2021-2022 Seminar Series

GT Neuro Seminar Series - Mondays at 11:15 a.m. - Hybrid - EBB 1005 - CHOA Seminar Room and at Bluejeans link

FALL 2021 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                                                                       

Sept 13, 2021

Shella Keilholz, PhD

Georgia Tech/Emory                                     

Website

"Machine learning approaches to characterizing and interpreting brain-wide dynamics"

 

Sept 20, 2021

Patrick McGrath, PhD

Georgia Tech

Website

"Analysis of social behavior in Lake Malawi cichlids using automated behavior phenotyping"

 

Sept 27, 2021

Babak Mahmoudi, PhD

Emory University/Georgia Tech

Website

"Artificial Intelligence platforms for translatable closed-loop neuromodulation"

 

Oct 4, 2021

Pamela Bhatti, PhD

Georgia Tech

Website

"Novel Devices for Enhanced Auditory Stimulation"

 

 

Oct 18, 2021

Edward Vogel, PhD

University of Chicago

Website

"Decoding distinct attention and working memory states from human EEG"

 

 

Oct 25, 2021

Jeffrey Malins, PhD

Georgia State University

Website

"Clarifying the Brain Networks that Support Word Learning and Processing"

 

Nov 1 2021

Todd White, PhD

Morehouse/VA

Website

"Lessons Learned from Behavioral and Molecular Characterization of Chronic Preclinical TBI"

 

Nov 8, 2021

Chinfei Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Website

"Re-examining Information Processing in the Mouse Visual Thalamus"

No video available

 

Nov 22, 2021

Adrienne Fairhall, PhD

University of Washington

Website

 "From Neurons to Behavior in Hydra" 

No video available                                                                                                     

In

Person

Nov 29, 2021

Frank Tong, PhD

Vanderbilt

Website

"Investigating the basis of noise-robust object recognition in humans and convolutional neural networks”

                                                      

 

SPRING 2022 SEMESTER SCHEDULE 

DATE   SPEAKER   TITLE                

    

                

Jan 24 2022  

Anqi Wu, PhD

Georgia Tech                              

Website

"Understand the Brain Using Interpretable Machine Learning Models"                                                    

 

Jan 31 2022

B. J. Casey, PhD

Yale University

Website

“ Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in an Age of Discovery” 

 

Feb 7 2022

Chris Rozell, PhD

Georgia Tech

Website

"Peeking Inside Black Boxes:  Understanding Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI"

 

Feb 14 2022

Thurmon Lockhart, PhD CPE

Arizona State University

Website

"Movement Complexity and Falls"

 

Feb 21 2022

Ming-fai Fong, PhD Georgia Tech/Emory

Website

"Exploiting neuroplasticity for visual rehabilitation”

No video available

 

Feb 28 2022

Mario Penzo, PhD

National Institute of Mental Health

Website

"Investigating the circuit mechanisms underlying active avoidance behavior"

 

Mar 7 2022

In Person

Matthew Johnson, PhD

University of Minnesota

Website

"Modulation of Pathways with Deep Brain Stimulation"

 

Mar 14 2022

In Person

Adam Hantman, PhD

University of North Carolina

Website

"Neural Basis for Skilled Movements"

 

Mar 28 2022

In Person

Aadeel Akhtar, Ph.D.

CEO, Founder, PSYONIC

"PSYONIC - Advances in Commercial Sensorimotor Bionic Limbs"  

Apr 4 2022

In Person

Mark Churchland, PhD

Columbia University

Website

 

"From spikes to factors: understanding large-scale neural computations"

 

Apr 11 2022

In Person

Doug Weber, PhD

Carnegie Mellon University

 

"Neural prostheses for restoring sensory and motor functions"

 

Apr 18 2022

In Person

Michelle Johnson, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

Website

"Feasibility and acceptability of using affordable robots for persons with motor and/or cognitive impairments in low-resource settings"