Seminar Series

Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers.  Seminars will be held in 2117 MERF for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters unless otherwise noted.  If interested in more seminars at The University of Iowa, please visit the Carver College of Medicine's upcoming events.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. 
 

Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

Fall 2024

Date Speaker Host Title

Friday
Aug. 16
2:30 PM

Yarimar Carrasquillo, PhD
Investigator
Section on Behavioral Neurocircuitry and Cellular Plasticity
NIH/NICCH

Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat The Amygdala: A Pain Rheostat in the Brain

Tues.
Sept. 10
10:30 AM

Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD
Professor
Program in Cancer Biology
Director, Precision Oncology
Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Dr. Songhai Chen

 

Thurs.
Sept. 12
4:00 PM

1110A
MERF

Zachary Knight, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Professor, Dept of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco

Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology and the Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture

 

Tues.
Sept 17
10:30 AM
(Virtual)

Laura Seemiller, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dept of Biology
Eberly College of Science
Pennsylvania State University

Louis Kolling, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

 

Thurs. Sept. 19 12:30 PM

Linda Zhu, PhD
Regulatory Affairs Manager
Cytek Biosciences

Bryan Cox, PhD

 

Tues.
Sept. 24
10:30 AM

Salil Bidaye, PhD
Research Group Leader
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Seth Tomchik, PhD  

Thurs.
Sept. 26
10:30 AM

Snehajyoti Chatterjee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Jon Resch, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Faculty Seminars  

Tues.
Oct. 15
10:30 AM
(Virtual)

Tyler Nguyen, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Dept of Anesthesiology
Indiana University School of Medicine

Ruixiang (Roy) Wang, PhD

 

Tues.
Oct. 22
10:30 AM
(Virtual)

Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept of Neuroscience
Mayo Clinic Florida

Samantha Pierson

 

Tues.
Oct. 29
10:30 AM

 

Katelin Dannen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Adele Stewart, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmaology
University of Iowa

Faculty Seminars  

Thurs.
Nov. 19
 PM

James Chelliah, PhD
Postdoctoral Resarch Associate
University of Exeter
Ted Abel, PhD  

Tues.
Dec. 10
10:30 AM

 

Mitchell Roitman, PhD
Professor
Chair, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
Dept of Psychology
University of Illinois-Chicago

Jon Resch, PhD  

 

Spring 2024

Date Speaker Host Title

Tues.
Jan. 23
10:30 AM

Elizabeth A Heller, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Pharmacology
Perelman School of Medicine

Ted Abel, PhD

 

Epigenetic editing for the study of psychiatric disease

Tues.
Jan. 30
10:30 AM

Samer Hattar, PhD
Senior Investigator
Chief of the Section on Light & Circadian Rhythms
National Institutes of Mental Health

Deniz Atasoy, PhD

Beyond Vision: Impact of light on behavior

Tues.
Feb. 13
10:30 AM

Katelin Dannen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

 

Accessible Pharmacology

Tues.
Feb. 20
10:30 AM

Zoom

Yang He, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine

 

Deciphering Obesity: The Role of Serotonin 2C Receptor

Tues.
Feb. 27
10:30 AM

Zoom

Roswitha Wiltschko, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Stefan Strack, PhD

The Magnetic Compass of Birds

Thurs.
March 21
4:00 PM

1110A MERF

Beth Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
HHMI Investigator

Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology and the Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture

Mapping Microglia States to Function in Development & Disease

Tues.
March 26
10:30 AM

Zoom

David M. Holtzman, MD
Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor
Scientific Dir., Hope Center for Neurological Disorders
Dept of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine

Tam Nguyen

The Role of APOE and the immune response in Amyloid-induced Tauopathy and Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration

Tues.
April 9
10:30 AM

Maya Opendak, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Solomon H. Snyder Dept of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

Building a Social Brain: Genes, Circuits and Behavior

Tues.
April 16
10:30 AM

Zoom

Li Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dept of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco

 

Development of the Human Neocortex: from Progenitors to Circuits

Tues.
April 23
10:30 AM

Elva Denise Diaz, PhD
Professor
Dept of Pharmacology
UC Davis School of Medicine

Stefan Strack, PhD

How to change your mind: Molecular mechanisms of excitatory synapse development and plasticity