Catalytic Events

March–April 2025 

NIH LAB MANAGERS WORKING GROUP INFORMATIONAL TALKS

March 13: DVR Pharmacy & Research Impact

  • 12 p.m.
  • Join the virtual meeting on Teams

March 27: Vendor Capabilities: INTEGRA Bioscience Corporation and Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

  • 12 p.m.
  • Join the virtual meeting on Zoom — Meeting ID: 236 511 259 051; Passcode: ZM9Ts7X4

Contact the NIH Lab Managers Working Group at LMWG@nih.gov with questions.

NIH DIRECTOR’S SEMINAR SERIES 2024–2025

  • Fridays, noon–1 p.m.
  • Building 1, Wilson Hall, 3rd Floor
  • Attend virtually via NIH VideoCast
  • Click here for the full schedule

April 11: Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Ph.D., NICHD
Insights into fetal growth and metabolic health from maternal-placental-fetal genomics

2024–2025 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LECTURES

  • Wednesdays through June; 2–3 p.m.
  • Building 10, Lipsett Amphitheater, or attend virtually via NIH VideoCast

The NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) is the highest-profile lecture program at the NIH. All lectures are in Lipsett Amphitheater (Building 10) and broadcast via NIH Videocast except where noted. Lectures will be archived.

March 12: Considering Neuropathic Pain States as Sphingopathies Amenable to Anti Sphingolipid-Based Therapies; Daniela Salvemini (Saint Louis University School of Medicine)

March 19: Deciphering the Neural Code of Speech, an NIH Director’s Lecture; Edward Chang (UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences) 

March 26: Of Flies and Men: Harnessing the Power of Drosophila to Decipher the Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration; Daniela Zarnescu (Penn State College of Medicine) 

April 2: Targeting Aging, Longevity and Rejuvenation, the Annual Florence Mahoney Lecture on Aging; Vadmin Gladyshev (Harvard Medical School)

April 9: Dissecting Neurobiological Mechanisms of ASD: From Genes to Circuits; Guoping Feng (McGovern Institute) 

April 23: Mechanisms of Ovarian Aging: A Target for Geroprotection in Women; Yousin Suh (Columbia University, Department of Genetics and Development)

April 30: Navigating Uncharted (Neuroimmune) Waters, rescheduled from January 2025; Jonathan Kipnis (Washington University in St. Louis)

May 7: Aging in Context for Older Black Adults: Risk and Resilience Factors, the Annual Robert S. Gordan Lecture; Lisa Barnes (Rush University Medical Center) 

See the full season on the WALS website and view the archives dating back more than 20 years.

2025 DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE LECTURE SERIES

  • Tuesdays, January 7–May 27, 2025, 3–4:30/5 p.m.
  • Attend virtually via NIH VideoCast

Sponsored by OIR, CC, and FAES, the course-lectures include presentations on pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward Ph.D. students, clinicians and program managers, this series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. Each session includes clinical and basic science components presented by NIH staff and invitees. All students, trainees, fellows, and staff are welcome to participate.

March 11: Itching Diseases: Mechanisms and Management Challenges; Mark Hoon, Ph.D., (NIDCR) and Ian Myers, M.D., (NIAID)

March 18: Cell Polarity: Basic to Medical ­– Report on HHMI Conference; Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D. (HHMI Janelia), Juan Bonifacino, Ph.D. (NICHD), and Win Arias, M.D. (OD)

March 25: Cancer of the Lung: Progress and Challenges; Roy Herbst, M.D., Ph.D. (Yale) and Katerina Politi, Ph.D. (Yale) 

April 1: Colon Cancer: An Epidemic in Young Men; Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D. (Case Western), Second Speaker TBA 

April 8: Hepatocellular Cancers: Different Types, Mechanisms and Management; Sanford Simon, Ph.D. (Rockefeller) and Marc Ghany, M.D. (NIDDK) 

April 15: Genomics in Space, Christopher Mason, Ph.D. (Cornell) and Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D. (Pitt) 

April 22: Autoantibody Internalization & Gene Therapy; Andy Mammen, M.D., Ph.D. (NIAMS) and Carsten Bönnemann, M.D. (NINDS) 

April 29: Congenital Heart Disease: Advances and Issues; Tom Burklow, M.D. (CC) and Theo Heller, M.D. (NIDDK) 

May 6: Multiple Sclerosis: Progress Against Progression; Daniel Reich, Ph.D. (NINDS) and María Inés Gaitán, M.D (NINDS)

NIH Artificial Intelligence Symposium

About Event: Biomedical science is in the early phase of a technological revolution, driven in large part by innovations in deep learning neural network architecture and availability of computational power. These cutting-edge techniques are being applied to every sub-field of the biological sciences, and with novel ground-breaking advancements arriving every week it is challenging for researchers to stay up to speed on what is available and possible.

This one-day in-person NIH AI Symposium will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to share their AI-related research, with the goal of disseminating the newest AI research, providing an opportunity to network, and to cross-pollinate ideas across disciplines in order to advance AI research in biomedicine. We welcome all NIH researchers who are interested in AI, from novices to experts.
Sponsored by NHLBI and the Office of Intramural Research.
Keynote Speakers: 

Dr. Alexander Rives, Co-founder and chief scientist at Evolutionary Scale, a company focused on applying machine learning and language models to biological systems, including the development of ESM3, a protein language model that enables the generation of novel proteins with potential applications for drug discovery and basic biological research. 

Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school, who has a broad range of interests including integrating clinical expertise with data science, using information technology to enhance healthcare in low- and middle-income countries, and considering the social impacts of AI research. 

This page was last updated on Friday, March 7, 2025

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