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Monday, May 11th, 2026
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CANCELLED NB-CNS Seminar - Cliff Ragsdale

The octopus arm: patterning and proprioception
Cliff Ragsdale, Professor, Neurobiology, The University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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BBE Informal Seminar - Jishnu Das

Studying immunomodulation using interpretable machine learning and network approaches
Jishnu Das, Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

MegaMolecules and Applications as Antibody Mimics
Milan Mrksich, Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, School of Engineering, Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 14th, 2026
2:00pm 3:00pm
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MedE Special Seminar

Aptamer Biosensors for Mapping Brain Chemistry Across Scales
Prof. Nako Nakatsuka, Assistant Professor of Neurotechnology, EPFL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Transcription and Splicing Specificity Through Kinetic Proofreading
Daniel Larson, Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health,
Friday, May 15th, 2026
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Medical Engineering PhD Defense, Chiyoung Hwang

Robust Nanogap Cluster Formation via Plasmonic Moiré Superlattices for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Chiyoung Hwang, PhD Candidate, Medical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 18th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Genetic Interrogation of Expression Regulation
Maria Carilli, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Edward Chang

The Cortical Machinery for Words
Edward Chang, Professor, Neurological Surgery UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Thursday, May 21st, 2026
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Maria Altshuller, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

BRCA1-BARD1 Tumor Suppressor Complex in Homologous Recombination Licensing
Patrick Sung, Professor of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, UT Health San Antonio,
Friday, May 22nd, 2026
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Optimizing Treslin-MTBP for cryo-EM analysis
Cai Tong Ng, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Combinatorial Signal Integration in the Dopamine Receptor System
Jan Gregrowicz, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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NB/CNS Seminar - Bing Brunton

Embodied intelligence: From connectomes to body models
Bing Brunton, Professor & Richard and Joan Komen University Chair, University of Washington, Seattle,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Decoding the dynamics and regulation of endogenous transcription factor hubs
Shawn Yoshida, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 29th, 2026
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Daniel Kronauer

Ant Societies: From Behavior to Neural Circuits
Daniel Kronauer, Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University,
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
Friday, June 5th, 2026
Saturday, June 6th, 2026
Monday, June 8th, 2026
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
Friday, June 12th, 2026
Sunday, June 14th, 2026
Monday, June 15th, 2026
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Thursday, June 25th, 2026
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Reliability without rigidity in a learned vocal circuit" and Title TBA
Jiahui Peng, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Kian Faizi, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Friday, July 10th, 2026
Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
12:00pm 5:12pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Passive drive: Harnessing evolutionary pressure as a non-transgenic method for removing conjugative virulent plasmids" and "Sweet Talk: Bacterial small RNAs as Key Mediators of Inter-Kingdom Communication in the Bobtail Squid"
Thomas Adamo-Schmidt, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Institution for Science,
Friday, August 14th, 2026
Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Tuesday, September 1st, 2026