The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute

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 […]

Joshua Neunuebel, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain SciencesUniversity of Delaware Decoding Mouse Ultrasonic Communication During Social Behavior Communication plays an integral role in human social dynamics, and a myriad of neurodevelopmental disorders are characterized by abnormal social communication. Because of their genetic tractability, mice are emerging as an important model system for studying […]

Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Standard accounts claim that chimpanzees react negatively to allocations in which they receive less than others, while children, from around […]