Seminar Schedule – Fall 2024

Fall 2024

Thursday, September 12, 12:30 PM – Prof. Alex Kwan, Cornell University
Hosted by Prof. Ben Scott
Joint seminar with BBC
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“What’s special about psychedelic-evoked neural plasticity?”

Wednesday, September 25, 12:15 PM – Prof. Helen Scharfman, New York University
Hosted by Prof. Shelley Russek
Joint seminar with GPN
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Early stages of Alzheimer’s disease: novel roles of acetylcholine and the dentate gyrus”

Wednesday, October 16, 12:15 PM – Prof. Ryan Raut, University of Washington
Hosted by Prof. Emily Stephen
Joint seminar with NRT and NPC
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Unifying systems neuroscience through arousal dynamics”

Wednesday, October 23, 12:15 PM – Prof. Betty Hong, California Institute of Technology
Hosted by Profs. Meg Younger and Brian DePasquale
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Olfaction in Drosophila through the lens of natural odors”

Friday, November 8, 12:30 PM – Prof. Anne Collins, University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Prof. Joe McGuire
Kilachand Center, RKC 106C, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
Joint seminar with BBC
“Deconstructing human reinforcement learning”

Wednesday, November 13, 12:15 PM – Prof. Josh Jacobs, Columbia University
Hosted by Prof. Matthias Stangl
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Direct recordings of human place cells, grid cells, and traveling waves reveal mechanisms of episodic memory”