2024
Neuroscience and Special Lectures
January 25 – Neuroscience Lecture
Tom Baden, University of Sussex, UK: Beyond Colour Vision: Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour. Host: Vanessa Stempel
January 31 – Neuroscience Lecture
Ilana Witten, Princeton University, USA: Mapping learning and decision-making algorithms onto brain circuitry. Host: Hiroshi Ito
February 20 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Samuel Sy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China: An optofluidic platform for interrogating chemosensory avoidance in larval zebrafish. Host: NA
February 27 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Mauricio Martins Oliveira, New York University, USA: Evidence of a translation feed-forward response to neuronal plasticity and memory consolidation. Host: NA
February 28 – Neuroscience Lecture
Ivan de Araujo, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany: Parallel Body-Brain Circuits and their Functions. Host: Vanessa Stempel
March 05 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Amy Courtney, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK: Novel forms of neurotransmission in the octopus visual circuits. Host: NA
March 12 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Rachida Ammari, Francis Crick Institute, UK: Hormone-mediated neural remodeling orchestrates parenting onset during pregnancy. Host: NA
March 20 – Neuroscience Lecture
Evan Macosko, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA: Spatial and single-cell genomics for next-generation neuroscience. Host: Erin Schuman
April 03 – Neuroscience Lecture
Johannes Letzkus, University of Freiburg, Germany: Top-down control of neocortical threat memory. Host: Erin Schuman
April 17 – Special Lecture
Mei Zhen, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada: An integrative approach to understand motor control. Host: Moritz Helmstaedter
April 24 – Neuroscience Lecture
Karl Farrow, Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders, Belgium: Circuits of the superior colliculus enabling flexible innate behaviors. Host: Vanessa Stempel
July 26 – Special Lecture
Arkarup Banerjee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA: Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication: Insights from the Singing Mouse. Host: Alison Barker
September 03 – Special Lecture
Elad Schneidman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: How to build accurate connectomes with a small set of design principles. Host: Moritz Helmstaedter
September 10 – Neuroscience Lecture
Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University, USA: The Synaptic Organization of Dendrites. Host: Gilles Laurent
September 27 – Neuroscience Lecture
Mala Murthy, Princeton University, UK: Circuit Mechanisms for Dynamic Social Interactions. Host: Gilles Laurent
October 10 – Project Lecture
Gesine Born, Bilderinstitut, Germany: Missing Pictures - Bringing Women in Science to Light. Host: Erin Schuman
November 11 – Special Lecture
Mojtaba R. Tavakoli, Danzl Group, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria: Leveraging the power of light microscopy and hydrogel-tissue chemistry to interrogate the brain across scales. Host: Sahil Loomba
December 09 – Special Lecture
David J. Anderson, California Institute of Technology, USA: Neural Dynamics Underlying Internal Behavioral States in the Hypothalamus. Host: Gilles Laurent