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"