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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

Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
8/21/20	Malu Murugan, PhD & Aubrey Kelly, 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 Mouse Models to Investigate Genetic Epilepsies
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: GABA_A 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"