2023-2024 Seminar Series

Neuro Next Initiative Seminar Series – Mondays at 11:15 AM

SPRING 2024 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                                                       LOCATION
January 22, 2024 Jennifer Raymond    
Stanford University
"Metaplasticity and Meta-Learning in the Cerebellum" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
January 29, 2024 Gordon Berman    
Emory University

“Themes and Variations in Animal Behavior”

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
February 05, 2024 Ukpong Eyo    
University of Virginia
"P2RY12 Roles in Microglial Functions, Identity Ad Communication with Brain Cells" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
February 12, 2024 Jimena Anderson    
Emory University
"Cortico-Motor Assembloids: A Human 3D Multi-Cellular Platform to Study Spinal Cord Development and Disease” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
February 19, 2024 Blake Richards
McGill University and Mila-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

"Choose Your Tokens Wisely: How to Achieve Good Transfer Learning with Transformers on Neural Datasets"

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
February 26, 2024 Dayo Adewole    
University of Pennsylvania

“Living Electrodes: Developing Optogenetic Neuronal Networks for Circuit Modeling & Biological Neural Interfaces”

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
March 04, 2024  

No Seminar

 
March 11, 2024 Panel

"Engaging the Experts: A Conversation on Lived Experience"

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
March 18, 2024   No Seminar  
March 25, 2024 Stefan Mihalas    
Allen Institute
“Computing with a Mess: How Complex, Heterogeneous and Noisy Components Contribute to the Brain’s Computational Power” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128):
Virtual: Zoom Link
April 01, 2024 Michael Borich
Emory University
 
"Identifying Individual-Specific Neural Biomarkers of Sensorimotor Control and Learning in Aging and Post-Stroke" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
April 08, 2024 Hey-Kyoung Lee    
Johns Hopkins University
"Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Plasticity in the Adult Brain" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
April 15, 2024 Eric Racine    
Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) 
"Co-Imagining Neuroethics: Engaging Neuroscientists and Neurotech Developers in the Discussion" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
April 22, 2024 Bence Ölveczky    
Harvard University
"Neural Circuits Underlying Learned Motor Sequence Execution" In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link

FALL 2023 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                                                       LOCATION
September 18, 2023 Audrey Sederberg
Georgia Tech    
“Building (on) a Null Model for Big-data Neuroscience” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
September 25, 2023 Carla Shatz    
Stanford University

**CANCELED**

“Synapses Lost and Found: Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer’s Disease”

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
October 2, 2023 Bradley Dickerson    
Princeton University

“Functionally Stratified Encoding in a Biological Gyroscope”

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
October 9, 2023   No Seminar  
October 16, 2023 Alan Emanuel   
Emory University 
“Mechanoreceptor Contributions to Cortical Tactile Feature Representations During Locomotion” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
October 23, 2023   No Seminar   
October 30, 2023 Donald Katz    
Brandeis University

“The Nonlinear Population Dynamics Underlying Taste Perception and Action”

Video Link

In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
November 6, 2023 Randy Buckner  
Harvard University  
“Large-scale Network Organization in the Human Brain” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
November 13, 2023   No Seminar   
November 20, 2023 Levi Wood  
Georgia Tech      
“Illuminating Brain Immune Signaling in Alzheimer’s Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury” In Person: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Virtual: Zoom Link
November 27, 2023 Dayo Adewole    
University of Pennsylvania

**CANCELED**

“Living Electrodes: Developing Optogenetic Neuronal Networks for Circuit Modeling & Biological Neural Interfaces”

**Please note the different location**

In Person: CHOA Seminar Room (EBB 1005)
Virtual: Zoom Link
December 4, 2023   No Seminar   

 

Seminar Locations:

Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
Petit Biotech Building, 315 Ferst Drive NW

CHOA Seminar Room (EBB 1005)
Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB) Krone, 950 Atlantic Drive


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