Seminar Schedule – Fall 2022

Fall 2022 CSN Seminars

September 14 – Prof. David Freedman
University of Chicago, Department of Neurobiology
“Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Abstract Decision Making”
An IN-PERSON event hosted by Prof. Chand Chandrasekaran

September 21 – Prof. Aryn Gittis
Carnegie Mellon University, Biological Sciences
“Circuit-Based Strategies For Long-Lasting Motor Recovery Following Dopamine Depletion”
An IN-PERSON event hosted by Prof. Mark Howe

Monday, October 3 – Tuesday, October 4
Fall 2022 CSN Symposium: Engineering the Brain for Discovery and Clinical Applications
An IN-PERSON event organized by Profs. Mo Khalil, Steve Ramirez, and Ben Wolozin
Join us in person in the Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
More information, registration, and full itinerary at: https://www.bu.edu/csn/symposium
Join us online both days at bu.edu/csn/symposium_live

October 19 – CSN Post-Doctoral Fellows Present
Dr. Vicky Moya: “A scalable approach for mapping microconnectivity in transcriptomically defined neuron types”
Dr. Brenna Fearey: “Context-dependent modulation of population activity in distinct striatal neuronal subtypes during visually guided navigation in a virtual environment”
An IN-PERSON event hosted by the Center for Systems Neuroscience

October 26 – Prof. Erin Calipari
Vanderbilt University, Department of Pharmacology
“Neuronal sub-populations in the nucleus accumbens represent distinct valence-free parameters to drive behavior”
An IN-PERSON event hosted by Prof. Camron Bryant

November 2 – Dr. David Leopold
National Institute of Mental Health, Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging
“Single-unit fMRI mapping: New perspectives on brain organization”
An IN-PERSON event hosted by Prof. Laura Lewis

December 7 – Prof. Anne Collins – POSTPONED
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology and the The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
An IN-PERSON event hosted by Prof. Ben Scott

December 14 – Prof. Maithe Arruda-Carvalho
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology
“Pathway-Specific Synaptic Maturation and the Ontogeny of Behavior”
A VIRTUAL event hosted by Prof. Heidi Meyer