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 Biotech G10 | Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre, Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Jian Hua and Maria Harrison- 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 - A framework for studying the neural bases of vocal and postural courtship signaling in a social songbird |
| Apri 17, 2025 | Maria Tosches, Columbia University; Host: Jonathan Perelmuter - Evolution of the cerebral cortex: developmental programs, cell types, and tissue architecture |
| April 24, 2025 | Ann Kennedy, Scripps Research; Hosts: Graduate Students/Naman Agrawal - Theoretical models of state-dependent action selection: from behavior to circuits |
| April 25, 2025 | Nachum Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science; Host: Aza Oliva - Neuroscience going wild: Neural codes for space in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island |
| May 1, 2025 | Kern Reeve, Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University; Host: Andrew Bass - Cancer, Plasticity and the Levels of Selection |
| May 6, 2025 Yarnell Lecture Hall (4) | Michelle Monje, Stanford University, Life Sciences Lecture Series; Host: Toshi Kawata and Eirene Markenscoff-Papidimitriou - Neuron-Glial Interactions in Health and Disease: From Cognition to Cancer |