Seminars

​​​GCB Chalk Talks

Chalk Talks offer students and faculty the opportunity to present their research to the Penn community. Talks are held on most Fridays from 2 - 3pm.

2024-2025 Schedule:

Date Time Speaker 1 (2 - 2:30pm) Speaker 2 (2:30 - 3pm) Location
9/13/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Joel Babdor Dr. Yoseph Barash Class of '62 Auditorium
9/20/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Dana Silverbush Dr. Hongzhe Li Class of '62 Auditorium
9/27/2024 No chalk talks - GCB Retreat  
10/4/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Kate Nathanson Dr. Brian Capell Class of '62 Auditorium
10/11/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Ahmed Moustafa Dr. Marijana Vujkovic Class of '62 Auditorium
10/18/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Struan Grant Dr. Brielin Brown Class of '62 Auditorium
10/25/2024 2 - 3pm Dr. Marijana Vujkovic Dr. Qin Li Class of '62 Auditorium
11/1/2024 2 - 3pm Anastasia Lucas Lindsay Guare Class of '62 Auditorium
11/8/2024 No chalk talks - ASHG  
11/15/2024 2 - 3pm Mary Ann Weidekamp Alice Wang Class of '62 Auditorium
11/22/2024 2 - 3pm Carter Merenstein Erica Suh Class of '62 Auditorium
12/6/2024 2 - 3pm Andrew Patterson Van Truong Reunion Auditorium
12/13/2024 2 - 3pm Jackie Peng Max Dudek Class of '62 Auditorium
1/10/2025 2 - 3pm TBD William Gao Class of '62 Auditorium
1/17/2025 2 - 3pm Karl Keat Rachit Kumar Class of '62 Auditorium
1/24/2025 No chalk talks - GCB recruitment  
1/31/2025 2 - 3pm Robert Wang Chloé Paris Class of '62 Auditorium
2/7/2025 2 - 3pm Anni Moore Preeti Bhanap Class of '62 Auditorium
2/14/2025 2 - 3pm Robert Hu Jiazhen Rong Class of '62 Auditorium
2/21/2025 No chalk talks - GCB recruitment  
2/28/2025 2 - 3pm Barbara Xiong Yuntian Fu Class of '62 Auditorium
3/7/2025 2 - 3pm Alexis Garofalo Fabián Ramos-Almodovar Class of '62 Auditorium
3/14/2025 2 - 3pm Jingxuan Bao Emilia Chen Class of '62 Auditorium
3/21/2025 2 - 3pm Chris Jones Jenna Ballard Class of '62 Auditorium
3/28/2025 2 - 3pm Jakob Woerner Manu Shivakumar Class of '62 Auditorium
4/4/2025 2 - 3pm Georgia Mies David Zhang Class of '62 Auditorium
4/11/2025 2 - 3pm Jonathan Sussman Emerson Hunter Class of '62 Auditorium
4/18/2025 2 - 3pm Matthew Lee Matthew Mouck Class of '62 Auditorium
4/25/2025 2 - 3pm Yidi Huang Rasika Venkatesh Class of '62 Auditorium


To sign up for Chalk Talk announcements, please contact the GCB Coordinator.

Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series

The Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series, previously known as the Penn Bioinformatics Forum, has a long history of bringing top speakers in bioinformatics from academia and industry. All GCB students are invited for a lunch meeting with the seminar speakers. GCB students and students also organize two seminars per year (i.e., they select speakers, send the invitations, organize the schedule and meet with speakers on an individual basis, while Penn faculty meet the speaker for lunch and dinner as a group). The seminar schedule is located here.