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Seminar Series

Sponsored by the Kim Family Research Seminar Fund

Seminars are held virtually every Thursday at 11 a.m., unless otherwise noted.

Questions may be directed to Dr. Rashmi Bansal, bansal@uchc.edu, or Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu.

SPRING 2021 Schedule

Date		Guest	Host
January	14	Zhao-Wen Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
	21	Pavel Zahorik, PhD Associate Professor Heuser Hearing Research Endowed Chair, Dept. of Psychological and Brain, University of Louisville, KY	Bernstein
	28	Dong Yan, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC	Chen
February	4	No seminar scheduled
	11	Leslie Bernstein, PhD Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
	18	M. Laura Feltri, MD Professor of Biochemistry and Neurology, University of Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY	Bansal
	25	Tobias (Tobi) Langerhan, MD, DPhil Department Head, Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg, Germany	Martinelli
March	4	Charles J. Wilson, PhD Professor, Ewing Halsell Distinguished Chair in Biology,University of Texas at San Antonio	Antic
	11	Cristina Fernandez Valle, PhD Professor, Neuroscience Division Head College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL	Ishii
	18	Glen K. Matsushima, PhD Associate Professor Microbiology & Immunology,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC	Crocker
	25	Wia Baron, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands	Ishii
April	1	Bradley Gelfand, PhD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Center for Advanced Vision Science, University of Virginia Ophthalmology, Charlottsville, VA	Mohan
	8	Kelly Monk, PhD Co-Director and Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR	Bansal
	15	SPRING RECESS
	22	Wolfram Tetzlaff, MD, PhD Professor, Departments of Zoology & Surgery Chair of Spinal Cord and Myelin Research University of British Columbia	Crocker
	29	Douglas Oliver, PhD Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
May	6	NO SEMINAR	N/A
	13	Kiran Bhaskar, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology University of New Mexico, SE Albuquerque, NM	Sharoar