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Diane Lipscombe, PhD
Brown University
Brown Institute for Brain Science
Voltage-gated calcium ion channels cell-specific forms and functions
Tuesday, Sept 29, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Marcel Goldschen-Ohm

Rainbo Hultman, PhD
University of Iowa Health Care
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Electrical connectomics: use of brain-wide electrical networks to understand complex behavioral states in stress and disease
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Amy Lee

Laurence Trussell, PhD
Oregon Health Sciences University
Oregon Hearing Research Center
Glutamate transporters control synaptic integration at a cerebellar synapse
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Nace Golding

Shana Augustin, PhD
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
Striatal GPCR-based neuromodulation and its behavioral implications
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Amy Lee

Steve Ramirez, PhD
Boston University
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Artificially manipulating positive and negative memories in healthy and maladaptive states
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Michael Drew

Bess Frost, PhD
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy
Jump Around, Jump Around: Transposable element activation in neurodegenerative tauopathy
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Jon Pierce

Fabricio Do Monte, DVM, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Neural circuits regulating approach-avoidance conflict
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Michael Drew
Urbain Weyemi, PhD
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Elucidating the interplay between genomic instability and mitochondrial homeostasis in human diseases
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Adron Harris

Theanne Griffith, PhD
University of California, Davis
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Cool Sensations: A role for NaV1.1 in cold-sensing peripheral neuron excitability
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Rick Aldrich

Christina Gross, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Division of Neurology
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of brain excitability
Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Darrin Brager

Dwight Kravitz, PhD
The George Washington University
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Predicting functional organization and its impact on behavior.
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock

Hysell Oviedo, PhD
City College of New York
Department of Biology
Interrogating circuits to decode speech
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Nace Golding

Young Scientists Seminar Series
Giacomo Benvenuti, Eyal Seidemann Lab
What is the role of cortical maps in encoding visual information?
Lyndsey Kirk, Kristen Harris Lab
Are synapses in the aging brain too large to learn? Linking changes in synapse ultrastructure to a model of age-related cognitive decline
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Hiroshi Nishiyama

Emery Brown, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00 PM Central Cohosted by the Center for Perceptual Systems

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD
Northwestern University
Department of Neurobiology
Dopamine signaling and plasticity in aversive learning
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. MacKenzie Howard

Abigail Person, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Neural mechanisms of motor precision
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. Mike Mauk

Farah Lubin, PhD
University of Alabma at Birmingham
Department of Neurobiology
Epigenetic-level approaches to studying memory and age-related memory deficits
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:00 PM Central Hosted by Dr. MacKenzie Howard