Frontiers

Date	Speaker
9/4/2026	Jing He, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Emory School of Medicine
9/11/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
9/18/2026	David Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine
9/25/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
10/2/2026	Reece Mazade, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory School of Medicine
10/9/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
10/16/2026	Jennifer Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine
10/23/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
10/30/2026	Melissa Perreault, Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph
11/6/2026	Deborah Luessen, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine
11/13/2026	No Seminar (Society for Neuroscience Conference)
11/20/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
11/27/2026	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break)
12/4/2026	David Gorkin, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
1/16/2026	Hailing Shi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine	Deciphering Gene Expression and Gene Delivery with Spatial Genomics
1/23/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)	N/A
1/30/2026	Michael Treadway, PhD, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University	Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness
2/6/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)	N/A
2/13/2026	CAMBER Seminar Walter Koroshetz, Phd, former Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)	The Golden Age of Neuroscience
2/20/2026	Levi Wood, PhD, Associate Professor, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology	Systems Interrogation of Neural Immune Signaling in Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s disease
2/27/2026	No Seminar	N/A
3/6/2026	Spring Break (No Class)	N/A
3/13/2026	Spring Break (No Class)	N/A
3/20/2026	Angela Mabb, PhD, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University	Protein ubiquitination and deubiquitination in
3/27/2026	ENCORE Lecture Series	TBA
4/3/2026	Film Screening: Theater of Thought Discussion with Stephen Damianos, Executive Director of the Neurorights Foundation and a producer of the film	12:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Film Screening 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM: Discussion & Analysis
4/10/2026	Kun Lin Memorial Lecture Zhigang He, PhD, Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Viral Core; Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School	Regulation of Axon Regeneration
4/17/2026	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)	N/A
4/24/2026	AXON Seminar Series	TBA

Frontiers in Neuroscience Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
9/5/2025	Vinny Costa, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine	Molecular and Functional Fractionation of the Primate Amygdala
9/12/2025	Sayantan Datta, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory School of Medicine	Mitochondrial Quality Control and Oxidative Stress in Retinal Health and Disease
9/19/2025	Nathan McDonald, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology	Assembling synapses through biomolecular condensates
9/26/2025	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
10/3/2025	Melanie Samuels, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine	Life on the edge: Cellular interface regulators in the visual system
10/10/2025	ENCORE
10/17/2025	No Seminar (Enrolled Students' Discussion Section)
10/24/2025	Zachary McEachin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Emory School of Medicine	Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies for C9orf72-linked ALS/FTD
10/31/2025	Deepu Murthy, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Oregon	Understanding, Remembering, and Communicating Threatening Events
11/7/2025	Colin Reiss Grove, PT, DPT, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory School of Medicine	Mitigating Dizziness on Earth and in Space
11/14/2025	No Seminar (Society for Neursoceince Conference)
11/21/2025	Zachary Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine	Dissecting the Social Brain: Integrating Genomics, Cell Types, and Circuits
11/28/2025	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break)
12/5/2025	Ebony Glover, PhD, Associate Professor, Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Kennesaw State University	SPECIAL TOPIC FROM AXON’S PERSPECTIVES & JOURNEY SERIES

Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
1/17/25	Nicholas M Boulis, MD, PhD,Professor, Emory School of Medicine Departments of Neurosurgery/Neuroscience/Bioengineering	Viral Vectors for Glioma Modeling and Neural Control
1/24/25	David Pagliarini, PhD, Hugo F. and Ina C. Urbauer Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Wiring mitochondria: The biochemistry and biosynthesis of coenzyme Q
1/31/25	ENCORE Talks	Janhavi Bhalerao, PhD Candidate “Ventral hippocampal contributions to habitual behavior” Tana Pottorf, PhD Candidate “Death, Destruction, and Destiny: Microglia-Motoneuron Interactions in the Spinal Cord Following Peripheral Nerve Injury”
2/7/25	Kun Lin Memorial Lecture Z. Josh Huang, PhD, Professor, Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience	Genetic dissection of cortical neuron type trajectories: from developmental origin to behavioral function
2/14/25	Melissa Rosenkranz, PhD,Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Tenure Track), Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Neuroscience at the Center for Healthy Minds	Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Mind & Body in Chronic Inflammation
2/21/25	Jill R.Glausier, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry	Imputing synaptic and mitochondrial functional alterations in schizophrenia with transcriptomic and ultrastructural approaches
2/28/25	Katherine Tschida, PhD, Mary Armstrong Meduski Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Cornell University	Brainstem circuits for the production of different mouse call types
3/7/25	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
3/14/25	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
3/21/25	Pablo Castillo, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Presynaptic local protein synthesis and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus
3/28/25	Adriana Galvan, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory National Primate Research Center	Motor Cortex Activity in Normal and Parkinsonian Monkeys: Opportunities and Limitations of Calcium Imaging with Miniature Microscopes
4/4/25	Samaneh Nasiri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine	TBD
4/11/25	Mackenzie A Howard, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin	Is the cerebellum a hub for dysfunction in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
4/18/25	Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine	TBD
4/25/25	Catherine Dulac, PhD, Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University	TBD

Frontiers in Neuroscience Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
9/6/24	Michael J.A. Girard, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology Research Division	Tortuous or Taut Optic Nerve: Could It Influence Visual Function?
9/13/24	ENCORE	Tina Tian “Characterizing the effects of electrical stimulation on the regeneration of sympathetic axons after peripheral nerve injury.” Betty Bekele "Development of a Novel Mouse Model for Investigating CNS Effects in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1"
9/20/24	Eric G. Krause, Professor, GRA Distinguished Investigator, Georgia State University, Center for Neuroinflammation and Cardiometabolic Disease	Oxytocin and interoception: gut feelings are also matters of the heart
9/27/24	Mackenzie A Howard, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology	Is the cerebellum a hub for dysfunction in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
10/4/24	SfN conference (no Frontiers)
10/11/24	Jill R.Glausier, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry	Imputing synaptic and mitochondrial functional alterations in schizophrenia with transcriptomic and ultrastructural approaches
10/18/24	Jason Christie, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Physiology and Biophysics	TBD
10/25/24	Yona Levites, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology	TBD
11/1/24	ENCORE	Saahj Gosrani, PhD Candidate, "Investigating the role of LSD1 in tau-mediated neurodegeneration" Samantha Reed, PhD candidate, "Epilepsy and Extracellular Vesicles"
11/8/24	Steven Sloan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics	TBD
11/15/24	Farzaneh Najafi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Biology	TBD
11/22/24	Alexandra Nelson, MD PhD, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Department of Neurology	TBD
11/29/24	Holiday
12/6/24	Kristen L Eckstrand, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry	TBD

Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker		Title
1/13/23	Dr. Na Ji Department of Physics and Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley		Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
1/20/23	Dr. Alec Davidson Department of Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine		Visualization of cellular and network rhythmicity in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in vivo
1/27/23	Dr. Nancy Bonini Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences		Drosophila as a model for human neurodegeneration: Insight into the stress response
2/3/23	Dr. Alberto Stolfi School of Biological Science, Georgia Institute of Technology		Specification of distinct cell types in the sensory-adhesive organ of a non-vertebrate chordate larva
2/10/23	Dr. Andrew Miri Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University		Motor cortical firing dynamics and influence
2/17/23	Dr. Jesse R Schank Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia		The Role of the Neurokinin-1 Receptor in Escalated Alcohol Intake and Stress-Induced Drug Seeking
2/24/23	Dr. Guohong Cui Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences		New Methods for Investigating and Treating Parkinson’s Disease
3/3/23	Dr. Mukesh Dhamala Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University		Video game playing and decision-making skills
3/10/23	SPRING BREAK
3/17/23	NEUROSCIENCE RECRUITMENT 2023
3/24/23	Dr. Carlos Brody Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University		TBD
4/7/23	Dr. Eartha Mae Guthman Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University		Computational approaches to tracking changes in behavior and multi region activity routing across a hormone state change
3/31/23	TBD
4/14/23	Dr. Tricia King Department of Psychology, Georgia State University		Genetics, Environment, and Cognitive Outcomes in Survivors Pediatric Brain Tumors
4/21/23	Dr. James Shorter Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania		TBD

Frontiers in Neuroscience Fall 2022 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker		Title
8/26/22	Session 1 - Dr. Jimena Andersen Department of Human Genetics, Emory Session 2 - Dr. Fikri Birey Department of Human Genetics, Emory		Session 1 - Human 3D cortico-motor assembloids to study development and disease Session 2 - Illuminating the mechanisms underlying human brain assembly in health and disease using stem cell-based models
9/2/22	Session 1 - Dr. Ming-Fai Fong Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, & Emory Session 2 - Dr. Anqi Wu School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech		Session 1 - Rejuvenating neural circuits by reverse-engineering plasticity Session 2 - Understand The Brain Using Interpretable Machine Learning Models
9/9/22	Dr. Dav Gimbel Department of Neurosurgery, Emory		Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Requires Cellular Prion Protein in an Alzheimer's Like Molecular Pathway
9/16/22	Session 1 - Dr. Shirley Zhang Department of Cell Biology, Emory Session 2 - Dr. Jeffrey Markowitz Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, & Emory		Session 1 - How blood contributes to neurobiology and behavior Session 2 - Machine learning as a lens for the neural control of action selection
9/23/22	Dr. Sarah Hussain Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin		Understanding and enhancing human motor control with brain state-dependent neurostimulation
9/30/22	Dr. Megan Carey Neuroscience program, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Portugal		Understanding the complex behaviors of the 'simple' cerebellar circuit
10/7/22	Dr. Jae-Kyung Lee Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia		Elucidating the role of natural killer (NK) cells in Parkinson's disease
10/14/22	Dr. Heidi Jacobs Department of Radiology - Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School		Evidence from neuroimaging for an early contribution of the locus coeruleus in Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology
10/21/22	Dr. Jesse R Schank Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia		The Role of the Neurokinin-1 Receptor in Escalated Alcohol Intake and Stress-Induced Drug Seeking
10/28/22	Dr. Sanne Van Rooij Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory		Neuroimaging predictors for PTSD development, treatment response and clinical applications
11/4/22	TBD
11/11/22	NO FRONTIERS - SfN Conference
11/18/22	Dr. Eartha Mae Guthman Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University		TBD
11/25/22	THANKSGIVING BREAK
12/2/22	Dr. Larry Abbott Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University		The Circuit Basis of Navigation in the Fly

Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
1/14/22	Jessica Bolton, PhD	Georgia State University
1/21/22	Anita Devineni, PhD Chris Rodgers, PhD	Emory University
1/28/22	Megan Carey, PhD	Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
2/4/22	NO FRONTIERS
2/11/22	Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz, PhD	Georgia State University	Birth mode and microbiota effects on brain development
2/18/22	Stephanie Prince Alejandro Lopez	RECRUITMENT Emory University	Neural correlates of retrospective and prospective memory in health and Alzheimer's disease Effects of aging on descending cortical modulation of spinal sensorimotor circuits and its relation to dynamic balance ability
2/25/22	Liang Han, PhD	Georgia Institute of Technology	Sensory neurons mediating itch sensation
3/4/22	Nathaniel Harnett, PhD	Harvard University	Multimodal MRI signatures of PTSD in the early aftermath of trauma
3/11/22	SPRING BREAK
3/18/22	KUN LIN MEMORIAL LECTURE: Eric T. Wang, PhD	University of Florida, Gainesville	Repetitive sequences instigate cellular supply chain issues in neurological disease
3/25/22	Alexandre Carter, MD, PhD	Washington University in St. Louis	Systems-level mechanisms of Motor Recovery after Stroke
3/31/22	John Christianson, PhD	Boston College	Social affect and the insular cortex
4/1/22	Piali Sengupta, PhD	Brandeis University	Should I stay or should I go: Mechanisms of context-dependent olfactory behavioral plasticity
4/8/22	NO FRONTIERS
4/13/22	NS DEI Workshop Series: Creating an Inclusive Research Environment	Emory University	Microinterventions & Navigating Difficult Conversations
4/22/22	Damaris Lorenzo, PhD	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Genetics and Functional Mechanisms of the SPTBN1 Syndrome

Frontiers in Neuroscience Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule
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 Jill: Cellular players in nerve repair and axon regeneration
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

Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule
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	Ellen Woon, Gourley Lab Michelle Johnson, Kukar Lab	Recruitment/Emory Neuro	The medial orbitofrontal cortex controls value- based action through neurotrophin systems and interactions with the ventral hippocampus Using a proximity labeling approach to disentangle the fused in sarcoma (FUS) proteome
2/12/21	Srikant Rangaraju, MD, MS	Emory	Microglia and neurological diseases: Emerging therapeutic targets and proteomic advances
2/19/21	Michelle Sequiera, Gourley Lab Neeti Mehta, Felger Lab	Recruitment Emory Neuro	Cocaine disrupts learning about consequences and dendritic spine turnover Inflammation, amygdala-prefrontal circuit dysfunction and symptoms of anxiety in depression
2/26/21	Lisa A. Gunaydin, PhD	University of California – San Francisco	Fronto-striatal control of avoidance and compulsive behaviors
3/5/21	Hari Shroff, PhD	NIH (NBIB)	Biological Imaging at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
3/12/21	SPRING BREAK
3/19/21	Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD	Harvard University	Revealing roles for dopamine in naturalistic action through Motion Sequencing
3/26/21	John Fryer, PhD	Mayo Clinic	Impact of lipoproteins on Alzheimer’s disease-related inflammation
4/2/21	Dan Feldman, PhD	University of California - 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 Joseph Raimondo	University of Pittsburgh University of Cape Town	Multiple roles of synaptic “inhibition” & how they arise in decision-making pathways in the basal ganglia Chloride ions and the excitability of neural circuits
4/23/21	John Cryan, PhD	University College Cork	Friends with (Brain) Benefits: The Microbiome & Behaviour Across the Lifespan
4/30/21	Telsie Davis, PhD	Emory University School of Medicine	Science is not neutral, but it can be less biased

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