Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series 2024-25

The Neuroscience, AARG, and Gladstone seminars are held Thursdays at 11:00 am.

See links for AARG and Gladstone Seminars for more details.

Neuroscience Formal Seminar Location: Sandler Auditorium

September 25, 2024 (Wednesday)

Aya Takeoka, PhD
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
"How Sensory Feedback Shapes Motor Control and Adaptation"
Host: Alexandra Nelson, MD, PhD

October 3, 2024 - EPSP (External Postdoc Seminar Program)

Caitlin Mallory, PhD
UC Berkely
"Organizing Your Thoughts: What Temporal Structure Reveals about the Mechanisms and Functions of Hippocampal Replay"
Host: Christoph Kirst, PhD

October 17, 2024 - EPSP (External Postdoc Seminar Program)

Selmaan Chettih, PhD
Columbia University
"Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird"
Host: Mazen Kheirbek, PhD

October 24, 2024 - EPSP (External Postdoc Seminar Program)

Raaj Gowrishankar, PhD
Univ. of Washington
“Elucidating the role of endogenous neuropeptide signaling for goal-directed behavior”
Host: Vijay Namboodiri, PhD

November 21, 2024

Hillel Adesnik, PhD
UC Berkeley
"Optically probing the neural codes of perception"
Host: Massimo Scanziani, PhD

January 9, 2025

Christopher Harvey, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Cortical circuits for spatial navigation"
Host: Sophie Grutzner, Scanziani Lab

January 16, 2025 (seminar is at noon)

Weizhe Hong, PhD
UCLA
"Neural Basis of Prosocial Behavior"
Host: Truong Ly, Knight Lab

January 23, 2025

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Stanford
Talk Title TBA
Host: Ritchie Chen, PhD

February 13, 2025

Franck Polleux, PhD
Columbia University
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Xin Duan, PhD and Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD

February 20, 2025

Oscar Marin, PhD
King's College of London
Talk Title TBA
Host: David Julius, PhD

February 27, 2025

Nancy Padilla-Coreano, PhD
University of Florida
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Christina Roca, Willsey Lab

March 6, 2025

Fan Wang, PhD
MIT
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Kevin Yackle, MD, PhD

March 20, 2025

Gaby Maimon, PhD
Rockefeller
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Massimo Scanziani, PhD

March 27, 2025

Ilana Witten, PhD 
Princeton
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Nilla Sivakumar, Manoli Lab

April 3, 2025

Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Erik Ullian, PhD

April 10, 2025

Rachel Wilson, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Michael Stryker, PhD

April 24, 2025

Anne Schaefer, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Talk Title TBA
Hosts: Kunal Shroff, Kampmann Lab

May 8, 2025

John Huguenard, PhD
Stanford
Talk Title TBA
Host: Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD