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, 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"

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, 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”