Current News & Announcements
3/31/2025 - Our 2025 Mind Brain Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor.
12/20/2024 - Welcome our new faculty members Dr. Jun Takatoh and Dr. Shahriar SheikhBahaei!
12/10/2024 - Isabel Hubbard's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, Room 8-180. The seminar is titled "Glial C9orf72 Repeat Expression Produces Cell-intrinsic and Non-Cell Autonomous Toxicity in Drosophila." Joshua Dubnau is the advisor.
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 Newsletteris live!
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08/26/24 Applications for this year's BRITE seminar series are open! We look forward to hosting
three outstanding postdoctoral scholars to present their research here at the Department
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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.
Explore the neural basis of attention in the primate brain with Dr. Kastner.
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