Events

Tue, Sep 15 2026, 7 - 8pm

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UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center | 2026 Community Lecture Series | Momoko Watanabe, PhD & Raymond Wang, MD

“Fine Tuning Brain Tissue Formation in a Dish to Model Neurological Disorders”

Tue, Sep 22 2026, 10 - 11am

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UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping Seminar | Nitin Joshi, PhD

“Engineering Therapeutic Delivery to the Brain and Beyond,” by Nitin Joshi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director of Basic Science Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Tue, Sep 29 2026, 10 - 11am

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UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping Seminar | Douglas Nitz, PhD

“Subiculum and the Generation of Integrated Forms of Location and Orientation Tuning,” by Douglas Nitz, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Tue, Sep 29 2026, 2 - 3pm

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Anatomy & Neurobiology Dissertation Defense | Alexa Tierno, Graduate Student

"Neural Circuit Reorganization and Functional Plasticity Following Traumatic Brain Injury"

Tue, Oct 6 2026, 7 - 8pm

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UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center | 2026 Community Lecture Series | Aileen Anderson, PhD

“Stem Cell Awareness Day"

Mon, Oct 26 2026, 5:30 - 8pm

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Fourth Annual Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship

"The Promise of Longevity Research," by Eric Verdin, MD, Professor of Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine and President & CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging - a pioneering biomedical research institute dedicated to aging and age-related diseases. The Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship is presented and organized by the Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism in honor of Paolo Sassone-Corsi's legacy in epigenetics and metabolism.

Fri, Oct 30 2026, 8am - 12pm

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Center for Neuropolitics 2026 Symposium: Emotion and Political Behavior

What drives political behavior? Is political behavior “rational”? Why do individuals act against their political interests? And what exactly are one’s political interests, and how are they developed? Attempts to answer questions such as these nearly always come back to the central role of emotion as the primary generator of political behavior. But how does this happen? Does emotion drive rational political behavior? Is emotion a force for good politics or does emotion simply serve as a foundation for demagoguery? These issues will be addressed in the 2026 UC Irvine Center for Neuropolitics Annual Symposium. The Symposium includes the Jerrold Post Lecture on Neuropolitics, to be given by Professor Antonio Damasio, who for more than three decades has led the efforts to understand the relationship between emotion and rational behavior.

Tue, Nov 10 2026, 2 - 4pm

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Spatial Single-Cell Omics Technology Panel Discussion

"Sequencing-Based Spatial Transcriptomics: Current State of the Art, Applications and Data Analysis." Hear quick, high-impact presentations (three 15-minute talks), join lively discussions and network with peers to spark fresh ideas and collaborations driving the next wave of discovery in single-cell biology. Panelists include Xiangmin Xu, PhD, Rui Chen, PhD, and Gautham Prabhakar.

Tue, Dec 1 2026, 7 - 8pm

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UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center | 2026 Community Lecture Series | Brian Cummings, PhD & Jefferson Chen, MD, PhD

"Neural Stem Cell Trials for Traumatic Brain Injury – Past, Present & Future”