Neuroscience Seminar Series
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Presented by the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
The Neuroscience Seminar Series is back on selected Mondays at 4pm featuring guest speakers presenting on multidisciplinary topics in neuroscience and cognitive science research. All seminars will be virtual via Zoom, email gscott21@gmu.edu for the link access. All seminar talks are free and open to the public.
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 | Recorded session |
| 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 | Recorded Session |
| 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 | Recorded Session |
| 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. | Recorded Session |
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) | Recording | Feedback for Gilley-Connor | |
| 3/10/2023 | Estuardo Robles | Purdue (Faculty Candidate | Distant inputs unite: synaptic plasticity driven by | Recording | Feedback for Robles |
| 3/20/2023 | Bevan Main | Georgetown (Faculty Candidate) | Alzheimers | Recording | Feedback for Main |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
| 9/19/2022 | Ren Guerriero | GMU | Meditation & Attention: Even Novices can Benefit | Zoom Recording |
| 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 | Zoom Recording |
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 | Zoom Recording Bergstrom Seminar |
| 2/21/2022 | Robert Meisel | University of Minnesota | A Neurobiology of Female Sexual Desire | Zoom Recording Meisel Seminar |
| 3/28/2022 | Remi Veneziano | George Mason University | Designer DNA Nanoarchitectures for Biomedical Applications | Zoom Recording Veneziano Seminar |
| 4/18/2022 | Jill Silverman | UC Davis | Reconsidering animal models used to study neurodevelopmental disorders and autism spectrum disorder: Current state and optimizing future | Zoom Recording Silverman Seminar |
| 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 | N/A |
| 10-11-2021 | Holger Dannenberg | George Mason University | Neural dynamics underlying the coding of location and running speed in the medial entorhinal cortex | Zoom Recording Dannenberg talk |
| 12-6-2021 | Christopher Del Negro | William & Mary | Breathing matters! Genes, ion channels, neurons, and networks at the core of breathing behavior. | Zoom recording of Del Negro talk |
Past Seminars
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9-13-2021 | Jim Olds | George Mason University | Next Steps for American Neuroscience | N/A |
| 10-11-2021 | Holger Dannenberg | George Mason University | Neural dynamics underlying the coding of location and running speed in the medial entorhinal cortex | Zoom Recording Dannenberg talk |
| 12-6-2021 | Christopher Del Negro | William & Mary | Breathing matters! Genes, ion channels, neurons, and networks at the core of breathing behavior. | Zoom recording of Del Negro talk |
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 | Zoom Recording Bergstrom Seminar |
| 2/21/2022 | Robert Meisel | University of Minnesota | A Neurobiology of Female Sexual Desire | Zoom Recording Meisel Seminar |
| 3/28/2022 | Remi Veneziano | George Mason University | Designer DNA Nanoarchitectures for Biomedical Applications | Zoom Recording Veneziano Seminar |
| 4/18/2022 | Jill Silverman | UC Davis | Reconsidering animal models used to study neurodevelopmental disorders and autism spectrum disorder: Current state and optimizing future | Zoom Recording Silverman Seminar |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (event link) | Recording |
| 9/19/2022 | Ren Guerriero | GMU | Meditation & Attention: Even Novices can Benefit | Zoom Recording |
| 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 | Zoom Recording |