Fall Semester 2026Date | Speaker and Topic | | Sep. 16 | Jacqueline Palmer, PT, DPT, PhD - Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
"Reactive balance as a probe for neural resilience and plasticity with aging and neuropathology"
Kieran McCluskey
Advisor: Madhu Kannan
"Role of layer 1 interneurons in visuomotor integration" | | Sep. 23 | Kenny Vetter
Advisor: Dongming Cai
"The Impact of Menopause and Glymphatic Function on Alzheimer's Disease"
Vienna Behnke
Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson
"Fastigial Nucleus and Central Lateral Thalamus in Investigation and Novelty Processing" | | Sep. 30 | Sam Brunson
Advisor: Matt Chafee
"Using Neural Population Interactions to Investigate Cognitive States"
Disa Sullivan
Advisor: David Darrow
"Utility of Evoked Compound Action Potentials in Determining Motor Network Activity" | | Oct. 7 | Chloe Puglisi
Advisor: Helen Vuong
"Investigating the mechanism underlying gestational gut microbiome mediated neocortical development" | | Oct. 14 | Micaela Porod
Advisors: Nicola Grissom & Ben Saunders
"Striatal subregions exhibit distinct dopaminergic signatures during explore-exploit behaviors" Angelica Velosa
Advisors: Nicola Grissom & Suhasa Kodandaramaiah
"Identifying and manipulating cortical dynamics required for explore and exploit behaviors" | | Oct. 21 | Jeremiah Cohen
"TBD"
Fleur Uittenbogaard
Advisor: Sade Spencer
"Adolescent THC-Induced Behavioral and Synaptic Changes" | | Oct. 28 | Kristy Zera
"TBD" | | Nov.4 | Izzabella Green
Advisors: Ben Saunders
"Investigating the role of deep layer superior colliculus in cue-guided behavior"
Vanessa Morgan
Advisor: Damien Fair
"TBD" | | Nov. 11 | Emily Fitzgerald
Advisors: Luke Johnson & Damien Fair
"TBD"
Alishan Amirali
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"Dendritic spiking as a potential mechanism for motor plan transitions in the frontal cortex" | | Nov. 18 | NO Colloquium - SFN | | Nov. 25 | NO Colloquium - Thanksgiving | | Dec. 2 | Kelsey Person
Advisors: Lauren Slosky
"TBD"
Kayla Julio
Advisor: Helen Vuong
"Investigating the role of gestational high-fat, high-sugar diet associated gut metabolites in piriform development and adolescent behavior" | | Dec. 9 | Kennedy Person
Advisor: Walt Low
"Mitochondrial Transplantation in an AD Mouse Model"
Elena Hayday
Advisors: Damien Fair & Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
"Determining the effects of early-life stress on functional network development in early childhood" | | Dec. 16 | Blair Vail
Advisors: Alex Herman & David Darrow
"Differential Encoding of Reward and Threat Agents in Pursuit and Avoidance States"
Aishwarya Belhe
Advisors: Jeff Boissoneault & Anna Lee
"TBD" |
Spring Semester 2026 |
Date | Speaker and Topic |
| Feb 11 - MoosT 2-690 | Sourav 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. 11 | NO Colloquium |
| Mar. 18 - PWB 2470 | Louisa 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 2470 | Jacob 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
"The impact of central angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on fentanyl seeking and taking" Crystal Clark
Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic & Paul Mermelstein
"The Addictive Cerebellum: Exploring the Cerebellar Role in Opioid Signaling and Behavior" |
| Apr. 29 - MoosT 2-690 | Keenan Walker
Advisor: A. Kelly Lane & Angeline Dukes
"A framework to explore post-baccalaureate neuroscientist science communication beliefs" Michael Hochstein
Advisor: Jan Zimmermann
"Affordance-based Action Selection in Macaque PPC and dlPFC" |
| May 6 - MoosT 2-530 | Nick Rozema
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"A unifying framework for thalamostriatal synapse loss in Huntington’s disease and aging"
Sonia Abbaspour
Advisors: Ganesh Vasan & Madhu Kannan
"State-dependent modulation of the voltage dynamics of primary visual cortical VIP+ interneurons" |
| May 13 | NO Colloquium |
May 20 - MoosT 2-530
| Francesca Iacobucci
Advisor: Mark Thomas
"Input-specific effects of cocaine experience on NAc circuit function"
Rebecca Younk
Advisor: Mark Thomas
"Cue responsive BOLD activity in methamphetamine CPP" |
| May 27 - MoosT 2-530 | Crystal Lemchi
Advisor: Lauren Slosky
"TBD" Marcus Phan
Advisor: Shauna Yuan
"Age-Related Regulation of the Unfolded Protein Response in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" |
| June 3 - MoosT 2-530 | 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
"Regeneration of the Mammalian Spinal Cord after Traumatic Injury using Human Brain Organoid Derived Exosomes" |
| June 17 - MoosT 2-530 | Amy Gottschalk
Advisor: Arif Hamid
"Linking Timescales of Dopamine Signaling in Reward Seeking Behavior" Haowei Zhang
Advisor: Arif Hamid
"Does Dorsal Striatal Dopamine Wave Originate from Midbrain?" |
| June 24 - MoosT 2-530 | Chris Apgar
Advisor: Gordon Smith
"Coordination of modular spontaneous activity across brain regions in the developing cortex" Guldamla Kalender
Advisor: Alik Widge
"Measuring Neuroplastic Effects of Oscillation-Locked Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation." |
