Seminar Schedule
August 29
Vidhya Rangaraju, Max Planck, Florida
September 5
Yingxi Lin, University of Texas Southwestern
September 12
Dick Tsien, New York University
September 19
TBA
September 26
Yi Gu, NINDS, Navigation and Memory Unit
October 3
Shreya Saxena, Yale University
October 10
TBA
October 17
Sandra Encalada, The Scripps Research Institute
October 24
Jorge Palop, University of California, San Francisco
October 31
Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Cornell University
November 7
Ezequiel Marron Fernandez de Velasco, University of Minnesota
November 14
CANCELLED
November 21
Helen Hou, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
November 28
THANKSGIVING
December 5 - BRITE
Pegah Kassraian, Columbia University
December 12 - BRITE
Claire Butler, University of California, Irvine
December 19 - BRITE
Yu-Chieh David Chen, New York University
News & Announcements
3/31/2025 - Our 2025 Mind Brain Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor.
12/05/2024 - Shreevidya Korada's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg - Room 038. The seminar is titled "LINE1 Replication is Associated with Cell Death and Motor Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of TDP43 Neurodegeneration." Roger Sher & Joshua Dubnau are the advisors.
12/04/2024 - John Chen's Dissertation Defense is on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg, Room 038. The seminar is titled "Sensorimotor Circuits in Taste-guided Decision Making." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.
11/26/2024 - Priscilla Yevoo's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, BST 8-180 The seminar is titled "Neurosteroid-mediated Tonic Inhibition in the Mouse Gustatory Cortex and Taste-guided Behaviors." Arianna Maffei is the advisor.
11/22/2024 - Jonathan Plessis-Belair's Dissertation Defense is on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), Life Sciences Bldg, Room 038. The seminar is titled "Nuclear Import Defects in an NEMF Mouse Model of Neurodegeneration." Roger Sher is the advisor.
10/18/24 - Join us to learn about the PhD Program in Neuroscience!
8/29/2024 - Our Fall 2024 Newsletter is live!
8/26/ 2024 - BRITE applications are open!
09/27/2024 - SAVE THE DATE! Department of Neurobiology Retreat at the Old Field Club. Featured Speaker – John J. Foxe – University of Rochester Medical Center
09/09/2024 - Zachary Hobel's Dissertation Defense is on Monday, September 9th, at 2:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "The Role of the Basolateral Amygdala to Dorsolateral Striatum Circuit in Compulsive Motor Behaviors." Joshue Plotkin is the advisor.
07/18/2024 - Sheed Itaman's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday at 12:00 p.m. The event will be held in Room 038 of the Life Sciences Building. The seminar is titled "Analysis of Adult Neural Stem Cell Division Dynamics.” Grigori Enikolopov is the advisor.
(CLOSED) 2024 Hartman Applications: APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. A call for proposals has been issued to members of the Stony Brook Research Community. The deadline is June 21, 2024. If you have any questions, please contact Catherine Costanzo (catherine.costanzo@stony.brook.edu)
05/03/2024 - 22nd Annual Symposium in Neuroscience hosted by the Graduate Students in the Program in Neuroscience is scheduled for Friday May 3, 2024, in the Dallas Bauman Center, SBU, Room C029.
Our Keynote speaker will be Dr. Farran Briggs, from the University of Rochester.
See flyer for additional information.
04/08/2024 - Mind-Brain Lecture: Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Sabine Kastner on "Everyone knows what attention is...".
Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Location: Staller Center Main Stage, Stony Brook University
Livestream available at stonybrook.edu/live.