Neurobiology Seminar Series 2025-2026
September 23, 2025
Andrew Miri, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: Five Ideas about Motor System Firing Dynamics
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
September 24, 2025
Adrien Peyrache, Ph.D. | McGill University
Title: Orienting Memories During Sleep
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
September 30, 2025
Yue Yang, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: 3D Organization of Neurons and Genes
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:45 pm
October 14, 2025
Lisa Beutler, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: Dissecting the Gut-Brain Dynamics of Anorexia and Aversion
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
October 21, 2025
E. Josie Clowney, Ph.D. | University of Michigan
Title: Hierarchical Diversification of Neurons Regulating Motivated Behaviors
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
October 28, 2025
Ruben Portugues, Ph.D. | Cornell University
Title: The Heading Direction System in the Larval Zebrafish
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
November 11, 2025
Jeffrey Savas, Ph.D. | Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Title: Levetiracetam Prevents Aβ42 Production through SV2a-Dependent Modulation of App Processing in Alzheimer's Disease Models
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
November 13, 2025
Xinyo Zhao, Ph.D. | Tsinghua University
Title: Learning a Structural Map in the Hippocampus
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
November 24, 2025
Rainer Friedrich, Ph.D. | University of Basel, Switzerland
Title: Experience-Dependent Semantic Maps of Odor Space in the Zebrafish Telencephalon
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
December 2, 2025
Francisco (Pancho) Bezanilla, Ph.D. | University of Chicago
Title: Action Potential: from Voltage-Dependent Conductances to their Molecular Bases
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
January 20, 2026
Matt Kaufman, Ph.D. | University of Chicago
Title: Sensorimotor Cortex and Complex Forelimb Control
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
February 3, 2026
James Fitzgerald, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: Theory-Driven Models for Interpreting Large-Scale Neural Data
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
February 10, 2026
Katherine Amato, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Gut-Brain Axis
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
February 24, 2026
Andrew Fink, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: A Network Mechanism for Perceptual Learning
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
March 10, 2026
Mitch Roitman, Ph.D. | University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: The Mesolimbic Dopamine System in the Affect-to-Action Arc
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
April 7, 2026
Ellie Heckscher, Ph.D. | University of Chicago
Title: Maggots on the Move: Insights into Motor Control from Larval Insects
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
April 21, 2026
Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Title: Hippocampal Spatial Representations in Complex Environments
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
April 28, 2026
Hao Li, Ph.D. | Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Title: Neuropeptide Control of Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
May 5, 2026
Kristen Smith-Edwards, Ph.D. | The Mayo Clinic
Title: Lighting Up The Gut-Brain Connection
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 4:00 pm
May 12, 2026
Marcella Noorman, Ph.D. | University of Chicago
Title: Continuous Representations in Small, Discrete Circuits
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm
May 26, 2026
Annegret Falkner, Ph.D. | Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Title: TBA
Location: Pancoe Auditorium
Time: 12:30 pm