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