HNRCA Monday Seminar Series Video Archives

Below are our seminars from Spring 2026. A complete list of our seminars can be found on our YouTube Channel. Learn more about our current seminar series.

Spring 2026

February 2, 2026
"Can Dietary Restriction Improve Intestinal Aging?"
Archana Unnikrishnan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology 
University of Oklahoma HSC
 

February 9
"Population Health, Ethics, and Geroscience"
Daniel Promislow, DPhil, Senior Scientist and Scientific Advisor
The Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Nicolai Wohns, MD; PhD Candidate
University of Washington
 

March 9
"Gut Feelings: The Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain & Behaviour Across the Lifespan"
John F. Cryan, PhD
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience
University College Cork, Ireland
 

March 30
"Impact of Dietary Protein Restriction on Neuroendocrine Signaling During Aging"
Cristal Hill, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
 

April 27
"The Foodome Project: Emerging Patterns in Food Data Science"
Giulia Menichetti, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Affiliated Faculty Member, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Affiliated Faculty Member, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
 

May 4
"Environmental Stress Perception in Metabolism and Aging"
Scott Leiser, MD
Associate Professor of Physiology, Internal Medicine and Gerontology 
University of Michigan
 

May 11
"Intermuscular Adipose Tissue Paracrine Signaling - Impacts on Skeletal Muscle"
Bryan Bergman, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Director, Molecular and Cellular Analysis Core, Colorado NORC
University of Colorado Anschutz 

May 18
"More Than a Loading Control: Studying the Actin Cytoskeleton for Novel Anti-aging"
Ryo Sanabria, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California