2020-2021 Seminar Series

GT Neuro Seminar Series - Mondays at 11:15 a.m.- until further notice these will be virtual at Bluejeans link

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FALL 2020 SEMESTER SCHEDULE  

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           Virtual

Sept 14, 2020

Mariam Aly, PhD

(Columbia)

Website

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

 

Sept 21, 2020

TBD

 TBD

 

Sept 28, 2020

Malavika Murugan, PhD

(Emory)

Website

"Investigating social spaces: Role of the prefrontal cortex in mediating social investigation"

Recording not available

 

Oct 5, 2020

Grace Leslie, PhD

(Georgia Tech)

Website

"Inner Rhythms:  Music Technologies Informed by Perception and Physiology"

 

Oct 12, 2020

Michael Shadlen, PhD

(Columbia)

Website

"The neurobiology of decision making: The best-laid plans of mice and primates"

 

 

Oct 19, 2020

Alireza Soltani, PhD

(Dartmouth)

Website

"Flexible Learning and Decision Makng in a Changing World"

 

Oct 26, 2020

 

Neuromatch Conference

 

Nov 2, 2020

Lena Ting, PhD

(Emory)

Website

"Revisiting muscle spindle function to understand impaired sensorimotor control"

 

Nov 9, 2020

Garrett Stanley, PhD

(Georgia Tech)

Website

"Timing is everything:  Tales from neural circuits and behavior"

 

 

 Nov 16, 2020

John Reynolds, PhD

(The Salk Institute)

Website

"Spontaneous travelling cortical waves gate perception in behaving primates"

 

 
Nov 23, 2020

Lauren O'Connell, PhD

(Stanford)

Website

"Ecological resources and the evolution of parent-offspring interactions"

 

SPRING 2021 SEMESTER SCHEDULE 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE                                           Virtual

Jan 25 2021

Gregoire Courtine, Ph.D.

(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Website

 "Neurotechnologies to restore functions after spinal cord injury"

Recording not available

 

Feb 1 2021

Sanne van Rooij, Ph.D.

(Emory University)

"Defining neuromodulation targets for PTSD using neuroimaging"

 

Feb 8 2021

Daniel Polley, Ph.D.

(Harvard University)

Website

"Neural coding of sound in the scending and descending auditory pathways"

 

Feb 15 2021

Fritjof Helmchen, Ph.D.

(University of Zurich)

Website

"Brain dynamics related to short term memory and learning"

 

Feb 22 2021

Warren Grill, Ph.D.

(Duke University)

Website

"Electrical Conduction Block of Neural Activity"

Recording not Available

 

Mar 1 2021

Lewis Wheaton, Ph.D.

(Georgia Tech)

Website

"Reconsidering parietofrontal activity during action encoding: translating basic science to motor rehabilitation" 

 

Mar 8 2021

Sepideh Sadaghiani, Ph.D.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Website

"The functional connectome across spatiotemporal scales:  How integrating fMRI and (i)EEG changes our understanding of the human brain" 

 

Mar 29 2021

Anil Seth, Ph.D.

(University of Sussex)

Website

"Real problems and beast machines:  predictive processing and conscious experience"

 

Apr 5 2021

Hannah Choi, Ph.D.

(GA Tech)

Website

"Hierarchial structure and computation of data-driven cortical networks"  
Apr 12 2021

Jing Xu, PhD.

(UGA)

Website

"Dissecting hand dexterity and recovery processes for effective rehabilitation"

 
Apr 19 2021

Jessica Bolton, Ph.D.

(GSU)

"How early-life experiences sculpt brain circuits to promote resilience or vulnerablity:  Role of microglia"