EpiCenter Seminar Series (2023-2024)
Previous Seminars
2022-2023
| Speaker | Institution |
| Jessie Buth — NextGen Seminar | UCLA |
| Christos Lisgaras, PhD — NextGen Seminar | Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research |
| Jennifer Gelinas, MD, PhD | Columbia University |
| Daniel Vogt, PhD | Michigan State University |
| Anastasios Tzingounis, PhD | University of Connecticut |
| Ivan Soltesz, PhD- – Epicenter Annual Symposium Featuring: Christine Gall, PhD; Beth Lopour, PhD; Os Steward, PhD; Kathryn Thompson-Peer, PhD; Brittney Boubliil, PhD; Jasmine Chavez; Conor Dorian; Deepak Subramanian, PhD | Stanford University |
| Niro Shah, PhD | Stanford University |
2021-2022
| Speaker | Institution |
| Michelle Kloc, PhD — NextGen Seminar | University of Vermont |
| Megh Marathe, PhD — NextGen Seminar | UC Irvine |
| Paul Jenkins, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Bina Santoro, PhD- – Epicenter Annual Symposium Featuring: Jing Zhang, PhD; Anthony Raus, MS; Victoria Ho, MD, PhD; Katie Redford; Lucas Corrubia; Quynh Anh Nguyen, PhD; Momoko Watanabe, PhD | Columbia University |
| Jun Nagai, PhD | RIKEN Center for Brain Science |
| Wolfgang Löscher, PhD | University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover |
| Michael Wenzel, PhD | University Hospital Bonn |
2020 – 2021
| Speaker | Institution |
| Boris Bernhardt, PhD | McGill University |
| David Henshall, PhD | Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland |
| Catherine Woolley, PhD | Northwestern University |
| Gaia Novarino, PhD | IST Austria |
| Mark Dell’Acqua, PhD | University of Colorado |
| Thomas Sutulla, MD, PhD | University of Wisconsin |
| Elizabeth Thiele, MD, PhD – – Epicenter Annual Symposium | Harvard University |
| Steven Petrou, PhD | Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health |
| Barbara Jobst, MD, PhD | Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine |
| Yu Wang, MD, PhD | University of Michigan |
2020-2021 NextGen Epilepsy Seminars
A virtual seminar series for Postdocs and late-stage PhD students to present their research on epilepsy.
Vanesa Nieto-Estevez, PhD | Postdoc | Jenny Hsieh lab | UTSA | Sept 17, 2020 | Watch
Lauren Lau, PhD | Postdoc | Kevin Staley lab | Harvard / Mass General | Oct 1, 2020 | Watch
Eda Erata | Graduate Student | Scott Soderling lab | Duke University | Oct 15, 2020
Anastasia Brodovskaya | Graduate Student | Jaideep Kapur lab | University of Virginia | Nov 5, 2020 | Watch
Cleber Trujillo, PhD | Postdoc | Alysson Muotri lab | UCSD | Dec 3, 2020
Justin Botterill, PhD | Postdoc | Helen Scharfman lab | Nathan Kline / NYU | Jan 7, 2021 | Watch
Rosi Paterno, PhD | Postdoc | Scott Baraban lab | UCSF | Jan 28, 2021 | Watch
Joanna Mattis, MD, PhD | Epilepsy Fellow | Ethan Goldberg lab | CHOP / UPenn | Feb 18, 2021 | Watch
Emily Ling-Lin Pai, MD, PhD | Postdoc | John Rubenstein lab | UCSF | Mar 11, 2021 | Watch
Trina Basu, PhD | Postdoc | Jamie Maguire lab | Tufts University | Apr 1, 2021 | Watch
Young Kim, PhD | Postdoc | Robert Hunt lab | UC Irvine | April 15, 2021
Martha Streng, PhD | Postdoc | Esther Krook-Magnuson lab | University of Minnesota | May 6, 2021 | Watch
2018 – 2019
| Speaker | Institution |
| Aaron Milstein, PhD | Stanford University |
| Karen Wilcox, PhD | University of Utah |
| Scott Baraban, PhD | UCSF |
| Molly Huntsman, PhD | University of Colorado |
| Tallie Baram, MD, PhD – Epicenter Annual Symposium | UC Irvine |
| Jong Rho, MD | University of Calgary |
| Robert Fisher, MD | Stanford University |
| Pablo Castillo, MD, PhD | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Devin Binder, MD, PhD | UC Riverside |
2017 – 2018
| Speaker | Institution |
| Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
| Robert Knight, MD – Epicenter Annual Symposium | UC Berkeley |
| Amy Brewster, PhD | Purdue University |
| David Freeman, PhD | University of Chicago |
2016 – 2017
| Speaker | Institution |
| Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar, PhD | New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Michel Baudry, PhD | Western University of Health Sciences |
| Brenda Porter, MD, PhD | Stanford University |
| Olaf Sporns, PhD | Indiana University |
| Chris McBain, PhD | NICHD |
| Jessica Cardin, PhD | Yale University |
| Jack Parent, MD – Epicenter Annual Symposium | University of Michigan |
| Anthony Koleske, PhD | Yale University |
| Amy Brooks-Kayal, MD | University of Colorado |
| Ueli Rutishauser, PhD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
2015 – 2016
| Speaker | Institution |
| Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD | University of California – Los Angeles |
| Daniel Lowenstein, MD, PhD | University of California – San Francisco |
| Jamie Maguire, PhD | Tufts University |
| Alon Friedman, MD, PhD | Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
| Laura Colgin, PhD | University of Texas – Austin |
2014 – 2015
| Speaker | Institution |
| Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Mayank Mehta, PhD | University of California – Los Angeles |
| Christopher Reid, PhD | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Peter Crino, MD, PhD | Temple University |
| Michael Hasselmo, PhD – Epicenter Annual Symposium | Boston University |
| Steve Danzer, PhD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital |
| Artur Luczak, PhD | University of Lethbridge, Canada |
2013 – 2014
| Speaker | Institution |
| Linda Wilbrecht PhD | UC Berkeley |
| Jeffrey Loeb MD PhD | University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Epicenter 3rd International Symposium | |
| Patrick Sullivan PhD | University of Kentucky |
| Frances Skinner PhD | University of Toronto |
| Farah Lubin PhD | University of Alabama-Birmingham |
2012 – 2013
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Maxim Bazhenov, PhD | UC Riverside |
| Professor Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD | Columbia University |
| Professor Steven Petrou, PhD | University of Melbourne |
| Professor Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD | Yale University |
| Professor Istvan Mody, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Professor Elias Aizenman, PhD | University of Pittsburgh |
| Professor Liset Menendez de la Prida, PhD | Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain |
| Professor Robert K.S. Wong, PhD | State University of New York (SUNY) |
| Professor Janice R. Naegele, PhD | Wesleyan University |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
2011 – 2012
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor J. “Pete” Engel, MD | UCLA |
| Professor Ed Cooper, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor Wayne Frankel, PhD | Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor |
| Professor Sydney Cash, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| Professor Dan H. Lowenstein, MD | University of California, San Francisco |
| Professor Alfred L. George, MD | Vanderbilt University |
| Professor Gary Bassell, PhD | Emory University |
| Professor Lori Isom, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Professor Paul Buckmaster, DVM, PhD | Comparative Medicine, Stanford University |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Matthew C. Walker, MD, PhD | UCL Institute of Neurology, London |
2010 – 2011
| Speaker | Location |
| Professor Avtar Roopra, PhD | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Professor Bret Smith, PhD | University of Kentucky |
| Professor Johan F. Storm, MD, PhD | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Professor Beat Lutz, PhD | Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany |
| Professor Howard P. Goodkin, MD, PhD | University of Virginia |
| Professor Jeffrey L. Noebels, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor Douglas A. Coulter, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
| Professor Daniela Kaufer, PhD | University of California, Berkeley |
| Professor Aric Agmon, PhD | West Virginia University |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Thomas C. Sudhof, MD | HHMI/Stanford University School of Medicine |
2009 – 2010
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor F. Edward Dudek, PhD | University of Utah |
| Professor Zakaria Mtchedlishvili, PhD | Allegheny-Singer Research Institute |
| Professor Michael Wong, MD, PhD | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Professor Wytse J. Wadman, PhD | University of Amsterdam |
| Professor Jaideep Kapur, MD, PhD | University of Virginia |
| Professor Ray Dingledine, PhD | Emory University |
| Professor Kevin Staley, MD | Harvard Medical School |
| Professor Scott Baraban, PhD | University of California, San Francisco |
| Professor Helen Scharfman, PhD | New York University |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Richard L. Huganir, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
2008 – 2009
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Tim Benke, MD, PhD | University of Colorado |
| Professor Joseph LoTurco, MD, PhD | University of Connecticut |
| Professor Dirk Isbrandt, MD | University of Hamburg |
| Professor Quentin Pittman, PhD | University of Calgary |
| Professor Ed Bertram, MD | University of Virginia |
| Professor Alcino Silva, PhD | UCLA |
| Professor Russell Sanchez, PhD | A&M University, Texas |
| Professor Amy Brooks-Kayal, MD | University of Colorado, Denver |
2007 – 2008
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Karen Wilcox, PhD | University of Utah |
| Professor Michael Rogawski, MD, PhD | University of California, Davis |
| Professor Kai Kaila, PhD | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Professor Dane M. Chetkovich, MD, PhD | Northwestern University |
| Professor David Prince, PhD | Stanford University |
| Professor Steve Danzer, PhD | University of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Professor Michel Baudry, PhD | University of Southern California |
| Professor Asla Pitkanen, MD, PhD | University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio |
| Professor Jeffrey Rothstein, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
2006 – 2007
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Manisha Patel, PhD | University of Colorado |
| Professor Ed Cooper, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
| Professor Wolfgang Loscher, PhD | University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany |
| Professor Yehezkel Ben-Ari, PhD | INMED, Marseille, France |
| Professor Tom Sutula, MD, PhD | University of Wisconsin |
| Professor Robert Schwartz, PhD | University of Maryland |
| Professor Ed Ziff, PhD | New York University School of Medicine |
| Professor George W. Huntley, PhD | The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York |
| Professor Peter Crino, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Robert L Macdonald, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
2005 – 2006
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Victor Nadler, PhD | Duke University |
| Professor Roger Simon, MD | Legacy Clinical Research and Technology Center, Oregon |
| Professor Suzanne Zukin, PhD | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Professor Helen Scharfman, PhD | Columbia University |
| Professor Ray Dingledine, PhD | Emory University |
| Professor Ashok K. Shetty, PhD | Duke University |
| Professor Frances E. Jensen, MD | Harvard Medical School |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Phillip Schwartzkroin, PhD | University of California, Davis |
2004 – 2005
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Gary Mathern, MD | UCLA |
| Professor Christophe Bernard, PhD | INMED, INSERM, France |
| Professor Nicholas Poolos, MD, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Professor Steven Petrou, PhD | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Professor Albert Becker, MD | Bonn University, Germany |
| Professor Arnold Krigstein, MD, PhD | University of California, San Francisco |
| Dr. Theoden I. Netoff, PhD | Boston University |
| Professor Anne Anderson, MD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor Jack Parent, MD | University of Michigan |
| Annual EpiCenter Symposium, Keynote Speaker: | |
| Professor Solomon L. (Nico) Moshe, MD | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
2003 – 2004
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Carolyn R. Houser, PhD | UCLA |
| Professor Steve H. White, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor John Huguenard, PhD | Stanford University |
| Professor John W. Swann, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor Kevin S. Lee, MD, PhD | University of Virginia |
| Professor Jurgen H. Wenzel, MD DSC | University of California, Davis |
2002 – 2003
| Speaker | Institution |
| Professor Steven Roper, MD | University of Florida |
| Professor Paul Buckmaster, DVM, PhD | Stanford University |
| Professor Kevin Staley, MD | University of Colorado |
| Dr. Robyn H. Wallace, PhD | University of Tennessee |
| Professor Istvan Mody, PhD | UCLA |
| Professor Jeffrey L. Nobels, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Professor Gregory L. Holmes, MD | Dartmouth Medical School |
| Professor Dan H. Lowenstein, MD | University of California, San Francisco |
| Professor Jaideep Kapur, MD, PhD | University of Virginia |