Day | Time: Thursdays at 11:00 am
Neuroscience Formal Seminars: Sandler Conference Center or Rock Hall Auditorium as noted
September 7, 2023
David Olson, PhD
UC Davis
"Psychedelics and Related Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics"
Host: Alex Keip, Manoli Lab
September 14, 2023
Jeff Magee, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
"Mechanisms of hippocampal learning and memory"
Host: Roger Nicoll, PhD
September 28, 2023
Aaron Gitler, PhD
Stanford University
"Genetic screens in model organisms provide insight into neurodegenerative disease mechanisms"
Host: Xian Piao, MD, PhD
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, PhD
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
"Grid code for future spatial information in the entorhinal cortex"
Host: Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
November 9, 2023
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"Unlocking the Neurobiological Impact of Developmental Cannabis and Psychiatric Risk"
Host: Dorit Ron, PhD
December 7, 2023 - Neuroscience EPSP
Matheus Victor, PhD
MIT
"Leveraging Big Data to Build Models of the Human Brain: How Perturbed Circuits Drive the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease"
Host: Yadong Huang, MD, PhD
December 14, 2023
Baljit Khakh, PhD
UCLA
“Astrocyte Diversity in Neural Circuits: Identity, Form, Function, and Disease”
Host: Jeanne Paz, PhD
January 4, 2024
Larry Abbott, PhD
Columbia University
"Modeling the Navigational Circuity on the Fly"
Host: Christoph Kirst, PhD
January 11, 2024
Sarah Kucenas, PhD
University of Virginia
"How Do Oligodendrocytes Tile?"
Host: Xian Piao, MD, PhD
February 15, 2024
David Ginty, PhD
Harvard University
"Making sense of touch"
Host: Xin Duan, PhD
March 21, 2024
Lucas Cheadle, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Mapping dynamic interactions between cells in vivo"
Host: Xian Piao, MD, PhD
March 28, 2024
Thomas Clandinin, PhD
Stanford University
"Defining the functional architecture of locomotion"
Co-hosts: Robert Edwards, MD
April 11, 2024
Juan Song, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hypothalamic modulation of hippocampal neurogenesis in health and disease"
Host: Yadong Huang, MD, PhD
April 25, 2024
Rui Costa, DVM, PhD
Allen Institute
"Executing, reinforcing and refining actions"
Host: Vijay Namboodiri, PhD
May 2, 2024
Adrien Peyrache, PhD
McGill University
"One ring to rule them all: how the brain’s compass supports navigation and memory formation"
Host: Sophie Grutzner, Scanziani Lab
May 16, 2024
Debosmita Sardar, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
"Unveiling the hidden layers: how astrocyte epigenetics encode sense of smell"
Host: Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD
May 23, 2024
Theanne Griffith, PhD
UC Davis
"Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage gated sodium channels"
Host: Andoni Asencor, Pleasure Lab
June 6, 2024
Doris Tsao, PhD
UC Berkeley
"How the brain represents the world: insights from the macaque face patch system"
Host: Loren Frank, PhD