All seminars will occur virtually at 1 pm on Tuesdays.
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. 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.
The live seminars, including a pre-recorded lecture with curated closed captions*, live Q&A, and post-lecture mingling, are open to Columbia affiliates. (Registration is required: register here.) Many lecture recordings are publicly accessible on the Zuckerman Institute YouTube channel approximately one week after each seminar. 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 over twenty members that are 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 Spring 2022 series poster is available for download here.
*We strive for accuracy in closed captioning. When there is a discrepancy between the captions and the speaker, the speaker's words take precedence.
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.
SPRING 2022 CALENDAR
January 18 (CANCELED)
Gentry Patrick
USCD
January 25
Catherine Hartley
New York University
Host: Yvonne Li
Additional details HERE
February 1
Sonia Garel
IBENS (Paris)
Host: Alonso Ortega Gurrola
Additional details HERE
February 8 (CANCELED)
Vivek Jayaraman
Janelia Research Campus
Host: Richard Mann
February 15
Robert Carrillo
University of Chicago
Host: Abby Wood
February 22
André Fenton
New York University
Host: Walter Fischler-Ruiz
March 1
Alicia Izquierdo
UCLA
Host: Catherine Insel
March 8
Nicholas Bellono
Harvard University
Host: Wataru Yamamoto
March 15
Michael Rosbash
Brandeis
Host: Yifan Yao
March 22
Michael Crickmore
Harvard Medical School
Host: Richard Mann
March 29
Irina Vetter
University of Queensland
Host: Kelley M. Swanberg
April 5
Jessica Payne
Notre Dame
Host: Yifan Yao
April 12
Jean Rene Duhamel
CNRS
Host: Olivia Rutler
April 19
Mario Penzo
NIMH
Host: Christoph Kellendonk
April 26
Debby Silver
Duke University
Host: Nefeli Slavi
May 3
Mala Murthy
Princeton University
Host: Jacob Portes
May 10
Pierre Vanderhaeghen
KULeuven (Brussels)
Host: Franck Polleux
May 17
Jenny Hsieh
USTA
Host: TBD
May 24
Uri Hasson
Princeton University
Host: Tal Golan
May 31
Anna Molofsky
UCSF
Host: Charlotte Wayne
June 7
Robert H. Singer
Einstein
Host: Ella Doron-Mandel
June 14
Steve Chang
Yale University
Host: Vincent Fererra
June 21
David Stern
Janelia
Host: Richard Mann
June 28
Yasmin Hurd
Mount Sinai
Host: Rushell Dixon
SEMINAR STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Rui Costa, Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
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
Nuno Dinis Alves, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dmitry Aronov, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Edmund Au, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Jennifer Bussell, Associate Research Scientist
Briana Chen, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Vincent Ferrera, Professor of Neuroscience (in Psychiatry)
Mickey Goldberg, David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior (in Neuroscience and Neurology [in Psychiatry and Ophthalmology])
Rene Hen, Professor of Pharmacology (in Psychiatry), Neuroscience
Oliver Hobert, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Ben Hobson, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Systems Biology
Guillermo Horga, Florence Irving Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Eliza Jaeger, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Biological Sciences
Christoph Kellendonk, Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Psychiatry
Niko Kriegeskorte, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Jennifer R. Merrit, Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Will Orent, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Georgia Pierce, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Franck Polleux, Professor of Neuroscience
Monika Riegel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Francisco Sacadura, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Carol Troy, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology
Andrés Villegas, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Daniel M. Virga, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Hynek Wichterle, Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience (in Neurology), Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
Efran Zabeh, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Lori Zeltser, Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Jin Zhang, Associate Research Scientist