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Neuroscience Seminar Series
Presented by the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
The Neuroscience Seminar Series brings together the George Mason neuroscience community on selected Mondays from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Krasnow 229 or via Microsoft Teams (passcode: bz6zP3zm). All seminars are free and open to the George Mason community. For questions email nkabbani@gmu.edu.
Fall 2026
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title | Link/Location |
| September 14, 2026 | Natalie Erickson | IPN Graduate Student | Nicotinic Mechanisms of Neuroimmune Protection | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
| September 21, 2026 | Daniel J. Nicholson | Assistant Professor, Philosophy, George Mason University | Population Thinking and the Uniqueness of Biological Entities | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
| October 5, 2026 | Ama Boakye-Agyei | IPN Graduate Student | TBD | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
| November 2, 2026 | Diego Alonso Gonzalez | IPN Graduate Student | Electrophysiological investigation of hippocampal network factors that regulate the late postnatal maturation of spatial learning and memory | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
| November 9, 2026 | Ozlem Dilek | Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University | Molecular Glow Up: Developing Fluorescent Tools for Bioimaging | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
| December 7, 2026 | Fatima Asad | IPN Graduate Student | TBD | Krasnow Institute Building, Room KB 229 |
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title | Link/Location |
| March 1, 2026 | Dr. Ruben Tikidji-Hamburyan | George Washington University | Cellular-synaptic mechanism of network desynchronization in unrefined visual thalamus. | KB 229 |
| April 13, 2026 | Dr. Elsa Ronzier | George Mason University, Institute of Biohealth Innovation | A cardiac model to investigate the impact of neurotropic viral infections beyond the CNS | Recording |
| April 20, 2026 | Davood Bayat, PhD student | George Mason University | Neural Correlates of Self-Focused and Other-Focused Incentives in Trust and Trustworthiness | KB 229 |
Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title | Link/Location |
| 10/27/25 @ 3pm | Aya Nusir, PhD Candidate | George Mason University | Integrative Analysis of Microglial Dynamics in Nicotine Exposure and Developmental Neurobiology | KB 229 |
| 12/1/25 | Rebekah Evans | Georgetown University | Non-canonical brain circuits controlling movement and valence | KB 229 |
Spring 2024
Spring 2024 seminars will be at 4pm EST.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Location |
| 5 Feb 2024 | Tom Longden | University of Maryland, School of Medicine | Electro-metabolic control of blood flow by brain pericytes | |
| 11 March 2024 @ 9am EST | Sherin Abdelrahman | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Mini Brain-in-a-Dish for In Vitro Modeling of Parkinson’s Disease Using Ultrashort Self-Assembling Peptide Scaffolds | |
| 1 April 2024 | Jacob Nordman | Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine | Violence is Learned: How Synaptic Plasticity in a Medial Amygdala Circuit Drives Experience-Dependent Aggression | |
| 8 April 2024 | Dana Freeman | NIH/NINDS | Age-related changes in mitochondrial morphology and distribution compromise cholinergic synapses in basal forebrain projections to the basolateral amygdala. |
Spring 2023
Spring 2023 seminars will be at 12pm EST.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Location | Feedback |
| 3/6/2023 | Kayla Gilley-Connor | Baylor (Faculty Candidate) | |||
| 3/10/2023 | Estuardo Robles | Purdue (Faculty Candidate | Distant inputs unite: synaptic plasticity driven by | ||
| 3/20/2023 | Bevan Main | Georgetown (Faculty Candidate) | Alzheimers |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
| 9/19/2022 | Ren Guerriero | GMU | Meditation & Attention: Even Novices can Benefit | |
| 9/28/2022 | Bobby Azarian | Mason Alum | The Romance of Reality Special Event Mason Science Series Country Club of Fairfax 4-6pm (Free!) Register | |
| 10/17/2022 | Ian Davison | Boston University | Navigating the natural sensory world with olfaction |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
| 2/7/2022 | Hadley Bergstrom | Vassar College | Visualization of fear memory generalization engrams in the infralimbic cortex | |
| 2/21/2022 | Robert Meisel | University of Minnesota | A Neurobiology of Female Sexual Desire | |
| 3/28/2022 | Remi Veneziano | George Mason University | Designer DNA Nanoarchitectures for Biomedical Applications | |
| 4/18/2022 | Jill Silverman | UC Davis | Reconsidering animal models used to study neurodevelopmental disorders and autism spectrum disorder: Current state and optimizing future | |
| 09/12/2022 (Fall 2022) | Bobby Azarian | The Romance of Reality |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9-13-2021 | Jim Olds | George Mason University | Next Steps for American Neuroscience | |
| 10-11-2021 | Holger Dannenberg | George Mason University | Neural dynamics underlying the coding of location and running speed in the medial entorhinal cortex | |
| 12-6-2021 | Christopher Del Negro | William & Mary | Breathing matters! Genes, ion channels, neurons, and networks at the core of breathing behavior. |