Translational Neurosciences - Seminars

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Effects of posterior caudatoputamen indirect pathway activity on auditory cortical activation in female rats
Speaker: Andres Diaz, MD/PhD Candidate, Cancer Biology Graduate Program. From the Lab of Dr. James Bibb, Department of Translational Neurosciences
Location: Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB), B-302

Seminar Title: PHX Neuroscience Community Data Blitz
Details: Join us for an engaging session hosted by the Department of Translational Neuroscience. Dinner will be provided to all attendees. Please note that Zoom will not be available for this meeting.
Location: Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building (BSPB)
Host: The Department of Translational Neuroscience, chaired by Dr. James Bibb

Seminar Title: Role of Reduced HGF/MET Signaling in Synaptic Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models
Speaker: Jing Wei, PhD, Assistant Scientific Investigator. From the Lab of Dr. Shenfeng Qiu, Department of Basic Medical Sciences.

Seminar Title: Illuminating Microglia: A Time-Lapse Journey into the Brain's Response to Injury
Speaker: Daniel Griffiths, BS, Researcher/Scientist III working in the Lab of Dr. Jonathan Lifshitz, Psychiatry.

Speaker:  Hai Huang, PhD, Associate Professor; Tulane University, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Brain Institute
Seminar Title: Reliable Synaptic Transmission of an auditory synapse

Speaker: Ian Ellwood PhD, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University
Seminar Title: Dopamine in the prefrontal cortex: Beyond net valence

Speaker: Anqi Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Seminar Title: Minimally invasive neuroelectronics

Speaker: Melissa Warden, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Seminar Title: Neuromodulation and the balance between goal-directed and reactive behavior

Speaker: Laura Rupprecht, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University
Seminar Title: A gut cell for food reward

Speaker: Yuta Senzai, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
Seminar Title: The eyes are windows into the dreaming brain

Speaker: Isabelle Schrauwen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurological Science, Columbia University
Seminar Title: Multi-omics approaches in nervous and sensory system disorders

Speaker: Ebenezer Yamoah, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology,
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Seminar Title: The status of mechanoelectrical transduction in the mammalian hair cell

Speaker: Iva Zovkic, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Seminar Title: An emerging role of histone H2A variants in memory and Alzheimer’s disease

Speaker: Ju Lu, PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
Seminar Title: Can mind-revealing drugs revive the afflicted mind? The effects of psychedelics and their analog on normal and stressed brains

Speaker: Yanjun Sun, PhD, Research Scientist, Stanford University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Neural circuit dynamics of spatial learning and its translational implications

Speaker: Aaron McGee, PhD, Research Scientist, University of Louisville
Seminar Title: Modulating neuroplasticity in visual circuitry for therapeutic gain

Speaker: Jean-Paul Noel, PhD, Research Scientist, New York University
Seminar Title: Aberrant updating of internal models in autism