October 16, 2026
1 pm – 2 pm
Foege South Auditorium (Genome Sciences 060) & Streamed on Zoom Webinar

Biography

Dr. Bryant is a neuroscientist and a parasitologist specializing in the thermal physiology of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. in Biology from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University. She entered the field of nematode neuroscience as a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Elissa Hallem at UCLA, where she established the first methods for quantitative and mechanistic analyses of neural function in parasitic worms. At UW, her team uses an interdisciplinary, multi-scale approach combining expertise in neuroscience, parasitology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and genetics to understand the thermosensory mechanisms that enable medically important soil-transmitted parasites to locate and infect human hosts.

Dr. Bryant is a 2026 McKnight Neuroscience Scholar, and the recipient of a 2024 NIAID New Innovator Award (DP2). She has also received several research awards, including the 2021 Boyer/Parvin Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology research, the 2020 Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Award, and the 2020 M. John Pickett Award for Outstanding Achievement in Postdoctoral Research.