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Debra Bangasser, PhD (NEW)
Temple University
Department of Psychology
Early resource scarcity causes lasting changes in motivated behavior
Monday, August 22, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Jamie Palmer, INS

Avishek Adhikari, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Psychology
Control of feeding by a bottom-up brainstem-subthalamic pathway
Monday, August 29, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Lief Fenno

Omar Ahmed, PhD
University of Michigan
Department of Psychology
Spatial Orientation & Head Velocity Circuits in the Retrosplenial Cortex
Monday, September 19, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. MacKenzie Howard

Denise Cai, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Department of Neuroscience
The brain in motion - How ensemble fluidity supports memory updating.
Monday, October 3, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Ayesha Nadiadwala, INS

Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD
Columbia University
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Assembly and functional organization of neural circuits for episodic memory
Monday, October 10, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Laura Colgin

Mrinalini Hoon, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Molecules and mechanisms driving assembly of retinal circuits
Monday, October 17, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Amy Lee

Shai Silberberg, PhD
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Director of Research Quality
Assuring a bright future for biomedical research
Monday, October 31, 2022 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Amy Lee

Mark Harnett, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Biophysics for Cortical Computation
Monday, January 9, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Nace Golding

Saskia Haegens, PhD
Columbia University - Department of Psychiatry
Radboud University Nijmegen - Centre for Cognitive Neuroimagine
Oscillatory building blocks underlying perception & cognition
Monday, January 30, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Laura Colgin

Michael Bruchas, PhD
University of Washington
Center in Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain and Emotion
Decoding Heterogeneity of the Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic System in Arousal and Stress
Monday, February 6, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Lauren Dobbs

John Reynolds, PhD
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory
Intrinsic traveling waves of neural activity in Area MT of the awake, behaving monkey regulate the gain of stimulus-evoked responses and perceptual sensitivity.
Monday, February 13, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Kristen Harris

Ofer Yizhar, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Department of Brain Sciences
Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:00 AM Central Hosted by Dr. Lief Fenno

Brian Kraemer, PhD
University of Washington
Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
Leveraging Model Organism Genetics to Inform Neurotherapeutic Approaches in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
Monday, March 6, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Jon Pierce

Andre Berndt, PhD
University of Washington
Department of Bioengineering
Enlighten neurophysiology with genetically encoded sensors
Monday, March 20, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Lief Fenno

Sung-Yon Kim, PhD
Seoul National University
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Warm and full: neural circuits for behavioral regulation of homeostasis
Monday, March 27, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Drs. Lief Fenno and Bob Messing

Edwin Chapman, PhD
University of Wisconsin and HHMI
Special Joint Seminar with the College of Pharmacy
New insights into synaptic vesicle biogenesis, dynamics, and modes of release
Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:00 AM Central Hosted by Dr. Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay

Elizabeth Heller, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Pharmacology
Chromatin-mediated alternative splicing in addiction.
Monday, April 3, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Nigel Atkinson

David Linden, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Axon regeneration in the adult mammalian brain
Monday, April 10, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Drs. Hiroshi Nishiyama and Mike Mauk

Anastasia Kiyonaga, PhD
University of Caifornia, San Diego
Department of Cognitive Science
Flexible working memory for adaptive perception and action
Monday, April 17, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Joseph Dunsmoor

Corey Ziemba, PhD
The University of Texas at Austin
Center for Perceptual Systems - Robbe Goris Lab
Confidence, uncertainty, and meta-uncertainty in perception
Monday, April 24, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Drs. Hiroshi Nishiyama and Robbe Goris

Neal Amin, MD, PhD
Stanford University Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Special Joint Seminar with Dell Med Psychiatry
At the intersection of human neuro-cellular diversity and disease
Monday, May 1, 2023 3:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Robert Messing