SEMINAR SCHEDULE

August 27th

Joel Zylberberg

September 3rd

Hannah Choi

September 10th

Gregory Schwartz

September 17th

Jason MacLean

September 24th

Yonathan Aljadeff

October 1st

Larry Abott

October 8th

Anders Nelson

October 22nd

Kishore Kuchibhotla

October 29th

Axel Nimmerjahn

November 5th

David Schneider

November 12th

Hong-Yuan Chu

November 19th

BRITE

December 3rd

BRITE

December 10th

BRITE

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

8/7/26 - Afrinash Ahamad's Defense is on Friday, August 7th at 10am in Health Science Center LH3.  The seminar is titled, "Activity-Dependent Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Neurons During Aging".  Shaoyu Ge is the advisor.

8/6/26 - Kimberly Nnah's Defense is on Thursday, August 6th at 9am in Basic Sciences Tower 8-180.  The seminar is titled, "Disrupting the Gut-Brain Immunological Axis:  Epithelial IL-17RA Deletion Mitigates Stress-Induced Inflammation and Depressive Phenotypes".  Stella Tsirka is the advisor.

7/9/26 - Applications are open for this year's BRITE postdoctoral seminar series!

5/12/26 - Lu Chen's Defense is on Tuesday, May 12th at 3pm in LSB 038.  The seminar is titled, "Tail Striatal Neurovascular Coupling in Auditory Learning".  Qiaojie Xiong is the advisor.

4/29/26 - Taylor Russo's Defense is on Wednesday April 29th at 12:30pm in LSB 038.  The seminar is titled, "Characterizing Cell-Type-Specific Mechanisms of Senescence in Brain Aging and Parkinson's Disease".  Markus Riessland is the advisor.

3/31/26 - Erin Sipple's Defense is on Tuesday March 31st at 3pm in LSB 038.  The seminar is titled, "Endocannabinoid Modulation of T-type Calcium Channels to Treat Chronic Neuropathic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury". Michelino Puopolo is the advisor.

3/27/26 - Irene Nozal Martin's Defense is on Friday March 27th at 10am in LSB 038. The seminar is titled, "A Novel Tool to Study 3D Facial Movements Reveals Physiological Processes in Mice". Helen Hou is the advisor.

SAVE THE DATE!  This year's Mind Brain Lecture will be held on Monay March 30th at 4pm.  Dr. James J. DiCarlo from MIT will be deliving the talk, "AI-derived Mechanisms of Human Vision".

1/8/26 - Today we are joined by two new faculty members!  A big welcome to Assistant Professor Marta Pratelli and Lecturer Melissa Haley!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

5/28/26 [McKinnon Lab]:  Transcriptomic and Lipidomic Analysis o fthe Cryptococcal Lung Granuloma Reveals Macrophage Boundary Programs and Sphingolipid Remodeling

5/5/26 [McKinnon Lab]:  Pde4 Mediates MHCII Expression in Oligodendroglia

4/16/26 [Maffei Lab]:  Postnatal Development of Pyramidal Neurons Excitability and Synaptic Inputs in Mouse Gustatory Cortical Circuits

4/7/26 [Xiong and Ge Labs]:  Astrocytic glucose metabolism regulates the survival of newborn hippocampal neurons in the adult brain

3/16/26 [Plotkin Lab]:  Synchronous activation of striatal cholinergic interneurons induces local serotonin release

2/4/26 [Riessland and SheikhBahaei Labs]:  Speech motor deficits in developmental stuttering and Parkinson's Disease:  From cellular and circuit to network-level disruptions

1/2/26 [Plotkin Lab]:  Striatal cholinergic interneurons exhibit compartment-specific anatomical and functional organization in the mouse

12/29/26 [Dubnau and Sher Labs]:  LINE-1 retrotransposition in a mouse TDP-43 model of neurodegeneration marks motor cortex neurons for cell-intrinsic and cell non-autonomous programmed cell death

12/19/25 [Riessland Lab]:  Age-related nigral downregulation of the Parkinson's risk factor FAM49B primes human microglia for inflammaging

12/12/25 [La Camera and Fontanini Labs]:  Linear and categorical coding units in the mouse gustatory cortex drive population dynamics and behavior in taste decision-making

12/11/25 [Sher and Riessland Labs]:  Systematic profiling reveals distinct senescence signatures and regulators across human brain cell types