Dissertation Defense: Karim Abdelaal: Internal Brain States of Opioid Addiction
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Karim Abdelaal
Neurobiology Student Seminar: Ellisa Lang: "Organoid transplantation: bridging the gap between in vitro and in vivo systems"
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer: Michelle Monje
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Friday, January 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Michelle Monje
CANCELLED: Neurobiology Seminar: Neural circuits underlying a vocal innovation: insights from a singing mouse Arka Banerjee
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Arka Banerjee
Neurobiology Student Seminar: Jillian Saunders
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: How, and Why, We Connect: The Neurobiology of Adaptive, Multi-dimensional Social RelationshipsMichael Platt
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Michael Platt
Dissertation Defense: Aaron Halvorsen
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Aaron Halvorsen
Research in Progress: S. Monroe
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
S. Monroe
Neurobiology Student Seminar: Jillian Saunders: "Magic or Mechanism: Psilocybin triggers cortical network rewiring"
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: Mechanisms of Cerebellar Development. Mary Beth Hatten
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mary Beth Hatten
Research in Progress: Jing Xu
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jing Xu
CANCELLED: Neurobiology Seminar: How Primates Speak: Michael Long
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Michael Long
Research in Progress: Brayan Campos Salazar & Caitlin Lewis
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Brayan Campos Salazar & Caitlin Lewis
Dissertation Defense: Ziyi Gong: Local Mechanisms of Sequence Learning in Biologically Plausible Neural Circuit Models
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Friday, February 27, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ziyi Gong
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: Epigenetic and Transcriptional Mechanisms of Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration: Ashley Webb:
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Ashley Webb
Research in Progress: Patrick Mulcahey & Medy Mu
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Patrick Mulcahey & Medy Mu
Measuring Neural Health: An Energetic Signature of the Living Brain
Sponsor(s):
Biomedical Engineering (BME), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Neurobiology, and Pratt School of Engineering
Monday, March 09, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sridevi Varma
Neurobiology Seminar with Candie Paulsen: "It’s complicated: Mapping the calcium regulation mechanism of a critical pain receptor"
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Candie Paulsen
Neurobiology Seminar: Steve Chang: Behavioral and neural mechanisms of cooperative decision-making in marmoset dyads
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Steve Chang
Research in Progress: Runbo Gao & Shuoyi Li
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Runbo Gao & Shuoyi Li
Dissertation Defense: Fernando Santos Valencia: Climbing fibers selectively recruit disinhibitory interneurons to enhance dendritic calcium signaling in cerebellar Purkinje cells
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Friday, March 20, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Fernando Santos Valencia
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: David Sulzer:
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
David Sulzer:
Research in Progress: Katherine Kaplan & Ned Kan
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Katherine Kaplan & Ned Kan
Dissertation Defense: S. Monroe
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Friday, March 27, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
S. Monroe
Dissertation Defense: Shaolin Ruan
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Monday, March 30, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Shaolin Ruan
Neurobiology Seminar: Eric Huang
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Eric Huang
Research in Progress: Sara Gannon & Emmanuel Medrano
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sara Gannon & Emmanuel Medrano
Neurobiology Seminar: Alex Kwan: Making synapses with psychedelics
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Alex Kwan
Research in Progress: Hermione Xu & Bingzhen Zhao
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, April 08, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hermione Xu & Bingzhen Zhao
Ruth K Broad Foundation Seminar: Clifford Woolf
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Clifford Woolf
Research in Progress: Kaitlyn Fouke & Catherine Wang
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Kaitlyn Fouke & Catherine Wang
Neurobiology Seminar: Troy Margrie:
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Troy Margrie
CANCELLED: Neurobiology Seminar: Yishi Jin
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, May 05, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Yishi Jin
Neurobiology Seminar: Xin Jin
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Xin Jin
Neurobiology Seminar: Lauren Orefice
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Lauren Orefice
Neurobiology Seminar: Stephanie Koch
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Stephanie Koch
Neurobiology Invited Seminar: Katz Lecture: Sonja Hofer
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Sonja Hofer
