2025 – 2026 schedule
All regular Marin Science Seminar sessions are held on select Wednesdays from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Terra Linda High School’s Innovation Hub, unless otherwise noted. Wonderfest events are held at Hopmonk Tavern in Novato, generally on select Tuesday evenings at 7pm but please check out calendar below for exceptions.
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WINTER – SPRING 2026
Winter-Spring 2026 Schedule flyer : [MSS WS26 Flyer – pdf]
WONDERFEST COLLAB This Spring we continue collaborating with Wonderfest: Bay Area Beacon of Science to help promote more free, mind-expanding science experiences in Marin. While our core six sessions per semester continue to be held on Wednesdays at Terra Linda HS’s Innovation Hub in San Rafael, we invite you to try the Wonderfest experience as well. Wonderfest’s “Ask a Science Envoy” program generally takes place select Tuesday evenings at Hopmonk Tavern in Novato from 7:00 – 8:30pm starting in March. The program features two short presentations with early-career researchers from UC Berkeley and Stanford U. followed by a Q&A period. Join us and learn!
Schedule items below are regular MSS sessions on Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm at TLHS unless noted otherwise.
JANUARY
- 14: “Fantastic Fungi: uses for Environmental Sustainability and Carbon Sequestration” with Taren Bouwman (TLHS MSEL ’16) PhD candidate at U. of Hawai’i Manoa
- 28: “Water as a History Book: Stories Hidden in Alaska’s Glaciers” ” with Paloma Siegel (TLHS MSEL ’18) PhD candidate at U. of Colorado Boulder
FEBRUARY
- 11: “The Bay Area Air District: How Local Government Works to Solve Environmental Problems” with Daniel Meer of the Bay Area Air District
MARCH
- 10: (Tues. Wonderfest @Hopmonk – 7pm start) Pulsars & Blindness with Maya Beleznay of Stanford U. & Lawrence Man of UC Berkeley
- 18: “How to Make or Break Your Heart: Biology of Heart Development and Congenital Heart Defects” with Irfan Kathiriya M.D. Ph.D of UCSF
- 25: “Brain Medicine: Bridging the divide between Psychiatry and Neurology” with Ellen Bradley M.D. of UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
APRIL
- 14: (Tues. Wonderfest @Hopmonk – 7pm start) Cosmology & Evolution with Mahlet Shiferaw & Sebastian Somolinos of Stanford U.
- 22: “Healthcare Simulation Lab! Empowering future medical providers through healthcare simulation” with Karrina Mock, CRNA and Derrick Duarte, CRNA of the VA Medical Center San Francisco FALL 2025
- 28: (Tues. Wonderfest @Hopmonk – 7pm start) Elements & Fairness with Natalie LeBaron & Colin Jacobs of UC Berkeley.
MAY – Wonderfest at Hopmonk, Novato
- 10: (Sunday! Wonderfest @Hopmonk – 7pm start) Dreams & Wetlands with Marina Luccioni and Ryan Rogers of Stanford U.
- 26: (Tues. Wonderfest @Hopmonk – 7pm start) Rockclocks & Supernovae with Caroline Hasler and Eli Wiston of UC Berkeley
Previous semester – Fall 2025 Schedule flyer : [Fall 25 MSS Flyer]
SEPTEMBER 2025
- (Monday) 8: MSS internship application deadline.
- (Saturday) 13: MSS internship decisions emailed by 10 pm.
- 24: “The Biology of Consciousness: an anesthesiologist explores the circuits behind our mental states” with Art Wallace M.D. Ph.D. of UCSF and VAMC SF
OCTOBER
- 1: NEW! “Creepy or Captivating? A Spider Scientist’s Perspective” with Trinity Walls, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley
- 15: “Alexa, Astro, and Nova, Oh my! The Science of Tuning Virtual Assistants” with Camden Pettijohn (TLHS 2018) of Amazon
- 22: “The Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: What you can do to reduce your risk” with Deborah Barnes Ph.D. M.P.H. of UCSF
NOVEMBER
- 12: “Making Faces: Developmental Mechanisms of Craniofacial Evolution” with Rich Schneider Ph.D. of UCSF Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
- 19: RESCHEDULED for 3/25/26
“Brain Medicine: Bridging the divide between Psychiatry and Neurology” with Ellen Bradley M.D. of UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
An archive of previous talks 2008 – present can be found here: MSS Calendar Archives (opens a new tab/window)
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