2023 Seminar Series
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)
