Spring 2025:
Department Seminars held in Biotech G01 from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| January 23, 2025 | Itai Cohen, Dept. of Physics, Cornell University; Host: Andrew Bass - Uncovering motor control in insect flight |
| January 30, 2025 Comstock 2123 | Scott Villa, Davidson College; Hosts: Graduate Students/Ella Zhao - Symbionts, specificity, and speciation: How interactions between endosymbionts and host behavior trigger the emergence of hybrid "super" pests |
| February 6, 2025 | Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior; Host: Jesse Goldberg - What land and sky animals see during predator-prey interactions and how to image deep cortical layers |
| February 13, 2025 - Cancelled Comstock 2123 | Julio Martinez, Western University; Host: Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani - Why do primates have view cells instead of place cells |
| February 27, 2025 | Robyn Crook, San Francisco State; Host: Ben Sandkam & Helen Stec - Cephalopods as comparative models for understanding injury-induced neural plasticity |
| March 6, 2025 | Dileep George, Google DeepMind; Host: Weinan Sun - Kant is wrong, Poincare is right: Toward a sequence-centric neurobiological theory of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex |
| March 13, 2025 | Albert Lee, Harvard University; Host: Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz - Hippocampal representations and their uses |
| March 27, 2025 | Jennifer Groh, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Host: Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani - Computing the location(s) of sound(s) in the visual scene |
| April 8, 2025 | Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre, Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Jian Hua - A Million Shades of Green: Harnessing Plant Metabolic Diversity for Food and Health Applications |
| April 10, 2025 | Marc Schmidt, UPenn; Perry Gilbert Lecture Series; Hosts: Graduate Students/Caleb Jones |
| Apri 17, 2025 | Maria Tosches, Columbia University; Host: Jonathan Perelmuter |
| April 24, 2025 | Ann Kennedy, Northwestern University; Hosts: Graduate Students/Naman Agrawal |
| April 25, 2025 | Nachum Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science; Host: Aza Oliva |
| May 1, 2025 | Kern Reeve, Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University; Host: Andrew Bass - Cancer, Plasticity and the Levels of Selection |
| May 6, 2025 | Michelle Monje, Stanford University, Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Toshi Kawata |