Seminars

Neurobiology Seminar Series

The Neurobiology Seminar Series is on summer hiatus and will resume in September.
Seminars will be virtual for Fall 2020 due to COVID-19. Email for more information >

Past Neurobiology Seminars

February 14, 2022

TBA (Basu)

Jayeeta Basu

New York University

12:15 pm
Zoom

February 7, 2022

TBA (Rogulja)

Dragana Rogulja

Harvard Medical School

12:15 pm
Zoom

January 31, 2022

TBA (Brody)

Carlos Brody

Princeton University

12:15 pm
Zoom

January 24, 2022

A network perspective on cognitive effort

Danielle Bassett, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

12:15 pm
Zoom

December 13, 2021

Title-(Ashrafi)

Ghazal Ashrafi

Washington University

12:15 pm
Zoom

December 6, 2021

Circuit mechanisms for constructing visual cortical receptive fields

Lindsey Glickfield

Duke University Medical Center

12:15 pm
Via zoom

November 8, 2021

Synthetic by design: Exploiting tissue self-organization to explore early human embryology

Ali Brivanlou

Rockefeller University

12:15 pm
Via zoom

October 25, 2021

Taste by touch in octopus

Nicholas Bellono

Harvard University

12:15 pm
Via zoom

October 18, 2021

Title – TBA

Hopi Hoekstra

Harvard University

12:15 pm
Via zoom

October 4, 2021

Title-TBA

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

Columbia University

12:15 pm
Via zoom

September 27, 2021

Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Mechanical Allodynia

Reza Sharif

McGill University

12:15 pm
Via zoom

September 20, 2021

Title – TBA

Ann Hermundstad, PhD

HHMI Janelia Campus

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Zoom

September 13, 2021

The Shocking Abilities of Electric Eels

Ken Cantania, PhD

Vanderbilt University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Zoom

June 7, 2021

Multiple Maps for Navigation

Lisa Giocomo

Stanford University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

May 17, 2021

Dissecting Neuromodulatory Circuits and Signaling in Affective Behavior

Michael Bruchas

University of Washington

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

May 10, 2021

Basal ganglia control of action selection and reinforcement

Bernardo Sabatini

Harvard Medical School

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

May 3, 2021

Context-dependent motion processing in the mammalian retina

Wei Wei

University of Chicago

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

April 26, 2021

Molecular Control of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion

Jeremy Dittman

Weill Cornell Medical College

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

April 12, 2021

Linking time scales of biochemical signaling and synaptic, circuit and behavioral plasticity.

Ryohei Yasuda

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

April 5, 2021

Mechanisms of Variation in Brain and Behavior

Bassem Hassan

ICM Brain and Spine Institute

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

March 29, 2021

Development and diversity of neural cell types in the spetum

Corey Harwell

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

March 22, 2021

Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution

Na Ji

University of California, Berkeley

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

March 15, 2021

Fish Feelings: Emotional States in Larval Zebra Fish

Florian Engert

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

March 8, 2021

Properties of release at the hair cell ribbon synapse, at rest and during stimulation

Elisabeth Glowatzki

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

March 1, 2021

Seminar Cancelled

Sergiu Pasca

Stanford

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Cancelled

February 22, 2021

Neural pathways and mechanisms of auditory cognition

Santiago Jaramillo

University of Oregon

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

February 8, 2021

Molecular Genetics Core Facility Webinar

Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Via Zoom

February 8, 2021

Biophysics for Cortical Computation

Mark Harnett

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

February 1, 2021

Neural coding of timing precision in a biological “gyroscope”

Brad Dickerson

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

January 25, 2021

Title -TBD (Murthy)

Venkatesh Murthy

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

January 11, 2021

Title -TBD (Julius)

David Julius

University of California, San Francisco

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

December 16, 2020

Neuromuscular

Robert Brown

Boston Children's Hospital

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Via Zoom

December 14, 2020

Searching for connectivity principles in connectomic data

Jeff W. Lichtman, MD, PhD

Harvard University

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Via Zoom

December 7, 2020

Retinal mechanisms controlling the encoding of natural images

Fred Rieke

University of Washington

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

November 30, 2020

Functional organization of marmoset visual cortex

Kenichi Ohki

University of Tokyo

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

November 23, 2020

Neuronal diversity within the ventral tegmental area and co-release of neurotransmitters

Marisela Morales

Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch at the NIDA Intramural Program

12:15 am to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

November 16, 2020

Diversity Matters: the origins and impact of neuronal diversity for the sense of hearing

Lisa Goodrich

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

November 9, 2020

The human retina at single cell resolution

Botond Roska, MD, PhD

University of Basel, Switzerland

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

November 2, 2020

Re-examining Sensory Integration in the Mouse Visual Thalamus

Chinfei Chen

Boston Children's Hospital

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

October 26, 2020

Epithelial cell, neuron and immune cell crosstalk in chronic itch and inflammation

Diana Bautista

UC Berkeley

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

October 19, 2020

Dynamic changes in the connectivity of cortical neurons during early postnatal development

Gordon Fishell

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom

October 5, 2020

Orchestrating Axonal Transport, Translation and Survival

Rosalind Segal

Harvard University

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Via Zoom