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.
2026-2027 Schedule:
| Date | Time | First Speaker | Second Speaker | Location |
| 9/25/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Dr. Nishant Sinha | Dr. Adam Stevens | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 10/2/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Dr. Ben Voight | Dr. Mo Haj-Dezfulian | Reunion Auditorium |
| 10/9/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Dr. Dan Goodman | Dr. Avi Srivastava | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 10/16/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Dr. Sam Piekos | Dr. Kai Wang | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 10/23/2026 | 2 - 3pm | No chalk talks - ASHG | ||
| 10/30/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Jenna Ballard | Chloé Paris | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 11/6/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Briana Macedo | Yidi Huang | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 11/13/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Jake Spruance | TBD | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 11/20/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Dr. Jin Jin | TBD | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 12/4/2026 | 2 - 3pm | TBD | TBD | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 12/11/2026 | 2 - 3pm | Ijeoma Meremikwu | David Wu | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 1/8/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Makayla Reed | Will Sullivan | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 1/15/2027 | 2 - 3pm | No chalk talks - virtual recruitment | ||
| 1/22/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Georgia Mies | Julia Malnak | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 1/29/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Annan Timon | Wendy Su | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 2/5/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Sherry Xie | Akira Nair | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 2/12/2027 | 2 - 3pm | No chalk talks - on-campus recruitment | ||
| 2/19/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Robert Hu | Liran Mao | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 2/26/2027 | 2 - 3pm | No chalk talks - on-campus recruitment | ||
| 3/5/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Thomas Westbrook | Tram Anh Nguyen | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 3/12/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Alexis Garofalo | Lexi Li | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 3/19/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Sophie Kearney | Mariah Antopia | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 3/26/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Ray Wu | Travyse Edwards | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 4/2/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Sriya Potluri | Yijia Jiang | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 4/9/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Nia Abdurezak | Ananya Rajagopalan | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 4/16/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Daniel Vo | Shridhar Parthasarathy | Class of '62 Auditorium |
| 4/23/2027 | 2 - 3pm | Tracy Wang | Connor Parker | 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.