Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars are organized by mini-series topic, typically with 4 seminars per topic. Each mini-series is an opportunity to hear from Washington University investigators as well as those at other institutions who are leaders in their fields.
Each spring, we solicit the community for topics to feature in the next academic year. We welcome suggested topics which are relevant to some research programs at Washington University, such that those investigators can give talks in the mini-series.
To see mini-series topics from previous seasons, visit the archives.
Have an idea for a mini-series topic? Let us know!
Up next: Mini-series, Neurodevelopment and Neurological Disease
Joint series of the Hope Center, the Departments of Developmental Biology and Neurology, and the WashU Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
Organizers, Christina Gurnett (WashU Neurology), Joseph Dougherty (WashU Genetics)
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
- April 28: Jeffrey Neil (WashU Neurology)
- May 5: Bhooma Aravamuthan (WashU Neurology)
- May 12: Eric Huang (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
- May 19: Kristen Kroll (WashU Developmental Biology), Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry), Joseph Dougherty (WashU Genetics)
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2024/2025 Monday Noon Seminars
Mondays, 12-1p
September – May
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium and Zoom
Check back for full lists of speakers and talk titles. For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Mini-series Topics
Organizers: David Holtzman and Fareeha Saadi (WashU Neurology)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
Rescheduled from September 30, kindly note location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 9101
December 9: Ikbal Sencan Egilmez (WashU Radiology) “Optical quantification of neurovascular health and function in brain and beyond”
- RESCHEDULED – September 30*: Ikbal Sencan-Egilmez (WashU Radiology) “Optical quantification of neurovascular health and function in brain and beyond”
- October 14: Gregory Zipfel (WashU Neurosurgery) “Role of STAT3 and oxidative stress in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease”
- IN-PERSON ONLY – October 21: Jonathan Kipnis (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Immune decoding of brain health through its juices”
- October 28: Chenghua Gu (Harvard University) “Neuro-vascular interactions in the CNS”
Organizer: Celeste Karch (WashU Psychiatry)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
- November 4: Laura Ibanez (WashU Psychiatry) “Uncommon RNAs: role in neurodegeneration and potential as biomarkers”
- November 11: Mayssa Mokalled (WashU Developmental Biology) “Comparative Omics reveal repair mechanisms after spinal cord injury“
- November 18*: Bess Frost (Brown University) “Transposable element activation in neurodegenerative tauopathies”
*NOTE virtual-only - December 2: Ting Wang (WashU Genetics) “Functional genomics in the era of human pangenome”
Organizers: Alexxai Kravitz and Justin Wang (WashU Psychiatry)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
- VIRTUAL-only! January 6: Tamara Hershey and Zhaolong (Adrian) Li (WashU Psychiatry) “Biopsychosocial links to obesity and brain health in youth”
- January 13: Daniel Castro (WashU Radiology) “Pancreatic opioids regulate ingestive and metabolic phenotypes”
- January 27: Cyrus Raji (WashU Radiology)* “Brain and Body Health Imaging Towards Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer Disease Risk”
- February 3: Alexxai Kravitz (WashU Psychiatry)* “Neural Circuits that Control Feeding and Body Weight”
*NOTE change in scheduled presenters.
Organizers: Beau Ances and Peter Millar (WashU Neurology)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
- February 17: Peter Millar (Ances lab, WashU Neurology) “Imaging-based aging biomarkers: Interpretations & applications in Alzheimer disease”
- February 24: Yun Ju Sung (WashU Psychiatry) “Aging signature based on CSF proteomics”
- March 3: Elizabeth Pollina (WashU Developmental Biology) “Neuronal Activity-Dependent Genome Stability in Plasticity and Aging”
- March 10: Albert Higgins-Chen (Yale University) “Adapting aging biomarkers to clinical trials: Insights from 51 geroscience interventions”
Organizer: Adam Bauer (WashU Radiology)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
- March 24: Kaelyn Schloss (Bauer lab, WashU Radiology) “Alterations in parvalbumin-based inhibitory circuitry after ischemic stroke”
- March 31: Mary Teena Joy (The Jackson Laboratory) “Robustness and Plasticity of Motor Control Circuits in Stroke Recovery”
- April 14: Adam Eggebrecht (WashU Radiology) and Sung Min Park (Eggebrecht lab, WashU Radiology) “Towards bedside neuroimaging recovery from stroke and brain health of patients on ECMO”
- April 21: Jiaxiao Han (Hu lab, WashU Biomedical Engineering) “Photoacoustic Microscopy for Multiscale Imaging of Ischemic Stroke”
Joint series of the Hope Center, the Departments of Developmental Biology and Neurology, and the WashU Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
Organizers: Christina Gurnett (WashU Neurology) and Joseph Dougherty (WashU Genetics)
For inquiries contact the Hope Center.
- April 28: Jeffrey Neil (WashU Neurology) “Be kind to those preemies, they have a lot of brain folding to do!”
- May 5: Bhooma Aravamuthan (WashU Neurology) “Conceptualizing dystonia in mouse models of neonatal brain injury”
- May 12: Eric Huang (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Disentangling the immune-vascular interface in prenatal human brain development”
- May 19: Kristen Kroll (WashU Developmental Biology), Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry), and Joseph Dougherty (WashU Genetics) “Targeted and scalable approaches to cross species analysis of autism and ID genetic pathogenesis”
Special Hope Center/Neurology Seminar (12p, Fort NRB Auditorium and Zoom)
- June 2: Presentations by winners of the 2025 Hope Center Awards
Seminars also are listed on the ONR Calendar.