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
September 20, 2022
Samer Hattar, PhD | NIH - Chief of the Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms
Title: Retinal and brain circuits underlying the effects of light on behavior
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
September 27, 2022
Chih-Ying Su, PhD | UCSD
Title: Initial stages of olfactory processing and neuromodulation
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
October 18, 2022
Daniel Dombeck, PhD | Northwestern University
Title: Microscopy, Methods and Memories
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
October 25, 2022
Jerry Chen, PhD | Boston University
Title: Cracking Cortical Circuits Underlying Behavior
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
November 1, 2022
Melanie Samuel, PhD | Baylor
Title: Synapse regulators at the neural-immune interface
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
January 5, 2023
James Fitzgerald, PhD | Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: How tightly integrated theory and experiment reveals general principles in neuroscience
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 4:00 pm
January 10, 2023
En Yang, PhD | HHMI
Title: Brain-wide plasticity: a holistic understanding of learning and memory
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
January 12, 2023
Tatsuya Tsukahara, PhD | Harvard Medical School
Title: Transcriptional Adaptation Couples Past Experience and Future Sensory Responses
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 4:00 pm
January 24, 2023
Anda Chirila, PhD | Harvard Medical School
Title: Subcortical Organization of the Somatosensory System
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
February 7, 2023
Andrew Fink, PhD | Columbia University
Title: Learning and forgetting in the olfactory cortex
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
February 9, 2023
Laura Driscoll, PhD | Stanford University
Title: How are multiple computations organized within a single network
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 4:00 pm
February 21, 2023
Lea Duncker, PhD | Stanford University
Title: Dynamical mechanisms underlying robust and flexible computation in neural populations
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
April 25, 2023
Ariel Levine, PhD | NIH
Title: Spinal Cord Cell Types for Motor Control
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 2, 2023
Kate Wassum, PhD | UCLA
Title: Amygdala circuitry in reward learning and decision making
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 9, 2023
Eiman Azim, PhD | Salk Institute
Title: Sensorimotor circuits for dexterous movement
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 16, 2023
Sung-Yon Kim, PhD | UCSD
Title: Warm and full: neural circuits for behavioral regulation of homeostasis
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 23, 2023
Bence Ölveczky, PhD | Harvard University
Title: Neural circuit underlying the acquisition and control of motor skills
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
June 6, 2023
Nicholas Ryba, PhD | NIH
Title: A cellular basis for touch and temperature detection
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
June 6, 2023
Nicholas Ryba, PhD | NIH
Title: A cellular basis for touch and temperature detection
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
July 6, 2023
Peter Dayan, PhD | Max Planck Institute
Title: Replay and Preplay in Planning in Humans
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 4:00 pm
August 4, 2023
R. Angus Silver, FRS | University College London
Title: Decoding activity patterns across pyramidal cell dendritic trees during spontaneous behaviors
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
September 5, 2023
Jason N.D. Kerr, PhD | Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior
Title: Imaging cortical activity, visual behavior, and skeletal kinematics using head-mounted 3-photon microscopes, cameras, and spots
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
September 12, 2023
James Fitzgerald | Janelia Research Lab Members
Title: 1. Tirthabir Biswas: From the Fly Connectome to an Exact Neural Compass 2. Benjamin James: Parsing Stimulus-Selective Neurons from Whole-Brain Imaging 3. Maanasa Natrajan: Rethinking Plasticity-Stability Dilemma: When Plasticity Enhances Stability
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
October 10, 2023
Marco Gallio, PhD | Northwestern University - Dept of Neurobiology
Title: Temperature sensing in Drosophila flies: from molecular receptors and neural circuits to the evolution of behavior
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
October 17, 2023
Robin Nusslock, PhD | Northwestern University - Dept of Psychology
Title: How Stress Gets Under the Skin: A Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
October 24, 2023
Lindsey Macpherson, PhD | The University of Texas at San Antonio
Title: All in good taste- investigating the function, connectivity, and plasticity of the peripheral gustatory system
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
November 7, 2023
Sachin Patel, MD, PhD | Northwestern University - Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Endocannabinoid Modulation of Central Stress Responses: translational implications for trauma-related disorders
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
November 21, 2023
Máté Lengyel, PhD | University of Cambridge
Title: Simple principles underlying complex neural responses
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
November 28, 2023
Arianna Maffei, PhD | Stony Brook University
Title: Neural Mechanisms for Taste Learning
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
December 12, 2023
Bharath Chandrasekaran, PhD | Northwestern University - Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Dept of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Title: Neural systems underlying auditory and speech categorization
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
January 9, 2024
Wei-Chun Wang | Bucknell University
Title: A sample lecture on the action potential
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
January 11, 2024
Yuqing Zhu | Pomona College
Title: The Action Potential
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 4:00 pm
January 23, 2024
Miranda D. Horn | Tulane University - Brain Institute
Title: The Ins and Outs of the Action Potential
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
February 13, 2024
Cory Root | University of California San Diego
Title: Neural circuits underlying olfactory motivational valence.
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
February 20, 2024
Shai Silberberg | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Title: The p-value pretense and other common statistical pitfalls
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
March 5, 2024
Ali Shilatifard | Northwestern University - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Title: Transcriptional elongation control and chromatin in developmental gene expression, aging, and disease
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
March 18, 2024
NISTP Routtenberg Lecture
Title: TBA
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
March 18, 2024
Routtenberg Lecture | Denise Cai | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Title: Memory stability and flexibility across the lifetime
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
March 19, 2024
Ismail Ahmed | New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Title: Optical Control of Neuropeptides
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
March 26, 2024
Hannah Payne | Columbia University
Title: Coordination of hippocampal codes for physical and visual space in food-caching birds
Location: Tech LR4
Time: 12:45 pm
April 1, 2024
Dmitry Rinberg | New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Title: Olfactory information processing: temporal sequences, geometry and relevance
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 9:30 am
April 2, 2024
Joseph Zak | University of Illinois Chicago
Title: Olfactory landscapes: deciphering scents through neural codes
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
April 9, 2024
Yueqing Peng | Columbia University
Title: Control of NREM sleep by the brainstem-hypothalamic pathway
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
April 10, 2024
Luis Hernandez-Nunez | Harvard University
Title: The brain-body balancing act: The function and development of motor and sensory circuits for internal organ feedback control
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
April 23, 2024
Emily R. Liman | University of Southern California
Title: Channeling Sour Taste: Discovery, Structure and Function of the Proton Channel OTOP1
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
April 30, 2024
Mark Sheffield | The University of Chicago
Title: How Reward Expectation and Neuromodulatory Inputs Shape Hippocampal Encoding and Retrieval
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 7, 2024
Ken Paller | Northwestern University - Department of Psychology
Title: Enhancing Benefits of Sleep via Surreptitious Memory Reactivation
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
May 14, 2024
Jeff W. Lichtman | Harvard University
Title: Connectomics in Muscle and Brain
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
May 28, 2024
Misha Ahrens | Janelia Research Campus
Title: Flexible computation in brain-wide zebrafish circuits
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
June 4, 2024
Ivan E de Araujo | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Title: TBA
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm
July 9, 2024
Stephen A. Baccus | Stanford University
Title: Retinal processing of natural visual scenes
Location: Pancoe Auditorium / Online
Time: 12:45 pm