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The Salk Bulletin, managed by the Salk Events team, is a compilation of upcoming scientific lectures and conferences taking place in and around La Jolla, California. The Bulletin includes events at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla Institute, Scripps Research and Sanford Burnham Prebys. Click to subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

Click here to download the listing of events for November.

Changes and cancellations are not infrequent, so please check this page often for updates.

Click to download the Thursday Seminar Series poster, download poster »


Thursday Seminar Series: Giles Oldroyd

WHEN: Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Giles Oldroyd, University of Cambridge
TALK TITLE: Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations
HOST: Wolfgang Busch
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Leslie Orgel Lecture: David R. Liu

WHEN: Friday, January 24, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: David R. Liu, HHMI, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
TALK TITLE: Engineered and evolved molecular machines for targeted gene correction and integration in cells, animals, and patients
HOST: Gerald Joyce
LOCATION: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium

Renato Dulbecco Lecture: Matthew Vander Heiden

WHEN: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Matthew Vander Heiden, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
TALK TITLE: Influence of metabolism on cancer progression
HOST: Tony Hunter and Reuben Shaw
LOCATION: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium

Thursday Seminar Series: Ann Kennedy

WHEN: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Ann Kennedy, Scripps Research
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Talmo Pereira
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute – 50 Years of Rafting the River of LIfe
WHEN: Friday, February 21,2025
REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: www.salk.edu/events/tony-hunter-celebration/
LOCATION: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium

Thursday Seminar Series: Bertil Hille

WHEN: Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Bertil Hille, University of Washington
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Sung Han
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Peter Ly

WHEN: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Peter Ly, UT Southwestern
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Jan Karlseder
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Gul Dolen

WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Gul Dolen, UC Berkeley
TALK TITLE: Reopening critical periods with psychedelics
HOST: Kenta Asahina
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Rushika Perera

WHEN: Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Rushika Perera, UC San Francisco
TALK TITLE: Metabolic dependencies in pancreatic cancer
HOST: Vasiliki Pantazopoulou (SRF)
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Mimi Shirazu-Hiza

WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Mimi Shirazu-Hiza, Columbia University
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Sreekanth Chalasani
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Xioawei Zhuang

WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Xioawei Zhuang, Harvard University
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Margarita Behrens
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Jean Fan

WHEN: Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Jean Fan, Johns Hopkins University
TALK TITLE: TBD
HOST: Pallav Kosuri
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

Thursday Seminar Series: Heidi McBride

WHEN: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
SPEAKER: Heidi McBride, McGill and Montreal Neorulogical Institute
TALK TITLE: Insights into the function of mitochondrial derived vesicles
HOST: Gerald Shadel
LOCATION: Trustees’ Room

The Salk Bulletin, managed by the Salk Events team, is a compilation of upcoming scientific lectures and conferences taking place in and around La Jolla, California. The Bulletin includes events at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla Institute, Scripps Research and Sanford Burnham Prebys. Click to subscribe to the monthly Salk Bulletin. If you would like to have your event included in the Salk Bulletin, click here.

Click here to download the listing of events for November.

Changes and cancellations are not infrequent, so please check this page often for updates.

Click to download the Thursday Seminar Series poster, download poster »


Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute – 50 Years of Rafting the River of LIfe
WHEN: Friday, February 21,2025
REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION: www.salk.edu/events/tony-hunter-celebration/
LOCATION: Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium