2023 Recorded Seminars
Zhuzhu Zhang - University of Chicago
"Decoding the epigenome in brain circuitry: a single-cell multi-omics investigation"
March 2022 Recorded Seminars
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yuqing Zhu - MacLean Laboratory
"In search of computation in spiking network models"
Yinan Li - Kratsios Laboratory
"Spatiotemporal regulation of a glutamate receptor subunit in C. elegans motor neurons"
March 21st, 2022
Neuroscience Seminar Series - CNS
Cristina Savin, PhD - New York University
Task-Specific Routing of Information in Neural Circuits via Structured Noise
March 8th, 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Wei Liang - Hatsopolos Laboratory
"Spatio-temporal patterns in the primary motor cortex encode kinematics"
March 7th, 2022
Neuroscience Seminar Series - CON
Matthijs van de Meer, PhD - Dartmouth University
"Neural Signatures of Prediction and Evaluation in the Rodent Hippocampus and Nucleus Accumbens"
March 1st, 2022
February 2022 Recorded Seminars
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Sarita Deshpande - Van Drongelen Laboratory
"Modeling Excitatory-Inhibitory Activity during Human Focal Seizures"
Chad Heer - Sheffield Laboratory
"Reward expectation stabilizes hippocampal spatial maps through a dopaminergic circuit that signals proximity of reward"
February 28th, 2022
Neuroscience Seminar Series - CNS
Shaul Druckman, PhD - Stanford University
"Robust Dimension Specific Computation in Multi-Regional Frontal Circuits"
February 22nd, 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Hayoung Song - Rosenberg Laboratory
"Large-scale neural dynamics in a low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics"
Oliver Zhu - Freedman Laboratory
"Distinct causal contributions of FEF and LIP to rapid categorical decisions in primates"
February 21st, 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yichen Liu- Bezanilla and Rosenthal Laboratory
"Gating Charge Movement in Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel: Influence of Fast Inactivation"
Shivang Sullere - McGehee Laboratory
"Cholinergic modulation of the descending pain circuitry"
February 14th, 2022
Neuroscience Seminar Series - Grossman Center
Nicolas, Brunel, PhD - Duke University
"Response of cortical networks to optogenetic stimulation: Experiment vs theory"
February 1st, 2022
January 2022 Recorded Seminars
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Sylvia Edoigiawerie - CON
"Optimizing and Evaluating the Efficacy of Current EEG Monitoring Tools for Neonatal Seizure Detection"
January 31st, 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Hannah Martin, CON - Eatock Laboratory
"The Potassium Channel Subunit Kv1.8 (Kcna10) Differentially Shapes Tuning, Timing, and Gain of Type I and II Vestibular Hair Cells"
January 24th, 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Graham Smith, CON - van Drongelen
"Unique Characterization of Spatiotemporal Neural Activity"
January 10th, 2022
2021 Recorded seminars
November - 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Lisa Giocomo, PhD - Stanford University
"Multiple Maps for Navigation"
November 2nd, 2021
October - 2021
PhD Thesis Defense - CNS
Thierri Callier - Bensmaia Lab
"Temporal codes in somatosensory cortex"
October 29th, 2021
PhD Thesis Defense - CON
Elisa Pabon - de Wit Lab
"Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phase and Circulating Ovarian Hormone Levels on Acute Responses to Oral Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)"
October 27th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Carsen Stringer, PhD - Janelia Research Campus
"Extracting highly precise cortical signals using non-linear dimensionality reduction"
October 26th, 2021
September - 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Surya Ganguli, PhD - Stanford University
"Understanding neural dynamics in high dimensions across multiple timescales: from perception to motor control and learning"
September 28th, 2021
June - 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yinan Li - Kratsios Laboratory
Graham Smith - Cowan Laboratory
"Maintenance of Motor Neuron Identity in C. elegans"| "Seizures from Failure of Inhibition in Functional Cortex"
July 19th, 2021
PhD Thesis Defense - CNS
Maayan Levy - MacLean Laboratory
"Network Representation of Stimuli in Murine Visual Cortex"
July 15th, 2021
Neuroscience Student Talks
Graham Fetterman - Margoliash Laboratory
"Rhythm and Sequence, Not Time: Bird-Specific Preferred Burst Timing of Basal Ganglia Projecting Song System Neurons"
July 12th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yuke Yan - Bensmaia Laboratory
Benjamin Hoshal - Palmer Laboratory
"The Prehensile Movements of Monkeys and Humans" | "Sparse Interactions in Retinal Ganglion Cell Populations"
June 28th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Thierri Callier - Bensmaia Laboratory
Qinpu He - Bensmaia Laboratory
"Does Spike Timing in S1 Shape Tactile Perception?" | "Sensory Computations in the Cuneate Nucleus of Macaques"
June 21st, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Claire Mckinnon - Sherman Laboratory
Elizabeth Anne de Laittre - MacLean Laboratory
"Transthalamic Pathways Between Primary and Higher Visual Cortex" | "Of Mice and Millet: Functional Relationships in Mouse Motor Cortex During Skilled Movements"
June 14th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Caleb Sponheim - Hatsopoulos Laboratory
Dalton Moore - Hatsopoulos Laboratory
"Representation of Kinetic Information in Motor Cortex for Brain-Machine Interfaces" | "Validating Markerless Tracking for Assessing Information Content in Motor Cortical Reactivations During Sleep"
June 7th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Athena Akrami, PhD - University College London
"The Lingering Past in Working Memory - From Sensory History to Optimal Learning of Regularities"
June 1st, 2021
May - 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Claude Desplan, PhD - New York University
"The Generation of Neural Diversity"
May 25th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Kailong Wen - Zhuang Laboratory (Shared Upon Request)
Alexis Monical - McGehee Laboratory
"Neural Pathways Contributing to Aversive Nicotine Withdrawal"
May 24th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Wei Liang - Hatsopoulos Laboratory
Carolina I. Castro-Rivera - Garcia Laboratory
"Dopamine's Role in Motor Memory Consolidation and Reactivation" | "Neural Pathways Contributing to Aversive Nicotine Withdrawal"
May 17th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Sonja Hofer, PhD - University College London
"Making Sense of What You See: Cortical and Thalamic Circuits for Active Vision"
May 11th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Elizaveta Okorokova - Bensmaia Lab
"An Intracortical Brain-Computer Interface to Restore Dexterous Hand Function"
May 10th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Anastasia Sorokina - Kasthuri Lab
"Integration of Adult-Born Neurons into the Hippocampal Circuit"
May 3rd, 2021
April - 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Ann Hermundstad, PhD - Janelia Research Campus
"The Role of Computational Constraints in Building Accurate (enough) Internal Representations"
April 27th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Polyxeni Philippidou, PhD - Case Western Reserve University
"Molecular Mechanisms of Respiratory Circuit Assembly"
April 20th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Nelson Medina - Margoliash Lab
Shivang Sullere - McGehee Lab
"Relating Intrinsic Neuronal Properties to Singing Behavior in Zebra Finches" | "Discovery of a Cholinergic Circuit That Relieves Pain"
April 19th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Heather Macomber - Sheffield Lab
Anqi Jiang - Sheffield Lab
The Role of a Thalamic-Hippocampal Pathway in Contextual Safety Learning | Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Hippocampus During Spatial Navigation"
April 12th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Anne Churchland, PhD - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Decisions, Movements and the Brain"
April 6th, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Can Dong - Sheffield Lab
Chad Heer - Sheffield Lab
Distinct place cell dynamics in CA1 and CA3 encode experience in new environments | Characterizing hippocampal dopaminergic inputs and their functional role in goal-directed spatial navigation
April 5th, 2021
March - 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Barbara Peysakhovich - Freedman Lab
Abstract categorical encoding in the primate oculomotor network
March 29th, 2021
Neuroscience Rising Star Postdoc Seminar Series
Viktor Feketa, PhD - Yale University School of Medicine
“How does the brain know it’s cold?”
March 19th 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Poojya Ravishankar - Kaufman Lab
Marina Sundiang - Hatsopoulos Lab
Information flow in mouse cortex during visuomotor control | Functional Network Dynamics at Different Temporal Scales
March 15th, 2021
Tenure-Track Assistant Professorships In Biology And Medicine BSD015
Candidate Seminar
Fenna Krienen, PhD - Harvard University
"Molecular Innovations in Primate Brain Cell Types"
March 15th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Adam Kohn, PhD - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Corticocortical Communication"
March 9th 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Ross Mansouri-Rad - McGehee Lab
Tuan Pham - Hansel Lab
A role for the dorsal raphe nucleus in driving nicotine addiction | Intrinsic plasticity effects on incomplete inputs
March 8th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Julijana Gjorgjieva, PhD - Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
"A theory for Hebbian plasticity in recurrent excitatory-inhibitory networks"
March 2nd, 2021
February - 2021
Postdoctoral Seminar Series
William Ngiam, PhD - Awh/Vogel Lab
"Estimating the statistical power to detect set size effects in contralateral delay activity"
February 26th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD - University of Pennsylvania
"Mouse pain scales and neural circuits for social touch"
February 23rd, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yuqing Zhu, CNS - MacLean Lab
Cassady Olson, CNS - Ragsdale Lab
"Computation and sparsity in spiking neural network models" | "Technique development for the study of octopus neural circuits"
February 22nd, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Evan Deneris, PhD - Case Western Reserve University
"Building and maintaining an expansive neurotransmitter system one stage at a time"
February 18th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Emery N. Brown, PhD - MIT & HMS
"General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal"
February 11th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Danielle Bassett, PhD - University of Pennsylvania
"Advances in Computational Psychiatry: Understanding (cognitive) control as a network process"
February 9th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Jonathan Pillow, PhD - Princeton University
"Inferring the Dynamics of Learning from Sensory Decision-Making Behavior"
February 2nd, 2021
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Hannah Martin - Eatock Lab
Anthony Osuma - Kratsios Lab
"Kv1.8 channels affect timing and tuning of sensory encoding in vestibular hair cells" | "Investigating the role of PBAF in generating motor neuron subtype diversity"
February 1st, 2021
January - 2021
Selina Baeza Loya - Eatock Lab
Marie Greaney - Heckscher and Kaufman Labs
"How does sodium current diversity influence vestibular afferent firing?" | "Maggots on the move: characterizing single-muscle activity during larval locomotion"
January 25th, 2021
Neuroscience Seminar Series
James DiCarlo, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Reverse Engineering Visual Intelligence"
January 12th, 2021
2020 Recorded seminars
December - 2020
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Patricia Janak, PhD - Johns Hopkins University
"Defining circuits for reward learning in the basal ganglia: Dopamine and beyond"
December 1st, 2020
NOVEMBER - 2020
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Odelia Schwartz, PhD - The University of Miami
"Contextual Effects in Cortical Visual Processing and Deep Neural Networks"
November 24th, 2020
PhD Thesis Defense
Gabrielle Watkins - The Hansel Lab
"SK2 Channel and Metabotropic Receptor Mediated Regulation of Intrinsic Excitability in Purkinje Cells and Implications for Cerebellar Learning"
November 23rd, 2020
PhD Thesis Defense
Julian Day-Cooney - The Maunsell Lab
"Perceptual Weighting of Mouse V1 Spikes Revealed by Optogenetic White Noise"
November 20th, 2020
Postdoc Seminar Series
Hanna Molla, PhD - The de Wit Lab
"Endocannabinoid Modulation of Prefrontal Cortical Function"
November 20th, 2020
RW Guillery Lecture
Martha Bickford, PhD - The University of Louisville
"Tectal and Pretectal Circuits of the Visual Thalamus"
November 10th, 2020
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Nicho Hatsopoulos, PhD - The University of Chicago
“Propagating patterns of motor cortical activity necessary for movement initiation.”
November 3rd, 2020
OCTOBER - 2020
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Bingni Wen Brunton, PhD - The University of Washington Seattle
"Sparse sensing and control for agile movements: Computational and comparative considerations"
October 27th, 2020
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Michael Long, PhD - NYU Medicine
"Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication"
October 6th, 2020
SEPTEMBER - 2020
Tim Buschman, PhD - Princeton University
"Control of working memory"
September 29th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Summer Thompson, Postdoc Fellow - Taylor Lab, Yale University
"Investigating individual differences in alcohol use and decision-making in mice"
September 22nd, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Akram Bakkour, PhD - Department of Psychology
"The hippocampus bridges the past with the future during decision-making"
September 8th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Wanhao Chi, PhD - Zhuang Lab
"Drosophila models of human epilepsy: a tale of gene-diet interactions"
September 1st, 2020
AUGUST - 2020
Jeff Johnston - Freedman lab
"The lateral intraparietal area is preferentially engaged in directed tasks rather than undirected free behavior”
August 26th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Manoj Doss, PhD - Johns Hopkins University
"The acute and enduring effects of hallucinogens on brain function and cognition"
August 25th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Tahra Eissa, PhD - University of Colorado Boulder
"A Bill Murray story? It's more likely than you think – systemic biases in rare-event inference"
August 18th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Wim van Drongelen, PhD - Department of Neurology
"The role of paroxysmal depolarization in propagation of seizures"
August 11th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Monica Rosenberg, PhD - Department of Psychology
"Characterizing attention with brain-based predictive models"
August 4th, 2020
JULY - 2020
Steve Shevell, PhD - Department of Psychology
"Neural representations for colors we see"
July 8th, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Gregg Wildenberg, PhD - Department of Ecology and Evolution and Department of Neurobiology
"Effects of cocaine on dopamine neurons"
July 21st, 2020
Neuroscience Summer Research Seminars
Seetha Krishnan, PhD - Sheffield Lab, Department of Neurobiology
"Internal reward expectation helps remember external contexts"
July 14th, 2020
JUNE - 2020
Ed Awh, PhD - Department of Psychology
"Neural evidence for content-independent "pointers" supporting working memory storage"
June 30th, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Barbara Peysakhovich, CNS - Freedman Lab
"Investigating the neural mechanisms of learning to learn"
Marina Sundiang, CNS - Hatsopoulos Lab
"Dynamics of Functional Networks during Reaching"
June 22nd, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Zaina Zayyad, CNS - Maunsell/MacLean Lab
"Divisive Normalization in Awake Mouse V1"
Liza Okorokova, CNS - Bensmaia Lab
"Invariant texture representation in a complete neural population"
June 15th, 2020
Neuroscience Faculty Research Talks
Peter Warnke, MD - Department of Neurology
"Neurosurgical Tract Targeting in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder"
June 9th, 202
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Yuqing Zhu, CNS - MacLean Lab
"Features of computation in spiking neural network models"
Shivang Sullere, CON - McGehee Lab
"Discovery of a Cholinergic Circuit that Relieves Pain"
June 8th, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Joseph Pak, CON - Ozkan Lab
"Robo3: A hub for nervous system complexity"
June 1st, 2020
MAY - 2020
Dave Freedman, PhD - CNS
"Mechanisms of Decision Making in Real and Artificial Neural Networks"
May 26th, 2020
Neuroscience Faculty Research Talks
Issam Awad, MD - CON, Department of Neurology
"Mechanistic Insights into Brain Hemorrhage"
May 19th, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Elisa Pabon, CON - De Wit Lab
"Differential Female Response to Acute ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)"
Graham Smith, CNS - Cowan Lab
"Manipulating Wave Propagation in Wilson-Cowan equations"
May 18th, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Caleb Scheffer Sponheim, CNS - Hatsopoulos Lab
“Evidence for Discrete Population States in Motor Cortex During Continuous Movement”
Elizabeth Ann de Laittre, CNS - MacLean Lab
"Functional Relationships in Mouse Motor Cortex during Dexterous Movements"
May 11th, 2020
Neuroscience Faculty Research Talks
Bobby Kasthuri, PhD - CNS
"Connectomic Tales"
May 5th, 2020
APRIL - 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Dalton Moore, CNS - Hatsopoulo
"Developing a Network Encoding Model for Natural Behavior in Motor Cortex of the Unconstrained Marmoset"
Yuke Yan, CNS - Bensmaia Lab
"Unexpected High Dimensionality in Everyday Hand Movements"
April 27th, 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Hanyu Li, CNS - Kasthuri Lab
"Largescale Connectomics Reconstruction of Developing Mouse Cortex"
Nelson Davis Medina, CON - Margoliash Lab
"Relating Intrinsic Neuronal Properties to Behavior"
April 20th, 2020
MARCH - 2020
Neuroscience Graduate Student Talks
Can Dong, CON - Sheffield Lab
"Distinct Encoding of a Novel Environment Experience in CA1 and CA3"
Chad Michael Heer, CON - Sheffield Lab
"Hippocampal Dopaminergic Inputs Signal Novelty and Reward Expectation"
March 16th, 2020