Seminar Series
Date: May 21, 2024, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Mario Penzo, PhD
Senior Investigator
Unit on the Neurobiology of Affective Memory
National Institute of Mental Health
Topic: The Midline Thalamus and the Control of Goal-Oriented Behaviors
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
Date: February 27, 2024, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Seth Pollak, PhD
Vaughan-Bascom Distinguished University Professor
Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, Anthropology
LaFollette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: Re-thinking Adversity: Early Life Stress from the Child's Perspective
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
Date: January 16, 2024, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Pat Levitt, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Senior VP and Director, The Saban Research Institute
Simms/Mann Chair of Developmental Neurogenetics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
WM Keck Provost Professor of Neurogenetics
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Topic: Functional Implications of Developmental Heterogeneity
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
Date: November 9, 2023, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Flavio Donato, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Head of Research Group
Biozentrum of the University of Basel
Topic: Memory dynamics through the divergent recruitment of developmentally-defined hippocampal traces
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
Date: September 19, 2023, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Alexander Shackman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
Topic: The Nature and Neurobiology of Anxiety
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
Date: July 11, 2023, Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Read Montague, PhD
Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor
Director, Center for Human Neuroscience Research
Franlin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech
Topic: “Reinforcement Learning, Monoamines and the effort to connect neurochemical dynamics to Human Perception.”
Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) and also Telecast via Zoom, passcode: 764583
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Date: June 13, 2023, Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Nathan A. Fox, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program
University of Maryland
Topic: “The Effects of Early Psychosocial Deprivation on Brain and Behavior: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.”
Also Telecast via Zoom
Passcode: 764583
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Date: May 23, 2023, Time: 12:00 – 1:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Tanja Jovanovic, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences
Wayne State University
Topic: The “When” Matters: Developmental Timing of Trauma Exposure.
In-Person Location: Gross Hall 4th Floor, Thorpe Conference Room
Also Telecast via Zoom
Date: April 6, 2023, Time: 12:00 – 1:30PM (PT)
Speaker: Mattia Maroso, PhD
Senior Editor
Science Magazine
Topic: Life at Science.
In-Person Location: Gross Hall 4th Floor Conference Room
Also Telecast via Zoom
Date: March 23, 2023, Time: 2:00 – 3:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Scott Russo, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Endowed Chair, Mount Sinai Professor in Affective Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Topic: Immune-brain interactions in depression.
In-Person Location: Herklotz Conference Room
Also Telecast via Zoom
Date: March 21, 2023, Time: 10:00 – 11:00AM (PT)
Speaker: Michael Bruchas, PhD
Professor, Pharmacology
University of Washington
Topic: Decoding Heterogeneity of the Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic System in Arousal and Stress.
In-Person Location: ISEB Room 1200
Also Telecast via Zoom
Date: March 20, 2023, Time: 3:00 – 4:00PM (PT)
Speaker: Diego Pizzagalli, PhD
Director, McLean Imaging Center, Center for Depression, Anxiety & Stress Research
Professor of Psychiatry
McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Topic: New Frontiers in Depression Research and Treatments.
In-Person Location: Herklotz Conference Room
Also Telecast via Zoom
Date: February 23, 2023
Speaker: Lisa M. Monteggia, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University
Topic: Mechanisms of Rapid Antidepressant Action.
In-Person Location: Plumwood House (Showa Denko Lecture Hall)
Also Telecast via Zoom
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Time: 3:00 – 4:00PM (PT)
Date: February 21, 2023
Speaker: Dylan G. Gee, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Yale University
Topic: Leveraging the Science of Early-Life Adversity to Promote Youth Mental Health.
In-Person Location: Gross Hall, 4th Floor, Thorpe Conference Room, Also Telecast via Zoom
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Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Date: January 17, 2023
Speaker: Andrea Danese, MD, PhD
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
King’s College London
Topic: New Directions in Research on Childhood Adversity.
Location: Zoom
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Time: 9:00 – 10:00AM (PT)
Date: November 29, 2022
Speaker: Dominik R. Bach, MD, PhD
Professor of Cognitive-Computational and Clinical Neuroscience,
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging and Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
University College London
Topic: Human action selection under threat:
computing adaptive behaviour
Location: Zoom
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Time: 9:00 – 10:00AM (PT)
Date: October 25, 2022
Speaker: Rajendra Morey, MD, MS
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Translational Neuroscience
Duke University
Topic: Leveraging Team Science at a Global Scale to
Investigate the Neurobiology of PTSD
Location: Zoom
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Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PT)
Date: September 13, 2022
Speaker: Susan B. Perlman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Director | Laboratory for Child Brain Development
Washington University of St. Louis
Topic: Neuroscientific Evaluation of Risk in Early Childhood Psychopathology: Integrating Proximal and Distal Factors.”
Location: Gross Hall 4th Floor & Zoom
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Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Date: June 14, 2022
Speaker: C. Neill Epperson, M.D.
Robert Freedman Endowed Chair and Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Executive Director | Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
Professor | Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Anschutz Medical Campus
Topic: Enduring Impact of Childhood Adversity: Multimodal Investigations Across the Lifespan
Location: Zoom
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Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PT)
Date: May 9, 2022
Speaker: Mathias Schmidt, Ph.D
Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
“Neurobiology of Stress Resilience”, Munich, Germany
Topic: Routes to enhance stress resilience: Manipulation of genes or environment?
Location: Gross Hall 4th Floor Conference Room - Refreshments and Pastries provided
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Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PT)
Date: April 5, 2022
Speaker: Katie McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Harvard University
Topic: Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity with Psychopathology Across the Life-Course
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Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PT)
Date: February 22, 2022
Speaker: Garret Stuber, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of Washington
Topic: Neurocircuits for Motivation and Reward
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Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM (PDT)
Date: February 15, 2022
Speaker: William A. Carlezon Jr., Ph.D.
Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Chair in Psychiatry Chief
Basic Neuroscience Division Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience McLean Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Enduring effects of early developmental immune activation
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Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PDT)
Date: January 11, 2022
Speaker: Thomas L. Kash, Ph.D.
John Andrews Distinguished Professor
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Vice-Chair for Faculty Development
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Topic: Probing the Role of Serotonin in Alcohol Use Disorders
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Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (PDT)
