Events Schedule

Baltimore Brain Series – Dr. Belina Rodrigues (UMB) “The role of amygdala-inferior frontal connectivity in linking childhood adversity to placebo analgesia”

Neuroscience

341 Krieger Hall, MBI Library, Homewood Campus

OneNeuro Student Talks, Kelsey Han and Chis Acha

Neuroscience

Mudd Hall 100, Homewood Campus

Baltimore Brain Series Award – Virtual Seminar, Hosted by University of Maryland Baltimore – Akshi (JHU) “Role of language modality in shaping the neural organization of language: Evidence from Deaf signers of American Sign Language” and Dr. Pathik Parekh (NIA) “From injury to repair: 3-Monothiopomalidomide (3-MP) shifts the phenotype of astrocytes and microglia in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury”

Virtual Seminar, Hosted by University of Maryland Baltimore

Neuroscience Postdoc Career Guidance Series – Part 2 of 3 – Interview Day and Pre-Interviews

Neuroscience

903 PCTB

Bodian Seminar Series

Krieger Hasll 338

OneNeuro Speaker Series, Constance Smith-Hicks, M.D., Ph.D. and Heather Volk, Ph.D., M.P.H. “Understanding Autism: From Genes to Daily Life”

Neuroscience

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Baltimore Brain Series Award – Virtual Seminar, Hosted by NIH – Renee Pepper (JHU) “Skoupocytosis: a role for homeostatic microglia in neuronal proteostasis and Xinglin Zeng (UMB) “Normative cerebral perfusion across the lifespan”

Virtual Seminar, Hosted by NIH

Neuroscience Seminar – Seth Margolis, JHU

West Lecture Hall

OneNeuro Postdoc Talks, Robert Phillips, Ph.D. “Spatiomolecular Mapping of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Across the Anterior-Posterior Axis”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Bodian Seminar Series – Mike Arcaro, UPenn “Topographic scaffolds shape visual development”

338 Krieger Hall, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar – Pavan Ramdya – Professor, Brain Mind Institute & Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL – How flies learn to engage with objects and one another

West Lecture Hall

Kavli NDI Omics Interest Group – Soichiro Asami – Ph.D. Student, Reza Kalhor Lab – Department of Biomedical Engineering – 4D Spatial Transcriptomics: Reconstruction of Organ Formation in a Single Experiment

MBI Special Seminar – Aaron Sampson, Ph.D., Assistant Research, Scientist Mind Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University – The Role of Attention in Multi Attribute Decision Making

Krieger Hasll 338

Neuroscience Seminar – Jeremiah Cohen – Allen Brain Institute – Structure and function of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons

West Lecture Hall

Bodian Seminar Series

Krieger Hasll 338

Kavli NDI X Speaker Series, Matteo Guardamagna, Ph.D., “On the origin of our sense of space: ontogeny of toroidal manifolds in the entorhinal cortex”

316 Clark Hall, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Postdoctoral Career Guidance Series – Dr. S. Somanath – Ex-Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization Chancellor, Chanakya University – “The Changing Higher Education Landscape in India”

Maryland Hall, 110 (Homewood Campus)

Neuroscience Seminar –

West Lecture Hall

Bodian Seminar: Bevil Conway, Ph.D. – Concepts: Origins & Mechanisms –

Krieger Hasll 338

Tiger (Yu Kang) Xu – Thesis Seminar – “Myelin Patterning in the Murine Brain” West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB –

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Neuroscience Seminar – Mubarak Hussain Syed – “From Lineages to Circuits and Behaviors: How Development Shapes Brain Architecture”

West Lecture Hall

Kavli NDI Multi Omics Working Group Monthly Meeting

Rangos 490

Sheridan Cavalier, BCMB Thesis Seminar, “Learning-induced transcription at single-cell and isoform resolution”

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

Neuroscience Seminar – Thomas Johnson III – Johns Hopkins University, SOM “Retinal ganglion cell transplantation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy”

West Lecture Hall

Kavli NDI-X Speaker Series – Dr. Jingwen Li, UC San Diego – The Role of Active Vision in Freely-Moving Marmosets

In person-Clark 316, Homewood Campus

Irika Sinha, Neuroscience Thesis Seminar, “From Large-Scale Data Mining to Target Discovery: Investigating TDP-43 Regulators and Creating a Cryptic Exon Dictionary”

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Foor PCTB

Neuroscience Seminar –

West Lecture Hall

Matilde Castro’s Thesis Seminar – “Neural Activity of the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Encodes the Pursuit of Alcohol and Natural Rewards” – Monday, August 4, 2025 – MBI Conference Room (341 Krieger Hall)

MBI Conference Room (341 Krieger Hall)

James Kiraly’s Thesis Seminar, “​Developmental Mechanisms that Shape Visual Motion Perception and Image Stabilization”, Friday, August 1, 2025, 3:00 pm, Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

Neuroscience Seminar Thesis, Isis Wyche, Lab of Dan O’Connor, “Whisker Deformation and Neuronal Response During Textured Surface Whisking​”, 4:00 PM, Homewood Campus, MBI Library

MBI Library, Homewood Campus

OneNeuro Postdoc Talks, Atsushi Saito, M.D., Ph.D. “A Novel Brain-Liver Axis: Aldehyde Dehydrogenase ALDH7A1 Links Hepatic Function to Seizure Phenotypes”

Basic Science Auditorium, Ground Floor WBSB

OneNeuro Student Talks, Brandon Nanfito “V1-Independent Development of Direction Tuning in Higher Order Visual Cortex”

Homewood Campus, Gilman Hall 132

Special Neuroscience Seminar Daniel Choquet, Ph.D. “AMPAR dynamics and synaptic plasticities”

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

Neuroscience Thesis Seminar, Daniel Daudelin, Lab of Shan Sockanathan “The Role of the GPI-Anchor Cleaving Enzymes GDE2 and GDE3 in Synaptic Function”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB

Neuroscience Thesis Seminar, Katie Irwin, Lab of Philip Wong “Novel fluid biomarkers reveal loss of TDP-43 splicing repression in presymptomatic ALS-FTD and Alzheimer’s disease”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Neuroscience Thesis Seminar, Hexin Liang, Lab of Daeyeol Lee “Signals Related to Sequential Decision-making in the Non-human Primate Cerebral Cortex”

Homewood Campus, MBI Conference Room

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Jan Drugowitsch, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Bodian Seminar, Timothy Buschman, Ph.D., Princeton University “The geometry of cognitive flexibility”

Krieger Hall, Room 338/341, Homewood Campus

Annual Vernon B. Mountcastle Lecture, Doris Tsao, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley “Representing the visual world”

Mountcastle Auditorium, School of Medicine Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Wei Li, Ph.D., National Eye Institute

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Neuroscience Lab Lunch, Lab of Dr. Robert Johnston

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Michel Cayouette, Ph.D., Montreal Clinical Research Institute/IRCM

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

The David Bodian Seminar, Jan Zimmerman, University of Minnesota

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Mark Zylka, Ph.D., UNC School of Medicine

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

The David Bodian Seminar, Cristina Savin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, New York University Center for Neural Science “Representing beliefs in a changing world”

338/341 Krieger Hall, Homewood Campus

OneNeuro Speaker Series “Cerebellar Vectors and Brain Games”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Tony Ricci, Ph.D., Stanford University

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

The David Bodian Seminar, Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University “The future of human vision: a cognitive computational neuroanatomical approach to study the human visual system”

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

OneNeuro & Cognitive Science Seminar, Lars Meyer, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute “How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Human Language (Processing)”

Krieger Hall 111, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Frances Champagne, UT Austin ““Dynamic interplay between early life environments: Implications for brain development and parental effects”

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

Baltimore Brain Series, Anna Maximova MD/PhD Student in Dr. Margaret McCarthy’s Lab University of Maryland Baltimore Dilara Gostolupce, Ph.D. National Institute on Drug Abuse

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Special Seminar, Clay Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science “The promise of whole-brain connectomics: Petascale network anatomy at cellular resolution in mouse and human brains”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

OneNeuro Postdoc Talks, Casey Keuthan, Ph.D., “To Splice or Not to Splice, That is the Question: Understanding the Alternative Splicing Landscape in Human Retinal Development and Disease”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor PCTB

The David Bodian Seminar, Jeanne Paz, University of California, San Francisco

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Karen Zito, Ph.D., UC Davis “Non-canonical NMDA receptor signaling modes in neuronal plasticity and disease”

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Kavli NDI Annual Symposium

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

Neuroscience Lab Lunch

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

The David Bodian Seminar, Roozbeh Kiani, New York University, “Flexible decision-making: policies and rules”

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Katharine Smith, University of Colorado, Denver “Illuminating mechanisms of GABAergic synapse function and plasticity”

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

Neuroscience Lab Lunch

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

OneNeuro Speaker Series, “–Exploring Sympathetic Pathways and Retinal ” Rejji Kuruvilla, Ph.D., Seth Blackshaw, Ph.D.

Mudd Hall 26, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D., UC Berkeley “Optically probing the neural codes of perception”

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Bodian Seminar, Anna Schapiro, Ph.D. “Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time”

338/341 Krieger Hall, 3400 N. Charles St. (JHU Homewood Campus) CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW: https://zoom.us/j/96310044276?pwd=tpm2KOHdv2eHbhgKZs1dTyYqHIVE7R.1

Kavli NDI X Speaker Series — Hongfei Xu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco “From Frequency coding to Synaptic Homeostasis”

Mountcastle Auditorium, 1st Floor PCTB

OneNeuro Postdoc Talks, Michael Totty, Ph.D. “From Mice to Men and Back Again: Unraveling Neural Circuit Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders”

West Lecture Hall, WBSB, Ground Floor

JHU Spring Break

Homewood Happy Hour

MBI Conference Room

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Weizhe Hong, Ph.D., UCLA “Neural Basis of Prosocial Behavior”

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

The David Bodian Seminar, Marc Sommer, Duke University

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Xin Duan, University of California, San Francisco “PerivascularRetinalNeuronsInstruct3D VascularLatticeFormation via NeurovascularContact”

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

Neuroscience Lab Lunch, Lab of Cynthia Moss, Ph.D., “3D object representation and spatial navigation in echolocating bats”

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

David Bodian Seminar, Ralf Haefner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Arts & Sciences: Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester ” Behavioral and neural signatures of generative inference in the brain”

Krieger Hall 338, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Thesis Seminar, Sriram Sudarsanam “Development of Neuronal Connectivity in the Murine Neocortex”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor PCTB

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Alicia Izquierdo, University of California, Los Angeles “Frontocortical circuits in learning under uncertainty”

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

The David Bodian Seminar, Bill Stauffer, University of Pittsburgh “From Control to Composition: Prefrontal Neuron Activity During Combinatorial Reasoning and Goal Formation”

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

OneNeuro Speaker Series, “Decoding Brain Disorders and Evolution”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor WBSB

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Shawn Sorrels, University of Pittsburgh

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

Oneneuro Postdoc Talks, Jennifer Lawlor, Ph.D. ” Neural Encoding of Sonar-Guided Behavior in the Bat Midbrain”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB

Mind/Brain Institute Special Seminar, Norman Lam, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Tufts University “Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching”

MBI Conference Room, Krieger 341, Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Richard Sando, Ph.D., Vanderbilt School of Medicine

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Neuroscience Lab Lunch

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

The David Bodian Seminar, Greg DeAngelis, University of Rochester “How the brain computes object motion and depth during self-motion”

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Franck Polleaux, Ph.D., Columbia University

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

OneNeuro Student Talks, Eva Yezerets, Biomedical Engineering, “Decomposed linear dynamical systems (dLDS) for characterizing brain-wide neural circuits and their interactions.”

Mudd Hall, Room 100, Homewood Campus

The David Bodian Seminar, Peter Rudebeck, Mount Sinai

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Anne Churchland, UCLA

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

OneNeuro Postdoc Talks – Mehmet Keles, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology “Deep Phenotyping of Sleep in Drosophila”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Josh Neman-Ebrahim, University of Southern California

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

Special Neuroscience Seminar–Celine Drieu “Sensory cortical computations for learning”

West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Jorg Grandl, Ph.D., Duke University

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Neuroscience Lab Lunch

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

Neuroscience Seminar Series – Samer Hattar, Ph.D., NIMH – Sexual attraction in fruit flies and tsetse flies

West Lecture Hall, WBSB Ground Floor

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Kara Marshall, Baylor University

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

The David Bodian Seminar, Dan Butts, University of Maryland, “Cortical processing of high acuity vision”

338 Krieger Hall, JHU Homewood Campus

Neuroscience Seminar Series, John Carlson, Yale University – Sexual attraction in fruit flies and tsetse flies

West Lecture Hall – Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building

OneNeuro Student Talks, Isis Wyche, “3D whisker-surface interaction during texture sensing.”

Homewood Campus, Mudd Hall 100

Neuroscience Lab Lunch

Basic Science Auditorium – Ground Floor – Wood Basic Science Building

Thanksgiving Holiday Break

OneNeuro Speaker Series, 2023 OneNeuro Sponsored Discovery Awards

Homewood Campus, Mudd Hall Room 26

Neuroscience Seminar Series, Joshua Corbin, Children’s National Hospital, “Development of the Social Brain”

West Lecture Hall–Ground Floor Wood Basic Science Building