Frontiers
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
8/27/21 | Kay Tye, PhD | Salk Institute | Neural Representations of Social Homeostasis |
9/3/21 | Buz Jinnah, MD, PhD | Emory | Lesch-Nyhan Disease: From Genotype to Phenotype |
9/10/21 | Levi Wood | Georgia Tech | Systems Analysis of Neural Immune Signaling in Neurodegenerative Diseases |
9/17/21 | Renee Read & Jill Ward | Emory | Renee: Therapeutic challenges and opportunities in high-grade gliomas |
9/24/21 | Anna Abraham | UGA | The Neuroscience of Creativity in a Nutshell |
10/1/21 | Daniel Harper | Emory | Nociplastic pain in temporomandibular disorders |
10/8/21 | Phil Holmes | UGA | Trophic mechanisms for the antidepressant effects of exercise: The zombie monoamine theory gets slayed once again. |
10/15/21 | Jordan Hamm | GSU | Cortical circuits for predictive processing and novelty detection in the visual system |
10/22/21 | Alec Davidson | Morehouse | Defining the role of arginine-vasopressin expressing neurons on the mouse circadian neural network in vivo |
10/29/21 | Matt Rowan | Emory | Biophysics goeth before gene expression: Cell-type-specific mechanisms of cortical circuit dysfunction in early Alzheimer’s |
11/5/21 | Deborah Barany | UGA | Hand and eye movements during perceptual decision-making |
11/12/21 (BREAK - SFN) | |||
11/19/21 | Adrienne Fairhall | University of Washington | Learning, variability and robustness in birdsong |
12/3/21 | Marguerite Matthews | NIH/NINDS | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
1/22/21 | Maureen Barr, PhD | Rutgers | The Fundamental Biology of Neuronal Extracellular Vesicles |
1/29/21 | Rob Turner, PhD | University of Pittsburgh | Basal ganglia-thalamic dysfunction in parkinsonism. |
2/5/21 | Recruitment TBD | Emory Neuro | |
2/12/21 | Srikant Rangaraju, MD, MS | Emory | Microglia and neurological diseases: Emerging therapeutic targets and proteomic advances |
2/19/21 | Recruitment TBD | Emory Neuro | |
2/26/21 | Lisa A. Gunaydin, PhD | UCSF | TBD |
3/5/21 | Hari Shroff, PhD | NIH (NBIB) | TBD |
3/12/21 | SPRING BREAK | ||
3/19/21 | Bob Datta, MD, PhD | Harvard | Revealing roles for dopamine in naturalistic action through Motion Sequencing |
3/26/21 | John Freyer, PhD | Mayo Clinic | Impact of lipoproteins on Alzheimer’s disease-related inflammation |
4/2/21 | Dan Feldman, PhD | UCal Berkeley | Revisiting the E-I ratio hypothesis for autism in cerebral cortex |
4/9/21 | John Christianson, PhD | Boston College | Social affect and the insular cortex |
4/16/21 | Jonathan Rubin, PhD (U of Pittsburgh) confirmed | TBD | |
4/23/21 | John Cryan, PhD | University College Cork | Friends with (Brain) Benefits: The Microbiome & Behaviour Across the Lifespan |
4/30/21 | Duane Watson, PhD (DEI Speaker) unconfirmed | Vanderbilt University | Unconfirmed Speaker |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
8/21/20 | Malu Murugan, PhD & | Emory | What makes an animal social? Understanding behavior through an evolutionary and neural circuit perspective. |
8/28/20 | Joe Nocera, PhD | Emory | Exercise for Improved Cognitive and Physical Functioning in Aging and Age-Related Disease: Mechanism and Implementation |
9/4/20 | Eva Dyer, PhD | GA Tech | Comparing neural recordings across time, space, and behavior |
9/11/20 | Aryn Gittis, PhD | Carnegie Mellon | Opto-inspired DBS for cell-specific stimulation in Parkinson's Disease |
9/18/20 | David Sulzer, MD | Columbia | The Dopamine Synapse and Learning |
9/25/20 | Jason Shepherd, PhD | University of Utah | Virus-like Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System |
10/2/20 | BREAK | ||
10/9/20 | Conor Liston, MD, PhD | Cornell | Rescuing prefrontal cortical circuit dysfunction in depression-related brain states |
10/16/20 | Tina Gremel, PhD | UCSD | Endocannabinoid regulation of OFC transmission in the transition to ethanol-induced habitual control. |
10/23/20 | Anna Taylor, PhD | University of Alberta | Targeting the gastrointestinal environment as a novel treatment for opioid addiction |
10/30/20 | Jack Parent, MD | U Michigan, Ann Arbor | Combining Human Stem Cell and |
11/6/20 | Nick Varvel, PhD | Emory | Peripheral immune cells as a target in brain disease |
11/13/20 | Keith Hengen, PhD | Washington University in St. Louis | Is sleep a high dimensional solution to a systems-level problem? Robust brain function doesn't come from nothing! |
11/20/20 | Jennifer Kubota, PhD | University of Delaware | The Neuroscience of Racial Bias |
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 12:00 pm in the Whitehead Auditorium
January 18, 2019
Nigel Pedersen, MD, Emory University
"The Systems Neuroscience of States of Awareness"
January 25, 2019
Angela Mabb, PhD, Georgia State University
"Role of Protein Ubiquitination in Neurological Disease and Cognition"
February 1, 2019
Svjetlana Miocinovic, PhD, Emory University
"Electrophysiology of movement disorders"
February 8, 2019
Recruitment Weekend
February 15, 2019
Michael Long, PhD, New York University
"Turn-taking in social communication: a comparative approach"
(Sponsored by the Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition)
February 22, 2019
Recruitment Weekend
March 1, 2019
Whitney Wharton, PhD, Emory University
"Individualized Approaches to Alzheimer's Prevention: The Impact of Sex, Caregiving and Race"
March 8, 2019
Hyacinth Hyacinth, MD, PhD, Emory University
"Modeling Cerebrovascular and Other Neurological Complications of Sickle Cell Disease"
March 15, 2019
NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
March 22, 2019
Elly Nedivi, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Visualizing Molecular Events in Synapse Formation In Vivo"
(Sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology)
March 29, 2019
A. Leslie Morrow, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Neurosteroid inhibition of pro inflammatory signaling in macrophages cells and brain"
(Sponsored by Kamyra Edokpolor, Bassell Lab, NS Training Grant)
April 5, 2019
Douglas Wallace, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
"TBD"
(Sponsored by Meghan Wynne, Faundez Lab, NS Training Grant)
April 12, 2019
Eric Morrow, MD, PhD, Brown University
"Genetic and Cellular Mechanisms in Human Early Postnatal Brain Development"
(Sponsored by the Marcus Autism Center, Grand Rounds)
April 19, 2019
Mark A. Lyle, PhD, PT, Emory University
"TBD"
April 26, 2019
Kate Wassum, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
"Cortical-amygdala circuitry in reward learning and pursuit"
(Sponsored by Michelle Sequeira and Ellen Woon, Gourley Lab, NS Training Grant)
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 12:00 pm in the Whitehead Auditorium
September 7, 2018
"Why Partnered Dance Could Help Optimize Motor Rehabilitation for People with Parkinson's Disease"
Madeleine Hackney, PhD, Emory & Atlanta VA
September 14, 2018
"Thinking Outside the Cleft: Unconventional Communication Modalities in the Hypothalamus"
Javier Stern, MD, PhD, Georgia State
September 21, 2018
"Using Optogenetics and Chemogenetics to Study the Basal Ganglia Circuits in Monkeys"
Adriana Galvan, PhD, Emory & Yerkes
September 28, 2018
"The Neurobiology of Women's Risk for Stress-Related Disorders"
Jennifer Stevens, PhD, Emory
October 5, 2018
"Minibrains and Macroglia: How Human Brain Organoids Can Unveil the Glial Contribution to Neuropsychiatric Disorders"
Steven Sloan, MD, PhD, Emory
October 12, 2018
"Using Deep Learning to Characterize Neural Population Activity"
Chethan Pandarinath, PhD, Emory & Georgia Tech
October 19, 2018
"The Dynamic Epileptic Brain"
Christophe Bernard, PhD, INSERM
Editor-in-Chief, eNeuro
(Sponsored by Department of Neurology)
October 26, 2018
"Neuromodulation of Spinal Neuronal Networks: Challenges and Opportunities"
Nicholas Au Yong, MD, Emory
November 9, 2018
"An Agenda for 21st Century Neurodevelopmental Medicine: 'Taming' the Genetic Liability in Autism"
Ami Klin, PhD, Brown
(Sponsored by the Marcus Autism Center, Grand Rounds)
November 16, 2018
Hyacinth Hyacinth, MD, PhD, Emory
**SEMINAR CANCELLED**
November 30, 2018
"What Does Dopamine Mean?"
Joshua Berke, PhD, UCSF
(Sponsored by the Department of Biology)
December 7, 2018
"Neuromodulation Approaches for the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression"
Rene Hurlemann, MSc, MD, PhD, University of Bonn Medical Center
(Sponsored by Dr. Larry Young, Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition)
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 12:00 pm in the Whitehead Auditorium
January 19, 2018
Eva Dyer, PhD, Georgia Tech College of Engineering and Emory University School of Medicine
"Finding low-dimensional structure in the activity of populations of neurons"
January 26, 2018
Nicholas Seyfried, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
"Quantitative proteomic technologies and systems-driven approaches in Alzheimer's disease"
February 2, 2018
Avani Wildani, PhD, Emory University
(Canceled)
February 9, 2018
Recruitment Weekend Senior Student Presentations
Anzar Abbas: "Spatiotemporal patterns contribute to functional connectivity in the brain"
Elizabeth Barfield: "Stress hormone exposure in adolescence disrupts decision-making, trkB and corticolimbic anatomy in adulthood"
February 16, 2018
Brad Pearce, PhD, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
"Genes and germs in schizophrenia pathogenesis"
February 23, 2018
Recruitment Weekend Senior Student Presentations
Mandakh (Mandy) Bekhbat: "Chronic adolescent stress causes enduring changes in neuroimmune reactivity"
Erica Landis: "Potential myopia prevention with environmental light"
March 2, 2018
Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
"Agonizing channels: GABAA receptors in cancer and a therapeutic target"
March 9, 2018
Joyce Gomes-Osman, P.T., PhD, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
"Exercise for brain health: Neuroplasticity and the pursuit of data-driven, dose-specific recommendations"
March 23, 2018
Candace Fleischer, PhD, Georgia Tech & Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Imaging chemical and physical properties of the brain with MR spectroscopy"
March 30, 2018
Scott Russo, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"Immune mechanisms of depression"
April 6, 2018
Newton Canteras, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paulo
"Dynamics of neural circuits processing predator threats and the role of periaqueductal gray matter in providing primal emotional tone"
April 13, 2018
Mayank Mehta, PhD, W.M. Keck Center for Neurophysics at University of California, Los Angeles
"How neurons compute 'reality': Lessons from virtual reality"
