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