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NBIO Seminar: Dr. Christopher Lapointe (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Online Meeting Link: https://nbio.uw.edu/zoom-seminars. Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact nbio@uw.edu with accessibility questions. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

NAPE Seminar: Dr. Marco Pravetoni

Dr. Marco Pravetoni, UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Medication Development for Substance Use Disorders and Overdose, will speak on "Antibody-based strategies to treat substance use disorders and overdose."  Dr. Marco Pravetoni is the Rick L. Seaver Endowed Professorship in Brain Wellness, and he is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Pharmacology, and Director of the Center for Medication Development for Substance Use Disorders and Overdose at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA. In 2008, Dr. Pravetoni earned a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, MN, where he also completed his post-doctoral training in the Department of Medicine (2008-2011). During his career, Dr. Pravetoni published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, was an inventor on eleven pending and one issued US patents and was the recipient of numerous NIH grant awards. He has been recognized with the 2025 Innovator Awar… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: William H. Foege Genome Sciences (GNOM). Campus room: S060 Foege Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Lydia Gordon-Fennell at uwnapecenter@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

NBIO Seminar: Dr. Dorian McGavern (NINDS)

“Immunological Defense of Dynamic Vascular Barriers in the CNS”. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Online Meeting Link: https://nbio.uw.edu/zoom-seminars. Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact nbio@uw.edu with accessibility questions. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

NAPE Seminar: Dr. Yijie Geng (UW Dept of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences)

Dr. Yijie Geng will speak on "Unveiling the environmental-epigenetic regulations of social behavior." Talk description:  My laboratory has established a unique juvenile zebrafish model of sociality, together with high-throughput social behavioral assays and machine learning-based behavioral analysis pipelines. Targeted modulation of epigenetic pathways we identified using large-scale chemical screens restores social behavior with remarkable potency and specificity in zebrafish and mouse models of both environmental exposure and genetic perturbation, supporting epigenetic reprogramming as a promising therapeutic strategy for psychiatric diseases with a social deficit component. To enable mechanistic investigations of these pathways, my lab has developed two enabling technologies: (1) EpiBrain, the first whole-brain epigenetic imaging and  registration platform, allowing rapid mapping of exposure-induced epigenetic alterations across brain regions; and (2) a proteome-wide reverse virtual screening framework t… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: William H. Foege Genome Sciences (GNOM). Campus room: S060 Foege Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Lydia Gordon-Fennell at uwnapecenter@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

NBIO Seminar: Dr. Christopher Fortenbach (UW Dept of Ophthalmology)

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Online Meeting Link: https://nbio.uw.edu/zoom-seminars. Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact nbio@uw.edu with accessibility questions. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

NAPE Seminar: Dr. Li Li (Dept. of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine)

Dr. Li Li will speak on "Neuromodulatory integration of arousal and its implications in drugs of abuse."  Dr. Li is interested in studying the brain’s neuromodulatory arousal circuits to better understand how they coordinate and tune different brain functions, with a translational eye for developing safer and more precise anesthetics and new treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: William H. Foege Genome Sciences (GNOM). Campus room: S060 Foege Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Lydia Gordon-Fennell at uwnapecenter@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

NBIO Seminar: Dr. Travis Rotterman (Boston University)

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Online Meeting Link: https://nbio.uw.edu/zoom-seminars. Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact nbio@uw.edu with accessibility questions. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 5, 2026, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

NAPE Seminar: Dr. Mitra Heshmati

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: William H. Foege Genome Sciences (GNOM). Campus room: S060 Foege Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Lydia Gordon-Fennell at uwnapecenter@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, March 6, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Neuro 510: Be Boundless (WIN2026)

Members of the Neuroscience community and public are welcome to attend our final Neuro 510 seminar of Winter Quarter:  Kiara Eldred, Postdoctoral Fellow in the UW Department of Structural Biology, and Sophie Shonka, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pharmaceutics, will present on their research. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center T (HST). Campus room: T-473. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Jennifer Simpson at neurogrd@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Monday, March 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM.

NBIO Seminar: Dr. Rebecca Shansky (Northeastern University)

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Online Meeting Link: https://nbio.uw.edu/zoom-seminars. Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact nbio@uw.edu with accessibility questions. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 12, 2026, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

Neuro First Years Rotation Talks (WIN26)

The 2025 Neuro Cohort will present ten-minute talks about their research in their Winter lab rotations. Members of the Neuroscience community are welcome to attend and ask questions. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Jennifer Simpson at neurogrd@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Friday, March 20, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

Neuro 510: Coffee & Connections (SPR 2026)

Members of the Neuroscience community and the public are welcome to join us for the first Neuro 510 seminar of Spring Quarter.  Neuroscience PhD students Faeze Aminmansoor (Labs of Karel Svoboda & Adrienne Fairhall) and Katie Green (Lab of Steve Perlmutter) will present on their research. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center T (HST). Campus room: T-360. Accessibility Contact: Please contact Jennifer Simpson at neurogrd@uw.edu if accommodations are required. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Monday, March 30, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM.