Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford Research Park

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Jeff Magee
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for next week’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Thurs, Oct 9, 2025
Learning and memory mechanisms
Jeffrey “Jeff” Magee, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine | Host: John Huguenard
Understanding how brains learn and remember remains among the most important challenges in science. Recent studies implicate a new form of synaptic plasticity, named Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity (BTSP), in the generation of hippocampal activity patterns that are required for experience based learning and memory. BTSP is a strong, bidirectional plasticity effecting synaptic weights over many seconds of time. It is induced by single dendritic plateau potentials, as opposed to many action potentials, and is thus capable of producing new place cells in one-shot. Plateau potential initiation is controlled, at least in part, by local feedback inhibition and an instructive input from a higher-order brain region that potentially links the plasticity to current experience. The novel credit assignment procedure at work in BTSP provides a non-standard mechanism for memory storage and retrieval that could mitigate the need for widespread synapse stabilization. In addition, it may allow hippocampal networks to form both memories of specific behavioral episodes and to generalize based off past episodes. Finally, recent BTSP investigations could provide a basis for future explorations into how brains learn and remember ranging from the systems and cognitive levels down to the basic biochemical building blocks of learning and memory.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

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Best regards,
Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
📧 eelrod@stanford.edu | neuroscience@stanford.edu
💻 neuroscience.stanford.edu

4th Annual IBD and Celiac Disease Research Symposium
2025-10-14 09:00 - 15:00 | Li Ka Shing Center, 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305Li Ka Shing Center, United States
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
4th Annual Research Symposium
LKSC Berg Hall | 9:00AM – 3:00PM
Open to the Stanford Community
Session 1: Creeping the Fat: The Uncharted Territory of Crohn’s Pathogenesis
Session 2: The IBD Spectrum: Diverse Pathways to Inflammation
Session 3: New Insights into Celiac Disease Pathogenesis and Treatment
For questions, please contact ibdceliacstaff@stanford.edu

Eppendorf & Biotechne Spooky Show
2025-10-16 11:30 - 13:30 | 1701 Page Mill Road, 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
Eppendorf & Biotechne Spooky Show
Thursday, October 16, 2025 : 11:30AM – 1:30PM
Stanford Research Park | 1701 Page Mill, Palo Alto, CA 94034

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for next week’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Thurs, Oct 16, 2025
Neural circuit mechanisms for memory and prediction
Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, PhD
Cornell University | Host: Yun Hwang
Episodic memory involves learning and recalling associations between items and their spatio-temporal context. Those memories can be further used to generate internal models of the world that enable making predictions. While the circuit mechanisms implementing those computations are not well understood, the hippocampo-cortical interactions have been implicated in both processes. Neural ensemble coordination across the hippocampus and associated cortical structures support learning and memory. Hippocampal ensemble reactivation broadcast memory representations to the rest of the brain, a process that supports memory consolidation, retrieval and planning. In this talk I will describe the neural circuit dynamics and plasticity mechanisms that support the formation and reactivation of internal models of the environment in behaving rodents. I will discuss our recent work showing how the sequential activation of cell assemblies is leveraged for planning upcoming spatial trajectories during memory-guided navigation and how their replay during sleep supports the selective consolidation of relevant memories, as well as the generalization of task structures. These findings contribute to a novel framework to understand the neural circuit dynamics that support the generation and use of internal models of the world to guide flexible behavior.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
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Best regards,
Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
📧 eelrod@stanford.edu | neuroscience@stanford.edu
💻 neuroscience.stanford.edu

2025-2026 Flu and COVID Vaccination Clinics
2025-10-20 09:00 - 14:00 | 1701 Page Mill Road, 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
2025-2026 Flu and COVID Vaccination Clinics
This flu season, we encourage everyone to take proactive steps by getting vaccinated against the flu.
Join us at one of our upcoming flu events across campus to safeguard your health and contribute to a healthier Stanford community.
Learn more and register ahead at flu.stanford.edu
Page MIll Research Park
(Lobby) 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Monday, October 20, @ 9AM – 2PM
What to bring:

Health Insurance Information (ie. Insurance Company Name and Member ID)
Stanford ID Card (Mobile Key – App Accepted)

National Coming Out Day Inclusion Rounds Panel
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Clark Center, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
You are invited to National Coming Out Day Inclusion Rounds Panel
Please join the DoM CCB Committee for a unique discussion in recognition of National Coming Out Day and the future of LGBTQ+ health.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12PM – 1PM
Clark Center, Room S363
Scan to register
Panelist:
Dr. Tandy Aye
Dr. Leslee Subak
Amy Whelan, Esq
NCLR Senior Staff Attorney
Moderator:
Weichen Ling, EdM
SoM LGBTQ+ Health Program Manager

Academic x Industry Connections Mixer for AI in Health and Medicine
2025-10-22 15:00 - 17:00 | The Stanford Faculty Club, 439 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Academic x Industry Connections Mixer for AI in Health and Medicine
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
3-5PM at Stanford Faculty Club
Connect with colleagues, researchers, and industry leaders shaping the future of AI in health and science!
The AxI Mixer features a research poster showcase, refreshments, and opportunities to connect with faculty, trainees, and industry participants driving innovation in health AI.
Held immediately after the inaugural AxI Summit, the Mixer brings together the broader Stanford community to continue the day’s discussions on collaboration and opportunities between Stanford AIMI and industry leaders advancing AI to elevate health for all.
Open to all Stanford faculty, trainees, and staff interested in health AI.
Free event, registration is required, space is limited.
Register at https://stanford.io/4nLHI9v or scan the QR code
Questions? Contact aimicenter@stanford.edu

4th Annual Stanford Research Park Symposium and Poster Session
2025-10-23 10:00 - 13:30 | Miryan Hall (3145 Porter Drive), 3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California
This annual event provides an excellent opportunity for students and postdocs to share their research and showcase their projects that they have been working on.
This year, due to space limitations, there will be a limit on the number of posters presented.
• Presenters are limited to one poster
• Spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis
Please scan the QR code below or click on this link to register and to secure your spot. We are excited to see the innovative work that everyone is doing!
4th Annual Stanford Research Park Symposium and Poster Session
October 23, 2025
10:00am – 1:30pm
Miryan Hall Conference Center (3145 Porter Dr)

Exhibit your Poster – Award for Top 3 Posters
Join us for lunch!

Scan the QR code to register
Submit poster by: October 1
Register by: October 10
Please join us at the Annual Stanford Research Park Symposium and Poster Session to celebrate the scientific achievements made by School of Medicine Researchers in Stanford Research Park
Invited Speakers:

Euan Ashley, BSc, MB, ChB, Dphil
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
Professor of Genetics and of Biomedical Data Science
Jill Helms, DDS, PhD
Professor of Surgery (Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery)
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kenderick Professor of Pediatrics

We look forward to seeing you there

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Vanessa Ruta
2025-10-23 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Oct 23, 2025
Neural algorithms of olfactory navigation
Vanessa Ruta, PhD
Rockefeller University | Host: Krisa Ye
Olfactory systems are continuously barraged with odors, varying in their structure, physicochemical properties, and concentration. Detecting and making sense of such a complex chemical landscape poses a distinct challenge to the fundamental flexibility of the nervous system. We have has been using olfaction as a window into the mechanisms of adaptive behavior, leveraging the concise olfactory circuits of Drosophila to reveal how animals can detect, perceive, and navigate the vast chemical world.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
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Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

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Cytiva Office Hour
2025-11-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Miryan Hall (3145 Porter Drive), 3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California
You’re invited to Cytiva office hour!
Where: D115, Miryan Hall, 3145 Porter Dr, Palo Alto, CA
When: Nov 10, 11AM – 1PM
Bring your questions on: chromatography, Western blotting, protein interactions/kinetics, cell culture, molecular diagnostics or anything life science, we’ll try to help! We’ll bring snacks and swags!
Cytiva contact:
Nitish Agrawal
nitish.agrawal@cytiva.com

VWR Coffee Hour
2025-11-13 09:00 - 11:00 | Miryan Hall (3145 Porter Drive), 3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California
Join us for a VWR Coffee Hour
Thursday, November 13, 2025
9:00AM – 11:00AM
SRP Conference Center D110
Miryan Hall, 3145 Porter Drive
You’re warmly invited to a coffee hour hosted by VWR. Come meet your support team over coffee, treats, and some lab supply fun!
Contact your VWR Sales Representative:
Andrew Vargas
VWR Sales Representative
M: 408-444-3891
Andrew.Vargas@avantorsciences.com

Stanford Emergency Medicine’s fifth annual Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium
2025-11-13 09:00 - 14:00 | CA
Stanford Emergency Medicine’s fifth annual Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (StEMI X) on November 13, 2025—the first and largest virtual global conference dedicated to technology and innovation in acute care—is free and open to all.
This year’s keynote speaker, Eric Horvitz, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, will join leading experts to explore bold ideas shaping the future of emergency care.
Whether you’re a healthcare provider, innovator, industry leader, funder, student, or simply curious about the future of medicine, StEMI X offers a front row seat to the cutting edge of acute care innovation.
November 13, 2025
Virtual and free
👉 Register today—https://www.stemix.live
Topics include:

Trends in Healthcare Investing: What’s Hot & What’s Not
Wearables: Separating the Signal from the Noise
Industry-Academic Collaborations: Growing the Future of Acute Care Together
Acute Care Telemedicine: From Home to Bedside
Fueling the Future: Building Leaders in Medical Innovation
AI Decision Support and Diagnosis: What’s Here, What’s Coming, What’s Not
Tools and Techniques for Expediting Throughput in Capacity-Constrained Environments
Cut the Wait: Solutions to Help Patients Avoid Unnecessary ED Visit

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Rosa Cossart - SRP Livestream Locations
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Nov 13, 2025
Rewinding brain development to dissect cortical circuits
Rosa Cossart, PhD
INSERM, Aix-Marseille University | Host: Anne Goettemoeller
Development shapes adult cortical circuits in many ways, from the constraint of genetic programs to establishing the interaction between self-referenced representations and environmental signals in support of adaptive behavior. The adaptation of cortical circuits to the external world results from the modifications of self-organized circuits constrained by genetic programs, in response to activity-dependent adjustments that occur at critical turning points throughout the developmental trajectories of individual animals.
Central to this process is the cortical circuit ability to differentiate between internally-generated and externally-driven inputs, a function mediated by distinct circuits. We posit that these dedicated circuits emerge through a developmental process in which the brain learns to segregate self and non-self-signals via its interactions with the body and the environment. Disruptions to this developmental trajectory, we argue, may underlie disorders like autism and schizophrenia, characterized by distorted world models. This presentation aims to unravel the emergence of functional cortical circuits over the course of development. Through a synthesis of published and unpublished data, we highlight the dual influence of early developmental programming and ongoing interaction with environmental signals.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

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Spectrum CTSA Lunch & Learn
2025-11-17 11:30 - 13:00 | Miryan Hall (3145 Porter Drive), 3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California
Spectrum CTSA Lunch & Learn
November 17, 2025
11:30am – 1:00pm
Lunch included
RSVP here
Spectrum is the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education – bridging each stage of medical innovation from basic research to public health.
Join members of the Spectrum team in-person to learn about services to help study teams – faculty and staff – manage the clinical research study lifecycle. The agenda includes speakers from the following Programs:

Clinical Research Units
Trial Innovations Network
Participant Engagement Program
OnCore Clinical Trial Management System

This event will be held in-person only at Stanford Research Park
Miryan Hall Conference Center
3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Holly Ingraham - SRP Livestream Locations
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for next week’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Thurs, Dec 4, 2025
Hormonal regulation of brain-body female physiology
Holly Ingraham, PhD
University of California, San Francisco | Host: Xiaoke Chen
Biological sex is one of nature’s most robust variables. We study sex differences and hormone-responsive nodes in the brain and peripheral tissues that maintain metabolic, skeletal, and gut physiology in females to address the significant gaps in women’s health.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

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Best regards,
Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
📧 eelrod@stanford.edu | neuroscience@stanford.edu
💻 neuroscience.stanford.edu

Festive Holiday Social at The Hub
2025-12-11 16:00 - 18:00 | The Hub (3215 Porter Drive), 3215 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Festive Holiday Social

Thursday, December 11 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | The Hub, 3215 Porter Drive
Celebrate the holiday season at The Hub at our Festive Holiday Social. Enjoy live music by The Complements, a hot chocolate bar, cookie decorating, and delicious appetizers.
Everyone who registers and attends in person will receive a special gift. Join us for a cozy, joyful evening of holiday fun you won’t want to miss.
Register

USA Scientific - Pastries & Pipettes
2025-12-15 10:00 - 14:00 | ’Arweh Hall (1701 Page Mill Rd), 1701 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California, 94304
USA Scientific – Pastries & Pipettes
12/15 : 10AM – 2PM
1701 Page Mill Rd Arweh Hall
Pipette Promotions:
Come to the conference room for free pastries and information on pipettes… USA Scientific has several current promotions for pipettes, trade-ins, and the NEW Eppendorf Neo 3 pipette! All promos end 12/31, so the time to upgrade is now! Pipette demos and flyers will be available.
Contact Information:
Jensen Shrout
jshrout@usascientific.com

CDCM Seminar Series: Frontiers in Cell and Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
2026-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | James Clark Center (318 Campus Drive), 318 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural lecture of the Frontiers in Cell and Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine series, featuring Dr. Jean Tang.
Dr. Tang is a nationally recognized leader in cell and gene therapy whose work spans translational research, clinical development, and the advancement of regenerative medicine strategies. Her lecture will highlight emerging directions and challenges in the field, with insights drawn from both scientific discovery and clinical application.
The lecture will take place in the Auditorium, James Clark Center (318 Campus Drive, Room S001).
We hope you will join us for this kickoff event as we launch a new forum for scientific exchange and collaboration in cell and gene therapy and regenerative medicine.
Additional details, including the lecture title, will be shared soon.
*Please note that food and beverages are NOT allowed in the Clark Center Auditorium or Auditorium Lobby.

Mandala Rock Art Workshop @ The Hub
2026-01-15 11:30 - 13:30 | The Hub (3215 Porter Drive), 3215 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Mandala Rock Art Workshop
Thursday, January 15 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | The Hub, 3215 Porter Drive
Join us for a calming Mandala Rock Art Workshop to start the new year with intention. Drop in any time during the session for a relaxing, creative wellness break.
Artist Bebe Jacobs will guide you through simple mandala designs on stones, with the option to add your own affirmations or resolutions for 2026. No experience needed, just come, unwind, and create.
Sign Up

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Dani Bassett - SRP Livestream Locations
2026-01-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Jan 15, 2026
Network cognition in a curious world
Dani Bassett, PhD
University of Pennsylvania | Host: Michelle Hedlund (Neural Interaction Lab [Coleman Lab])
In this talk, I will describe a notion of network cognition that manifests in how we engage with the curious world around us. To do so, I will draw together three lines of inquiry in mind, brain, and computation. I’ll begin with a line of inquiry into connective curiosity (“How do we connect bits of information as we walk about the world?”), then move into graph learning (“How do we build larger network models from those connections?”), and finally end in network control theory (“How is that model building constrained by the brain’s own connective structure?”). The studies discussed will span experiment, model, and theory, and bridge human behavior, neural representations, and computational science. Together they frame a formal investigation into network cognition and motivate future inquiry.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

📅 Want to add all of the seminars to your calendar?
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Stop the Food Fight: Finding Common Ground in Nutrition @ The Hub
2026-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | The Hub (3215 Porter Drive), 3215 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Stop the Food Fight: Finding Common Ground in Nutrition
Thursday, January 22 | 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM | The Hub, 3215 Porter Drive
Join us for an engaging and insightful session with Professor Christopher Gardner as he brings humor, clarity, and decades of research to some of today’s most heated nutrition debates.
Together, we will cut through the noise, explore what truly matters, and look for common ground in a world full of conflicting opinions about what we eat.
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Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Randy Buckner - SRP Livestream Locations
2026-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Jan 22, 2026
Precision estimation of large-scale network organization in the human brain
Randy Buckner, PhD
Harvard University | Host: Zaki Alaoui (Baccus Lab)
This seminar is co-presented by Psychiatry Grand Rounds | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Human association cortex is populated by a series of large-scale networks. In terms of organization, the multiple networks form an orderly progression that radiates outwards from sensory-motor networks to transmodal association networks that underlie advanced forms of human cognition. In-depth analysis within individuals reveals anatomical details including that functionally distinct networks are intertwined throughout multiple zones of association cortex, raising questions about how they evolved and how they differentiate during development. Interestingly, it was found quite recently that monkeys, including the genetically accessible marmoset, possess association networks that recapitulate many of the human features. These parallels provide an opportunity to connect experiments in animal models of large-scale circuits to clinical interventions in the human. Recent work has translated these discoveries to optimization of clinical care. Precision estimates of networks within individual patients are possible and provide opportunities to monitor dysfunction and to target specific networks via neuromodulation.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

📅 Want to add all of the seminars to your calendar?
Download the calendar here or, for live updates, copy this link and use these instructions for subscribing to a public calendar: Outlook, Mac, Google Calendar.

Cytiva Office Hour
2026-02-05 11:00 - 13:00 | ’Enésmin Hall (1651 Page Mill Rd), 1651 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Cytiva Office Hour
When: Feb 5, 2026, 11am – 1pm
Where: Rm 1240, 1651 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto CA
Bring your questions on: chromatography, Western blotting, protein interactions/kinetics, cell culture, molecular diagnostics or anything life science, we’ll try to help! We’ll bring snacks and swags!
Cytiva Contact
Name: Nitish Agrawal
Email: nitish.agrawal@cytiva.com

Financial Session at The Hub
2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 | The Hub (3215 Porter Drive), 3215 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Design Your Personal Money Management System for the New Year

Thursday, February 5 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | The Hub, 3215 Porter Drive

Budgeting doesn’t have to feel restrictive, rigid, or spreadsheet-heavy.
This interactive workshop offers a more human approach to managing money. Instead of focusing on rules or guilt, it helps you design a system that actually fits your life, your priorities, and the way you make decisions.
Led by Danial Khan, a nationally recognized financial wellness educator and former lead of Stanford University’s financial wellness program, this session blends practical tools with psychology and real-life behavior. You’ll actively work on your own money system during the session, not just listen.

RSVP

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Ole Kiehn - SRP Livestream Locations
2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Feb 5, 2026
Unraveling brainstem circuits for movement: Insights into gait motor control and implications for treatment of gait disorders
Ole Kiehn, DSc, MD
University of Copenhagen | Host: Lele Cui (Shah Lab)
Movement is the output of almost all brain functions. Among movement, locomotion is one of the most fundamental and universal to animals and humans. Locomotion is organised at many levels of the nervous system, with brainstem circuits acting as the gate between brain areas regulating innate, emotional, or motivational locomotion and the executing spinal motor circuits. To be executed, locomotion requires dynamic initiation and termination and appropriate directionally. This lecture will focus on recent advances that have elucidated the functional organization of brainstem command circuits in mammals needed to perform these roles. The lecture will provide a new framework for how basal ganglia circuits are acting via these brainstem circuits to elicit self-paced locomotion and how brainstem motor circuits may be used to define brain-wide networks involved in high-level behaviors. I will also discuss how locomotor disturbances following e.g. basal ganglia disorders may be alleviated by targeted activation of brainstem and basal ganglia circuits.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

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Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University

VWR Coffee Hour
2026-02-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Miryan Hall (3145 Porter Drive), 3145 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California
Join us for a VWR Coffee Hour
3145 Porter Dr, Conf Ctr D110
Monday, February 9, 2026
9am – 11am
You’re warmly invited to a coffee hour hosted by VWR. Come meet your support team over coffee, treats, and some lab supply fun!
Contact your VWR Sales Representative:
Andrew Vargas
VWR Sales Representative
M: 408-444-3891
Andrew.Vargas@avantorsciences.com

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Katalin Gothard - SRP Livestream Locations
2026-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Feb 12, 2026
Neural mechanism linking interoception to decision-making
Katalin Gothard, MD, PhD
University of Arizona | Host: Karen Parker (Social Neurosciences Research Program (Parker Lab))
Interoceptive signals convey information about the physiological state of the body to the brain and have been proposed to shape affect and decision-making. Yet it remains unclear how changes in body physiology alone are sufficient to bias complex decisions, such as choices in an approach-avoidance conflict task. We manipulated the peripheral autonomic state of rhesus macaques using pharmacological agents with minimal blood–brain barrier penetration. During peripherally restricted, sympathetic-dominated physiological states, animals terminated mildly aversive stimuli earlier even at the cost of forgoing reward. These effects generalized across different aversive modalities while leaving ordinal food preferences intact, indicating a selective effect of altered interoceptive afferents on avoidance. I will discuss the neural underpinnings of these behavioral biases in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and amygdala, exploring how interoceptive states modulate neural representations of both decision commitment and spontaneous coping behaviors. Together, these findings support a causal role for interoceptive signaling in shaping decision-making and highlight specific neural substrates through which body–brain interactions may drive avoidance behavior.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

📅 Want to add all of the seminars to your calendar?
Download the calendar here or, for live updates, copy this link and use these instructions for subscribing to a public calendar: Outlook, Mac, Google Calendar.
Best regards,
Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University

Cytiva Office Hours
2026-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 | 1701 Page Mill Road, 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States
You’re invited to Cytiva Office Hours
When: Feb 19, 2026 11:30AM – 1PM
Where: 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA (Lobby)
Bring your questions on: chromatography, Western blotting, protein interactions/kinetics, cell culture, molecular diagnostics or anything life science, we’ll try to help! We’ll bring snacks and swags!
Cytiva Contact:
Nitish Agrawal
nitish.agrawal@cytiva.com

Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Staci Bilbo - SRP Livestream Locations
2026-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Stanford Neurosciences Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Good morning SOM Stanford Research Park Community,
We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.
🗓️ Feb 19, 2026
Lung-brain signaling in mental health outcomes
Staci Bilbo, PhD
Duke University | Host: Karen Malacon (Monje Lab)
This seminar is co-presented by Psychiatry Grand Rounds | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Knowledge linking connections between the lung and the brain has been with us for millennia, spanning ancient (ayurvedic) breathing practices aimed at breath awareness/control, to the prevailing recognition in recent years that respiratory insults (e.g., infection, allergens) can have lasting impacts on mood, cognition, pain, and other aspects of brain function. Despite these links, we know little about the mechanisms by which these two critical organs communicate. The lung has a small population of specialized sensory epithelial cells called pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNECs) that sit in clusters at the branch points of the major airways. PNECs are the first lung epithelial cell to differentiate during early development and have key morphogenic roles during the transition to an air environment after birth. Whereas PNECs share redundant immune secretary functions with several other lung cells, they are the only innervated cells of the lung epithelium and were initially discovered based on hallmark secretary vesicles, pointing to their neural signaling function. I hypothesize a primary function of PNECs is to communicate with the brain and are critical for the behavioral consequences of lung (dys)function broadly. To begin to investigate these questions, we developed a model to efficiently ablate PNECs in mice and determined the brain and lung response to a common respiratory insult, influenza infection. Our preliminary data suggests that lung activity detected via the PNECs is rapidly transduced to the CNS via vagal afferents, which impacts brain function via the encoding of immune “engrams” (memories) within select brain regions, which if reactivated, can persistently impact behavior (e.g. anxiety). A primary goal of this research going forward is to comprehensively phenotype behavior (mood, cognition, pain) in the days and weeks after infection recovery and subsequent neural reactivation to determine the persistence of immune engrams within the brain. Then, we will determine if we can modulate PNECs to impact immune engram formation/maintenance and alleviate behavioral consequences such as anxiety. A parallel goal is to examine these questions using a developmental lens.
⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)
📍 Locations:

Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
Stanford Research Park satellite locations:

3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

Learn about the SRP satellites »
Learn more and get involved:

Nominate speakers for the 2026-2027 seminar series
About the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Series »
Sign up to dine or meet with the seminar speakers »
See all upcoming and past seminars »
Sign up for Wu Tsai Neuro’s mailing list »
Join the #neuroscience slack channel »

📅 Want to add all of the seminars to your calendar?
Download the calendar here or, for live updates, copy this link and use these instructions for subscribing to a public calendar: Outlook, Mac, Google Calendar.
Best regards,
Emily Elrod (she/they)
Programs Associate | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University

Cytiva Office Hour
2026-02-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Híišen Hall (3165 Porter Drive)
You’re invited to Cytiva Office Hour
Where: 3165 Porter Dr, Palo Alto, CA (Kitchen area/Lobby)
When: Feb 24, 11:30AM – 1:00PM
Bring your questions on: chromatography, Western blotting, protein interactions/kinetics, cell culture, molecular diagnostics or anything life science, we’ll try to help! We’ll bring snacks and swags!
Cytiva Contact:
Nitish Agrawal
nitish.agrawal@cytiva.com
