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Neurobiology Seminar Series 2021-2022

Thomas Bozza, PhD | Department of Neurobiology - Northwestern University

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


Andrew Hires, PhD | Department of Biological Sciences - University of Southern California

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


Robert Johnston, PhD | Program in Neuroscience - Johns Hopkins University

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


Ilana Witten, PhD | Department of Neuroscience - Princeton University

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


Sandro Romani, PhD | HHMI Janelia Research Campus

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


Dieter Jaeger, PhD | Department of Biology - Emory University

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