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.