Translational Neurosciences - Seminars

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Mechanisms of somatosensory cortical map plasticity in the healthy and stroke injured brain.
Speaker: William Zeiger, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Neurology, University of California – Los Angeles

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Somatic PIK3CA activating mutation in a plexiform lesion of a patient with HHT and PAH
Speaker: Tucker Hallmark, PhD, Research Scientist III, from the Lab of Dr. Katharina Schimmel, Department of Child Health and Phoenix Children's Research Institute

Details: Department of Translational Neurosciences - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Seminar Title: Evolution of adaptive circuitry in mammalian neocortex
Speaker: Joshua Trachtenberg, PhD; Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Department of Neurobiology, and UCLA Brain Institute 

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Lateral habenula circuits for the regulation of goal-directed behavior
Speaker: Pamela Miranda, PhD, Post‐Doctoral Research Assoc.; From the Lab of Dr. Melissa Warden, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Exploring the role of glia in visual circuit plasticity
Speaker: Hongtao Ma, PhD, Research Scientist III, From the Lab of Dr. Aaron McGee, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Seminar Title: Age-related hearing loss: New insights from animal models and human histopathology
Speaker: M. Charles Liberman, PhD, Schuknecht Professor of OHNS, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Study of mechanisms mediating auditory function paragangliomas
Speaker: Dolores Columba Perez Flores PhD, Research Scientist III, Department of Translational Neurosciences; Lab of Dr. Ebenezer Yamoah 

Seminar Title: Synaptic Transmission between Type 1 hair cells and afferent in the vestibular inner ear
Speaker: Donatella Contini, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Seminar Title: Vocal communication: from behavior to neurons
Speaker: Julie Elie, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California - Berkeley

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Rotational traumatic brain injury: Bridging preclinical models to clinical relevance
Speaker: Julián Ramos, BS; Research Scientist/Technician, Department of Translational Neurosciences; Lab of James A. Bibb, PhD 

Seminar Title: Cell-type specific mechanisms of depression in the nucleus accumbens
Speaker: Hee-Dae Kim, Researcher/Scientist IV in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Lab of Dr. Deveroux Ferguson.

Seminar Title: Exploring opioid receptor pharmacology and the discovery of novel therapeutic targets 
Speaker: Todd Vanderah, PhD, Department Head and Professor of Pharmacology and Co-Director, MD/PhD Dual Degree Program 

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Hypoxic mechanisms in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas 
Speaker: Kuldeep Gupta, PhD, Research Scientist III. From the lab of James Bibb, PhD, Department of Translational Neurosciences    

Seminar Title: Effects of posterior caudatoputamen indirect pathway activity on auditory cortical activation in female rats
Speaker: Talal Zafar, PhD, Research Technician II. From the lab of James A. Bibb, PhD, Department of Translational Neurosciences     

Seminar Title: Internet- and Mobile Lab-Based Approaches for the Study of Cognition: Scale and Diversity to Empower Precision Aging
Speaker: Matt Huentelman, PhD. Professor and Co-Director of the Early Detection and Prevention Division. Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

Seminar Title: Novel gene discovery methods for neurodevelopmental disorders
Speaker: Anushree Acharya, MS, Research Scientist III. From the lab of Dr. Isabelle Schrauwen, Department of Translational Neurosciences
 

Seminar Title: From neuroscience to neuroendocrine cancer and back again
Speaker: Andres Diaz, MD/PhD Candidate, Cancer Biology Graduate Program. From the Lab of Dr. James Bibb, Department of Translational Neurosciences

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.

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