QBio/PEB Seminar Series

Join us for our weekly seminar series in collaboration with the QBio Institute! This series features a mixture of talks from Yale and external faculty speakers about the latest work from their lab. The last seminar of each month is a Discussion Group where two speakers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty) get feedback on their latest work with the QBio/PEB community!

PEB and QBio trainees are invited to join speakers for lunch after their talk (email qbio@yale.edu to sign up). PEB graduate students can also host a Distinguished Speaker as part of this series (email peb@yale.edu for more informaiton about the nomination process).

Schedule

All talks are from 11AM-12PM unless otherwise noted. Email qbio@yale.edu for seminar location information. 

Spring 2026

January 16

Dr. Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University

Title TBA

Host: Dr. Emma Carley & Dr. Chris Lynn

January 23

Dr. Corey O’Hern, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Physics, Yale University

“Cell shape emerges from motion”

Host: Dr. Emma Carley & Dr. Chris Lynn

January 30

Discussion Group Seminar

February 6

Dr. Yuhai Tu, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology & Center for Computational Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute

Title TBA

Host: Dr. Joe Howard

February 13

Dr. Megan King, Professor of Cell Biology & Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University 

Title TBA

Host: Dr. Emma Carley & Dr. Chris Lynn

February 20*

Dr. Jerelle Joseph, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

Title TBA

Host: Arlind Kacirani

*This talk is held in collaboration with SEAS Engineering Week. The talk will take place from 11am-noon on the Engineering campus - location TBA

February 27

Discussion Group Seminar

March 6

TBA

March 27

Discussion Group Seminar

April 3

TBA

April 10

Dr. Tim Atherton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University

Title TBA

Host: Allison Culbert

April 17*

Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, University of Florida

Title TBA

Host: Carlton Smith

*This talk is held in collaboration with the Wu Tsai Institute. The talk will take place from 3-4PM at the Wu Tsai Institute - location TBA

April 24

Discussion Group Seminar

May 1

TBA

May 8

TBA

May 15

Discussion Group Seminar

Past Talks

September 12

Dr. Aaron Kuan, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University

“New Technologies for Functional, Multiscale and Molecular Connectomics”

Host: Aiyanna Doss

September 19

Dr. Min Wu, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University

“Information Processing on Immune Cell Surfaces”

Host: Dr. Emma Carley

September 26

Discussion Group Seminar

October 3

Dr. Jeff Gore, Professor of Physics, MIT

“Emergent dynamics of microbial communities”

Host: Dr. Jing Yan

October 10

Dr. Pavan Ramdya, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Bioengineering, EPFL

“How flies learn to engage with objects and one another”

Host: Dr. Thierry Emonet

October 24

Dr. Brandon Ogbunu, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

“Context x Everything Interactions: From Proteins to Pandemics and Beyond”

Host: Dr. Chris Lynn

October 31

Discussion Group Seminar

November 7

Dr. Sam Raredon, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine

“The Structure of Multicellular Communication in Tissues”

Host: Dr. Jing Yan

November 14

Discussion Group Seminar

December 5

Dr. John Bechhoefer, Professor of Physics, Simon Fraser University

“An Information Engine with High Performance and Efficiency”

Host: Dr. Thierry Emonet

December 12

Discussion Group Seminar