Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.Adjunct Associate Research ScientistZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior InstituteDepartment of NeuroscienceColumbia University The Neural Basis of Cognitive Flexibility in Primates A major challenge in neuroscience is to understand how neurons in one area can specifically communicate information to a subset of neurons in another area. I answer two questions: How is sensory information communicated […]
Chet Sherwood, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Anthropology& GW Mind-Brain InstituteGeorge Washington University Great Apes and Models of Human Brain Evolution Studying the brains of our closest living relatives, the great apes, can provide especially informative insights into neuroanatomical diversity and how evolution has shaped the distinct features of the human brain. In this seminar, the similarities […]
Michael Stephen Beauchamp, Ph.D.Professor of NeurosurgeryVice Chair for Research, Dept of NeurosurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania TBD TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D.Rosenberg Family Assistant Professor of Brain ScienceAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human BehaviorBrown University TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Tatiana Engel, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of NeurosciencePrinceton Neuroscience Institute TBD Faculty Host: Daeyeol Lee
Nora S. Newcombe, Ph.D.Laura H. Carnell Professor of PsychologyTemple University TBD Faculty Host: Jim Knierim
Jaewon Ko, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Brain SciencesDaegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)Daegu, South Korea Modulation of neural circuit organization by synaptic suppressors Synapses are fundamental information units of the brain that function by establishing and regulating innumerable overlapping and interdigitating neural circuits between neurons. Synaptic cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs) are central synapse organizers that […]
Tobias Teichert, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychiatry and BioengineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh A mesoscopic electrophysiology platform for the monkey to measure brain function and connectivity in the ketamine model of schizophrenia Key aspects of brain function can only be understood by recording from the entire brain in parallel, rather than parts of it in sequence. While fMRI […]
Krystel Huxlin, Ph.D.James V. Aquavella Professor of OphthalmologyUniversity of Rochester Vision Restoration after Occipital Stroke: Challenging the Limits of Adult Plasticity In humans, occipital strokes invariably damage the primary visual cortex (V1), causing a loss of conscious vision over large regions of the visual field, referred to as cortically induced blindness (CB). This unfortunate “experiment […]
Kei M. Igarashi, Ph.DChancellor's Fellow & Associate ProfessorDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of MedicineUniversity of California, Irvine Circuit mechanisms of associative memory and its disruption in Alzheimer’s disease Memory has multiple components: “what” memory (item/object), “when” memory (time) and “where” memory (space). Research in the past decades revealed neurons involved in spatial memory, including […]
Mark Churchland, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Dept. of NeuroscienceColumbia University in the City of New York From spikes to factors: understanding large-scale neural computations It is widely accepted that human cognition is the product of spiking neurons. Yet even for basic cognitive functions, such as the ability to make decisions or prepare and execute a voluntary movement, […]
Erin Hecht, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary BiologyHarvard University Brain-behavior evolution in domesticated canids How do animals evolve new behavioral adaptations? Domestication offers a unique window into this question because it can involve strong selection pressure on a focused set of behaviors. In one set of studies, we are comparing brains of foxes from […]
