Translational Neurosciences - Seminars

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