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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

BAW Events

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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Recent Publications

1/2/26 [Plotkin Lab]:  Striatal cholinergic interneurons exhibit compartment-specific anatomical and functional organization in the mouse

12/19/25 [Riessland Lab]:  Age-related nigral downregulation of the Parkinson's risk factor FAM49B primes human microglia for inflammaging

12/12/25 [La Camera and Fontanini Labs]:  Linear and categorical coding units in the mouse gustatory cortex drive population dynamics and behavior in taste decision-making

12/11/25 [Sher and Riessland Labs]:  Systematic profiling reveals distinct senescence signatures and regulators across human brain cell types

11/28/25 [Fontanini Lab]:  Cortical dopaminergic signaling mediates planning of directional movements

11/20/25 [Shrestha Lab]:  Prefrontal oxytocin receptor positive cells mediate stress-induced anxiety in tuberous sclerosis complex

11/13/25 [Sirotkin and Wollmuth Labs]:  Conservation of human NMDA receptor subunits and disease variants in zebrafish

10/9/25 [Brinkman Lab]:  Phase transitions in in vivo or in vitro populations of spiking neurons belong to different universality classes

9/19/25 [Wollmuth and Sirotkin Labs]:  Optimizing prime editing in Zebrafish

7/1/25 [La Camera Lab]:  A sticky Poisson Hidden Markov Model for solving the problem of over-segmentation and rapid state switching in cortical datasets

6/2/25 [Brinkman Lab]:  Metastability in networks of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons

5/30/25 [Wollmuth Lab]:  A graded neonatal mouse model of necrotizing enterocolitis demonstrates that mild enterocolitis is sufficient to activate microglia and increase cerebral cytokin expression

5/16/25 [Riessland and Sher Labs]: Nuclear Import Defects Drive Cell Cycle Dysregulation in Neurodegeneration

4/7/25 [Xiong Lab]:  The zona incerta
negatively regulates the red nucleus during movement cued by sound signals

2/18/25 [Fontanini Lab]: Deficits in taste-guided behaviors and central processing of taste in the transgenic TDP-43Q331K mouse model of frontotemporal dementia

01/02/25 [McKinnon  Lab]: Hypoosmotic stress shifts transcription of circadian genes