ION seminars are held in Room 110 Willamette at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays unless otherwise specified. A reception precedes the seminar at 3:40 pm near the base of the stairs on the north side open to all seminar attendees.
Contact Jenna Penny for scheduling speakers at seminars @ uoneuro.uoregon.edu
Winter 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
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1/9/20 |
Loren Frank | Virtual Seminar hosted in Willamette 110 - "Understanding the brain's model of the external world" | David McCormick |
| 1/13/20 Monday Noon |
Wenhao Zhang | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar - "Linking the Theories of Computation with Neural Circuits in the Brain" | |
| 1/16/20 | James Murray | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar - "Rememberance of things practiced: Fast and slow learning in cortical and subcortical circuits" | |
| 1/21/20 Tuesday |
Gabriel Ocker | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar - "Physiological constraints and synaptic plasticity in neural circuits" EMU Crater Lake Room South, 12pm |
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1/23/20 |
Alain Destexhe | Non-linear propagating waves in the awake brain and their possible role | Yashar Ahmadian |
| 1/30/20 | Julia Horsfield | Zebrafish models for chromatin architecture in gene transcription and developmental syndromes | John Postlethwait |
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2/3/20 |
Agostina Palmigiano | Artificial Intelligence and the Brain Program: "Structure of inhibition in the mouse visual cortex", 417 LISB | Luca Mazzucato |
| 2/6/20 | No seminar | Graduate Recruitment | |
| 2/13/20 | TBA - Stephanie Palmer is rescheduled to May 21 | ||
| 2/20/20 | Luca Mazzucato | A hierarchy of timescales in neural circuits and behavior | |
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2/27/20 |
Diego Bohorquez | A gut choice | Judith Eisen |
| 3/5/20 | TBA | ||
| 3/12/20 | Matthieu Louis | Sensorimotor computations underlying orientation behavior during larval chemotaxis | Reese Findley |
Spring 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
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4/2/20 |
Andreas Schaefer | Virtual Seminar hosted in Willamette 110 - Title TBA | Matt Smear |
| 4/9/20 | Tristan Ursell | Developmental Biology Training Program Seminar | |
| 4/16/20 | Kelly Monk | TBA | Judith Eisen & Sarah Akerman |
| 4/23/20 | Ann Cowan | Developmental Biology Training Program Seminar | |
| 4/30/20 | Adrianne Fairhall | Developmental Biology Training Program Seminar | |
| 5/7/20 | Larry Abbott | TBA | Luca Mazzucato |
| 5/14/20 | Zach Mainen | TBA | Matt Smear |
| 5/21/20 | Stephanie Palmer | "How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing" Jointly hosted with Physics Colloquim Held in Willamette 100 with 3:40 pm reception in Atrium |
Cris Niell & Judit Pungor |
| 5/28/20 | Stephanie Jones | TBA | Nicki Swann |
| 6/4/20 | Nenad Sestan | TBA | David McCormick |
Past Seminars
Fall 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
|
10/3/19 |
Santiago Jaramillo | Neural pathways for auditory cognition | Promotion & Tenure Seminar |
| 10/4/19 Friday |
Carsen Stringer | High Precision Coding in the Visual Cortex | David McCormick |
| 10/8/19 Tuesday | Vijay Balasubramanian | Becoming what you smell: adaptive sensing in the olfactory system | Luca Mazzucato |
| 10/10/19 | Colin Johnson | Elucidating the role of otoferlin at the ribbon synapse | Adam Miller |
| 10/17/19 | Gwyneth Card | Towards a brain architecture for visual behavior selection | Chris Doe |
| 10/24/19 | Corey Harwell | Epigenetic regulation of forebrain neuron diversity and circuit assembly | Rachel Lukowicz |
| 10/31/19 | Andre Berndt | Engineering tools for optical monitoring and control of neuronal activity | Phil Washbourne |
| 11/7/19 | Lisa Stowers | Leveraging olfaction to study social behavior in the mouse | Matt Smear |
| 11/14/19 | Eric Shea-Brown | What makes high-dimensional networks produce low-dimensional activity? | Luca Mazzucato |
| 11/21/19 | Scott Linderman | Models and Algorithms for Understanding Neural and Behavioral Data | David Wyrick |
| 11/28/19 | Thanksgiving Holiday | No Seminar - UO Campus closed | |
| 12/3/19 | Ann Kennedy | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar: "Computational insights into neural representations and behavior" | |
| 12/5/19 | Kevin Wright | Making and breaking the retina, one neuronal subtype at a time | Adam Miller |
| 12/9/19 | Audrey Sederberg | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar: "Complex function wtihout complex structure: constraining neural models in the era of big data" | |
| 12/12/19 | Hannah Choi | Computational Neuroscience Candidate Seminar: "Hierarchical structure and computation of brain networks" |
Spring 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/4/19 | Stefano Fusi | The geometry of abstraction in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex | Luca Mazzucato |
| 4/11/19 | Tim Mosca | The Makings of Maturity: How Receptors and Proteolysis Regulate Synaptic Maturation | Emily Heckman |
| 4/18/19 | Florin Albeanu | Olfaction: from sensation to action and back | Matt Smear |
| 4/25/19 | Peyman Golshani | New Tools to Record Network Dynamics in Models of Disease | David McCormick |
| 5/2/19 | Elaine Hsiao | Host-microbiome interactions through the intestinal serotonergic system | Judith Eisen & Karen Guillemin |
| 5/9/19 | Megan Williams | Wiring the brain: how selective cell adhesion drives synapse specificity | Adam Miller |
| 5/16/19 | Andrea Hasenstaub | Flexible sound processing and cortical inhibition | David McCormick |
| 5/23/19 | Ellie Heckscher |
Time, stem cells and locomotion |
Chris Doe |
| 5/30/19 | Christof Koch | Cell Types in the Mouse and the Human Brain | |
| 6/6/19 | Jen Li & Drew Robson | A nonlinear oscilator coordinates brain-wide motivational state during foraging | Sarah Stednitz & Mike Wehr |
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