BrainExPo

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.

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 populations. For more information, email the selection committee.

Call for applications for 2022/23 are now open! The application deadline is Friday July 29, 2022. Seminars will be held between October 2022 & April 2023.

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The 2022-23 BrainExpo seminar series will be held between October 2022 and April 2023. The lineup of speakers will be announced in early Fall.

Date	Speaker	Title
TBD	TBD	TBD

Speaker selection committee:

Keeley Baker, postdoctoral research associate in the Fleischmann Lab
Katherine Conen, postdoctoral research associate in the Desrochers Lab
Rex Liu, postdoctoral research associate in the Frank Lab and Serre 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
Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink	January 31, 2022	Learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex
Megha Sehgal	February 28, 2022	Co-allocation to overlapping dendritic branches in retrosplenial cortex integrates memories across time
Danique Jeurissen	March 28, 2022	Parietal Cortex: Useless or flexible? Deficits in decision-making after cortical inactivation dissipate on two time scales
Julieta Lischinsky	April 25, 2022	Hardwired to attack? Understanding the developmental and cellular mechanisms for innate social behaviors in the medial amygdala
Micaela Chan	May 23, 2022	Patterns of functional brain network in healthy and unhealthy aging
Emilia Favuzzi	June 27, 2022	During brain wiring, specialized microglia are dedicated to remodeling distinct synapse types

3D-synapse-credit-Hong-Zhan-and-Kate-OConnor-Giles-1.png — Photo by O'Connor-Giles Lab/Brown University

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.