The NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series features lectures and discussions with leading neuroscientists. Sponsored by NINDS, NIMH, NIA, NIDCD, NIDA, NICHD, NEI, NIAAA, NIDCR, NHGRI and NCCIH, the series offers seminars on aspects of molecular, cellular, developmental and cognitive neuroscience as well as neuroscience related topics in disease, pain, and genetics.
Seminars are held on most Mondays from Noon to 1:00 pm (ET) in the Porter Neuroscience Bldg., room 620/630, on the NIH Bethesda Campus.
There will be no virtual option this season. Speakers will choose if they wish to have their seminar recorded and archived. If they agree the seminar will be available on the NIH Videocast site under Past Events. If you wish to meet with the speaker during their visit, please contact the seminar host listed on the below schedule to make those arrangements.
For additional information about the series and seminar details, please contact MaryCatherine Hellmuth at 301-435-2232.
Planning Committee
Committee Chair: Dr. Alex Chesler
Series Coordinator: MaryCatherine Hellmuth
Series Schedule
The planning committee is currently working on development of the 2024-2025 series schedule, the series is expected to start in September and run through June.
| DATE | Speaker | Host | Seminar Title |
| 9/11/2023 | Mingjie Zhang Hong Kong University of Science & Technology | Wei Li, NEI | Phase Separation in Synapse Formation and Function |
| 9/18/2023 | Diego Bohorquez Duke University | Mario Penzo, NIMH | Deciphering Visceral Instincts |
| 9/25/2023 | Timothy Ryan Weill Cornell Medicine | Zayd Khaliq, NINDS | A Synaptic Energy Crisis Entangled in Neurodegenerative Disease and Potential Ways to Confer Resilience |
| 10/2/2024 | ** Cancelled ** Marc Freeman | Quan Yuan, NINDS | Competition for Phospholipids Drives Astrocyte Morphogenesis in the CNS |
| 10/16/2023 | Megan Carey Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown | Mark Wagner, NINDS | Understanding the Complex Behaviors of the 'Simple' Cerebellar Circuit |
| 10/23/2023 | Moritz Helmstaedter Max Planck Institute for Brain Research | Soohyun Lee, NIMH | Cerebral Cortex Connectomics |
| 10/30/2023 | Stephan A. Pless University of Copenhagen | Kenton Swartz, NINDS | Channels and Beyond: Two Examples of how Heterogenous Protein Complexes Shape the Excitability of Neuronal Tissues |
| 11/6/2023 | Zhaozhu Qui Johns Hopkins Medicine | Wei Lu, NINDS | From SWELL to PAC: Discovery of Novel Chloride Channels |
| 11/20/2023 | Ivan De Araujo Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Andrew Lutas, NIDDK | Gut-Brain Circuitries and the Physiology of Reward |
| 11/27/2023 | Ellie Heckscher University of Chicago | Ariel Levine, NINDS | How to Build Motor Circuits Starting from Stem Cells |
| 12/4/2023 | Francisco Quintana Brigham & Women's Hospital | Chuan Wu, NCI | Regulatory CNS Cell-cell Interactions |
| 12/11/2023 | Jessica Cardin Yale University School of Medicine | Soohyun Lee, NIMH | Functional Flexibility in the Cortex |
| 1/8/2024 | Tianyi Mao Oregon Health Science University | Yi Gu, NINDS | Understanding Brain Circuits and Their Modulation Using Connectomic and Novel Imaging Approaches |
| 1/22/2024 | David Bennett University of Oxford | Mark Hoon, NIDCR | Combining Human Genetics with Physiology to Understand the Mechanisms of Persistent Pain |
| 1/29/2024 | Jessica Tollkuhn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Prithviraj Rajebhosale, NINDS | Mechanisms of Gene Regulation that Specify Behavioral Diversity |
| 2/5/2024 | Christopher Harvey Harvard Medical School | Yi Gu, NINDS | Cortical Circuits for Spatial Navigation |
| 2/12/2024 | Annegret Falkner Princeton University | Michael Krashes, NIDDK | Mapping the Neural Dynamics of Social Dominance and Defeat |
| 2/26/2024 | Mazen Kheirbek University of California, San Francisco | Hugo Tejeda, NIMH & Lorna Role, NINDS | Representing Rewarding and Aversive Experiences in Hippocampal Circuits |
| 3/4/2024 | Antonina Roll-Mecak NINDS, NIH | Claire Le Pichon | Cell Biology and Biophysics |
| 3/11/2024 | Gyorgy Buzsaki New York University Langone Medical Center | Mark Histed, NIMH | Credit Assignment: How does the Brain Select What is Worth Remembering |
| 3/18/2024 | Sheena Josselyn Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute | Lorna Role, NINDS | Engrams and Memory in Mice |
| 3/25/2024 | Staci Bilbo Duke University | Ashley Frakes, NIDDK | Neural-glial Interactions in Neurodevelopment: Implications for Lifelong Health |
| 4/1/2024 | Yavin Shaham NIDA, NIH | Yarimar Carrasquillo | Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Neurobiology of Relapse Section |
| 4/8/2024 | Catharine Winstanley The University of British Columbia | Angela Langdon, NIMH | Following the Cues: the Effects of Sound and light Cues on Risky Decision Making and Impulse Control |
| 4/15/2024 | Zachary Knight University of California, San Francisco | Hao Jin, NIAID | Neural Circuits that Control Ingestion |
| 4/22/2024 | Arif Hamid University of Minnesota Medical School | Bruno Averbeck, NIMH | Regional Dopamine Dynamics during Agency Learning |
| 4/29/2024 | Priya Rajasethupathy The Rockefeller University | Maria Yurgel, NIMH | Thalamic Contributions to Memory Processing |
| 5/6/2024 | Shane Liddelow New York University Langone Medical Center | Priyanka Narayan, NIDDK | Using Astrocyte Transcript Heterogeneity as a Tool to Drive Biological Discovery |
| 5/13/2024 | Yang Dan University of California, Berkeley | Ariel Levine, NINDS | The How and Why of Sleep |
| 5/50/2024 | Martyn Goulding The Salk Inst. for Biological Studies | Yuan Yuan (Kevin) Liu, NIDCR | Somatosensation and the Control of Movement |
| 6/3/2024 | Alexxai Kravitz | Alex Chesler, NCCIH | Neural Mechanisms that Control Decision Making and Feeding |
| 6/10/2024 | Ling- Gang Wu NINDS, NIH | Zayd Khaliq and Katie Kindt | Synaptic Transmission Section |
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Recorded Seminars - Archive
Most seminars are recorded upon speaker consent. Each recorded speaker selects viewing permissions (Worldwide viewing, HHS only, or NIH staff only), so access may vary. Unless otherwise noted, recorded seminars are available on the NIH Videocast website. All archived NIH Neuroscience Seminars are works of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material, and it may be disseminated freely.