2020-2021 Seminars and Colloquia in Neuroscience
2021-2022 lecture season will be added when available.
Past Speakers
Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D. & Roger Janz, Ph.D.
NBA @ McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., Sep. 9, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Syntaxin 3 in Health and Disease”
Indira M. Raman, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Neurobiology
Northwestern University
Wed., September 16, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Synchrony and Synaptic Signaling in Cerebellar Circuits”
Host: Michael Beierlein
Erica Underwood, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., September 23, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Spatial assessment of mitochondrial energetics in experimental models of aging.”
John Broussard, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., September 30, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Place Cell Functions in Diseases of the Brain.”
Fred Rieke, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Wed., October 14, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Mechanisms Controlling Retinal Responses to Natural Visual Inputs.”
Host: David Marshak, Ph.D.
Giulio Taglialatela, Ph.D.
Professor, and Vice Chair for Research
Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, UTMB Health
Wed., October 28, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Cognitive Integrity Despite the Presence of Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology: Promoting Resilience as a New Treatment Strategy”
Host: John Broussard, Ph.D.
Shin Nagayama, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., November 4, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Age-dependent increase of the swelling structures in the myelinated axons in the lateral olfactory tract”
Denise Cai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience and the Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wed., November 18, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Linking Memories across Time.”
Host: Fabricio H. Do Monte, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Daniel J. Felleman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., December 2, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“A New View of the Functional Architecture of Macaque Area V4”
Douglas S. Engelke, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., December 9, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Thalamic Circuits Controlling Approach-Avoidance Conflict”
Nick Steinmetz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Wed., December 16, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Large-Scale Approaches for Distributed Circuits Underlying Visual Decision-Making”
Host: Samantha Debes
John P. Seymour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Vivian L. Smith Department Of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School At UTHealth
Wed., January 13, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Toward Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Using Directional and Scalable Local Field Potentials”
Host: John H. Byrne, Ph.D.
Pascal Fries, Ph.D.
Director
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in
Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Wed., January 20, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence”
Host: Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
Russell Milton
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Wed., January 27, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Dynamic states of population activity in prefrontal cortical networks of freely-moving macaque”
Gloria Choi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wed., March 24, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Neuroimmune Interactions Shaping Social Behavior”
Host: Cana Quave
Jeffrey Min-In Yau, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
“Searching for the Cortical Basis of Vibration Perception”
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
Riccardo Mozzachiodi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi
“Understanding the Balancing Act: Mechanisms Underlying Formation and Storage of the Balance Between Defensive and Appetitive Behaviors”
Wed., April 7, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Host: Yili Zhang, Ph.D.
Zhuo-Hua Pan, Ph.D.
Professor Scientific Director of the Ligon Research Center of Vision,
Kresge Eye Institute
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Wed., April 14, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Optogenetic Approaches for Vision Restoration”
Host: Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D.
Diasynou Fioravante, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis
Wed., April 21, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Cerebellar Connections to the Limbic System”
Host: Rongyu Liu, Ph.D.
Yuri Saalmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wed., May 12, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
“Controlling Thalamo-Cortical Dynamics and Consciousness Using Deep Brain Stimulation”
Host: Ariana Andrei, Ph.D.