Here comes our roll of honors of neuroscience-related talks...

Date Speaker - Affiliation - Talk title

09/24/22 Malú Gámez Tansey - University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Targeting chronic inflammation and TNF-dependent mechanisms to reduce lifetime risk of neurodegenerative disease

09/30/21 Christian Henneberger - University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)

Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals

09/25/21 William Banks - University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

Neuroimmunology and the Blood-Brain Barrier: implications for viral invasions of the CNS

03/22/21 Baljit Khakh - UCLA

Cells that tile your brain: astrocyte roles in neural circuits and disease

03/15/21 Joshua Berke - UCSF

Dynamic dopamine signals for learning and motivation

02/15/21 Elisabetta Menna - Humanitas Research Hospital (Milan, Italy)

Role of the innate immune molecule PTX3 in synapse maturation during brain development

12/06/19 Ekaterina Likhtik - CUNY Hunter College (New York City, NY)

Circuit communication during learned fear suppression

11/22/19 Melissa Warden - Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)

Neuromodulation and the balance between goal-directed and reactive behavior

12/07/18 Alfreo Fontanini - SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)

Integration of sensory and cognitive signals in the gustatory system

10/15/18 Linda Overstreet-Wadiche - University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)

Synaptic connectivity of adult-born neurons

10/15/18 Zayd Khaliq - NIH/NINDS (Bethesda, MD)

GABAergic control of excitability in midbrain dopaminergic neuron subpopulations

02/23/18 Paul Kammermeier - University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

The unique interaction between mGluR1 & 5

02/09/18 Giovanni Mirabella - La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy)

The dark side of movements control

10/13/17 Alexander Jaworski - Brown University (Providence, RI)

Efficient, high-fidelity neuronal wiring by multifunctional receptors

10/06/17 Matteo Farinella - Columbia University (New York City, NY)

Science communication

09/11/17 Henry Yin - Duke University (Durham, NC)

The basal ganglia in action

05/12/17 Arianna Maffei - SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)

GABAergic inhibition in cortical circuits

05/05/17 Julie Haas - Lehigh University (Lehigh, PA)

Electrical synapse plasticity: a theme and variations

04/21/17 Ania Majewska - University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, NY)

Microglia and synapses – working together to implement experience-dependent plasticity

01/20/17 Sandra Jurado Sanchez - University of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)

Excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus exhibit molecularly distinct large dense core vesicles

12/09/16 Ankur Saxena - University of Illinois (Chicago, IL)

Olfactory neurogenesis: a high-resolution view of neural crest migration and differentiation

09/23/16 Ira Cohen - SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)

From biological pacemakers to cancer therapy: a personal journey

09/09/16 David Cook - University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

Blast-related traumatic brain injury: The consequences of more than a decade at war

09/09/16 Hans Peter Larsson - University of Miami (Miami, FL)

Polyunsaturated fatty acids as anti-arrhythmic agents

07/07/16 Sarah Knox - UCSF (San Francisco, CA)

It takes nerves: neuronal stem cell interactions guide organ development and regeneration

06/03/16 Nicolas Wanaverbecq - Aix-Marseille University (Marseille, France)

GABAergic modulation of medullospinal CSF-contacting neurons in mammals

04/22/16 Veronica Alvarez - NIH/NIAAA/NINDS (Bethesda, MD)

Muscarinic regulation of dopamine and glutamate transmission in the nucleus accumbens

04/15/16 Kapil Bharti - NIH/NEI (Bethesda, MD)

Developing a cell therapy for AMD: from bench towards bedside

04/01/16 Jamie Maguire - Sackler School, Tufts University (Boston, MA)

KCC2 activity is critical in limiting the onset and severity of status epilepticus

03/25/16 Ravikumar Balasubramanian - Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

Regulation of human puberty: insights from Mendelian and complex trait genetics

03/11/16 Timothy Blenkinsop - Mount Sinai Hospital (New York,NY)

Modeling eye diseases with human retinal pigment epithelial cells title

01/29/16 Alexander Khmalazde - Department of Physics, University at Albany (Albany, NY)

Holographic imaging and Raman spectroscopy of complex biological systems

12/11/15 Katherine Roche - NIH/NINDS (Bethesda, MD)

CaMKII phosphorylation of neuroligin-1 regulates excitatory synapses

10/09/15 Mary Kay Lobo - University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)

Shining light on motivation, emotion, and memory processes

09/11/15 Bo Li - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)

The paraventricular thalamus controls a central amygdala fear circuit

08/28/15 Lenise Da Silva - Federal University of Western Pará, Brazil

Challenges of fish biology studies to improve the aquaculture in the Brazilian Amazon

05/01/15 Leonardo Belluscio - NIH/NINDS (Bethesda, MD)

Olfactory circuitry: at the Intersection of activity, plasticity and regeneration

01/23/15 Alexxai Kravitz - NIH/NIDDK (Bethesda, MD)

What can movement circuits tell us about obesity?

12/05/14 Jeremy Dittman - Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City, NY)

Complexin-mediated inhibition of vesicle fusion: conserved functions from worm to mouse

11/12/14 Ludovic Tricoire - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France)

De-orphanizing the delta family of glutamate receptors: role in slow glutamatergic synaptic transmission

10/17/14 Chris Dulla - Sackler School, Tufts University (Boston, MA)

Spatial mapping of astrocyte glutamate uptake in the injured developing brain

10/10/14 Laura Anne Lowery - Boston College (Boston, MA)

Regulation of microtubule dynamics in growth cone motility

09/26/14 Troy Littleton - Massachussets Institute of Technology (Boston, MA)

Genetic dissection of synaptic communication in Drosophila

09/19/14 Lorin Milescu - University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)

Neuronal excitability investigated with real-time computation