Neurobiology Seminar Series 2023-2024
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