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The Salk Bulletin, managed by the Salk Events team, is a compilation of upcoming scientific lectures and conferences taking place in and around La Jolla, California. The Bulletin includes events at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla Institute, Scripps Research and Sanford Burnham Prebys. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

To subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin, please email bulletin@salk.edu.

Changes and cancellations are not infrequent, so please check this page often for updates.


Thursday Seminar Series: Vishva Dixit

WHEN: Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Vishva Dixit, Genentech
TALK TITLE: Why so many ways to die?
HOST: Satchin Panda
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Elizabeth Villa

WHEN: Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Elizabeth Villa, UC San Diego
TALK TITLE: Discovering Chimallivirus biology with in-cell cyro-EM
HOST: Dmitry Lyumkis
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Julien Sage

WHEN: Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Julien Sage, Stanford University
TALK TITLE: Intratumoral heterogeneity in small cell lung cancer
HOST: Dannielle Engle
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Ana Maria Cuervo

WHEN: Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
TALK TITLE: Selective autophagy in the fight against aging and age-related diseases
HOST: Satchin Panda
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Benjamin Cravatt

WHEN: Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Tony Hunter
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Ian Wilson

WHEN: Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Ian Wilson, The Scripps Research Institute
TALK TITLE: Immune recognition of human pathogens: implications for design of novel vaccines and therapeutics
HOST: Dmitry Lyumkis
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Faculty Lecture of the Month: Wolfgang Busch

WHEN: Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Wolfgang Busch
TALK TITLE: TBD
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Erika Holzbauer

WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Erika Holzbauer, University of Pennsylvania
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Aga Kendrick
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Faculty Lecture of the Month: Gerald Shadel

WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Gerald Shadel
TALK TITLE: TBD
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Diana Bautista

WHEN: Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Joel Encarnacion
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Xavier Darzacq

WHEN: Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Xavier Darzacq, UC Berkeley
TALK TITLE: Single protein tracking: New views on molecular interactions and applications to drug discovery
HOST: Alan Saghatelian
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Faculty Lecture of the Month: Lin Tian

WHEN: Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Alan Saghatelian
TALK TITLE: TBD
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Faculty Lecture of the Month: Martyn Goulding

WHEN: Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Martyn Goulding
TALK TITLE: TBD
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

The Salk Bulletin, managed by the Salk Events team, is a compilation of upcoming scientific lectures and conferences taking place in and around La Jolla, California. The Bulletin includes events at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla Institute, Scripps Research and Sanford Burnham Prebys. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

To subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin, please email bulletin@salk.edu.

Changes and cancellations are not infrequent, so please check this page often for updates.