SCSB Colloquium Series with Dr. Tom Nowakowski: Building a Brain, One Cell at a Time: Reading the Developmental Instructions Behind Human Neural Diversity

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 Location: 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium). Please note this talk will not be recorded Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET, followed by reception Speaker: Tom Nowakowski, Ph.D. Affiliation: Associate Professor, UCSF Host: Dr. Linlin Fan Talk title: Building a Brain, One Cell at a Time: Reading the Developmental Instructions Behind Human Neural Diversity Abstract: The human brain assembles itself over many months of prenatal development, generating thousands of distinct types of nerve cells that must be produced in the right numbers, at the right times, and wired into the righ