All 2020-2021 Columbia Neuroscience Seminars will occur virtually at 1 pm on Tuesdays
The Columbia Neuroscience Seminars are the flagship venue at Columbia for invited speakers from local, national, and international scientific communities to share new findings in neuroscience. 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 invited by a Committee made up of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from across Columbia's campuses. Committee members are listed below.
The Fall 2020 series poster is available for download here.
The Spring 2021 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.
FALL 2020 - SPRING 2021 CALENDAR
November 17
Tracy Bale
Univ. of Maryland
Host: Alex Dranovsky
December 1
Marina Picciotto
Yale
Host: James Belarde
December 8
Erich Jarvis
Rockefeller
Host: Ewoud Schmidt
December 15
Jeremy Nathans
Johns Hopkins
Host: Chi Zhang
January 12
David Raizen
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Claire Everett
January 19
Marla Feller
Berkeley
Host: Heike Blockus
January 26
Corey Harwell
Harvard
Host: Luke Nunelly
February 2
Roberto Bonasio
UPenn
Host: Jin Zhang
February 9
Sonia Garel
IBENS (Paris)
Host: Alonso Ortega Gurrola
February 16
Nao Uchida
Harvard
Host: Rikki Rabinovich
February 23
Ann Marie Craig
University of British Columbia
Host: Kevin Gonzalez
March 2
Harald Hess
Janelia
Host: Shikhar Dhingra
March 9
Megan Carey
Champalimaud
Host: Qianyun Zhang
March 16
Bruce Carlson
Washington University
Host: Abby Zadina
March 23
Lisa Giocomo
Stanford University
Hosts: Fraser Sparks and Serra Favila
March 30
Hongkui Zeng
Allen Institute
Host: Jacob Nye
April 6
Tirin Moore
Stanford University
Hosts: Natalie Steinemann and Nicholas Singletary
April 13
Marlene Cohen
University of Pittsburgh
Host: Danique Jeurissen
April 20
Seth Blackshaw
Johns Hopkins
Host: Revathi Balasubramanian
April 27
Shernaz Bamji
University of British Columbia
Host: Alexandra Panzarino
May 4
Catherine Jensen Peña
Princeton
Host: Eliza Jaeger
May 11
Uri Hasson
Princeton
Host: Tal Golan
May 18
Susan Ackerman
UCSD
Host: Devin Jones
May 25
John Tuthill
University of Washington
Host: Anita Devineni
June 1
Carlos Brody
Princeton University
Host: Kenneth Wengler
June 8
Laura Schulz
MIT
Host: Benjamin Peters
June 15
Oren Schuldiner
Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Surojit Sural
June 22
Yang Dan
UC Berkeley
Host: Joshua Taliaferro
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
Dmitry Aronov, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Edmund Au, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Revathi Balasubramanian, Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Heike Blockus, Associate Research Scientist
Jennifer Bussell, Associate Research Scientist
Anita Devineni, Associate Research Scientist
Rushell Dixon, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Mickey Goldberg, David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior (in Neuroscience and Neurology [in Psychiatry and Ophthalmology])
Jackie Gottlieb, Professor of Neuroscience
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, Assistant Professor of Clinical 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
Sam Norman-Haignere, Associate Research Scientist
Franck Polleux, Professor of Neuroscience
Nicholas Singletary, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior
Kelley Swanberg, Graduate Student in the Doctoral Program for Biomedical Engineering
Carol Troy, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology
Andrés Villegas, 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
Lori Zeltser, Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Jin Zhang, Associate Research Scientist