Student Seminars
Our student seminars are an integral part of the course requirements for the Neuroscience Graduate Program. All students will present an annual update on their graduate research starting in their 2nd year.
The 2024 - 2025 Student Seminar Schedule is ACCESSIBLE VIA OWL SITE: "NEUROSCIENCE STUDENT SEMINARS".Current students and faculty can submit evaluations using the Neuroscience Student Seminar Evaluations page.
2025 - 2026 Invited Speakers
A component of the seminar course is the Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series. Distinguished experts within the field of Neuroscience will be invited to speak throughout the year.
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: TBA
Date | Name | Seminar Title |
September 9, 2025 |
Susanna Rosi, PhD Principal Investigator |
"TBA" |
October 7, 2025 Treva Glazebrook Lecturer |
Shelly Flagel, PhD Research Professor, Michigan Neuroscience Institute |
"Exploiting individual differences to identify the neural mechanisms underlying inhibitory control" |
October 21, 2025 |
Ann Kennedy, PhD Associate Professor |
"Theoretical models of state-dependent action selection: from behavior to circuits" |
January 27, 2026 |
Natasha Rajah, PhD Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair |
"Biological sex and menopause status affects episodic memory and related brain function at midlife" |
March 3, 2026
|
Isaac Ming-Cheng Chiu, PhD Professor |
"Bacterial interactions with sensory neurons in pain and itch" |
March 10, 2026 |
Cory Miller, PhD Associate Professor |
"How monkeys ‘really’ see the world" |
March 31, 2026 |
Elizabeth Bess, PhD Assistant Professor |
"Finding Catalysts of Gut Reactions: The Gut Microbiota in Disease Onset and Treatment" |