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CHRI Pediatric Research Seminar Series

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The 2026 CHRI Pediatric Research Seminars are held on the third Friday of the month from noon to 1 p.m. Seminars will be held only via Zoom for the foreseeable future. CME credits are available.

The 2026 Seminar Series calendar is now open. If interested in presenting, please email CHRI.

2026 Research Seminar Series

2026 Research Seminar Series
Date Speaker Topic
Feb 20 

Rebecca Barall, M.Ed., CBIS, BCBA, LBA

Matt Sandbulte, PhD

"Promoting Social Communicative Gestures by Children with Autism"

"National Institutes of Health Common Forms"

Mar 20

Benjamin Gephart 

"Combining CCL21 Immunotherapy and Metronomic Chemotherapy for Neuroblastoma Treatment"

Apr 17 Yingying Wang, PhD "What we can learn from functional and structural brain imaging data"
May 15

Matt Sorensen, MD

Gleb Haynatzki, PhD

"Project ADAM: Long-Term Outcomes"

"Statistical / Machine Learning at CHRI: Part I: Tabular Data ‒ Big & Small"

Jun 19  Jabeen Taiba, PhD, MPH  "Associations between Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations in Follicular Fluid and Reproductive Outcomes among Women Undergoing Assisted Reproduction"
Aug 21  Josh Nichol-Caddy, MBA  "Interested in Starting a Business? No-cost, confidential consulting is available"
Sep 18

Jenni Blackford, PhD

Mona H Al-Mugotir, PhD

"Developmental changes in unpredictable threat anticipation"

"Developmental Programs of Invasion and Stress Adaptation: Lessons from the Placenta for Cancer Biology"

Oct 16

 Gleb Haynatzki, PhD

Katherine (Xiaoyuan) Liu, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA (NE, NY)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders (iCASD)
Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center

"Statistical / Machine Learning at CHRI: Part 2"

"A Tutorial on Incidental Bidirectional Naming and Word Learning in Children with Autism"

Nov 20

Kari Neemann, MD

Jason Michaud, MD, PhD

TBD 

"Intravesical Antibiotics for the Treatment of UTI"

Dec 18 Kearney Student Presentations  
2026 Research Seminar Series