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.

2025-2026 Schedule:

Date Time Speaker 1 (2 - 2:30pm) Speaker 2 (2:30 - 3pm) Location
9/12/2025 2 - 3pm Dr. Michael Guo Dr. Daniel Goodman Class of '62 Auditorium
9/19/2025 2 - 3pm Dr. Sara Mathieson Dr. Justin Cotney Class of '62 Auditorium
9/26/2025 2 - 3pm Dr. Sam Piekos Dr. Ian Campbell Class of '62 Auditorium
10/3/2025 2 - 3pm Dr. Sokratis Apostolidis Dr. Bingxin Zhao Class of '62 Auditorium
10/10/2025 2 - 3pm No chalk talks - BGS @ 40 Celebration
10/17/2025 2 - 3pm Dr. Jin Jin Dr. Zhi Huang Class of '62 Auditorium
10/24/2025 2 - 3pm TBD Rasika Venkatesh Class of '62 Auditorium
10/31/2025 2 - 3pm Lindsay Guare Robert Hu Class of '62 Auditorium
11/7/2025 2 - 3pm Chloé Paris Alice Wang Class of '62 Auditorium
11/14/2025 2 - 3pm Fabián Ramos-Almodovar Anastasia Lucas Class of '62 Auditorium
11/21/2025 2 - 3pm Anni Moore Georgia Mies Class of '62 Auditorium
12/5/2025 2 - 3pm Preeti Bhanap Julia Malnak Class of '62 Auditorium
12/12/2025 2 - 3pm Max Dudek Alexis Garófalo Class of '62 Auditorium
1/9/2026 2 - 3pm Matthew Mouck Sandra Lapinska TBD
1/16/2026 No chalk talks - GCB (virtual) recruitment
1/23/2026 2 - 3pm Will Gao Yidi Huang TBD
1/30/2026 No chalk talks - GCB (virtual) recruitment
2/6/2026 2 - 3pm Matt Lee Emilia Chen TBD
2/13/2026 2 - 3pm David Wu Jenna Ballard TBD
2/20/2026 2 - 3pm Alex Flynn-Carroll Ravi Mandla TBD
2/27/2026 No chalk talks - GCB admitted students campus visit
3/6/2026 2 - 3pm Zhuozheng Shi Briana Macedo TBD
3/13/2026 2 - 3pm Liran Mao Wendy Su TBD
3/20/2026 2 - 3pm Lexi Li Makayla Reed TBD
3/27/2026 2 - 3pm Thomas Westbrook Annan Timon TBD
4/3/2026 2 - 3pm Tram Anh Nguyen Ijeoma Meremikwu TBD
4/10/2026 2 - 3pm Connor Parker Jake Spruance TBD
4/17/2026 2 - 3pm Lina Takemaru Will Sullivan TBD
4/24/2026 2 - 3pm Travyse Edwards Xinzhe Li TBD


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.