| Date |
Speaker |
Content |
Website |
| 08/27/2026 |
Ashanti Matlok, PhD |
Senior scientist in the Biotech startup ecosystem |
linkedin.com/in/ashanti-matlock |
| 09/03/2026 |
Aryan Taheri, PhD (candidate) |
Senior PhD student at UCBerkeley (Joint Graduate Student - Nogales & Yildiz Labs) |
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| 09/10/2026 |
Nathan Gamarra, PhD |
Further developing and extending DiMeLo-seq to interrogate core questions in chromatin organization and gene regulation. |
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| 09/17/2026 |
Jonelle Basso, PhD |
Research Scientist, Visel Lab (JGI/ LBNL) |
https://biosciences.lbl.gov/profiles/jonelle-tamara-basso/ |
| 09/24/2026 |
Avery Noonan, PhD |
Post doctoral fellow in the Arkin Laboratory: Genomics & Systems Biology |
https://arkinlab.bio/lab-member/avery-noonan/ |
| 10/01/2026 |
John R. Paul, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor at USF; Ecology and evolution of plants; molecular phylogenetics, population and genomics, greenhouse and field experiments |
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| 10/08/2026 |
Nathan Schoepp, PhD |
Scientist in Biotech: Specialist and consultant |
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| 10/15/2026 |
Kenisha A. Puckett, PhD |
Stem Cell Biologist- Maternal Fetal Medicine |
Kenisha.puckett@gmail.com |
| 10/22/2026 |
Lucy Brennan, PhD |
Currently a Research Scientist at Genentech. Biophysicist/ Biochemist specializing in protein biochemistry, quantitative microscopy, and single-molecule biophysics |
linkedin.com/in/lucy-brennan-4936b9169 |
| 10/29/2026 |
Caroline Escoubas |
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-escoubas-g%C3%BCney/ |
| 11/05/2026 |
Roshanak Irannejad, PhD |
Associate Professor, UCSF (Department of Biochemistry & Biophysic/Cardiovascular Research Insitute) : GPCR Cell Biologist |
https://irannejadlab.ucsf.edu/index.php/projects/ |
| 11/12/2026 |
Frederic E Theunissen; Julie E Elie (twin talks) |
UC Berkeley (Frédéric Theunissen, Professor of Neuroscience, Director to Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, Helen Wills Neuroscience Graduate Group. Biophysics Graduate Group. theunissen@berkeley.edu) |
http://theunissen.berkeley.edu |
| 11/19/2026 |
Andrea Gomez, PhD |
Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Bio @ UCBerkeley. The Gomez lab uses molecular biology, electrophysiology, and functional imaging to decode the instructive cues that organize neural networks. THey focus on mechanisms that specify synaptic properties and determine how these properties bias the timescales of neuronal computation. |
https://www.andreagomezlab.com/ |
| 12/03/2026 |
Kristin (Rule) Gleitsman, PhD |
Discuss the use of AI & biological foundation models to answer key questions in human biology. m a biochemist by training, now working as CSO of a company that has built an RNA-based foundation model (www.eigenbioai.com). |
https://eigenbioai.com/ |
| 12/10/2026 |
Leah Guthrie, PhD. |
Assistant Professor at UCBerkeley: The Guthrie lab investigates the principles that govern microbial metabolism and signaling in the context of kidney homeostasis and disease using mass spectrometry, chemoinformatics, and molecular biology approaches. |
https://www.theguthrielab.com/research |