
                           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
                           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.
                           Recent Publications
                        
                        9/19/25 [Wollmuth and Sirotkin Labs]: Optimizng prime editing in Zebrafish
6/2/25 [Brinkman Lab]: Metastability in networks of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons
4/7/25 [Xiong Lab]:  The zona incerta
negatively regulates the red nucleus during movement cued by sound signals
01/02/25 [McKinnon Lab]: Hypoosmotic stress shifts transcription of circadian genes
7/19/24 [Reissland Lab]: Lipid accumulation drives cellular senescence in dopaminergic neurons
7/6/24 (Kritzer Lab): Adrogen effects on mesoprefontal dopamine systems in the adult male brain

