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Seminar Schedule

August 28

TBA

September 4

Eamonn Dickson, UC Davis SOM

September 11

Dayu Lin, New York University

September 18

Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, Harvard University

September 25

Natale Sciolino, University of Connecticut

October 2

CANCELLED

October 9

CANCELLED

October 16

Alexander Gourine, University College London

October 23

CANCELLED

October 30

Alexandra Whiteley, University of Colorado Boulder

November 6

CANCELLED

November 13

Travis Hodges, Mount Holyoke College

November 20

NO Seminar

November 27

THANKSGIVING

December 4 (BRITE)

Sofie Aehrlund-Richter, MIT

December 11 (BRITE)

Rafael Perez, Yale University

December 18 (BRITE)

Priya Prakash, NYU

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News & Announcements

12/12/25 - Jacob T. Crosser's Defense is on Friday December 12, 2025 at 12pm in LSB 038. The seminar is titled, "Structure of Collective Activity in Probabilistic Models in Neural Spiking". Braden Brinkman is the advisor.

12/5/25 - Siddharth Paliwal's Dissertation Defense is on Friday December 5, 2025 at 1pm Life Sciences Building Room 038. The seminar is titled, "Statistical Models of Metastability in Large Neural Populations". Braden Brinkman is the advisor.

11/10/25 - Jaqueline Martin's Dissertation Defense is on Monday November 10, 2025 at 10:30am Life Sciences Building Room 038. The seminar is titled, "Dissecting the roles of MeCP2 and FAM29B in the cell-type-specifc vulnerability for Parkinson's Disease". Markus Riessland is the advisor.

04/10/2025 - Alexander Baez's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Striatal Circuit and Cholinergic Interneuron Dysregulations in the SAPAP3-deletion mouse model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Signaling, Development and Therapeutic Targets." Joshua Plotkin is the advisor.

CELEBRATE BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK 3/10-3/16

03/11/2025 - Yuejiao (Camelia) Zheng's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Gustatory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Frontotemporal Dementia." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.

1/17/2025 - SB News spotlights Program in Neuroscience PhD students' creative brain awareness video in this article.

1/7/2025 - Applications for the MS in Neuroscience are open. Visit our program page for more information.

3/31/2025 - Our 2025 Mind Brain Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor.

04/08/2024 - Mind-Brain Lecture: Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Join us for a lecture by Dr. Anthony Zador on "A Neuroscientist's Guide to Artificial Intelligence"
Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Location: Staller Center Main Stage, Stony Brook University
Livestream available at stonybrook.edu/live.

12/20/2024 - Welcome our new faculty members Dr. Jun Takatoh and Dr. Shahriar SheikhBahaei!

12/10/2024 - Isabel Hubbard's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, Room 8-180. The seminar is titled "Glial C9orf72 Repeat Expression Produces Cell-intrinsic and Non-Cell Autonomous Toxicity in Drosophila." Joshua Dubnau is the advisor.

12/05/2024 - Shreevidya Korada's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg - Room 038. The seminar is titled "LINE1 Replication is Associated with Cell Death and Motor Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of TDP43 Neurodegeneration." Roger Sher & Joshua Dubnau are the advisors.

12/04/2024 - John Chen's Dissertation Defense is on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg, Room 038. The seminar is titled "Sensorimotor Circuits in Taste-guided Decision Making." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.

11/26/2024 - Priscilla Yevoo's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, BST 8-180 The seminar is titled "Neurosteroid-mediated Tonic Inhibition in the Mouse Gustatory Cortex and Taste-guided Behaviors." Arianna Maffei is the advisor.

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