2019-2020 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.

FALL 2019 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           LOCATION

Sept 9, 2019

Abigail Person

(UC Denver)

Website

Neural Mechanisms of Movement Precision

Krone EBB 1005

Sept 16, 2019

Nancy Kanwisher

(MIT)

Website

 Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind

Krone EBB 1005

Sept 23, 2019

Steven Sloan

(Emory)

Website

Using Human Brain Organoids to Unveil Neuron-Gilial Interactions During Development

Krone EBB 1005

Sept 30, 2019

Michael Borich (Emory)

Website

Perturbation-Imaging Approaches to Study Functional Contributions of Cortical Activity to Human Movement

Krone EBB 1005

Oct 7, 2019

Aubrey Kelly

(Emory)

Website

"Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanisms of Sociality"

Krone EBB 1005

Oct 28, 2019

Nigel Pedersen

Emory

Website

"Epilepsy - Beyond the Local Network"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 4, 2019

Tatyana Sharpee

(Salk Institute)

Website

"Hyperbolic Geometry of the Olfactory Space"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 11, 2019

Maryam Shanechi

(USC)

Website

"Neural Decoding and Control of Multiscale Brain Networks: From Motor to Mood"

Krone EBB 1005

Nov 18, 2019

Michael Stryker

(UCSF)

Website

"Two Forms of Plasticity in Adult Visual Cortex"

Krone EBB 1005

 

 Nov 25, 2019

Alberto Stolfi 

(GA Tech)

Website

 

"Evolution and Development of a Minimal Nervous System in our Closest Invertebrate Relatives" Krone EBB 1005

SPRING 2020 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           LOCATION

Jan 27, 2020       

Dan O'Connor

(Johns Hopkins)

Website

"A Functional Cortical Network for Sensorimotor Sequence Generation"                                                                                                

Krone EBB 1005        

Feb 3, 2020

Michael Dickinson

(Caltech)

Website

"Straighten Up and Fly Right:  Navigation and motor control in fruit flies"

 Krone EBB 1005

Feb 10, 2020

Adam Kohn

(Albert Einstein College of Med)

 

"Corticocortical Communication"

Krone EBB 1005

Feb 17, 2020

Matthew Rowan

(Emory)

Website

 

"Dissection of neural circuit function and degeneration from a subcellular perspective"

 

Marcus Nano 1116

March 9, 2020

Yang Dan

(UC Berkeley)

Website

"A Motor Theory of Sleep Control"

Krone EBB 1005

March 23, 2020

David Camarillo

(Stanford)

Website

Postponed

Krone EBB 1005

March 30, 2020

John Reynolds

(UCSD)

Website

Postponed

Krone EBB 1005

Apr 6, 2020

Gordon Berman

(Emory)

Website

Postponed

Krone EBB 1005

Apr 13, 2020

Lauren O'Connell

(Stanford)

Website

Postponed

    Krone EBB 1005                     

Apr 20, 2020

Adrienne Fairhall

(Univ of Washington)

Website

Postponed Krone EBB 1005