Columbia University in the City of New York

Columbia Neuroscience Seminars

Elaine Hsiao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology at UCLA, speaks a recent seminar (Credit: Sirin Samman for Columbia's Zuckerman Institute)

Sparking the conversations that drive science forward.

 

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminars series is a collection of invited talks by national and international researchers in the field of neuroscience. Speakers represent a range of research institutions and career stages, who are recognized experts in their field or who have demonstrated future promise for outstanding research. The seminars are open to Columbia affiliates and take place at the Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute or the Neurological Institute of Columbia University Irving Medical Center.   

As a major goal of this seminar series is to expose graduate students, postdoctoral and junior researchers to high-quality science and to stimulate scientific discourse, the weekly lectures and associated events are designed to draw together the neuroscience community at Columbia and to catalyze the conversations and collaborations that advance the discipline. Invited speakers join meetings with faculty, graduate students and postdocs at Columbia to continue the conversation after their seminar. Those wishing to meet with a speaker may email the host listed below or see the contact information on individual event pages. 

Speakers are chosen by a selection committee composed of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from across Columbia's campuses. Guided by the Columbia Neuroscience Seminars Core Values and Participation Guidelines, the committee solicits nominations for speakers broadly from the Columbia community before inviting speakers whose work represents various fields and techniques in Neuroscience. Committee members are listed below.

The series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science

FALL 2023 CALENDAR

Seminars occur in-person on Tuesdays at 10:30am and will only be available to Columbia University Affiliates

 

September 12
Jennifer Groh
Duke University
Host(s): Sarah Woolley and Danique Jeurissen
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Live-stream Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Seminar details here

September 19
Bruno Averbeck 
National Institutes of Health
Host(s): Jacqueline Gottlieb and Yuhao Jin 
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Live-stream Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Seminar details here

October 3
Nachum Ulanovsky  
Weizmann Institute of Science
Host(s): Mickey Goldberg
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Live-stream Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Seminar details here

October 10
Viviana Gradinaru 
California Institute of Technology
Host(s): Yasmine El-Shamayleh and Margaret Conde Paredes
Speaker Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Live-stream Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Seminar details here

October 17
Gaspar Jekely  
University of Exeter
Host(s): Maria Tosches
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Live-stream Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Seminar details here

November 28
Reza Shadmehr
Johns Hopkins University
Host(s): Nate Sawtell and Ramin Khajeh
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Live-stream Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Seminar details here

December 5
Heidi Jacobs
Harvard University
Host(s): Yunglin Gazes and Hengda He
Speaker Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Live-stream Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Seminar details here

December 12
Thomas Schwarz
Harvard University
Host(s): Francesca Bartolini
Speaker Location: Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium
Live-stream Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Seminar details here

 

 

 

SEMINAR STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

 

Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Associate Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute; Codirector of Columbia's Kavli Institute for Brain Science

Carol Mason, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology); Chair of Interschool Planning at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

Serge Przedborski, Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience); Director, Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative

Steven Siegelbaum, Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Pharmacology; Chair, Department of Neuroscience

 

 

SEMINAR SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

Caitlin Lloyd, Postdoc 

Carol Troy, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology

Christoph Kellendonk, Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Psychiatry

Dritan Agalliu, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology and Cell Biology

Emily Mackevicius, Postdoc

Francisco Salema Oom de Sacadura, Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program

Franck Polleux, Professor of Neuroscience 

Frankie Garcia Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program 

Hynek Wichterle, Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience (in Neurology), Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine 

Inbal Israely, Assistant Professor in Pathology & Cell Biology, and Neuroscience 

Isabel Bravo, Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program

Ishani Ganguly, Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program

Jennifer Gelinas, Assistant Professor of Neurology/IGM

Jennifer Merrit, Postdoc

Katherine Delgado, Graduate student in the Biology Program 

Kristin Anderson, Postdoc

Lori Zeltser, Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology 

Maria Antonietta Tosches, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences 

Niko Kriegeskorte, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience 

Nuno Alves, Postdoc

Stevie Hamilton, Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program

Xinyue Chen, Graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program 

Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 

View a list of past speakers

Speaker Archive