2025-2026 Seminars and Colloquia
Seminar and Colloquia dates are subject to change. Seminars are held in MSB 2.135.
Seminar and Colloquia Series Coordinator: Yin Liu, Ph.D., Tel 713.500.5362
Upcoming Speakers
Shin Nagayama, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
“The Possible Neural Basis of Mental Fog: Slow Oscillations from the Olfactory Bulb to Cortex”
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Luca Della Santina, Ph.D., Pharm.D.
Assistant Professor
Office of Vision Science, College of Optometry
University of Houston
“Large Scale Detection of Synaptic Markers in the Retina to Assess Patterns of Circuit Disassembly During Neurodegeneration”
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D.
Roy Sillitoe, Ph.D.
Professor
Duncan Neurological Research Institute (DNRI)
Baylor College of Medicine
“Cerebellar dysfunction as a source of multiple motor phenotypes: a series of in vivo studies using conditional genetics and optogenetics in mice”
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Michael Beierlein, Ph.D.
Yin Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Crafting neural messages: the symphony of form, force, and function”
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Shin Nagayama, Ph.D.
Michael Beierlein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Jessica Nelson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Andrea Stavoe, Ph.D.
Andrea Stavoe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Yanjun Sun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Jeannie Chin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Keran Ma, Ph.D.
Keran Ma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
Prior Speakers
Harel Shouval, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
“Maintenance of Memory by Negative-Feedback of Synaptic Protein Elimination”
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Julio F. Cordero-Morales, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
UTHealth McGovern Medical School
“Unraveling the Functional and Structural Mechanisms of a Channelopathy-Driven Cerebellar Ataxia”
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Neal Waxham, Ph.D.
Pingping Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Project Scientist
Brain Research Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Xiaolong Jiang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
“Diverse Genes, Convergent Circuit? Decoding Cellular and Circuit Basis of Absence Seizures”
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Michael Beierlein, Ph.D.