Brain Science External Postdoc Seminar Series
The Carney Institute's Brain Science External Postdoc Seminar Series (BrainExPo) showcases the work of advanced postdoctoral scholars from around the world. The goal of this series is to: 1) provide a platform for early-career scientists to share their research and network with Carney's brain science community, and 2) provide an opportunity for the institute's community of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students to hear about new innovative research.
The 2021-22 BrainExpo seminar series will begin in January 2022. Below is the lineup of speakers.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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January 31, 2022 |
Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink, Columbia University |
Learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex |
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February 28, 2022 |
Megha Sehgal, University of California, Los Angeles |
Co-allocation to overlapping dendritic branches in retrosplenial cortex integrates memories across time |
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March 28, 2022 |
Danique Jeurissen, Columbia University | Parietal Cortex: Useless or flexible? Deficits in decision-making after cortical inactivation dissipate on two time scales |
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April 25, 2022 |
Julieta Lischinsky, New York University |
Hardwired to attack? Understanding the developmental and cellular mechanisms for innate social behaviors in the medial amygdala |
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May 23, 2022 |
Micaela Chan, The University of Texas at Dallas | Patterns of functional brain network in healthy and unhealthy aging |
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June 27, 2022 |
Emilia Favuzzi, Harvard Medical School & Broad Institute of Harvard University and MIT | During brain wiring, specialized microglia are dedicated to remodeling distinct synapse types |
During their visit to Brown, selected speakers will present their research to Carney’s brain science community, and they will have the opportunity to meet with faculty members and postdoctoral researchers. We encourage applications from postdoctoral researchers in any field of brain science. Invited speakers will be chosen to reflect the diversity of research conducted at Brown. We aim to attract a diverse group of scientists, and we especially welcome applications from women and people from historically underrepresented groups. For more information, email the selection committee.
Speaker selection committee:
- Keeley Baker, postdoctoral research associate in the Fleischmann Lab
- Katherine Conen, postdoctoral research associate in the Desrochers Lab
- Sucheta Chakravarty, postdoctoral research fellow in the Oh Lab
- E. Javier López Soto, postdoctoral research associate in the Lipscombe Lab
- Rajan Thakur, postdoctoral research associate in the O'Connor-Giles Lab
- Adrian Thompson, postdoctoral research associate in the Aizenman Lab
- Debbie Yee, postdoctoral research fellow in the Shenhav Lab
BrainExPo faculty advisors include:
- Kate O'Connor-Giles, Provost's Associate Professor of Brain Science
- Jessica Plavicki, Manning Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Alexander Fleischmann, Provost's Associate Professor of Brain Science
Previous BrainExPo speakers
| Speaker | Date | Title |
| Sergey D. Stavisky | January 25, 2021 | Intracortical brain-computer interfaces: from fundamental science and engineering to restoring speech, reach and grasp |
| Allan-Hermann Pool | February 22, 2021 | Mapping and re-engineering neural circuits mediating biological motivations |
| Anita Devineni | March 29, 2021 | Neural processing for flexible behavior in the Drosophila taste system |
| Lisa Scheunemann | April 26, 2021 | Context-dependent Memory Suppression |
| Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi | May 24, 2021 | Ascending somatosensory circuitry that shapes the perception of touch and pain |
| Ashley Ingiosi | June 28, 2021 | Of sleep and stars: defining a role for astrocytes in sleep and sleep homeostasis |
About the Carney Institute
The Robert J. & Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science is committed to supporting research and facilitating collaborations in brain science across the Brown University community. The institute's mission is to promote discovery and innovation in brain science by supporting a diverse community of experimentalists, theorists, engineers, and clinical scientists. We do this by recruiting and retaining world-class faculty, creating an outstanding collaborative training environment, seeding innovative projects, supporting collaborative teams, and raising the visibility and reputation of Carney researchers.
The Carney Institute supports research in four areas of excellence: neurobiology of cells and circuits; cognition and behavior; computational brain science; and neuroengineering and neurotechnology.