Day | Time: Thursdays at 11:00 am
All the seminars will be held via Zoom.
September 17, 2020
John Krakauer, MA, MD
Johns Hopkins Medicine
“The systems and behavioral neuroscience of motor recovery after stroke”
Host: Karunesh Ganguly, MD, PhD
October 8, 2020
Gina Turrigiano, PhD
Brandeis University
"Self-tuning neurons and firing rate homeostasis in visual cortical circuits"
Host: Grae Davis, PhD
October 15, 2020
Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD
MIT/Harvard Med School
"General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal."
Host: Loren Frank, PhD
October 22, 2020
Carolyn (Lindy) McBride, PhD
Princeton University
"A robust neural code for human odor in the mosquito brain"
Host: Trisha Vaidyanathan (Poskanzer Lab)
October 29, 2020
Maurice A. Smith, MD, PhD
Harvard University
"A mechanism for denoising the teaching signal for human motor learning"
Host: Eszter Kish (Yackle/Brainard Labs)
November 5, 2020
Valentin Nägerl, PhD
University of Bordeaux
"Super-resolution imaging of extracellular space dynamics in living brain tissue"
Host: Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD
November 12, 2020
Catherine Woolley, PhD
Northwestern University
"Sex Differences in the Brain: Not What You Think
Evidence for Latent Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Synaptic Modulation"
Host: Kara Presbrey (Wang/Starr Labs)
January 14, 2021
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD
Northwestern University
"Dopamine signaling and plasticity in aversive learning"
Host: Mark Gergues, Kheirbek Lab
January 28, 2021
Nadine Gogolla, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
"Emotion homeostasis: the insular cortex uses bodily feedback to gate optional fear levels"
Host: Mazen Kheirbek, PhD
March 4, 2021
Annabelle Singer, PhD
Georgia Tech & Emory
"New Approaches to Alzheimer's: From Neural Deficits to Stimulation that Boosts Immune Function"
Host: Michael Coulter, MD, PhD
March 11, 2021
Li Zhang, PhD
University of Southern California
"Sensory Circuitry for Negative Emotions and Behavior"
Host: Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD
March 18, 2021
Farah Lubin, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Epigenetic-level approaches to studying epilepsy and associated memory deficits"
Host: Jeanne Paz, PhD
March 25, 2021
Elsa Rossignol, MD, MSc, FRCP
University of Montreal
"Disrupted cortical inhibition in genetic generalized epilepsies"
Host: John Rubenstein, MD
April 1, 2021
Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD
Columbia University
"Bridging the gap between innate and learned behaviors: A parent's role in promoting survival"
Host: Nerissa Hoglen, Manoli Lab
April 15, 2021 - EPSP
Brielle Ferguson, PhD
Stanford University
Talk title TBD
Host: Jeanne Paz, PhD
June 10, 2021 - EPSP
Sama Ahmed, PhD
Princeton University
"Walking and Singing: The Neurobiology of Multitasking in Drosophila"
Host: Stephanie Redmond, PhD