Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series 2021-22

Day | Time: Thursdays at 11:00 am
All the seminars will be held via Zoom until further notice.

September 2, 2021

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Columbia University
“Towards mechanisms for pain and pleasure in mice”
Host: Cindy Liu, Basbaum lab

September 9, 2021

Teresa Nicolson, PhD
Stanford University
"Linking mechanotransduction channels with hair-bundle morphology: subtypes of zebrafish sensory hair cells"
Host: David Julius, PhD

September 23, 202

Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD
Stanford University
"Translational OCD Research: Mechanisms and Modulation of Compulsive Behavior"
Host: Selin Schamiloglu, Bender Lab

October 28, 2021

Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Cellular and Circuit Dysfunction Across Development Underlies Epilepsy & Intellectual Disability in a Model of Dravet Syndrome"
Host: Scott Baraban, PhD

December 16, 2021

Timothy Behrens, PhD
University of Oxford
"Representing the structure of problems in the frontal hippocampal circuitry"
Host: Vijay Namboodiri, PhD

January 27, 2022

Kanaka Rajan, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"How Brain Circuits Function in Health and Disease: Understanding Brain-Wide Current Flow"
Host: Christoph Kirst, PhD

February 10, 2022 - CANCELED

February 24, 2022 - CANCELED

March 10, 2022 - CANCELED

March 17, 2022

Sarah Ross, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
"Neural Circuits of Itch and Pain"
Host: Allan Basbaum, PhD

March 24, 2022 - CANCELED

March 31, 2022

Nathalie Rouach, PhD
Collège de France
"Astrocytes, guardians of critical period plasticity in the visual cortex"
Host: Jeanne Paz, PhD

April 14, 2022 - CANCELED

April 28, 2022

Kevin Briggman, PhD
Caesar
Talk title tbd
Host: Massimo Scanziani, PhD

May 5, 2022

Natalia De Marco, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
"Mechanisms of GABAergic circuit assembly in the somatosensory cortex"
Host: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD

May 12, 2022 - CANCELED

May 19, 2022

Tirin Moore, PhD
Stanford University
"Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition"
Host: Joshua Brenner, Scanziani Lab

June 2, 2022 - EPSP

Shan Meltzer, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Talk title tbd
Host: Yuh-Nung Jan, PhD

June 9, 2022 - EPSP

Jiakun Chen, PhD
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Talk title tbd
Host: Xianhua Piao, MD, PhD