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 Altos Labs Bay Area Institute (Adj)Professor, Departments of Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science, Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco	"TBA"
October 7, 2025 Treva Glazebrook Lecturer	Shelly Flagel, PhD Research Professor, Michigan Neuroscience Institute Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology (by courtesy) University of Michigan	"Exploiting individual differences to identify the neural mechanisms underlying inhibitory control"
October 21, 2025	Ann Kennedy, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience Scripps Research Institute (California)	"Theoretical models of state-dependent action selection: from behavior to circuits"
January 27, 2026	Natasha Rajah, PhD Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Department of Psychology Toronto Metropolitan University Adjunct Professor, McGill University Adjunct Scientist, Rotman Research Institute	"Biological sex and menopause status affects episodic memory and related brain function at midlife"
March 3, 2026	Isaac Ming-Cheng Chiu, PhD Professor Department of Immunology Harvard Medical School	"Bacterial interactions with sensory neurons in pain and itch"
March 10, 2026	Cory Miller, PhD Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego	"How monkeys ‘really’ see the world"
March 31, 2026	Elizabeth Bess, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of California, Irvine	"Finding Catalysts of Gut Reactions: The Gut Microbiota in Disease Onset and Treatment"