Past Seminar Archive

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2025

Date Speaker Institution Host
March 26 Yoav Livneh Weizmann Institute Alfredo Fontanini
March 27 Jessica Brann DMS-Firmenich Arianna Maffei
April 3 Daniel Llano University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Qiaojie Xiong
April 17 Merri Rosen Northeast Ohio Medical University Arianna Maffei
May 8 Konrad Kording University of Pennsylvania Braden Brinkman

Neuroscience seminar Series - Fall 2024

Date Speaker Institution Host
August 29 Vidhya Rangaraju Max Planck, FL Prerana Shrestha
September 5 Yingxi Lin University of Texas Southwestern Prerana Shrestha
September 12 Dick Tsien New York University Lonnie Wollmuth
September 26 Yi Gu NINDS Qiaojie Xiong
October 3 Shreya Saxena Yale University Siwei Wang
October 10 Keith Hengen Washington University at Saint Louis Arianna Maffei
October 17 Sandra Encalada The Scripps Research Institute Joshua Dubnau
October 24 Jorge Palop University of California, San Francisco Shaoyu Ge
October 31 Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz Cornell Prerana Shrestha
November 7 Ezequiel Marron Fernandez de Velasco University of Minnesota Joshua Plotkin
November 21 Helen Hou Cold Spring Harbor Lab Qiaojie Xiong
December 5 (BRITE) Pegah Kassraian Columbia University  
December 12 (BRITE) Claire Butler University of California, Irvine  
December 19 (BRITE) Yu-Chieh David Chen New York University  

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2024

Date Speaker Institution Host
March 7 Gordon Shepherd Northwestern University Arianna Maffei
March 14 Anirban Paul Pennsylvania State University Maya Shelly
March 21 Melissa Caras University of Maryland Arianna Maffei
March 28 Xiaoke Chen Stanford University Shaoyu Ge
April 4 Laura Cancedda IIT, Genoa, Italy Maya Shelly
April 11 Laura Berner Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Roger Sher
April 18 Christoph Kellendonk Columbia University Qiaojie Xiong
April 25 Kazuhito Toyooka Drexel College of Medicine Maya Shelly
May 2 Steven Graves University of Minnesota Joshua Plotkin
May 16 Dmitri (Mitya) Chklovskii Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation Giancarlo La Camera
May 23 Onarae Rice Furman University Mary Kritzer
May 30 Yu Fu A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2023

Date Speaker Institution Host
August 31 David Zhi-Zhou He Creighton University Qiaojie Xiong
September 7 Alfonso Apicella University of Texas San Antonio Qiaojie Xiong
September 14 Daniel Wesson University of Florida Qiaojie Xiong
September 21 Natalia DeMarco Garcia Weil Cornell Medical College Josh Plotkin
September 28 Florin Albeanu Cold Spring Harbor Lab Shaoyu Ge
October 5 Stephanie Palmer University of Chicago Braden Brinkman
October 12 Cengiz Pahlevan Harvard University Giancarlo La Camera
October 19 Yongsoo Kim Pennsylvania State University Qiaojie Xiong
October 26 Udai Pandey University of Pittsburgh, Med Ctr Roger Sher
November 2 Giacomo Indiveri ETH and University of Zurich Giancarlo La Camera
November 9 Milutin Stanacevic Stony Brook University Maya Shelly
November 28 (Special) Dieter Willbold Helnrich-Heine University Roger Sher
November 30 (BRITE) Piere Rodriguez Aliaga Stanford University Josh Plotkin
December 7 (BRITE) Emily A. A. Jones Stanford University Markus Riessland
December 14 (BRITE) Jacqueline Giovanniello UCLA Prerana Shrestha

Neuroscience Seminar Series- Spring 2023

Date Speaker Institution Host
March 16 Maria Geffen University of Pennsylvania Qiaojie Xiong
March 23 Michelle Burbea Hoffman The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Arianna Maffei
April 6 Abigail Person University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus Qiaojie Xiong
April 13 Stella Tsirka Stony Brook University Qiaojie Xiong
April 27 Joseph Castellano School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Shaoyu Ge
May 4 Long-Jun Wu Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine Shaoyu Ge
May 18 Xin Duan University of California, San Francisco Shaoyu Ge

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2022

Date Speaker Institution Host
August 25 Brent Doiron University of Chicago Giancarlo La Camera
September 1 Xiao-Jing Wang New York University Giancarlo La Camera
September 8 E.J. Chichilnisky Stanford University Braden Brinkman
September 15 Gabrielle Gutierrez ColumbiaUniversity and Barnard College Braden Brinkman
September 22 Ttyana Sharpee Salk Institute Giancarlo La Camera
September 29 Benjamin Cowley Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Braden Brinkman
October 6 Stephanie Moon University of Michigan Roger Sher
October 13 Yingwei Mao Pennsylvania State University Shaoyu Ge
October 20 Alyssa Coyne Johns Hopkins University Roger Sher
November 3 Jun Ding Stanford University Josh Plotkin
November 10 Angelica Torres-Berrio Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Josh Plotkin
November 17 Lindsay Sailer Cornell University Qiaojie Xiong
December 1 Erin Schuman Max Planck Institute Prerana Shrestha
December 8 Rose Creed UCSF Mary Kritzer

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2022

Date Speaker Institution Host
February 24 Tim Mosca Jefferson University Josh Dubnau
March 3 Gianluigi Mongillo Institute for Advanced Study Giancarlo La Camera
March 10 Alfredo Sansone iScience Arianna Maffei
March 17 Lucas Cheadle Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Arianna Maffei
March 24 Huizhong Tao University of Southern California Qiaojie Xiong
March 31 Jochen Braun MSC Integrative Neuroscience Giancarlo La Camera
April 14 Yanhua Huang Pittsburgh University Qiaojie Xiong
April 21 Paul Kenny Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Prerana Shrestha
April 28 Congwu Du Stony Brook University Shaoyu Ge
May 12 Mi-Hyeon Jang Rutgers University Shaoyu Ge
May 19 Jen Liou UT Southwestern Maya Shelly

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2021

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 2 Anne Schaefer Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Joshua Plotkin
September 16 Baljit Khakh University of California Los Angeles Joshua Plotkin
September 23 Kim Green University of California Irvine Qiaojie Xiong
September 30 Jonathan Godbout Ohio State University Qiaojie Xiong
October 7 Jonah Chan University of California San Francisco Joel Levine
October 14 Joe Dougherty Washington University in St. Louis Prerana Shrestha
October 21 Fidel Santamaria University of Texas San Antonio Alfredo Fontanini
October 28 Adam Kepecs Washington University in St. Louis Alfredo Fontanini
November 4 Avrama Blackwell George Mason Univeristy Joshua Plotkin
November 11 Ketema Paul University of California Los Angeles Qiaojie Xiong
November 18 (BRITE) Eduardo Lopez Soto Brown University Joshua Plotkin
December 2 (BRITE) Bridget Matikainen-Ankney Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Joshua Plotkin
December 7 (BRITE) Biafra Ahanonu MIT Joshua Plotkin
December 9 (BRITE) Joyce Da Silva University of Maryland Joshua Plotkin
December 16 Shao-Jun Tang Stony Brook University Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2021

Due to Covid-19, all seminars this semester were held virtually.

Date Speaker Institution Host
February 4 Ken Harris University College London Memming Park
February 11 Aryn Gittis Carnegie Mellon University Qiaojie Xiong
February 18 Miranda Orr Wake Forest, SOM Markus Riessland
March 11 Yi Zuo University of California Santa Cruz Qiaojie Xiong
April 1 Sheila Fleming Northeast Ohio Medical University Joshua Plotkin
April 8 Sephen Matheson Cell Reports Maya Shelly
April 15 Mary Kay Lobo University of Maryland Joshua Plotkin
April 29 Ellen Hoffman Yale University Howard Sirotkin
May 13 Jared Van Snellenberg Stony Brook University Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2020

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 10 Erik Dent University of Wisconsin Madison Maya Shelly
September 17 Kimberley R.F. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine Maya Shelly
September 24 Huaye Zhang Rutgers University Maya Shelly
October 1 Deanne L. Benson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Maya Shelly
November 5 Julia Dallman University of Miami, FL Howard Sirotkin
November 12 Juan Mena-Segovia Rutgers University, SASN Qiaojie Xiong
November 19 Donghui Zhu Stony Brook University Arianna Maffei

 

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2019

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 5 Maryam M. Shanechi University of Southern California Braden Brinkman
September 12 Aysegul Gunduz University of Florida Memming Park
September 19 Markus Meister Caltech Braden Brinkman
September 26 Byron Yu Carnegie Mellon University Memming Park
October 3 Caleb Kemere Rice University Braden Brinkman
October 10 Zhe Sage Chen New York University Memming Park
October 31 Christine Constantinople New York University Maya Shelly
November 7 Harold Burgess NIH Howard Sirotkin
November 14 Marco Gallio Northwestern University Arianna Maffei
November 21 Jessica Tolkhun Cold Spring Harbor Lab Mary Kritzer
December 5 Hysell Oviedo City University of New York Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2019

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 31 Marco Gallio Northwestern Universit Arianna Maffei
February 14 Joost Maier Wake Forrest University Alfredo Fontanini
February 21 Peter Baas Drexel University Maya Shelly
March 7 Yale Cohen University of Pennsylvania Qiaojie Xiong
March 14 Li Zhang University of Southern California Qiaojie Xiong
March 28 Eric Klann New York University Maya Shelly
April 4 Sandro Romani Janelia Farm Giancarlo La Camera
April 11 Richard Dorsky University of Utah Howard Sirotkin
April 18 Francisco Alvarez Emory University Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
April 25 Christopher Wilson Lorna Linda University Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
May 2 Paul Drew University of Arkansas Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
May 9 Jyoti Watters University of Wisconsin Bill Collins & Irene Solomon

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2018

Date  Speaker  Institution Host
September 6 Robert Froemke New York University Qiaojie Xiong
September 13 Chay Kuo Duke University Shaoyu Ge
September 20 Gary Aston-Jones Rutgers University Arianna Maffei
September 27 Joshua Plotkin Stony Brook University Arianna Maffei
October 4 Christian Pike University of Southern California Mary Kritzer
October 11 William S. Messer University of Toledo Joshua Plotkin
October 18 Ann Hermundstad Janelia Research Campus Braden Brinkman
October 25 Peter Rudebeck Mount Sinai Giancarlo La Camera
November 15 Juan Song UNC Chapel Hill Shaoyu Ge
November 29 Matthew Wachowiak University of Utah Alfredo Fontanini
December 6 James Knierim John Hopkins Univ Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2018

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 25 Marvin Bentley Rensselear University Maya Shelly
February 1 Daniel Polley Harvard University Alfredo Fontanini
February 8 Ian Stevenson University of Connecticut Memming Park
February 15 Steven Munger University of Florida Alfredo Fontanini
February 22 Jesse Gillis Cold Spring Harbor Lab Mary Kritzer
March 8 Farzan Nadim Rutgers University Arianna Maffei
March 29 Robert Liu Emory Qiaojie Xiong
April 5 Angel De Blas University of Connecticut Arianna Maffei
April 20 Lisa Savage SUNY - Binghampton Shaoyu Ge
April 26 Annalisa Scimemi SUNY - Albany Arianna Maffei
May 3 Avindra Nath NIH/NINDS Joshua Dubnau

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2017

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 7 Arianna Maffei Stony Brook University Department of NB&B
September 14 Jamie Maguire Tufts University Arianna Maffei
September 21 Gina Turrigiano Brandeis University Arianna Maffei
September 28 Sunil Gandhi University of California - Irvine Arianna Maffei
October 5 Gorden Fishell NYU Langone Lorna Role
October 19 Molly Huntsman University of Colorado - Denver Arianna Maffei
October 23 Walter Senn University of Bern Giancarlo La Camera
October 26 Melissa Rolls Pennsylvania State University Maya Shelly
November 9 Gary Lewin Max Delbruck Center Lorne Mendell
November 16 Yang Dan University of California - Berkeley Qiaojie Xiong
November 30 Julie Haas Lehigh University Arianna Maffei
December 7 Dan Feldman University of California - Berkeley Qiaojie Xiong
December 14 Matthew Rasband Baylor College of Medicine Maya Shelly

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2017

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 26 John Mann Columbia University Arianna Maffei
February 2 Robert Reenan Brown University Joshua Dubnau
February 9
(Rescheduled May 25)
Michael Hasselmo Boston University Giancarlo La Camera
February 16 Andre fenton New York University Qiaojie Xiong
February 23 Tim Duong SBU - Radiology Mary Kritzer
March 2 Marnie Halpern Carnegie Howard Sirotkin
March 9 Jun Xia SUNY Buffalo Shaoyu Ge
March 23 Alireza Soltani Dartmouth Giancarlo La Camera
March 30th Alex Keene Florida Atlantic University Joshua Dubnau
April 6 Patrick Sibony Stony Brook - SOM Craig Evinger
April 13 Elizabeth Diamond Feinstein Institute Howard Sirotkin
May 4 Phil Popovich Ohio State University Lorne Mendell
May 25
(Special Seminar)
Michael Hasselmo Boston University Giancarlo La Camera

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2016

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 1 Tianyi Mao OHSU - Vollum Institute Qiaojie Xiong
September 8 Christopher Bishop SUNY Binghamtom Arianna Maffei
September 15 Mitra Hartmann Northwestern Alfredo Fontanini
September 22 Andrew Schwartz University of Pittsburgh Il Memming Park
October 6 Michael Mustari University of Washington Craig Evinger
October 13 Mark Stopfer NIH/NICHD Giancarlo La Camera
October 20 David Kleinfeld USCD Arianna Maffei
November 3 David Raible University of Washington Howard Sirotkin
November 17 Taro Toyoizumi RIKEN Institute Giancarlo La Camera
December 8 Alison Barth Carnegie Mellon University Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2016

Date Speaker Institution Host
February 4 Jeroen Smaers SBU - Anthropology Maurice Kernan
February 11 Tracy Tran Rutgers University Maya Shelly
February 18 Sridhar Sunderam University of Kentucky - Lexington Qiaojie Xiong
February 25 Helen Scharfman New York University Shaoyu Ge
March 3 Phil Popovich Ohio State University Lorne Mendell/Joel Levine
March 10 Michael Platt Duke University Giancarlo La Camera
March 24 Bingwei Lu Stanford Maya Shelly
March 31 Larry Abbott Columbia University Giancarlo La Camera
April 14 Guoping Feng MIT Josh Plotkin
April 21 Ramin Parsey SBU - Psychiatry Alfredo Fontanini
April 28 John Mann Columbia University Arianna Maffei
May 5 John Huguenard Stanford University Josh Plotkin

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2015

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 3 Karen Mesce University of Minnesota Arianna Maffei
September 10 Hans Hoffman University of Texas - Austin Howard Sirotkin
September 17 Daoyun Ji Baylor College of Medicine Shaoyu Ge
September 24 Asif Ghazanfar Princeton University Alfredo Fontanini
October 1 Harold Zakon University of Texas - Austin Lonnie Wollmuth
October 8 Konrad Kording Northwestern University Il-Memming Park
October 22 David Stern Janelia Farm David McKinnon
October 29 Dwight Bergles Johns Hopkins University Lonnie Wollmuth
November 5
(rescheduled May 19)
Nicolas Brunel University of Chicago Giancarlo La Camera
November 12 Adam Kohn Albert Einstein Memming Park
November 19 Randall Peterson Harvard Medical School Howard Sirotkin
December 3 Paul Miller Brandeis University Giancarlo La Camera

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2015

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 29 Andrew Russo University of Iowa Craig Evinger
February 5 Brent Doiron University of Pittsburgh Giancarlo La Camera
February 12 Nenad Sestan Yale School of Medicine Maya Shelly
February 19 Michael Granato University of Pennsylvania Howard Sirotkin
February 26 Robert Hevner University of Washington Shaoyu Ge
March 5 Joshua Trachtenberg UCLA Arianna Maffei
March 12 Bruno Averbeck NIH Giancarlo La Camera
March 26 Venkatesh Murthy Harvard University Alfredo Fontanini
April 2 Elizabeth Glowatzki Johns Hopkins University Gary Matthews
April 9 C. Ron Yu Stowers Institute Lorna Role
April 23 Adrian Drainer CSHL Alfredo Fontanini
April 30 Anna Francesconi Albert Einstein SOM Arianna Maffei
May 7 Sacha Nelson Brandeis University Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2014

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 4 Dmitri Rinberg New York University Alfredo Fontanini
September 11 Steve Van Hooser Brandeis University Arianna Maffei
September 18 Bruce Cumming NIH Giancarlo La Camera
October 2 Larry Trussell OHSU Gary Matthews
October 9 Elizabeth Glowatski Johns Hopkins University Gary Matthews
October 16 Jason MacLean The University of Chicago Aranna Maffei
October 23 Bettina Winkler University of Virginia  Maya Shelly
October 30 Suzanne Zukin Albert Einstein SOM Howard Sirotkin
November 6 Ronald Duman Yale Shaoyu Ge
November 20 Pankaj Sah The University of Queensland Australia David McKinnon
December 4 Anis Contractor Northwestern University Lonnie Wollmuth

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2014

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 30 John Dani University of Pennsylvania Shaoyu Ge
February 6 Xiaobing Yuan Drexel University Maya Shelly
March 6 Rache Brewster University of Maryland Howard Sirotkin
March 13 Okihide Hikosaka NIH Giancarlo La Camera
March 27 Judith Hirsch University of Southern California Arianna Maffei
April 3 Cindy Jordan University of Michigan Mary Kritzer
April 17 Suzanne Paradis Brandeis University Arianna Maffei
April 24 Marina Picciotto Yale Lorna Role
May 1 Fresshteh Nugent Uniformed Services University Arianna Maffei
May 8 Robin Lester University of Alabama Birmingham Mary Kritzer

Neuroscience Seminar Sries - Fall 2013

Date Speaker Institution Host
September 12 John Salamone University of Connecticut - Storrs Mary Kritzer
September 19 Nathaniel Daw NYU Giancarlo La Camera
September 26 Marshall Hussain Shuler Johns Hopkins Alfredo Fontanini
October 3 Alison Adcock Duke University Mary Kritzer
October 10 Samer Hattar Johns Hopkins University Larry Morin
October 24 William Talbot Stanford University Howard Sirotkin
October 31 Chris Lingle Washington U Lonnie Wollmuth
November 7 Ghouson Lyon CSHL Mary Kritzer
November 14 Scott Laughlin SBU Chemistry Dept Mary Kritzer
November 21 Bernardo Rudy NYU - Langone Lonnie Wollmuth
December 5 Linda Overstreet Wadiche University of Alabama Shaoyu Ge
December 13 Barry Richmond NIH Giancarlo La Camera

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2013

Date Speaker Institution Host
January 31 David Berson Brown University Gary Matthews
February 7 Yasushi Nakagawa University of Minnesota Shaoyu Ge
February 14 Jonathan Demb Yale University Gary Matthews
February 21 Franck Polleux The Scripps Research Institute David Talmage
February 28 Bijan Pesaran NYU Giancarlo La Camera
March 7 Sam Pleasure UCSF Shaoyu Ge
March 14 Elke Stein Yale University Maya Shelly
March 28 Jay Gottfried Northwestern University Alfredo Fontanini
April 4 Sarah Pallas Georgia State University Arianna Maffei
April 11 Barry Connors Brown University Arianna Maffei
April 18 Yu-Hun Kuo Stony Brook University Lorna Role
April 25 Robert Burke Columbia University Craig Evinger
May 2 Jim Surmier Northwestern University Craig Evinger
May 9 Michele Basso UCLA Craig Evingr
May 13 Philip Jorner University of Washington Shaoyu Ge