Research at Brandeis

Previous Postdoc Series Speakers

Neural Control of the Homeostatic Need for Social Interaction

August 8, 2024

Special Seminar in collaboration with SciFest XIII, Ding Liu, Dulac Lab (Harvard University)
Microglia-astrocyte crosstalk during activity-dependent synaptic remodeling

March 11, 2024

Neurobiology Journal Club, Travis Faust, Shafer Lab (UMass Chan Medical School)

Exploring molecular mechanisms of sensory innovation and adaptation in cephalopods

August 10, 2023

Special Seminar, Corey Allard (Harvard University)

Lux ad cilium: investigating the role of intraciliary calcium and fluid flow in left-right development

March 20, 2023

Neurobiology Journal Club, Lydia Djenoune (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School)

Lessons from eavesdropping on rats: Sex differences in rat ultrasonic vocalizations during fear conditioning and extinction

October 24, 2022

Neurobiology Journal Club, Mikaela Laine (Northeastern University)

Unraveling AMPA receptor dynamics in Parkinson's disease

August 11, 2022

Special Seminar, Swati Gupta (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying sociality in group-living rodents

April 11, 2022

Neurobiology Journal Club (Postdoc IPRC Invited Speaker), Nicole Lee (Colgate University)

The Role of Adrenergic Transmission in Stress-Induced Cerebellar Dysfunction

November 1, 2021

Neurobiology Journal Club (Postdoc IPRC Speaker), Heather Snell (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Identifying internal states that guide natural behavior

January 11, 2021

Special Seminar (Postdoc IPRC Speaker), Dr. Adam Calhoun (Princeton University, Mala Murthy's Lab)

Detection of Humans by Blood-Drinking Mosquitoes

February 1, 2021

Neurobiology Journal Club (Postdoc IPRC Speaker), Meg Younger (The Rockefeller University, Leslie Vosshall's Lab)

Building and analyzing non-canonical microbes

October 5, 2020

Neurobiology Journal Club, Dr. Nili Ostrov (Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics)

The evolution of conflict and cooperation from cells to societies

March 9, 2020

Neurobiology Journal Club, J. Arvid Ågren (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University)

Neural circuits for wind direction encoding and active mechanosensation in Drosophila

October 3, 2024

Neurobiology Journal Club (Postdoc IPRC Talk), Marie Suver (Postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Kathy Nagel's lab, NYU)

Organization and function of synaptic membrane-cytoskeleton remodeling complexes

April 18, 2019

Molecular Genetics Journal Club (Invited Postdoc Research Colloquium), Steve DelSignore (Rodal Lab)

Perceptual consistency and the neural representation of internal states

January 28, 2024

Neurobiology Journal Club (Invited Postdoc Research Colloquium), Evan Schaffer (Columbia University)

Neuropeptide Regulation of Host-seeking in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

May 31, 2018

Invited Postdoc Research Colloquium, Laura Duvall (Leslie Vosshall’s Lab, Rockefeller University)

Voltage-gated Sodium Channel Accessory Proteins Fine Tune Purkinje Neuron Excitability and Cerebellar Function

September 25, 2018

Neurobiology Journal Club (Invited Postdoc Research Colloquium), Joseph Ransdell (Washington University, St. Louis)