Archived Events
October 2, 2018
Joanna Dabrowska, PhD | Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
Title: Oxytocin receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) enable fear discrimination
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
October 23, 2018
Estuardo Robles, PhD | Purdue University
Title: Genetic approaches to explore visual processing and autism in zebrafish
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
October 30, 2018
Alicia D. Guemez Gamboa, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: Contributions of protocadherins, PCDH12 and PCDH19, to cortical development and brain connectivity defects
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
November 13, 2018
Monica Dus, PhD | University of Michigan
Title: A high sugar diet persistently reshapes sweet taste sensation and eating in Drosophila
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
February 19, 2019
Title: The neural basis of body fluid balance
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
April 2, 2019
Jonathan Demb, PhD | Yale University
Title: Optogenetic studies of synaptic and circuit function in the retina
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
April 4, 2019
Peter L. Strick, PhD | University of Pittsburgh
Title: Basal Ganglia Circuits with the Cerebellum and the Cerebral Cortex
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
April 16, 2019
Alex Kolodkin, PhD | Johns Hopkins
Title: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neural Connectivity
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
April 23, 2019
David Fitzpatrick, PhD | Max Planck
Title: Functional synaptic architecture of visual cortex
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
May 7, 2019
Margaret E. Rice, PhD | NYU Langone Health
Title: Somatodendritic dopamine release
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
May 14, 2019
Nathaniel B. Sawtell, PhD | Columbia University
Title: Learning in a multi-layer network of an electric fish
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
May 21, 2019
Anatol Kreitzer, PhD | University of California, San Francisco
Title: Basal Ganglia Circuit Function in Health and Disease
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
May 28, 2019
Manuel Diaz-Rios, PhD | University of Puerto Rico
Title: Adenosine A1-Dopamine D1 Receptor Heteromers in Spinal Motoneurons: Implications on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
September 17, 2019
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: New Directions and Tools in Neuromodulatory Circuit Discovery
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
October 1, 2019
Michael Manookin, PhD | University of Washington
Title: Functional divergence between parallel neural pathways in the primate retina
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
October 15, 2019
Tiffany Schmidt, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: Illuminating Visual Circuits
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
October 29, 2019
Colleen McClung, PhD | University of Pittsburgh
Title: Circadian genes, rhythms and the biology of psychiatric disorders
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
November 12, 2019
Diego Bohorquez, PhD | Duke University
Title: A Gut Choice for Sugars
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
November 19, 2019
Alex Chubykin, PhD | Purdue University
Title: Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of visual experience-dependent impairments in Fmr1 KO mice
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
January 7, 2020
Marc Freeman, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University
Title: How do brains receive and interpret injury signals?
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
January 21, 2020
Nathaniel Daw, Phd | Princeton University
Title: What's so hard about decision making?
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
January 28, 2020
Joshua Glaser | Columbia University
Title: Interpretable machine learning for neuroscience
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
January 30, 2020
Title: Watching the Brain in Action: Creating Tools for Functional Analysis of Neural Circuitry
Location: Tech L361
Time: 4:00 - 5:00pm
February 4, 2020
Guillaume Lajoie, PhD | University of Montreal
Title: Theory of artificially driven cortical circuits: connectivity, function and computations in neural dynamics stimulated by implants
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
March 10, 2020
Stephanie Palmer, PhD | University of Chicago
Title: How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45-1:45pm
April 21, 2020
Indira Raman, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "Synchrony and synaptic signaling in cerebellar circuits"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
April 28, 2020
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy | Northwestern University
Title: "Dopamine system dynamics and plasticity in aversive learning"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
May 5, 2020
Robin Nusslock, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: How Stress Gets Under the Skin: A Neuroimmune Network Perspective
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
May 12, 2020
Kevin White, PhD |
Title: "Genomic approaches to precision medicine, from cancer to neuropsychiatric disease"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
May 19, 2020
Catherine Woolley, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: “Sex differences in the brain: not what you think – Evidence for latent sex differences in mechanisms of synaptic modulation”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
June 2, 2020
Malcolm, MacIver, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "Tuning movement for sensing and cognition for survival in an uncertain world"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
June 9, 2020
Ravi Allada, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: From the Circadian Clock to the Sleep Homeostat in Flies and Us
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
June 23, 2020
Thomas Meade, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: Real-Time MR Tracking of AAV Gene Therapy with Enzyme Activated MR Probes “
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
June 30, 2020
David McLean, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "Reconsidering principles of motor control based on studies of zebrafish spinal circuits"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
July 7, 2020
Dan Dombeck, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "Microscopic mechanisms of memory formation in the hippocampus"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
July 14, 2020
Marco Gallio, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "How animals respond to temperature on time scales ranging from seconds to weeks"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
July 21, 2020
Lucas Pinto, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: “Task-specific whole-cortical states during decision making”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
July 28, 2020
Lisa Beutler, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: "Long-lasting modulation of gut-brain communication underlying obesity”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
August 11, 2020
Tiffany Schmidt, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: Development and function of circadian circuits
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
August 25, 2020
Julia Cox, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: “Sex-specific processing of outcomes by the anterior cingulate cortex”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
November 17, 2020
David J. Linden, PhD |Johns Hopkins Medicine
Title: "Unique: The Science of Human Individuality”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
December 1, 2020
Jennifer Hoy, PhD |Biology - University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "Context Dependent Processing of Novel Visual Stimuli in Mice"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
December 11, 2020
Arif A. Hamid, PhD |Hanna Gray Fellow - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: "Striatal Dopamine Waves as a Mechanism for Spatiotemporal Credit Assignment"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 12:00 pm -1:00 pm
January 19, 2021
Gabrielle Gutierrez, PhD |Computational Neuroscientist - University of Washington
Title: “The smart image compression algorithm in the retina: a theoretical study of recoding inputs in neural circuits”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
January 26, 2021
Theanne Griffith, PhD |Physiology and Membrane Biology - UC Davis Health
Title: "Cool Sensations: A role for NaV1.1 in cold-sensing neuron excitability”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
March 2, 2021
Biafra Ahanonu, PhD |University of California, San Francisco
Title: Neural ensemble coding of pain in behaving animals
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
March 30, 2021
Josh Siegle, PhD |Allen Institute for Brain Science
Title: The Allen Brain Observatory: a standardized platform for in vivo neurophysiology
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
April 6, 2021
Aya Osman, PhD |Seaver Foundation Fellow - Mount Sinai Hospital
Title: Role of Gut-Derived Acetate in Autism-Related Behaviors
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
April 13, 2021
Gerald B. Downes, PhD |UMass Amherst
Title: "From swimming to seizures: Investigating locomotion and epilepsy in developing zebrafish”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
April 27, 2021
Ketema Paul, PhD |UCLA
Title: "Interactions between sex chromosome dosage and sleep regulatory mechanisms"
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
May 11, 2021
Mario Penzo, PhD |NIMH
Title: “Interrogating the role of the paraventricular thalamus in fear”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
May 25, 2021
Sama Ahmed, PhD |Center for the Physics of Biological Function - Princeton University
Title: "Walking and singing: the neurobiology of multitasking in Drosophila”
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
October 12, 2021
Thomas Bozza, PhD | Department of Neurobiology - Northwestern University
Title: "The genetic basis of mammalian olfactory function"
Location: Online
Time: 4:00 pm
October 19, 2021
Andrew Hires, PhD | Department of Biological Sciences - University of Southern California
Title: "Tactile learning in somatosensory cortex”
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
November 2, 2021
Robert Johnston, PhD | Program in Neuroscience - Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
December 14, 2021
Ilana Witten, PhD | Department of Neuroscience - Princeton University
Title: "Individual and time-varying mechanisms of learning and decision-making"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
February 8, 2022
Walter Gonzalez, PhD | Caltech University
Title: "Overcoming Noise: How Networks of Neurons Adapt to Preserve Behavior"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
February 15, 2022
Brandon Weissbourd, PhD | Caltech University
Title: "A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience”
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
February 22, 2022
Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, PhD | Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Title: "Complex topographic maps reveal ecological priors in the visual system"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
March 1, 2022
Qian Lin, PhD | Rockefeller University
Title: "Whole-brain neurodynamics reveal decision making at the single-trial level"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
March 8, 2022
Gabriella Sterne | UC Berkeley
Title: "Neural circuits for feeding decisions"
Location: Online
Time: 12:30 pm
April 5, 2022
Emma Alexander, PhD | Department of Computer Science - Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Location: TBA
Time: TBA
May 3, 2022
Sandro Romani, PhD | HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Title: "Synaptic and circuit mechanisms for long and short-term memory"
Location: TBA
Time: TBA
May 10, 2022
Dieter Jaeger, PhD | Department of Biology - Emory University
Title: “The role of basal ganglia input to the ventromedial thalamus in motor decision making and timing”
Location: TBA
Time: TBA