2026-2027 Calendar of PARC Seminars
All seminars will take place from 12-1 p.m. (Pacific), via Zoom
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title (preliminary) |
|---|---|---|
| 9/23/26 | Katelyn Sadler | Microbiome and chronic pain |
| 10/28/26 | Tarick El-Baba | Structural biology mass spec – small molecule discovery Microbiome and chronic pain |
| 11/16/26 | Ajay Wasan | Psychiatric symptoms, pain sensitivity, opioid craving, and biological pain mechanisms interact to predict opioid misuse risk and treatment outcomes in chronic pain patients |
| 12/9/26 | Patrick Finan | UVA Interactions among sleep, emotion, reward processing, and chronic pain, and for developing behavioral interventions that enhance resilience while reducing pain and opioid-related harms |
| 1/27/27 | Greg Corder | Affective neuroscience of pain—how neural circuits in the amygdala and related limbic structures transform nociceptive signals into the subjective experience of suffering |
| 2/24/27 | Moitrayee Bhattacharyya | TBA |
| 3/24/27 | Boris Heifets | No evidence of immediate or persistent analgesic effect from a single dose of psilocybin in three mouse models of pain |
| 4/28/27 | Uli Zeilhofer | Neural circuits and neurotransmitter systems that normally suppress pain signals and how failures in those systems contribute to chronic pain |
| 5/26/27 | Michael Michaelides | Disovery of new non-rewarding opioid analgesic |