Events
Upcoming Events
Please note all on-site events are currently canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Institute will resume in-person events once it is safe to do so.
Previous Events

BREAST CANCER: New insights in research, prevention, survivorship and healthcare delivery
October 23, 2019
As science and technology accelerate, exciting new insights in research, prevention, survivorship and healthcare delivery give hope that we will be able to tackle some of humanity’s most intractable diseases in our lifetimes.
Guest speaker, Barbara Parker, MD, medical director of Oncology at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego addressed the current status of prevention and care for breast cancer patients. A panel discussion hosted by Salk Professor Geoffrey Wahl followed on the topic of advancements of breast cancer research and treatments. The panel included Nikki Lytle, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Wahl’s Gene Expression Laboratory, Carol Gallagher, PharmaD, partner at New Enterprise Associates and Catherine Rivier, Salk professor emerita, herself a survivor.

Seeking Pleasure and Avoiding Pain: Understanding the brain’s circuitry
July 24, 2019
What is emotion? What makes our brains decide what is good or bad? And how does this interact with our motivations?
Presentation by Salk Professor Kay Tye and hosted by Professor Susan Kaech

How our nervous system processes the world around us
March 13, 2019
Presentation by Salk Associate Professor Tatyana Sharpee, Postdoctoral Fellow Isabella Farhy-Tselnicker and hosted by Professor Vicki Lundblad
Salk Women & Science | Design and Discovery Showcase
October 10, 2018
The Salk Women & Science Design and Discovery Showcase is a unique event that provides a platform to communicate scientific research via striking imagery from Salk researchers in collaboration with the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center while also raising awareness and funds for further scientific research.
Click here to visit the Design and Discovery Showcase website»
Discussions from Salk Professor Susan Kaech and Associate Professor Janelle Ayres of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis. Hosted by Salk Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration Kim Witmer.

Plant science is needed more today than ever before to help meet the demands of a rapidly growing human population and the disruptions of climate change. The global population recently topped 7 billion and is expected to reach 12 billion by the end of the century. More people means greater demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel, placing tremendous strains on ecosystems around the world. This growing demand, combined with extreme drought and temperature fluctuations, has resulted in widespread environmental damage, economic hardship and malnutrition.

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