Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

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Seminar Schedule

January 22

TBA

January 29

TBA

February 5

TBA

February 12

TBA

February 19

TBA

February 26

TBA

March 5

TBA

March 12

TBA

March 19

TBA

March 26

TBA

April 2

TBA

April 9

John Sedivy, Brown University

April 16

Hui (Iris) Zhang, The University of Georgia

April 23

Veronica Alvarez, NIH/NIMH

April 30

Peng Jiang, Rutgers University

May 7

Timothy Ryan, Cornell University

May 14

Elly Nedivi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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News & Announcements

1/8/25 - Today we are joined by two new faculty members! A big welcome to Assistant Professor Marta Pratelli and Lecturer Melissa Haley!

12/12/25 - Jacob T. Crosser's Defense is on Friday December 12, 2025 at 12pm in LSB 038. The seminar is titled, "Structure of Collective Activity in Probabilistic Models in Neural Spiking". Braden Brinkman is the advisor.

12/5/25 - Siddharth Paliwal's Dissertation Defense is on Friday December 5, 2025 at 1pm Life Sciences Building Room 038. The seminar is titled, "Statistical Models of Metastability in Large Neural Populations". Braden Brinkman is the advisor.

11/10/25 - Jaqueline Martin's Dissertation Defense is on Monday November 10, 2025 at 10:30am Life Sciences Building Room 038. The seminar is titled, "Dissecting the roles of MeCP2 and FAM29B in the cell-type-specifc vulnerability for Parkinson's Disease". Markus Riessland is the advisor.

04/10/2025 - Alexander Baez's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Striatal Circuit and Cholinergic Interneuron Dysregulations in the SAPAP3-deletion mouse model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Signaling, Development and Therapeutic Targets." Joshua Plotkin is the advisor.

CELEBRATE BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK 3/10-3/16

03/11/2025 - Yuejiao (Camelia) Zheng's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Gustatory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Frontotemporal Dementia." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.

1/17/2025 - SB News spotlights Program in Neuroscience PhD students' creative brain awareness video in this article.

1/7/2025 - Applications for the MS in Neuroscience are open. Visit our program page for more information.

3/31/2025 - Our 2025 Mind Brain Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor.

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