Location: This event will be held ONLINE via Zoom. www.imageofgod.eventbrite.ca

Cost: Free

In Partnership with: The Society of Catholic Scientists

Sonsoles de Lacalle—physician, neuroscientist,  professor, and Chair of Health Science at California State University Channel Islands—joins us to explore the wisdom of the Catholic intellectual tradition in dialogue with science in revealing our fundamental nature as human beings.

Our conversation will cover a range of topics, including gender, sexuality, and identity, highlighting the synthesis between rigorous science and the Catholic intellectual tradition.

We will speak with her about gender theory and a Catholic approach, the nature of the human person as sexually dimorphous, the masculine and feminine geniuses, and our inherent complementarity.

Presenter: Professor Sonsoles de Lacalle obtained her M.D./Ph.D. from the University of Navarra (Spain) in Neuroscience. In 1990 she moved to the US with a Fulbright Fellowship to train in research at the University of Chicago. Her academic experience includes teaching and research in a medical setting (University of Chicago, Harvard Medical School, and Ohio University’s College of Medicine) and in predominantly undergraduate institutions (CSU Los Angeles, Charles Drew University and currently CSU Channel Islands).

Her research has focused on structural plasticity and brain responses to selective cell loss, and the extent to which the aged nervous system reacts to signals that can promote synaptogenesis and neural regeneration. Dr. de Lacalle has mentored undergraduate, graduate and medical school students, directed training programs and served as Program Director in NIH grants. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented many invited lectures at international symposia and universities.