Neuroscience Program

Biology & Neuroscience Joint Seminar

During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Biology & Neuroscience Joint Seminar will be held on Tuesdays at 12:45 PM.
Waddell -- Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila

October 14, 2025

Tuesday, 10/14/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Scott Waddell, PhD (University of Oxford)
"Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila" See: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/scott-waddell
Host: Leslie Griffith.

Yang -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

October 21, 2025

Tuesday, 10/21/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Rebecca Yang, PhD (Duke University School of Medicine)
See: https://www.neuro.duke.edu/research/faculty-labs/yang-lab
Host: Don Katz.

Mogessie -- Synthetic oocyte aging uncovers cytoskeletal and centromeric safeguards of chromosome segregation

October 28, 2025

Tuesday, 10/28/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Binyam Mogessie, PhD (Yale University)
"Synthetic oocyte aging uncovers cytoskeletal and centromeric safeguards of chromosome segregation" See: https://eggsnchromosomes.org/
Host: Bruce Goode.

Breslow -- Understanding Primary Cilia through Functional Genomics

November 4, 2025

Tuesday, 11/4/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
David K. Breslow, PhD (Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, Yale University)
"Understanding Primary Cilia through Functional Genomics" See: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/david-breslow/
Host: Piali Sengupta.

Colaiacovo -- How genetic factors and exposure to environmental toxicants affect the germline leading to aneuploidy: insights from C. elegans

December 2, 2025

Tuesday, 12/2/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Monica Colaiacovo, PhD (Department of Genetics, Harvard University)
"How genetic factors and exposure to environmental toxicants affect the germline leading to aneuploidy: insights from C. elegans" See: https://genepath.med.harvard.edu/colaiacovo/index.html
Host: Sue Lovett.

Wang -- Psilocybin action on learning mechanisms and neuronal growth

December 9, 2025

Tuesday, 12/9/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Sam Wang, PhD (Princeton University)
"Psilocybin action on learning mechanisms and neuronal growth" See: https://wanglab.scholar.princeton.edu/people/samuel-s-h-wang
Host: Leslie Griffith.

Lourido -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

January 13, 2026

Tuesday, 1/13/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Sebastian Lourido, PhD (MIT)
See: https://biology.mit.edu/profile/sebastian-lourido/
Host: Liz Hedstrom.

Weissman -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

January 20, 2026

Tuesday, 1/20/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Jonathan Weissman, PhD (MIT)
See: https://biology.mit.edu/profile/jonathan-weissman/
Host: Jim Haber.

Adelman -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

January 27, 2026

Tuesday, 1/27/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Karen Adelman (Harvard Medical School)
See: https://adelman.hms.harvard.edu/
Host: Mike Marr.

Stratton -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

February 3, 2026

Tuesday, 2/3/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Meg Stratton, PhD (UMass Amherst)
See: https://www.strattonlab.com/
Host: Sue Paradis.

Adamson -- Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium

February 10, 2026

Tuesday, 2/10/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Britt Adamson (Princeton)
See: https://molbio.princeton.edu/people/britt-adamson
Host: Jim Haber.