Scientific Speaker Series

The Community Engagement WG will be hosting a Scientific Speaker Series the second Tuesday of the Month at 10 am Pacific/12 pm Central/1 pm Eastern.

Register to join us each month for presentations from scientists using imaging to advance their research. You only need to register once to receive notifications/reminders for each event in the series.

Please note that in order to encourage free participation, most presentations will not be recorded. 

Next event:

2026.10.13 -TBA

Find Details on each upcoming presentation here!   Watch past presentations on YouTube!  

2026 Presenters:

• April 14th- Ingela Nyström, Uppsala University, Sweden
• February 10th – David Kirchenbuechler, Northwestern University
  

2025 Presenters

• May
  • May 13 – Nhu Trieu, University of New Brunswick
  • May 20 – Vani Rajendran, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • May 27 – Aussie Suzuki, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• April
  • April 15 Panel
    • Abhishek Kumar
    • Paula Montero Llopis
    • Peter O’Toole
    • Wendy Salmon
    • Andy Stone
• March
  • March 11 Panel
    • Constadina Arvanitis
    • Christina Baer
    • Claire Brown
    • Valeria Piazza
  • March 25 Panel 
    • Prachee Avasthi
    • Ulrike Boehm
    • Beth Cimini
    • Quinn Lee
    • Rita Strack
• February
  • February 11 – Katiannah Moise, Northwestern University

2024 Presenters

• February – Celebration of Black History Month!
  • February 6 – Muyinatu Bell, Johns Hopkins University
  • February 13 – Abdoulaye Ndao, University of California, San Diego
  • February 20 – Sharonda LeBlanc, North Carolina State University
  • February 27 – Antentor Hinton, Jr., Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences
• March 12 – Mariana De Niz, Northwestern University
• April 9 – Dayenari Caballero Rodriguez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• May 14 – Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine
• May 21 – Ivy Xiong & Mariana De Niz,  UCLA and Northwestern University
• September 10 – Oct 15 – Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month! Each presentation will be available in English and Spanish via live interpretation during the session!
  • September 10 – Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley
  • September 17 – Pablo Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • September 24 – No Speaker – BINA Community Congress
  • October 1 – Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Northwestern University
  • October 8 – Esteban Miglietta, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
  • October 15 – Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan, EPF Lausanne
• December 10 – Panelist of Speakers

2023 Presenters

• February 14 – Andres Nevarez, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
• March 14 – Delissa McMillen, Allen Institute for Brain Science
• April 11 – Eunice Fabian-Morales, Advanced Microscopy Applications Unit (ADMiRA) at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico
• May 9 – Alissa Armstrong, University of South Carolina
• June 13 – Chantell Evans, Duke University
• July 11 – Paul Hernandez-Herrera, Mexican National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy
• August 8 – Crystal Rodgers, University of California, Davis
• September 12 – Ana Paula Arruda, University of California, Berkeley
• October 10 – Adán Guerrero, National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• November 14 – Vanessa Torres, Denali Therapeutics