Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

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Seminar Schedule

August 28

TBA

September 4

Eamonn Dickson, UC Davis SOM

September 11

Dayu Lin, New York University

September 18

Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, Harvard University

September 25

Natale Sciolino, University of Connecticut

October 2

CANCELLED

October 9

CANCELLED

October 16

Alexander Gourine, University College London

October 23

CANCELLED

October 30

Alexandra Whiteley, University of Colorado Boulder

November 6

CANCELLED

November 13

Travis Hodges, Mount Holyoke College

November 20

NO Seminar

November 27

THANKSGIVING

December 4

BRITE

December 11

BRITE

December 18

BRITE

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News & Announcements

11/10/25 - Jaqueline Martin's Dissertation Defense is on Monday November 10, 2025 at 10:30am Life Sciences Building Room 038. The seminar is titled, "Dissecting the roles of MeCP2 and FAM29B in the cell-type-specifc vulnerability for Parkinson's Disease". Markus Riessland is the advisor.

04/10/2025 - Alexander Baez's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Striatal Circuit and Cholinergic Interneuron Dysregulations in the SAPAP3-deletion mouse model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Signaling, Development and Therapeutic Targets." Joshua Plotkin is the advisor.

CELEBRATE BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK 3/10-3/16

03/11/2025 - Yuejiao (Camelia) Zheng's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Laufer Center, Lecture Hall 101. The seminar is titled "Gustatory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Frontotemporal Dementia." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.

1/17/2025 - SB News spotlights Program in Neuroscience PhD students' creative brain awareness video in this article.

1/7/2025 - Applications for the MS in Neuroscience are open. Visit our program page for more information.

3/31/2025 - Our 2025 Mind Brain Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor.

04/08/2024 - Mind-Brain Lecture: Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Join us for a lecture by Dr. Anthony Zador on "A Neuroscientist's Guide to Artificial Intelligence"
Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Location: Staller Center Main Stage, Stony Brook University
Livestream available at stonybrook.edu/live.

12/20/2024 - Welcome our new faculty members Dr. Jun Takatoh and Dr. Shahriar SheikhBahaei!

12/10/2024 - Isabel Hubbard's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, Room 8-180. The seminar is titled "Glial C9orf72 Repeat Expression Produces Cell-intrinsic and Non-Cell Autonomous Toxicity in Drosophila." Joshua Dubnau is the advisor.

12/05/2024 - Shreevidya Korada's Dissertation Defense is on Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg - Room 038. The seminar is titled "LINE1 Replication is Associated with Cell Death and Motor Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of TDP43 Neurodegeneration." Roger Sher & Joshua Dubnau are the advisors.

12/04/2024 - John Chen's Dissertation Defense is on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. (EST), Life Sciences Bldg, Room 038. The seminar is titled "Sensorimotor Circuits in Taste-guided Decision Making." Alfredo Fontanini is the advisor.

11/26/2024 - Priscilla Yevoo's Dissertation Defense is on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (EST), Basic Science Tower, BST 8-180 The seminar is titled "Neurosteroid-mediated Tonic Inhibition in the Mouse Gustatory Cortex and Taste-guided Behaviors." Arianna Maffei is the advisor.

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