Our Neurosciences Seminar Series brings together the Stanford neuroscience community to discuss cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary brain research, from biochemistry to behavior and beyond.
Topics include new discoveries in fundamental neurobiology, advances in human and translational neuroscience, insights from computational and theoretical neuroscience, and the development of novel research technologies and neuro-engineering breakthroughs. Join us before the seminar for coffee, cookies, and conversation with colleagues, starting at 11:45 am.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays at 12:00 noon PT in the Gunn Rotunda (E241) of the Stanford Neurosciences Building.
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Quarterly Schedule
The seminar series is organized on a quarterly basis. Click the buttons below to see the posters featuring the speaker lineup for each quarter in the 2023-2024 series.
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Events in this series
Tianyi Mao - Understanding brain circuits and their neuromodulation using connectomic and novel in vivo imaging approaches
Yuki Oka - Peripheral and central regulations of body fluid balance
Andrew Saxe - The Neural Race Reduction: Feature learning dynamics in deep architectures
Christine Grienberger - A directed form of plasticity drives experience-dependent hippocampal representations.
Taraz Lee - Cognition, Control, and Action: the multifaceted interplay between cognitive and motor systems
Ethan Hughes - Oligodendroglia: Implications for adult CNS plasticity and repair
Mikhail Shapiro - Talking to cells: biomolecular ultrasound for deep tissue cellular imaging and control
Catherine Dulac - Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors
Victoria Abraira - Context is key: how spinal cord neuromodulation shapes our somatosensory experiences
Tanya Daigle - Enhancer AAVs for basic and translational applications
Yanchao Bi - From perception and language to knowledge representation in the human brain
Carlos Ponce - Single-Neuron Insights in the Age of Generative Models
Bianca Jones Marlin - Sensing Trauma: Intergenerational Inheritance of Olfactory Sensory Experience
Richard Mooney - A synaptic account of birdsong learning (Eric M. Shooter Lecture)
Polina Anikeeva - Biologically Informed Neurotechnology for Probing Brain-Body Physiology
Laura Colgin - Hippocampal place cell coding of non-spatial information
Catharine Winstanley - More than rewarding: how do sound and light cues impact risky decision making and motor impulsivity?
Kelsey Martin - The evolving landscape of autism research
Kay Tye - Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis
