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May 7th, 2024 | 11:00 a.m.
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103

900 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
United States

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Guillery
Tuesday, May 7th, 11:00 am
Jianhua “JC” Cang, PhD
University of Virginia
KCBD 1103

“Mapping Visual Functions onto Molecular Cell Types in the Superior Colliculus"

Host: Wei Wei, PhD


Neuroscience Seminar Series Schedule

Autumn Quarter 2023

Date
Series
Speaker
Seminar Title
Institution
Time
Location
 10/10/2023
CNS/The Grossman Center
Jaime de la Rocha, PhD
Neural mechanisms underlying working memory errors
Institute for Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 10/17/2023
CNS
Sabine Kastner, PhD
Neural dynamics of the primate attention network
Princeton University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 10/24/2023
CON/CNS
Zhuzhu Zhang, PhD
Decoding the epigenome in brain circuitry: a single-cell multi-omics investigation
University of Chicago
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 10/31/2023
CNS/CMND
Shuying Sun, PhD
RNA metabolism in C9ORF72-linked neurodegenerative diseases ALS and FTD
Johns Hopkins University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 11/07/2023
CNS
Caroline Runyon, PhD
Population codes across cortex: Context, inhibition, and signal transmission between areas
University of Pittsburgh
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 11/28/2023
CNS
Tony Movshon, PhD
From stuff to things in the primate visual cortex
New York University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
 12/05/2023
CON
Cassandra Hayne, PhD
Characterization of RNA processing defects linked to neurodegenerative diseases
University of Chicago
11:00 am
KCBD 1103

Winter Quarter 2024

Date
Series
Speaker
Seminar Title
Institution
Time
Location
01/09/2024
CON
Linnaea Ostroff, PhD
Structural substrates of excitatory and inhibitory learning
University of Connecticut
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
01/16/2024 CNS Kathleen Cullen, PhD Predictive coding of Natural Self-Motion: Implications for Perception & Action Johns Hopkins University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
01/23/2024 CNS Mehrdad Jazayeri Vector production via mental navigation in the entorhinal cortex MIT 11:00 am KCBD 1103
01/30/2024
CNS/The Grossman Center
Larry Abbott, PhD
Modeling the Navigational Circuits of the Fly Brain
Columbia University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
02/13/2024
CON
Jan-Marino Ramirez, PhD
Neuronal networks without borders: the dynamic interplay between rhythms and functions
University of Washington 
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
02/20/2024
CON
Kari Hoffman, PhD
Ensemble organization during memory formation in freely-moving macaques
Vanderbilt University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
02/27/2024
CON
Eve Marder, PhD
Cryptic (hidden) changes that result from perturbations and climate change shape future dynamics of degenerate neurons and circuits
Brandeis University
11:00 am
KCBD 1103
03/05/2024 CON Karyn Frick, PhD Estrogens and memory: Translating basic research into therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and menopause University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 11:00 am KCBD 1103

Spring Quarter 2024

Date Series Speaker Seminar Title Institution Time Location
03/19/2024 CNS Denise Cai, PhD Memory stability and flexibility across a lifetime Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 11:00 am KCBD 1103
03/26/2024 CON Laura Duvall, PhD Neuropeptide regulation of mosquito attraction to humans Columbia University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
04/02/2024 CON Dmitry Rinberg, PhD Olfactory information processing: temporal sequences, geometry and relevance New York University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
04/09/2024 CNS Lucas Pinto, MD, PhD Computational logic and circuit mechanisms of large-scale cortical dynamics during perceptual decisions Northwestern University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
04/16/2024 CNS Anna Schapiro, PhD Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time University of Pennsylvania 11:00 am KCBD 1103
04/23/2024 POSTDOC CON Sergiu P. Pasca, MD Constructing and deconstructing the human nervous system to study development and disease Stanford University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
05/07/2024 Guillery Jianhua “JC” Cang, PhD Mapping Visual Functions onto Molecular Cell Types in the Superior Colliculus University of Virginia 11:00 am KCBD 1103
05/14/2024 CNS Hillel Adesnik, PhD TBA University of California, Berkeley 11:00 am KCBD 1103
05/21/2024 CNS Bence P. Olveczky, PhD Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution Harvard University 11:00 am KCBD 1103
05/28/2024 CON Sho Yano, MD TBA University of Chicago 10:30 am KCBD 1103