UW Events
Events
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Aug 27Maravillas del Waisman
Fecha: 27 de agosto de 2026 Tema: ¿Qué ofrece el Waisman Center a la comunidad? Invitadas: Charlene Rivera-Bonet y Aracely Portillo Resumen: Las Maravillas del Waisman está en su quinto año como programa radial, trayendo información acerca de desarrollo humano, discapacidades intelectuales y del desarrollo, y enfermedades neurodegenerativas, con investigaciones y servicios en el Waisman Center …
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Sep 3Seminar – Ari Ne’eman, PhD – “The Role of Public Policy in Facilitating the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Society” **Special Thursday seminar**
Ari Ne’eman, PhDHarvard UniversityProfile About the Speaker: Ari Ne’eman is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the role that public policy can play in facilitating the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society. His primary research interests are in long-term services …
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Sep 11Seminar – Brian Lee, PhD – “Integrated Multimodal Profiling of Human Cortical Neurons”
Brian Lee, PhDAllen InstituteProfile About the Speaker: Brian Lee joined the Allen Institute in 2014 as a scientist in the Mouse Cell Types research program. Before joining the Allen Institute he was a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Paul Kenny at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, FL. In Dr. Kenny’s lab he …
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Sep 18Seminar – Jonathan Kipnis, PhD – “Anatomy of ‘Brainwashing’ and How It is Related to Brain Health”
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Lab Website About the Speaker: Dr. Jonathan (Jony) Kipnis is BJC Investigator, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. He is also the inaugural Director of Brain immunology and Glia (BIG) …
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Sep 25Seminar – Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD – “Development of Human Microphysiological Systems for Modeling Disease Complexity and Testing Interventional Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease”
Tracy Young Pearse, PhDHarvard UniversityProfile About the Speaker: Tracy Young-Pearse is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, the Dennis J. Selkoe Distinguished Chair in Neurology, and the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Nervous System Diseases program. She received her undergraduate degree in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY from Skidmore College and …
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Sep 26Waisman Whirl Run, Walk & Roll for All Abilities 2026
Registration is now open! Get your shoes and wheels ready for the 2025 Waisman Whirl Run, Walk & Roll. Join us for the 12th annual Waisman Whirl Run, Walk, & Roll for All Abilities Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 9 am. 5k run, walk or roll, and 1 mile walk or roll courses Proceeds benefit …
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Oct 2Seminar – Ralph Adolphs, PhD – “Social Cognition, Autism, and the Human Amygdala”
Ralph Adolphs, PhD Caltech Profile About the Speaker: Ralph Adolphs studies the neural and psychological basis for human social behavior. His work has focused on examining how people recognize, perceive, and process emotions and other social cues in facial expressions. Some of the questions his lab is trying to answer are: How do people make social …
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Oct 9Seminar – Ben Philpot, PhD – “Translational Opportunities for Angelman Syndrome”
Ben Philpot, PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Ben Philpot is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology & Physiology at the University of North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in psychobiology from Dr. Peter Brunjes at the University of Virginia and performed a postdoctoral …
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Oct 16Seminar – Scott Soderling, PhD – “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Proximity as a Driver of Synaptic Signaling in Health and Disease”
Scott Soderling, PhD Duke University Profile About the Speaker: Scott Soderling, Ph.D., is a George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an expert in molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell biology and dysfunction linked to human brain disorders. His lab has …
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Oct 23Seminar – Anand Swaroop, PhD – “Genetic Variants, Genome Topology, and Complex Traits: Making Sense of Genetics of AMD and Glaucoma”
Anand Swaroop, PhD National Eye Institute Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Anand Swaroop obtained his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore–both in India. After completing his postdoctoral training at Yale University in molecular biology and human genetics, …
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Nov 6Seminar – Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD – “The Current State of Clinical Trials for Down Syndrome Associated Alzheimer’s Disease”
Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD University of Southern California Profile About the Speaker: Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD, is Medical Director of the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He earned his MD and PhD degrees from Brown University, conducted neurogenetics research at …
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Dec 4Seminar – Judith Steen, PhD – Topic: Cell Types Within the Visual Cortex and the Encoding of Visual Information Within the Brain
Judith Steen, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Steen is a Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Director of the Neuroproteomics Laboratory in the F. M. Kirby Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her laboratory works to understand neuro-regeneration and neurodegenerative diseases …
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Dec 11Seminar – Brian O’Roak, PhD – Topic: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Brian O’Roak, PhD Oregon Health & Science University Profile About the Speaker: Brian O’Roak is originally from California’s Central Valley. After earning a B.S. in Biology at CSU Fresno, he did his PhD studies at Yale University working with Dr. Matthew W. State in the Department of Genetics. He then went on for postdoctoral training in …
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Feb 5Seminar – Harrison Gabel, PhD – “Dissecting Disruption of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Harrison Gabel, PhDWashington University in St. LouisProfile About the Speaker: Harrison Gabel is an associate professor of neuroscience at Washington University in St Louis. Since establishing his laboratory in 2015, he has studied mechanisms of gene regulation in the brain and investigated how disruption of these mechanisms can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders. His group has identified …