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Oct 2, 2025 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Chemical Engineering Seminar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign entitled “Neuronal electricity and its emergent dynamics”.

Sep 19, 2025 Karthik receives the UC Berkeley Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. He shares the award with his colleague Prof. Kranthi K. Mandadapu.

Sep 1-6, 2025 Karthik attends and gives an invited talk at the Les Treilles Symposium on Developmental and evolutionary insights into retinal cell replacement therapies (organizers: Profs. Seth Blackshaw and Michel Cayouette). He gives two talks entitled “Part 1: Evolutionary Tinkering – Lessons from the Retina”, and “Part 2: Two Facets of Selective Vulnerability among Neurons”.

June 24, 2025 Karthik gives an invited talk at the FASEB 2025 meeting on the Biology and Chemistry of Vision entitled “Single-cell genomic insights into the evolution of cell types in the retina”

May 22, 2025 Karthik delivers an invited webinar hosted by the Glaucoma Research Foundation entitled “Data-driven approaches to Glaucoma”

May 15, 2025 Karthik receives the “CBE Departmental Teaching Award” for the third time.

May 8, 2025 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Seminar at Johns Hopkins University. The title of the talk is “Spatiotemporal ionic dynamics at biological membrane interfaces”.

April 2, 2025 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Chemical Engineering Colloquium at Princeton University. The title of the talk is “Organization and Dynamics of Neuronal Systems at Cellular and Molecular Scales”.

Jan 27, 2025 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Chemical Engineering Colloquium at Stanford University. The title of the talk is “Organization and Dynamics of Neuronal Systems at Cellular and Molecular Scales”.

Nov 14, 2024 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Physics & QBio Hagoromo Hour at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The title of the talk is “Nanoscale dynamics of ionic reorganization at biological membrane interfaces”.

Nov 2, 2024 Karthik presents at the UC Berkeley Biophysics Retreat. The title of the talk is “Nanoscale dynamics of ionic reorganization near lipid membrane interfaces”.

Oct 27-30, 2024 Graduate students Alhad Deshpande and Joshua Fernandes, and postdoc Hyeongjoo Row deliver session talks at the AIChE annual meeting in San Diego, CA.

Oct 19, 2024 Karthik gives a public talk at the UC Berkeley Homecoming. The title of the talk is “Bridging Theory, Computation, and Experiment in Neuroscience”.

Oct 3, 2024 Karthik gives an invited lecture at the Visual Sciences Seminar at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. The title of the talk is “The Evolution of Neural Diversity in the Vertebrate Retina and the Origin of Cell Type Innovations”.

August 20, 2024 Karthik gives an invited talk at the NSF CRCNS PI Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. The title of the talk is “Deciphering the evolution of cell type in the vertebrate retina”.

June 20, 2024 Karthik gives an invited talk at the FASEB Retinal Biology and Vision Processing in Southbridge, MA. The title of the talk is “Single-cell genomic insights into the evolution of retinal cell types”.

May 15, 2024 The group’s first graduate students Salwan Butrus and Joshua Hahn are hooded. Salwan will begin as a Computational Biologist at Curve Biosciences, CA and Josh will be a postdoctoral researcher in the Reh lab at the University of Washington, Seattle.

May 8, 2024 Karthik gives the COMBI seminar at University of Washington Department of Genome Sciences. The title of the talk is “The Evolution of Cell types”.

Mar 8, 2024 Karthik receives Young Alumnus Achiever Award from his alma mater, IIT Bombay.

Feb 27, 2024 Karthik gives the Molecular and Human Genetics Seminar at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. The title of the talk is “Evolution of cell types in the vertebrate retina: Lessons from single-cell transcriptomics”.

Nov 2023 Karthik gives the Oxyopia seminar in the Vision Science and Optometry department at UC Berkeley. The title of the talk is “Spatial transcriptomic analysis of cell type topographies in retinal whole mounts”.

Nov 2023 Karthik gives the Student Invited Seminar at the Department of Opthalmology at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. The title of the talk is "Evolution of cell types in the vertebrate retina: Lessons from single-cell transcriptomics".