GPN Colloquium Series

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 p.m. 
Location: See below & Zoom

Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.

Spring Semester 2026

Date

Speaker and Topic

Feb 11 - MoosT 2-690Sourav Ghosh
"Non-phagocytic, pro-resolution function of the TAM receptor tyrosine kinase AXL in Alzheimer’s disease microglia" 
Feb 18 - PWB 2470

Julie Bailard
Advisor: Thomas Bastian
"Analysis of Mitochondria Function and UltraStructure in a Mouse Model of Hippocampal Neuron Specific Iron Deficiency"

Anoo Maskeri
Advisor: Sade Spencer
"A Budding Opportunity: Investigating THC Sensitivity and Seeking in Genetically Diverse Rats"

Feb. 25 - PWB 2470

Rachel Schorn
Advisors: Lucy Vulchanova & Anna Lee
"Chronic alcohol consumption and sciatic nerve injury activate glutamatergic dorsal raphe neurons "

Frank Duca
"Impact of diet-gut microbiome interactions on gut-brain axis regulation of metabolic homeostasis" 

Mar. 4 - MoosT 2-690

Elizabeth Kiffmeyer
Advisor: Zhe Chen
"Temporal regulation of cortical neurogenesis by Dcc alternative splicing"

Christopher Banek
"TBD" 

Mar. 11NO Colloquium
Mar. 18 - PWB 2470Louisa Kuper
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"The parafascicular thalamus encodes shifts in cue-directed attention" 

Christine Chau
Advisors: Harry Orr & Martha Streng
"Serotonin in the Cerebellum: Exploring modulation in health and disease models"
Mar. 25 - PWB 2470Jacob Gable
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"Identifying synaptic input patterns critical to motor behavior" 

Karianne Sretavan Wong
Advisors: Matt Johnson & Noam Harel
"Pathway-specific deep brain stimulation of the anterior limb of the internal capsule enhances cognitive control"
Apr. 1 - MoosT 2-690

Meghan Swanson
"Brain and Language Development in Young Autistic Children"

Brandon Hoang
Advisors: Esther Krook-Magnuson and Theoden Netoff
"Using Evoked Responses and Computational Analysis to Assess Seizure Risk"

Apr. 8 - MoosT 2-690

Allison Chang
Advisor: Ling Li
"HDL-mimetic peptide treatment reverses APOE4-induced lipidomic and metabolomic alterations in the brain of humanized APOE mice"

Seth Weir
Advisor: Jocelyn Richard
"Encoding Properties and Circuit Mechanisms of Ventral Pallidum Cue Responses"

Apr. 15 - PWB 2470

Ross Armant
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Using Typical Mice to Judge the Social Behavior of Mice with Genetic Variants Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) & Schizophrenia"

Erendiz Taracki
Advisor: Damien Fair
"Characterizing potential biomarkers of neuroplasticity in neonates"

Apr. 22 - PWB 2470

Ciarra Whindleton
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition as a potential therapeutic intervention for opioid relapse"

Crystal Clark
Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic & Paul Mermelstein
"TBD"

Apr. 29 - MoosT 2-690

Keenan Walker
Advisor: A. Kelly Lane & Angeline Dukes
"TBD" 

Michael Hochstein
Advisor: Jan Zimmermann
"Affordance-based Action Selection in Macaque PPC and dlPFC"

May 6 - MoosT 2-530Nick Rozema
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"TBD" 

Sonia Abbaspour
Advisors: Ganesh Vasan & Madhu Kannan
"State-dependent modulation of the voltage dynamics of primary visual cortical VIP+ interneurons" 
May 13NO Colloquium
May 20 - MoosT 2-530
 		Francesca Iacobucci
Advisor: Mark Thomas
"NAc Interneurons in Addiction" 

Rebecca Younk
Advisor: Mark Thomas 
"TBD"
May 27 - MoosT 2-530

Crystal Lemchi
Advisor: Lauren Slosky
"TBD" 

Marcus Phan
Advisor: Shauna Yuan
"TBD"

June 3 - MoosT 2-530Kieran McClusky
Advisor: Madhuvanthi Kannan
"Role of layer 1 interneurons in visuomotor integration"

Nic Glewwe
Advisors: Nicola Grissom & Alik Widge
"Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice"
June 10 - MoosT 2-530

Madison Waldron
Advisors: Walt low & Ann Parr
"The effect of exosomes in SCI"

Emily Fitzgerald
Advisors: Damien Fair & Luke Johnson
"TBD"

June 17 - MoosT 2-530

Guldamla Kalender
Advisor: Alik Widge
"TBD" 

Haowei Zhang
Advisor: Arif Hamid
"TBD"

June 24 - MoosT 2-530

Amy Gottschalk
Advisor: Arif Hamid
"TBD" 

Chris Apgar
Advisor: Gordon Smith
"TBD"

Fall Semester 2024

Date

Speaker and Topic

Sep. 4 12:30 PMGPN Welcome Lunch
Sep. 11 Brady Atwood
"The impact of binge alcohol drinking on anterior insular cortex synaptic inputs to the dorsolateral striatum"

Kurt Fraser
"Spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal acetylcholine-dopamine interactions encode value"
Sep. 18John Neumaier Seminar
Host: Alik Widge
"The role of negative emotional states in fentanyl self-administration and withdrawal"
Sep. 25Chloe Puglisi
Advisor: Helen Vuong
"Determining the role of gestational gut-associated metabolites in thalamocortical circuit development and adolescent somatosensory behavior"

Angel White
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"Contribution of protein kinase CK2a' to neurodegeneration in Frontotemporal dementia"
Oct. 2

Nicole Quintus
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Leveraging endogenous opioid signaling to enhance behavioral and transcriptomic signatures of resilience"

Rachel Dick 
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Functional, structural, and computational consequences of NMDA receptor ablation in mPFC neurons"

Oct. 9 HSEC 2-132

Ross Pelzel
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"TBD"

Ellie Sachse
Advisor: Alik Widge
"TBD"

Oct. 16Andi Maxwell
Advisor: Anna Zilverstand
"Gender-Specific Links between Stress, Social Relationship Quality, Orbitofrontal Cortex Reactivity, and Problematic Alcohol Drinking"

Guldamla Kalender
Advisor: Alik Widge
"Measuring Neuroplastic Effects of Oscillation-Locked Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation"
Oct. 23

Nic Glewwe
Advisors: Nicola Grissom & Alik Widge
"Sex differences in computational strategies underlying cognitive flexibility" 

Blair Vail 
Advisor: Alex Herman & David Darrow
"Characterizing Naturalistic Pursuit and Avoidance Using Human Intracranial Recordings" 

Oct. 30Vanessa Morgan
Advisors: Damien Fair & Audrey Sederberg 
"Critical Dynamics within Resting State Brain Networks" 

Disa Sullivan
Advisor: David Darrow
"Spinal Cord Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury"
Nov. 6Kenny Person
Advisor: Walt Low
"Mitochondrial Transplantation in an AD Mouse Model"

Oscar Miranda-Dominguez
"Leveraging brain-behavior associations to inform interventions."
Nov. 13

Rachel Schorn
Advisors: Lucy Vulchanova & Anna Lee
 "Chronic alcohol consumption impacts tactile hypersensitivity in mouse models of persistent pain"

Nick Rozema
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"Behavioral consequences of HSF1-mediated thalamostriatal synapse loss" 

Nov. 20Joe Emerson
Advisors: Cheryl Olman & Audrey Sederberg
 "Circuit mechanisms for contextual modulation in V1" 

Jacob Gable
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"Identifying synaptic inputs patterns in premotor cortex critical to sensorimotor control"
Nov. 27NO Colloquium - Thanksgiving
Dec. 4DEI Presentation
Dec. 11Kelsey Person
Advisor: Lauren Slosky
"Evaluating the Contribution of the Dopamine Receptor D2 to the Effects of Biased Neurotensin Receptor 1 Modulators in Models of Methamphetamine Misuse"

Brianna Dailey-Krempel
Advisor: Lucy Vulchanova & John Osborn
"TBD"