Seminar Schedule – Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 12:15 PM – Prof. Janine Kwapis, Penn State University
Hosted by Prof. Heidi Meyer
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Time to learn: Diurnal regulation of memory via the clock gene Per1”

Wednesday, March 20, 12:15 PM – Prof. Fan Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hosted by Prof. Michael Economo
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Neural circuits for rhythmic behaviors” 

(Cancelled) Wednesday, March 27, 12:15 PM – Prof. Caswell Barry, University College London
Hosted by Prof. Michael Hasselmo
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Why aren’t place fields round? Insights from experimental data and biologically plausible successor representations”

Wednesday, April 3, 12:15 PM – Prof. Kia Nobre, Yale University
Hosted by Prof. David Somers
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“The flexible and dynamic internal focus of attention”

Thursday, April 18, 2:00 PM – Thomas Wolbers, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Hosted by Matthias Stangl
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Path integration in aging and preclinical AD – from basic science to clinical assessment”

Wednesday, April 24, 12:15 PM – Prof. Jerzy Szablowski , Rice University
Hosted by Prof. Xue Han
Joint seminar with NPC
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Control and Monitoring of Intact Tissues with Noninvasive Neuroengineering”

Wednesday, May 1, 12:15 PM – Prof. Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University
Hosted by Prof. Mark Howe
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Subcortical Processing of Reward Signals”

Wednesday, May 8, 12:15 PM – Prof. Itamar Kahn, Columbia University
Hosted by Prof. Anna Devor
Joint seminar with NPC
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue
“Individual Variability in the Functional Connectivity Architecture of the Mouse Brain”

Wednesday, May 22 – CSN Neuromodulation Workshop
Neurotransmission is lit!: Monitoring acetylcholine and monoamine
dynamics during behavior
Speakers include: Nao Uchida (Harvard), Lin Tian (MPI), Lucas Pinto (Northwestern), Yao Chen (WUSTL), Jeff Gavornik (BU), Mark Howe (BU), Michael Hasselmo (BU), Lynne Chantranupong (BU), Maxime Maheu (Scott lab, BU), Brad Rauscher (Devor lab, BU), and Mai-Anh Vu (Howe lab, BU)
Hosted by Profs. Ben Scott, Mark Howe, and Mike Hasselmo
Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue