2018-2019 Seminar Series

GT Neuro Seminar Series - Mondays at 11:15 a.m. in Krone Engineered Biosystems Building 1005 and videoconferenced at Bluejeans link

We host student meetings with our speakers in Krone 2029 following each of the talks.  Sign up to participate.

SPRING 2019 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           LOCATION

Jan 14, 2019

Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia)

Lab Websit

"High-speed imaging of real-time, brain-wide activity"     

Krone EBB 1005

Jan 28, 2019

Nelson Spruston (Janelia)

Lab Website

"Deconstructing memory circuits at cell type-specific resolution"     

Krone EBB 1005

Feb 11, 2019

Mark Goldman (UC Davis)

"Microcircuits for short-term memory storage, motor control, and neural integration"     

Krone EBB 1005

Feb 18, 2019

John Serences (UC San Diego)

Lab Website

"Simultaneous representation of sensory and mnemonic information in human visual cortex"     

IBB 1128

Mar 11, 2019

Carlos Brody (Princeton)

Lab Website

"Neural circuit mechanisms underlying cognition in rats"     

Krone EBB 1005

Mar 25, 2019

Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis)

Lab Website

"Self-tuning neurons and firing rate homeostasis in visual cortical networks"     

Krone EBB 1005

Apr 1, 2019

Na Ji (UC Berkeley)

Lab Website

"Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution"     

Krone EBB 1005

Apr 8, 2019

Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley)

Lab Website

"A naturalistic, big-data approach to understanding the brain"     

Krone EBB 1005

Apr 15, 2019

James "Jay" McClelland (Stanford)

Lab Website

"Integrating new knowledge into a neural network without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment"     

Krone EBB 1005

 

FALL 2018 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           LOCATION

Sept 17, 2018        

Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon)

Lab Website

"How learning rewires the brain: sequential synaptic plasticity across the cortical column"                                                                                                     

Krone EBB 1005        

Sept 24, 2018

Joseph Manns (Emory)

Lab Website

"Memory and brain: remembering what's important"

 Krone EBB 1005

Oct 1, 2018

Thackery Brown (GT)

Lab Website

"Mechanisms of mapping space in human memory"

Krone EBB 1005

Oct 15, 2018

Dan Feldman (UC Berkeley)

Lab Website

"Neural codes and maps in whisker somatosensory cortex"

Krone EBB 1005

Oct 22, 2018

Annaelle Devergnas (Emory) 

"Impact of seizures in memory performance on a NHP model of temporal lobe epilepsy"

Krone EBB 1005

Oct 29, 2018

Robert Gross (Emory)

Lab Website

"Engineering neurotechnology for the surgical treatment of epilepsy: a surgeon-scientist-non-engineer's perspective"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 12, 2018

Vivek Jayaraman (Janelia)

Lab Website

"What the fly can tell us about the neural basis of navigation"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 19, 2018

Jordan Hamm (GSU)

Lab Website

"Distinct neuronal ensembles encode sensory stimulus context in the neocortex"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 26, 2018      

Brent Doiron (Pittsburgh)

Lab Website

"New Cortex. Who dis(inhibition)?"

Krone EBB 1005