Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers.  Seminars will be held in 2117 MERF for the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters unless otherwise noted.  If interested in more seminars at The University of Iowa, please visit the Carver College of Medicine's upcoming events.

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Fall 2025

DateSpeakerHostTitle
Tues.
Sept 9
10:30 AM
Serena Dudek Sommer, PhD
Senior Investigator & Acting Chief, Neurobiology Laboratory
NIEHS
Snehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhD 
Thurs.
Sept 11
12:30 PM
Songhai Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa
  
Thurs.
Sept 18
12:30 PM
Snehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Jon Resch, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa
  
Tues.
Sept 30
10:30 AM
Thomas A. Reh, PhD
Professor
Dept of Neurobiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
 
Kelly Mulfaul, PhD 
Thurs.
Oct 2
12:30 PM
Kelly Mulfaul, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa
  
Tues.
Oct 14
10:30 AM
Katelin Dannen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Adele Stewart, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa
  
Thurs.
Oct 16
4:00 PM
1110 MERF
Mark Andermann, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard School of Medicine
CCOM Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture
Co-Sponsored by the Dept of Neuroscience & Pharmacology and The Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture
 
Tues.
Nov. 11
10:30 AM
Rong Grace Zhai, PhD
Jack Miller Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Dept of Neurology
University of Chicago
Seth Tomchik, PhD 
Tues.
Dec 9
10:30 AM
Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD, PharmD
Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Chair
University of Florida School of Medicine
 
Adele Stewart, PhD 
Tues.
Dec 16
10:30 AM
Spivey (Aud 2) BSB
Vadim Bolshakov, PhD
Dir., Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory
McLean Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ted Abel, PhD