Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series 2019-20

Day | Time: Thursdays at 11:00 am
Location: NS Formal Seminar and AARG will be held in Rock Hall Auditorium except as noted
Gladstone Seminars will be held in the Gladstone Auditorium

September 19, 2019

Andreas Tolias, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
"From inception in the brain to a less artificial intelligence"
Host: Vikaas Sohal

September 26, 2019

Corey Harwell, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Epigenetic regulation of forebrain neuron diversity and circuit assembly"
Host: Seth Shipman

October 3, 2019

Alex Kolodkin, PhD
Johns Hopkins
"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neural Connectivity"
Host: Xin Duan

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Yukiko Goda, PhD
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
"Regulating synaptic strength diversity in hippocampal pyramidal neurons"
Host: Robert Edwards

October 17, 2019

Aryn Gittis, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
"Cell-Based Strategies For Long-Lasting Therapeutic Benefits In A Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease"
Host: Seth Shipman

November 7, 2019

Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, PhD
Univ of Alabama, Birmingham
"Synaptic connectivity of adult-born hippocampal neurons"
Host: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

December 5, 2019

Diego Bohorquez, PhD
Duke University
"A gut choice for sugars"
Host: David Julius

January 23, 2020

Marla Feller, PhD
UC Berkeley
"The wiring up of direction-selective circuits in the retina: nature or nurture?"
Host: Angela Matcham

February 13, 2020

Nicola Allen, PhD
Salk Institute
"Astrocyte regulation of neuronal synapses"
Host: Anna Molofsky

February 27, 2020

Andre Fenton, PhD
NYU
"Neural coordination and its discoordination in Fragile X model mice"
Host: Max Ladow

March 5, 2020

Margaret McCarthy, PhD
Univ of Maryland
"Immune Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain"
Host: Susanna Rosi

April 2, 2020 - CANCELLED

April 9, 2020 - CANCELLED

April 30, 2020 - CANCELLED

Elsa Rossignol, MD, MSc
Université de Montréal
Talk title TBA
Host: John Rubenstein

May 7, 2020 - CANCELLED

Daphna Shohamy, PhD
Columbia University
Talk title TBA
Host: Kira Poskanzer

May 14, 2020 - CANCELLED

John Krakauer, MA, MD
Johns Hopkins
Talk title TBA
Host: Karunesh Ganguly