2019
Neuroscience and Special Lectures
January 23 - Neuroscience Lecture
Attila Losonczy + Master Class, Mortimer Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York: Dissecting hippocampal microcircuits for navigation and learning
March 13 - Neuroscience Lecture
Nicolas Renier, ICM Brain Spine Institute, Paris: Mapping the transparent brain: development and applications of light sheet microscopy-based imaging
March 20 - Neuroscience Lecture
Robert Froemke, New York University School of Medicine: Oxytocin, synaptic plasticity, and maternal behavior
March 27 - Special Lecture
Richard Morris, Hertie Lecture, Centre of Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh: The neurobiology of the making and keeping of memory
April 03 - Neuroscience Lecture
Michael Berry, Princeton Neuroscience Institute: A design principle for population neural codes
April 08 - Special Lecture
John Tuthill, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington: Neural mechanisms of leg
proprioception and motor control in Drosophila
April 09 - Special Lecture
Marco Capogna, Dept. of Biomedicine & Dandrite, Aarhuis University, Denmark: The necessity of GABAergic neuron diversity for amygdala and hippocampal circuits
May 29 - Special Lecture
Tomohisa Toda, DZNE Dresden, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Nuclear architecture in neural identity and plasticity
June 19 - Neuroscience Lecture
Hillel Adesnik, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and HWNI, UC Berkeley: Optically probing the neural basis of perception
July 03 - Special Lecture
Marc Schmidt, Dept. of Biology University of Pennsylvania: A framework to study the neurobiology of courtship behavior in songbirds
September 04 - Special Lecture
Greg J. Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Principles and possibilities in the phase space of animal behavior
September 09 - Special Lecture
Mollie Meffert, The Solomon Snyder Dept. of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore:
Growth regulatory microRNAs in neuronal function
September 27 - Special Lecture
Vanessa Stempel, Sainsbury Wellcome Center, University College London: Midbrain circuits for computing
instinctive escape
December 09 - Special Lecture
Benjamin Scholl, Functional architecture and development of cerebral cortex group: The neural population within a neuron: synaptic building blocks of cortical selectivity
December 11 - Neuroscience Lecture
Marta Zlatic, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK: Circuits mechanisms of learning, predicting, and selecting actions in Drosophila