Growing Up in Science (GUIS) is back for the 2025-2026 academic year! Please stay tuned to this page for updates on speakers and dates for this year's series.

In most sessions, one faculty member shares the personal side of their individual journey through academia. Occasionally, PhD-holding speakers from outside the academic research environment may also speak. The stories focus on the struggles, doubts, weaknesses, and failures we all face as young scientists. GUIS aims to normalize discussing these personal and interpersonal challenges, and supporting one another through them. There will be no (or minimal) discussion of the speaker's research.

GUIS seminars are intended for current academic trainees, including undergraduates, post-bac technicians, graduate students, post-docs, lab managers, and other in-training research support staff.

Please note that all events in the Spring 2026 quarter will be held from 3-4pm in the first floor conference room of the Bass Biology Research Building, instead of our usual space in the Neuro/ChEM-H building. Bass is the first building across Campus Dr. from the Clark Center, and the conference room can be accessed by entering the doors on the left hand side.

AY2025-2026 Events:

• November 7 - Paula Welander (Earth Science)

• November 14 - Jennifer Brophy (Bioengineering)

• December 12 - Laura Seeholzer (Neurobiology)

• January 9 - Luis Hernandez-Nunez (Biology)

• January 16 - Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez (Bioengineering)

• April 17** - Marion Buckwalter (Neurology)

• April 24** - Kabir Peay (Biology)

• May 15** - Julie Kauer (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)

** Due to scheduling conflicts, events on 4/17, 4/24. and 5/15 will be held in Bass 121.

More information about this cross-university series can be found here. Contact Tim (currier@stanford.edu) and Mikaela (mikaelaw@stanford.edu) with any questions.