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CSI Seminar Series
October 1, 2026
Junhao (Hao) Wen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Radiological Sciences, Director of Imaging Genetics Research, Columbia University
Christos Davatzikos, Ph.D.
Wallace T. Miller, Sr. Professor Dept of Radiology
Director, Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics
University of Pennsylvania, SOM
"Heterogeneity of biological aging captured by AI: from brain aging dimensions and their biological correlates to multi-organ biological aging clocks and their associations with sleep"
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Latest News
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Why Use of Alcohol and Cannabis as Sleep aids is ineffective
Friday, July 31, 2026
Philip Gehrman, Ph.D. advises that while these substances may at first make you sleepy, they cause more sleep disturbance later in the night and also risk leading to dependency, reported in Time Magazine.
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How to fight insomnia without fighting
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Trying to force yourself to sleep when you have difficulty falling asleep can make it worse. Michael Perlis, Ph.D. advises to "Give up, Get up, Get out" to help build up sleep pressure in the body. Read more in Time Magazine.
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Effects of the "Sunshine Protection Act"
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Indira Gurubhagavatula, M.D. weighs in on the consequences of lack of morning sunshine if the move to keep Daylight Savings Time permanent passes, on KYW Newsradio.
CSI Research Meeting
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Monday, September 14, 2026
4-5 pm
Ashley Opalka (Chung Lab): TBA
Rebecca Parker (S. Grant/Sengupta Labs): "A strategy to investigate the mechanism of a novel causal regulatory genetic variant in idiopathic hypersomnia"
