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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. Click to subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

Click here to download the listing of events for April.

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

Click to download the Thursday Seminar Series poster, download poster »


Thursday Seminar Series: Sue Rhee

WHEN: Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, Stanford University
TALK TITLE: Understanding plant resilience against climate change through the lens of a thermophilic plant
HOST: Todd Michael and Wolfgang Busch
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Steve McCarroll

WHEN: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Steve McCarroll, Harvard Medical School
TALK TITLE: The Ticking DNA Clock: Somatic expansion of a DNA repeat propels the neurodegeneration in Huntington Disease
HOST: Graham McVicker
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

First Friday Seminar: Jaewon Ko

WHEN: Friday, May 3, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Jaewon Ko, PhD, Stanford University
TALK TITLE: Modulation of neural circuit organization by synaptic suppressors
HOSTS: Sung Han
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Ukpong Eyo

WHEN: Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Ukpong Eyo, University of Virginia
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Jasmine Revanna
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Salk Theory Seminar: Eric Shea-Brown

WHEN: Thursday, May 10, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
TALK TITLE: Assigning credit through the “other” connectome
HOST: Tanya Sharpee
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Hernandez Moura Silva

WHEN: Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Hernandez Moura Silva, MIT Ragon Institute
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Deepshika Ramanan
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Ian Maze

WHEN: Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Ian Maze, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Kenta Asahina
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Navdeep Chandel

WHEN: Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Navdeep Chandel, Northwestern University
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Christian Metallo
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. Click to subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

Click here to download the listing of events for April.

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

Click to download the Thursday Seminar Series poster, download poster »