Weekly Seminar Series
During the Fall and Spring semesters, students attend seminars. Lunch is provided and the atmosphere is informal. Seminars are in a variety of formats and emphasize inspiration as well as education. Topics include translational research findings, transdisciplinary clinical case conferences, and career pathways.
SPRING 2025 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
January 17, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Michael Guo, MD, PhD: Uncovering the Genetic and Genomic Underpinnings of Alzheimer’s Disease
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
January 24, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Thomas H. Scott MD: Non-Opiate Pain Management
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
January 31, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Adrianna (Anna) C. Jenkins, PhD: The ‘Social Brain’ and Atypical Social Cognition
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
February 7, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Andrea L.C. Schneider, MD, PhD: Powered by Numbers: Leveraging Epidemiological Data to Accelerate Research to Improve Long-Term Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
February 21, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Shana E McCormack, MD, MTR: Role of Mitochondria in Pediatric Endocrine Disorders
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
February 28, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Julia Parish-Morris, PhD: Parsing Heterogeneity in Autistic Spoken Language
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
March 7, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Erin Conrad, MD, MA: The Promises and Pitfalls of Quantitative EEG in Epilepsy
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
March 21, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kimberly M Christian, PhD: Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models to Investigate Neurodevelopment
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
March 28, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Sheila Shanmugan, MD, PhD: Using Precision Functional Mapping to Understand Sex Differences and Women's Mental Health
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
April 4, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Katheryn Cousins-Gershenson, PhD: Biofluid Biomarkers to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related Dementias (ADRD) in Life
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
April 11, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kahlilia Blanco, PhD: Utilizing Mouse Models of Stroke as a Tool for Epigenetic Therapy Discovery
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
April 18, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Jennifer R. Goldschmied, PhD: Can Sleep Slow-Wave Activity Provide Insights Into Improving Mood, Health and Wellbeing?
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
April 25, 2025 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mijail Serruya, MD, PhD: Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices & Constructs for Motor Control Restoration in Children with Neurological Disease and Injury
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FALL 2024 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD & Xilma R. Ortiz-González, MD, PhD: Introduction to the CNST
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Denise Y. Harvey, PhD, MA: Reactivating Speech: Neuromodulation as a Catalyst for Aphasia Rehabilitation
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
OCTOBER 11, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Erica Berlin Baller, MD, MS: In Sickness and in Health: Mapping Neural Heterogeneity to Psychopathology in the Healthy and Medically Ill
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
OCTOBER 18, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Dennis Jgamadze MSc, MD, PhD: Repairing the Brain Using Stem Cell Derived Organoids
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
OCTOBER 25, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Robert A. Avery, DO, MSCE: In-Vivo Imaging of the Visual Pathway in Children
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Research Opportunities Panel
Location: Jordan Law Auditorium
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Summer Student Research Data Blitz
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
NOVEMBER 15, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
David Fischer, MD: From Discovery to Recovery: A Career in Disorders of Consciousness
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
DECEMBER 13, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Douglas J. Epstein, PhD: Developmental Abnormalities of the Auditory System
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
SPRING 2024 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
January 19, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD: Out and Back Again: Using Anesthetics to Study Transitions in Arousal States
Location: Virtual
January 26, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
D. Kacy Cullen, PhD: Engineering Living Tissue for Nervous System Reconstruction, Modulation, and Modeling
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
February 2, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Amber L. Alhadeff, PhD: The Power of Hunger
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
February 9, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Desmond J. Oathes, PhD: Brain Imaging of Human Fear and Anxiety Psychopathology
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
February 16, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Robert B. Wilson, MD, PhD: Friedreich Ataxia, a Neuro- and Cardio-Degenerative Trinucleotide Repeat Disorder
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
February 23, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Jessica Foster, MD: Translating CAR T Cells to CNS Tumors
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
March 1, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD PhD: Imag(in)ing Brain Markers of Psychiatric Risk During Development
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
March 15, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mariko L. Bennett MD, PHD: What Do Microglia Do? Realizing the Potential of Brain Macrophages for Neurotherapeutics
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
March 22, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, MD, PhD: Neural Mechanisms of Photophobia
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
March 29, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Noam A. Cohen MD, PhD: Taste Receptors: Novel Targets in the Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
April 5, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Matthew Schindler, MD, PhD: Neurological Manifestations of Long COVID: A Clinical Perspective from the Penn NeuroCOVID Clinic
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
April 12, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Casey H. Halpern, MD: Advanced Deep Brain Stimulation Strategies for Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
April 19, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
David Raizen, MD, PhD: How and Why We Get Sleepy When Sick
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
April 26, 2024 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Corinde E. Wiers, PhD: Altered Brain Energetics in Alcohol Use Disorder – Potential for Keto-therapeutics
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
FALL 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD & Xilma R. Ortiz-González, MD, PhD, Welcome & Introduction
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
David Roalf PhD, Targeting Brain Glutamate in Development and Psychopathology
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
October 6, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Elizabeth Bhoj MD PhD, Rare Pediatric Neurological Disorders & Targeted Therapies
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
October 13, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Naomi Nevler MD, Natural Speech Markers of Neurodegenerative Pathologies
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
October 20, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kelly Sloane MD, Predicting and Modulating Post-Stroke Cognitive Trajectories
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
November 3, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Nduka Amankulor MD, Translational Progress in Neurosurgical Oncology
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
November 10, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Summer Student Research Data Blitz
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
November 17, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Emily Hartwell PhD, Implications of Comorbidity and Predicting Risk Using Polygenic Scores in Substance Use Disorder Research
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
December 8, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Ahmara Ross MD PhD, Gene Therapy for Optic Nerve Degeneration
Location: Smilow Building 8-146AB
SPRING 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
JANUARY 13, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Jina Ko, PhD; Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Talk Title: Single Biomarker Profiling for Molecular Diagnostics
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
JANUARY 20, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Kahlilia Blanco, PhD; Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Talk Title: Epigenetic Mechanisms as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Stroke
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
JANUARY 27, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Morgan Botdorf, PhD; Postdoc Fellow, Dept of Psychology
Talk Title: Neurodevelopment and the Importance of the Early Environment
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FEBRUARY 3, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Thomas H. Scott MD; CEO & Founder — Scott Integrated Pain Management
Talk Title: Non-Opiate Pain Management
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FEBRUARY 10, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Adeline Vanderver, MD; Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Myelination and Leukodystrophies
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FEBRUARY 17, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Julia Parish-Morris, PhD ; Assistant Professor of Psychology
Talk Title: Parsing Heterogeneity in Autistic Spoken Language
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FEBRUARY 24, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Adrianna C. Jenkins, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychology
Talk Title: Psychopathy & Social Cognition
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
MARCH 3, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: David J. Irwin, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Translational Research in FTD: Target Engaged
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
MARCH 17, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Richard L Doty MA PhD FAAN; Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Talk Title: The Science of Taste and Smell: Parkinson’s Disease and Other Clinical Conditions
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
MARCH 24, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Douglas C. Wallace, PhD; Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Disease
Talk Title: Mitochondrial Medicine in the Pandemic Era
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
March 31, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Vishnu Cuddapah, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Understanding How Sleep Loss Affects Seizures Using Drosophila
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
APRIL 7, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Andrea L.C. Schneider, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Long-Term Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury: Insights from Epidemiology
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
APRIL 14, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Talk Title: Exposome as key to understand youth suicidal behavior
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
APRIL 21, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Ingo Helbig, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Make Data Speak in Childhood Epilepsy
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
APRIL 28, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Kimberly Waddell, PhD; Assistant Professor of Penn Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Talk Title: Out of the Clinic and Into the Home: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Outcomes Post-Stroke
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
MAY 5, 2023 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Christina Jackson MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Understanding Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Brain Tumors, One Cell at a Time
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
FALL 2022 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD & Xilma R. Ortiz-González, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Welcome & Introduction
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Kathryn Davis MD, MSTR; Associate Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Localizing Epileptic Networks with EEG and MRI
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
OCTOBER 14, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Michael Gandal MD, PhD; Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Talk Title: Leveraging Human Brain Genomics to Identify the Molecular Pathology of Major Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
OCTOBER 21, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Damaris N. Lorenzo PhD; Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Talk Title: Mechanistic Insights into the SPTBN1 Syndrome
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
NOVEMBER 4, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Daksh Chauhan, Brendan Ho, Melissa Li & Ayan Mandal
Talk Title: Summer Research Student Data Blitz
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
NOVEMBER 11, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Ali G. Hamedani, MD, MHS; Assistant Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Talk Title: National Health Surveys in Neurologic and Ophthalmic Epidemiology
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Corey McMillan PhD; Associate Professor
Talk Title: Genotype Contributions to Phenotypic Heterogeneity in FTD & ALS Spectrum
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
DECEMBER 9, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Talk Title: Imaging into the Intact Brain to Unravel the Neuronal and Circuit Mechanisms of Psychedelic Agents
Location: Smilow Building 11-146AB
SPRING 2022 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
JANUARY 14, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Michael S Beauchamp, MD, PhD; Professor of Neurosurgery
Talk Title: Multisensory Speech Perception Studied with fMRI and iEEG
Location: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
JANUARY 21, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Noam A Cohen, MD, PhD; Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Talk Title: Taste Receptors: Novel Targets in the Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Location: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
JANUARY 28, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Robert B. Wilson, MD, PhD; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Talk Title: Non-exonic Trinucleotide Repeat Disorders
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
FEBRUARY 4, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Deborah Jean Culley, MD; Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Talk Title: Anesthesia is not Sleep
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
FEBRUARY 11, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Desmond J Oathes, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry
Talk Title: Brain Imaging of Human Fear and Anxiety Psychopathology
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
FEBRUARY 18, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: D. Kacy Cullen, PhD; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery & Bioengineering
Talk Title: Engineering Living Tissue for Nervous System Reconstruction, Modulation, and Modeling
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
FEBRUARY 25, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Raquel E Gur MD, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Neurology
Talk Title: The Translational Research Potential of Rare Genetic Disorders: 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
MARCH 4, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Jessica Foster, MD; Instructor, Department of Oncology
Talk Title: Translating CAR T Cells to CNS Tumors
Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
MARCH 18, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Richard Crist, PhD; Research Assistant Professor of Genetics in Psychiatry
Talk Title: Genetics and Pharmacogenomics of Substance Use Disorders
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
MARCH 25, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Matthew Schindler, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Chronic Neurological Manifestations of SARS-CoV2 Infection: Current Understanding of Clinical Features and Pathophysiology
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
APRIL 1, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Kelly C Allison, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry
Talk Title: Binge Eating Disorder: Underpinnings and Treatment
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
APRIL 8, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, MD, PhD; Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Vision/Retina
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
APRIL 15, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Jorge I. Alvarez, BSc, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pathobiology
Talk Title: Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
APRIL 22, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Casey H. Halpern, MD; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Talk Title: Closing the Loop on Impulsivity: What We Can Learn from BITES
Location: Smilow Building 12-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
APRIL 29, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Ron Anafi, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Medicine
Talk Title: Finding Rhythm in the Noise of Medicine: Translational Chronobiology
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
MAY 6, 2022 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Michael Hart PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics
Talk Title: Mechanistic Roles for Autism Genes in Neuronal, Circuit, and Behavioral Plasticity
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB, Virtual: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
FALL 2021 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 * 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD & Xilma R. Ortiz-González, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Welcome & Introduction
Location: John Morgan Building, Reunion Hall Auditorium
OCTOBER 8, 2021 * 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Speaker: Jennifer L Orthmann-Murphy, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Glia & Demyelinating Disease
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
OCTOBER 15, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Hasan Ahmad, Antonio Corral-Tarbay, Evan Iliakis & Kiran Raja
Talk Title: Summer Research Student Data Blitz
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
OCTOBER 22, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Richard Phillips MD PhD; Presidential Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Epigenetics & Brain Cancer
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
NOVEMBER 5, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: J. Cobb Scott, PhD; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry
Talk Title: Cannabis, Cognition & Psychosis
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
NOVEMBER 12, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Benjamin Kennedy MD Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Talk Title: Neurosurgical Management of Pediatric Epilepsy
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
NOVEMBER 19, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Ana G Cristancho, MD, PhD; Attending Physician & Instructor of Neurology
Talk Title: Mechanisms of Perinatal Brain Hypoxic injury
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
DECEMBER 10, 2021 * 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Speaker: Defne Amado, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Talk Title: Gene Therapy for ALS & Neurodegenerative Disease
Location: Smilow Building 10-146AB
SPRING 2021 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
All Seminars will take from 1-2pm at the following Blue Jeans link: https://bluejeans.com/stacem
JANUARY 22, 2021
Jacob Dubroff, MD PhD; Assistant Professor of Radiology — PSOM
Talk Title: PET Imaging of Nicotine Dependence
JANUARY 29, 2021
Alexander Proekt, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care — PSOM
Talk Title: Neuroscience of Unconsciousness - Lessons learned from Anesthesia
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Michelle Johnson, PhD; Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation — PSOM
Talk Title: Robot-Based Assessment of Motor and Cognitive Impairments in Patients with Non-Traumatic Brain Injury
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Thomas H. Scott MD; CEO & Founder — Nopium
Talk Title: Non-Opiate Pain Management
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
M. Sean Grady, MD; Professor of Neurosurgery — PSOM
Talk Title: Traumatic Brian Injury: from Concussion to Coma
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
David J. Irwin, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology — PSOM
Talk Title: Bringing the Microscope to Clinic: Translation of Neuropathology Data to Human Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Disease
MARCH 5, 2021
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry — PSOM/CHOP
Talk Title: Imag(in)ing Brain Markers of Psychiatric Risk During Development
MARCH 19, 2021
Ingo Helbig, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics — PSOM/CHOP
Talk Title: Epilepsy Genetics – An Introduction
MARCH 26, 2021
Adrianna C. Jenkins, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychology — UPENN
Talk Title: Flexible Human Social Behavior: Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience
APRIL 2, 2021
Julia Parish-Morris, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry — PSOM
Talk Title: Infant Vocalizing as a Bio-Behavioral Marker of Autism
APRIL 9, 2021
Daniel J. Licht, MD; Distinguished Professor of Neurology — PSOM/CHOP
Talk Title: Moving Towards Brain-Directed Care
APRIL 16, 2021
Jay A. Gottfried, MD, PhD; Arthur H. Rubenstein Professor of Neurology and Psychology — PSOM
Talk Title: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Olfactory System But Were Afraid to Smell
APRIL 23, 2021
Douglas C. Wallace, PhD; Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics — PSOM
Talk Title: The Mitochondrial Etiology of Common Diseases with Emphasis on Neuropsychiatric Disorders
APRIL 30, 2021
Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, MD; Parker Family Associate Professor of Neurology — PSOM
Talk Title: Updating our Definitions of Parkinson's Disease for a Molecular Age
MAY 7, 2021
William H. Bosking, PhD; Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery — PSOM/CHOP
Talk Title: TBD (Cortical Visual Prostheses)
FALL 2020 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
AUGUST 28, 2020
Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD & Xilma R. Ortiz-González, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Welcome & Introduction
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
David R. Roalf, PhD; Research Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in Psychiatry
Talk Title: Targeting Brain Glutamate in Development and Psychopathology: Progressand Possibilities
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
CNST Student Presentations; Lillian Chien, Donald Detchou & Elizabeth Sell
Talk Title: Summer Research Student Data Blitz
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Joshua Dunaief, MD, PhD; Adele Niessen Professor of Ophthalmology
Talk Title: A Greek God, a Blue Protein, and Iron-induced Retinal Degeneration
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Bryan A Pukenas, MD; Assistant Professor of Radiology
Talk Title: What’s Old is New, the Suboccipital Puncture and Gene Therapy Delivery
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - CHOP
Talk Title: Metabolic Disorders of the Brain: Insights into Mechanisms and Therapy
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Frances E. Jensen, MD, FACP; Professor and Chair of Neurology
Talk Title: The Cognitive Consequences of Epileptogenesis
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Shinjae Chung, PhD; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Talk Title: Neural Circuits Underlying Sleep and Emotional Regulation