Upcoming Seminars
2020-2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Neuro 510
Mondays, 1:30pm – 2:30pm (Unless stated otherwise)
Spring Quarter – Zoom Seminar
Spring Quarter 2021
March 29, 2021
BE BOUNDLESS RESEARCH SEMINAR:
Showcasing senior scientists, acting instructors, and postdocs
Dr. Tahra Eissa,
Research Associate
University of Colorado Boulder
Seminar Title: “Strategic trade-offs between choice biases and accuracy for decisions based on asymmetric, rare evidence”
Zoom Link
April 5, 2021
Dr. Aakanksha Singhvi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
Seminar Title: “Molecular mechanisms of glia-neuron interactions”
More about Dr. Singhvi
Zoom Link
April 12, 2021
Dr. Zayd Khaliq
Senior Investigator,
National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke,
National Institute of Health
Seminar Title: “Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons – dendrites, soma and axons”
More about Dr. Khaliq
Zoom Link
April 19, 2021
Dr. Cecilia Moens (she/her)
Professor, Division of Basic Sciences
University of Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seminar Title: “Development and function of distinct sensorimotor reflex circuits within a continuous topographic map: what happens in vagus”
More about Dr. Moens
Zoom Link
April 26, 2021
Dr. Nancy Kopell
Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
Boston University
Seminar Title: “Understanding The Functions Of Brain Rhythms”
More about Dr. Kopell
Zoom Link
May 3, 2021
Dr. Robert Carrillo
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Grossman Neuroscience Institute
University of Chicago
Seminar Title: “Finding your partner and making it work: Examining synaptic connectivity and function in the fly neuromuscular circuit”
More about Dr. Carrillo
Zoom Link
May 10, 2021
Dr. Bo Li
Professor, Neuroscience
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Seminar Title: “Dissecting the neural circuitry underlying motivational behaviors”
More about Dr. Li
Zoom Link
May 17, 2021
Dr. Alejandro Rico-Guevara
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Behavioral Ecophysics: An Intro”
More about Dr. Rico-Guevara
Zoom Link
May 24, 2021
Dr. Sarah Woolley
Professor, Psychology
Columbia University
Seminar Title: “TBA”
More about Dr. Woolley
Zoom Link
Autumn Quarter 2020
October 5, 2020
Dr. Kate Wassum
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology
Brain Research Institute
UCLA
Seminar Title: “Corticolimbic circuitry in reward learning and pursuit”
More about Dr. Wassum
Zoom Link
October 12, 2020
Thomas A. Reh
Professor, Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Repurposing glia to regenerate neurons: it’s never too late to change their fate”
More about Dr. Reh
Zoom Link
October 19, 2020
Dr. Erik S. Carlson
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Cerebellar Contributions to Cognitive Function in Health and Disease”
More about Dr. Carlson
Zoom Link
October 26, 2020
Dr. Dmitriy Aronov
Assistant Professor, of Neuroscience
Columbia University Medical Center
Seminar Title: “Using food-caching birds to study episodic memory”
More about Dr. Aronov
Zoom Link
November 2, 2020
Dr. Chip Asbury (He/Him)
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “New biophysical strategies for uncovering how chromosomes are segregated during mitosis”
More about Dr. Asbury
Zoom Link
November 9, 2020
BE BOUNDLESS RESEARCH SEMINAR:
Showcasing senior scientists, acting instructors, and postdocs
Dr. Irini Topalidou
Senior Scientist
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Dense Core Vesicle biogenesis: new players shed light on an old problem”
&
Dr. Barbara Juarez
Postdoc
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Potassium channel regulation of dopamine”
November 16, 2020
Dr. Kay Tye
Professor,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Seminar Title: “Neural representations of social rank and competitive success”
More about Dr. Tye
Zoom Link
November 30, 2020
Dr. Lisa Giocomo
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Multiple Maps for Navigation”
More about Dr. Giocomo
Zoom Link
December 7, 2020
Dr. Kafui Dzirasa
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor,
Duke University Medical Center
Seminar Title: “Mapping Emotions: Discovering structure in mesoscale electrical brain recordings”
More about Dr. Dzirasa
Zoom Link
Winter Quarter 2021
January 4, 2021
Dr. Nathan Smith, MS, PhD,
Director of Basic Neuroscience Research,
Center for Neuroscience Research,
Principle Investigator, Center for Neuroscience Research,
The Children’s National Research Institute
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics &Pharmacology and Physiology,
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Seminar Title: “Ca2+-independent astrocytic lipid release modulates neuronal activity through Kv channels”
More about Dr. Smith
Zoom Link
January 25, 2021
Dr. G. Bard Ermentrout
Distinguished Professor, Computational Biology,
Professor, Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: “A robust neural integrator based on multiple time scales”
More about Dr. Ermentrout
Zoom Link
February 1 & 8, 2021
ANTI-RACISM TRAINING
12:30-2:30PM
Scott Winn, M.Sw.
Lecturer, School of Social Work
University of Washington
Zoom Link
February 22, 2021
Moved to March 15th.
March 1, 2021
Dr. Gina Turrigiano
Professor and Levitan Chair, Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Seminar Title: “The ups and downs of homeostatic plasticity”
More about Dr. Turrigiano
Zoom Link
March 8, 2021
BE BOUNDLESS RESEARCH SEMINAR:
Showcasing senior scientists, acting instructors, and postdocs
Dr. Sweta Agrawal,
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Central processing of leg proprioception in drosophila”
&
Dr. Koichi Hashikawa,
Acting Instructor
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Sex hormones govern hypothalamic pubertal transcriptional dynamics to regulate maturation of reproductive behaviors”
Zoom Link
March 15, 2021 (Neuro 510 students are not required to attend)
Dr. Maria Diehl
Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences
Cognitive and Neurological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP)
Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)
Kansas State University
Seminar Title: “Prelimbic circuits bidirectionally regulate active avoidance”
More about Dr. Diehl
Zoom Link