2023 - 2024 Schedule
Seminars start at 10:00 a.m.
Date | Speaker | Host | Seminar Title |
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Oct. 5, 2023 |
Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D. UC Berkeley |
Yi Gu, Ph.D. | Visual cortical circuits for segmentation, inference, and experience |
Nov. 2, 2023 |
Solange Brown, M.D., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Medicine |
Soohyun Lee, Ph.D. | Insights from cortical subcortical interactions |
May 2, 2024 |
Ron Yu, Ph.D. Stowers Institute |
TBD |
TBD Building 35A, room G640 |
June 6, 2024 |
Benjamin Scholl, Ph.D. UPenn |
TBD |
TBD Building 35A, room G640 |
Special Acknowledgement - Porter’s User Group
The NINDS Office of the Scientific Director (OSD) acknowledges the Porter’s User Group for sponsoring the Series.
Recorded Seminars
Recorded Seminars for the 2022-2023 Season. Recordings will be deleted in September 2023. Seminars are generally available within in two days of the seminar date.
Date | Speaker | Seminar Link | Password |
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Dec. 13, 2022 | John Reynolds, Ph.D. | Zoom | 0F$c.VBO |
Jan. 12, 2023 | Ila Fiete, Ph.D. | Zoom | JyH5^D?X |
Feb. 3, 2023 | Ann Graybiel, Ph.D. | ht!C$$=3 |
Archive - 2022 - 2023 Schedule
The seminars start at 10:00 a.m., the first Thursday of each month, October 2022 through June 2023.
Date | Speaker | Host | Seminar Title |
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Oct. 6, 2022 |
Guohong Cui, MD, PhD NIEHS, NIH |
Huaibin Cai, PhD | Exploring new strategies for diagnosing and treating Parkinson’s disease |
Oct. 20, 2022 |
Surya Ganguli, PhD Stanford University |
Mark Histed & Barry Richmond | Understanding neural dynamics in high dimensions across multiple timescales; from perception to motor control and learning |
Nov. 3, 2022 |
Hui Lu PhD GW School of Medicine |
Michelle Antoine, PhD | Effects of MeCP2 loss at the level of neural circuits: an approach to understanding Rett syndrome. |
Dec. 13, 2022 |
John Reynolds Salk Institute |
Mark Histed, PhD |
Intrinsic traveling waves of neural activity in Area MT of the awake, behaving monkey regulate the gain of stimulus-evoked responses and perceptual sensitivity |
Jan. 12, 2023 |
Ila Fiete, PhD (Virtual Visit) Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Yi Gu, PhD | Computing with attractors in the brain |
Feb. 2, 2023 |
Ann Graybiel, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Huaibin Cai, PhD | The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act |
Feb. 9, 2023 |
Adrienne Fairhall, PhD (Virtual Visit) University of Washington |
Lorna Role, PhD. | Variability and robustness in birdsong |
Mar. 2, 2023 |
Alison Barth, PhD Carnegie Mellon University |
Catherine Weisz, PhD |
Area of Interest: Expectation, surprise, and somatostatin neuron plasticity during learning Now in room 610. |
***CANCELLED*** Apr. 6, 2023 |
Melissa Warden, PhD Cornell University |
Hendrikje Nienborg, PhD | Neuromodulation and the balance between goal-directed and reactive behavior |
May 4, 2023 |
Steffen Hage, PhD University of Tubingen |
Yogita Chudasama, PhD | Vocal motor control mechanisms in non-human primates: new insights into the evolution of human speech |
June 1, 2023 |
Aryn Gittis, PhD Carnegie Mellon University |
Huaibin Cai, PhD |
Area of Interest: Our research seeks to understand how neural circuits in the basal ganglia are organized and function to shape movement in health and disease |