behavioral signatures of protein appetite” in the NAPE seminar series.

11/20: Dr. Li Li, PhD, MD, UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, will be presenting “Reimagining anesthesia: the pursuit of molecular and circuit-specific arousal modulation”. Hosted by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

11/23: Happy Thanksgiving!

11/27: Dr. Marta Soden, PhD, UW Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, will be presenting “Input-specific regulation of midbrain dopamine neurons”. Hosted by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

11/28: Dr. Susan Ferguson, UW Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Addictions, Drug and Alcohol Institute, will be presenting “From patterns to pathways: How modeling substance use informs our understanding of addiction behaviors and circuits”. Hosted by the Department of Pharmacology.

11/29: Dr. Paola Binda, PhD, Associate Professor in Physiology from University of Pisa, Italy, will be presenting “Active vision gates ocular dominance plasticity in human adults”. Hosted by Human Neuroscience Journal Club.

10/3: Dr. Angeline Dukes, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, will be presenting “Helping Others Thrive: Cultivating Inclusive Spaces as a Student, Scientist, and Faculty” in the Pharmacology seminar series.

10/5: Dr. John Reynolds, Professor of Neuroscience at the Salk Institute, will be presenting in the Neuroscience seminar series.

10/6: Dr. Marta Soden, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.

10/9 – 10/13: NAPE Imaging and Genetics Workshop.

10/24: Dr. Show-Ling Shyng, Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science University, will be presenting “KATP channels and insulin secretion: mechanism of antidiabetic sulfonylureas” in the Pharmacology seminar series.

10/27: Dr. Ken Ishii, Postdoc in the Stuber Lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.

9/21-22: Department of Pharmacology Retreat

9/19: Graduate Program in Neuroscience Retreat

9/23: NAPE Potluck

9/29: Dr. Brock Grill, Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.

8/11: Anthony English, Graduate Student in the Bruchas and Stella labs, will be presenting “THC-dependent increases in mPFC neuronal and corresponding 2-AG activity at locomotion initiation” at the NAPE seminar series.

8/11: Professional Development for Undergrads – “The Postdoc Experience”. Panelists: Dr. Brandy Briones, Dr. Jingyi Chen.

8/16, NeuroQuest! NAPE will host another neuroscience workshop for high schoolers from Franklin, Foster, and Chief Sealth High Schools.

8/18: Dr. David Marcus, Postdoc in the Bruchas lab, will be presenting “Endocannabinoid tuning of behavioral engagement via an anterior paraventricular thalamus – nucleus accumbens circuit” at the NAPE seminar series.

8/25: Summer Undergraduate Research
Presentations

7/7:Dr. Kate Nautiyal, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth, will be presenting “Behavioral and neural mechanisms of the effects of serotonin on impulsivity” at the NAPE Seminar series.

7/10: Simar Singh, Graduate Student in the Stella Lab, will be defending his dissertation titled “Stimulus-Dependent Regulation of 2-Arachidonoyl Glycerol Signaling and the Mechanism of its Hydrolysis by ABHD6”.

7/14: Professional Development for Undergrads – Applying and Navigating the Early Years of Graduate School. Panelists: Lydia Gordon-Fennell, Monica Tschang, Madison Martin

7/14: Sarah Wait, Graduate Student in the Berndt lab, will be presenting “Machine Learning Directed Engineering of Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators” at the NAPE Seminar series.

7/14: Logan Condon, Graduate Student in the Palmiter lab, will be presenting at the NAPE Seminar series

7/28: Professional Development for Undergrads – Applying and Navigating the Later Years of Graduate School. Panelists: Carlie Neiswanger and Justin Lee

6/6, 2:00 PM – HSB G-328/Zoom. Rhiana Simon, Graduate Student in the Stuber Lab, defends her thesis! Her talk is titled “Molecularly-defined cell types within the septal complex and their role in opioid dependence and withdrawal”

6/6, 2:30 PM – HSB D-209: Dr. Jodi Nunnari, PI at the Bay Area Institute of Science, will be presenting “Mitochondrial Behavior” in the Pharmacology seminar series.

6/8, 10:30 AM – HSB D-209: Pharmacology Rotation Talks; Marta Trzeciak, Scott Schactler, Erik Butcher

6/9, 11:00 AM – J-156: Professional Development Photo Day for NAPE trainees

6/16, 12:00 PM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Kevin Schneider, Postdoc in the Golden Lab, will be presenting at the NAPE Seminar series.

6/16, Time TBA – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Sheri Mizumori, Professor of Psychology, will be presenting at the NAPE Seminar series.

6/30, 11:00 AM – J-156: Professional Development for Undergrads – Welcome & Introduction

5/5, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Drs. Garret Stuber and Sheri Mizumori will be leading a session on “Crafting your DEI statement” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

5/5, 3:00 PM – J-156/Zoom: Raymond Haug, UW Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student, will be giving a special NAPE seminar title “Success through chaos”.

5/8, 3:30 PM – 4:50 – HSEB 101/Zoom: Be Boundless Research Seminar featuring Dr. Brandy Briones, Post-doctoral Scholar and Dr. Anna Bowen. Brandy will present “Steroid hormone-sensitive neurons in the paraventricular thalamus enhance out-group, but not in-group, aggression in mice” and Anna will present “Behavioral and brain-wide correlates of dynamic reward prediction”

5/9, 2:30 PM – D-209: Dr. Dario Alessi, Professor of Signal Transduction, University of Dundee, will be presenting “Interplay between Rab GTPases and LRRK2 Kinase in Parkinson’s” in the Pharmacology Seminar series.

5/11 – Dr. Lin Tian, Professor and Vice Chair of Research at UC Davis, will be giving a talk in the Bioengineering seminar series.

5/12, 11:00 AM – Zoom: Dr. Lusine Eyde will be leading a session on “Preparing your CV, Resume, and Cover Letter” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

5/12, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Avi Matarasso, Graduate Student from the Bruchas lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Their talk is titled “Isolating the role of LC-noradrenergic dopamine release in aversive and appetitive behaviors”

5/15, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -HSEB 101/Zoom: Dr. Yakeel Quiroz, Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Harvard Medical School & Mass General Hospital will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. His talk is titled “Age-related brain abnormalities in cognitively unimpaired individuals at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease”

5/19, 11:00 AM – Zoom: Dr. Barbara Juarez, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and former NAPE Alum, will be leading a session on “Life as a New Faculty Member” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

5/19, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Brock Grill, Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the UW and Seattle Children’s, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. His talk is titled “Genetic Exploration of Opioid Biology: How Forward Genetics and Engineered Behavioral Models are Changing Opioid Research”

5/22, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -HSEB 101/Zoom: Dr. John Neumaier, Professor of Psychiatry, will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series.

5/26, 10:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Drs. Susan Ferguson and Sam Golden will be leading a session on “Balancing a Career and a Growing Family” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

5/26, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Tamer M. Gamal El-din, Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, will be presenting “When Sodium Channels Activate Early… a Painful Story”.

4/3, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -HSEB 101/Zoom: Dr. Maya Opendak, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins & Kennedy Krieger Institute, will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. Title TBA.

4/4, 3:00 PM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Kay Tye, Professor of Systems Neurobiology at the Salk Institute, will be giving a special NAPE seminar. Title TBA

4/6, 1:00 PM – Genome Science Auditorium S060/ Zoom: Dr. Tanya Daigle, Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute, will be presenting “Generation of enhancer AAVs and their application in basic research and human gene therapy” in the Bioengineering Seminar series. Mixer with pastries starts at 12:30 PM.

4/7, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Justin Lee, Graduate Student Molecular Engineering and Science from the Berndt lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Title TBA

4/14, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Avi Matarasso, Graduate Student from the Bruchas lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Title TBA

4/17, 3:30 PM – 4:50 – HSEB 101/Zoom: Dr. Mike Yassa, Professor Neurobiology & Behavior from the University of California, Irvine will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. Title TBA.

4/18, 2:30 PM – D-209: Dr. Roshanak Irannejad, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California at San Francisco, will be presenting in the Pharmacology Seminar series.

4/21, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Larry Zweifel, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will be discussing “Steps Towards Obtaining a Faculty Position: Part I – Applying” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

4/21, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Makenzie Patarino, Graduate Student from the Schindler lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Title TBA

4/21, 4:00 PM – Zoom: Ethan Ancell, Graduate Student in Dr. Daniela Witten’s lab will be presenting “Determining statistical significance in behavioral-neural activity generalized linear models” in the NAPE Computational Seminar Series.

4/24, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -HSEB 101/Zoom: Dr. Claudia Moreno, UW Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. Title TBA.

4/27, 2:30 PM – Foege, S060: Dr. Jamie Vandenberg, Professor at St. Vincent’s Clinical School, University of NSW Sydney, Australia will be presenting “Getting to the Heart of HERG K+ Channels” in the Pharmacology Seminar series.

4/28, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Larry Zweifel, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will be discussing “Steps Towards Obtaining a Faculty Position: Part II – Securing” in the Postdoc Professional Development series.

4/28, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: NAPE Town Hall. More details to be announced soon

3/3, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Alex Whitebirch, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ferguson Lab, will be presenting “Tips & Strategies for Giving a Better Science Talk” at the NAPE Graduate Professional Development Series.

3/3, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Yijie Geng, UW Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, will be presenting “What makes us social creatures: the molecular basis of social behavior in vertebrates” at the NAPE seminar series.

3/6, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -D209 HSB/Zoom: Dr. Constanza Cortes, Assistant Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. Title TBA. More about Dr. Cortes

3/10, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: “Tips & Strategies For Dealing with Burnout, Rejection, and Imposter Syndrome” – part of the NAPE Graduate Professional Development Series. Panelists: Drs. Carlee Toddes, Sean Piantadosi, Sekun Park, Kali Esancy

3/14, 2:30 PM – T-739 HSB, Dr. Myron Evans, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s, will be presenting “Identification and targeting of novel dependencies in pediatric medulloblastoma” in the Pharmacology Seminar Series.

3/17, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Marta Soden, UW Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology will be speaking on “Tips & Strategies For Improving Mentoring” as part of the NAPE Graduate Professional Development Series.

3/17, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Jingyi Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bruchas lab, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Title TBA

3/23, 2:30 PM – T-739 HSB, Dr. James Murphy, Professor in the Division of Inflammation at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, will be presenting “License to kill: understanding how the zombie protein, MLKL, is triggered to kill cells by necroptosis” in the Pharmacology Seminar Series.

3/24, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: Dr. Daniel Castro, Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, will be speaking on “Pursuing an Academic Career” as part of the NAPE Graduate Professional Development Series.

3/24, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Nathan Baertsch, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at Seattle Children’s, will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series. Title TBA

3/27, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -D209 HSB/Zoom: Dr. Oscar Vivas, UW Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics and Pharmacology, will be presenting in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series. Title TBA More about Dr. Vivas

2/2, 1:00 PM – S060 Foege Hall: Dr. Denise Cai, Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be presenting “The brain in motion: how ensemble fluidity supports memory-updating” in the UW Bioengineering Seminar Series.

2/3, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: “How to make your research project sparkle Part I” NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series. Panelists: Drs. Susan Ferguson, Abbie Schindler, Jingyi Chen

2/3, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Denise Cai, Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be presenting “Is it really harder to be a woman in science?” at the NAPE seminar series.

2/6, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -D209 HSB/Zoom: Dr. Eric Lumsden, UW Postdoctoral Fellow in the Perkel lab will be presenting “Investigating seasonally-dependent excitability changes in migratory songbird motor neurons” in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience Seminar Series.

2/7, 2:30 PM – T-739 HSB, Reception Following: Dr. Shingo Kajimura, Associate Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, will be presenting “How do we make heat?” in the Pharmacology Seminar Series.

2/10, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: “How to make your research project sparkle Part II” NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series. Panelists: Drs. Chavkin, Bruchas, Stuber

2/10, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Ahmed Eltokhi, UW Postdoctoral Fellow in the Catterall Lab, will be presenting in the NAPE Seminar Series.

2/17, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: “Exploring Careers in Science” NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series. Presentation by Dr. Lusine Gomtsian

2/17, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Dr. Garret Stuber, UW Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and Pharmacology will be presenting in the NAPE Seminar Series.

2/24, 11:00 AM – J-156/Zoom: “Pursuing a non-academic career” NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series. Panelists: Drs. Meagan Quinlan and Rose Yin

2/24, 3:00 PM – J156/Zoom: Robert Seaman, PhD Candidate in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at UT Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, will be presenting “Modeling Polysubstance Use in Rats: Focus on Opioids and Stimulants” in the NAPE Seminar Series.

2/24, 4:00 PM – Zoom: Dr. Abbie Schindler, UW Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, will be presenting “Unsupervised machine learning approaches for modeling sparse time series data” as part of the NAPE Computing Seminar Series.

2/27, 3:30 PM – 4:50 -D209 HSB/Zoom: Dr. Alex Williams, Assistant Professor from the Center for Neural Science at New York University will be presenting “Signal in the Noise: why trial-to-trial and animal-to-animal variability matters for systems neuroscience” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar Series.

2/28, 2:30 PM – T-739 HSB, Reception Following: Dr. Ehud Isacoff, Professor of Neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley, will be presenting “Photo-pharmacology for neural circuits” in the Pharmacology Seminar Series.

1/4, 1:30 PM – Dr. Luke Sjulson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will be presenting “Off-manifold coding in visual cortex revealed by sleep” in the Computational Neuroscience Center Seminar series.

1/5, 9:30 AM – Dr. Luke Sjulson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will be presenting “Probing and manipulating the hippocampus-accumbens-VTA circuit in drug addiction” in the PBIO seminar series.

1/6, 3:00 PM – Dr. Jessie Benedict, Stuber lab postdoc candidate, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.

1/9, 3:30-4:50pm – Dr. Jeremy Day, Associate Professor of Neurobiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham will be presenting “Ghosts in the machine: Leveraging drugs of abuse to study experience-dependent transcriptional mechanisms” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar Series.

1/13, 11:00 AM – Welcome session for NAPE Graduate Student Professional Development Series (GSPDS)

1/13, 3:00 PM – Dr. Nathan Sackett, Acting Assistant Professor and Psychiatric Physician will be presenting at the NAPE seminar series.

1/23, 3:30-4:50 PM – Dr. Jeremiah Cohen, Principal Scientist at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics will be presenting in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.

1/27, 3:00 PM – Dr. Nathan Rieger, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neumaier lab, will be presenting in the NAPE seminar series.

1/27, 11:00 AM – 2nd session of GSPDS “Pursuing an academic career” Panel Discussion

1/30, 3:30-4:50pm – Dr. Annegret Falkner, Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University, will be presenting “Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat” in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar series.