December 7, 2023
Title: Promiscuous connectivity in the olfactory system
Josie Clowney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affiliate
CCMB Affiliate Faculty
University of Michigan
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Pierre Apostolides, Ph.D.
November 9, 2023
Title: “Gene Therapy for Hereditary Deafness and Blindness”
David Corey, Ph.D.
Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science, Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D.
November 2, 2023
Title: “What else does an axon do?”
Paul Kramer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Anahita Mehta, Ph.D.
October 26, 2023
Title: Sensitivity and Tenacity of Sensory Hair Cells
Jung-Bum Shin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Jun Hee Kim, Ph.D.
October 19, 2023
Title: “Circuit mechanisms underlying mechanosensory processing in Drosophila and AI-based tools for automatic behavioral analysis”
Bing Ye, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Burton L. Baker Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute;
Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affiliate
University of Michigan
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
October 12, 2023
Title: “Shining light on epilepsy: circuit dissection and manipulation in preclinical mouse models”
Joanna Mattis, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of Michigan
Location: Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall
Hosted by: Anahita Mehta, Ph.D.
June 8, 2023
Title: “Histone H3K4 methylation dynamics in brain development”
Shigeki Iwase, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Michigan Medicine
Virtual and also in: Taubman Health Science Library 2901
Hosted by: Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D.
May 18, 2023
Title: “Learning to listen: Neural circuits for expert sound perception”
Melisa Caras, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Virtual and also in: Taubman Health Science Library 2901
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
April 27, 2023
Title: “Circadian clocks: How do cells tell time?”
Swathi Yadlapalli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Research Focus: Circadian biology, sensory neuroscience, thermoreceptors, metabolism
Michigan Medicine
Virtual and also in: Taubman Health Science Library room 2901
Host: Pierre Apostolides, Ph.D.
April 20, 2023
Title: “Broken Rhythms, Broken Minds: Examining Dysfunctional Brain Rhythms in an NMDAR Model of Schizophrenia”
Kevin Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
Michigan Medicine
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Host: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
April 13, 2023
Title: “Molecular Mechanisms of Supporting Cell Dedifferentiation and its Role in Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration”
Angelika Doetzlhofer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
The Solomon H. Snyder – Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Virtual and also in Room: Medical Science 2 – South Lecture Hall 3699
Hosted by: Joerg Waldhaus, Ph.D.
April 11, 2023
4 p.m. (note time)
Title: “Understanding the stria vascularis: development and regenerative potential of intermediate cells”Justine Renauld, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Otolaryngology School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Virtual and also in: Taubman Health Science Library Room 2901
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
April 6, 2023
12:15 p.m. (note time)
Title: “Sounds in silence: How supporting cells in the cochlea initiate maturation of the central auditory system.”
Dwight Bergles, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Multiphoton Imaging and Electrophysiology Core
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Virtual and also in: Med Sci 1 – M5330
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
March 30, 2023
Title: “Formation and functional significance of the striola and line of polarity reversal”
Doris Wu, Ph.D.
Chief – Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development
Chief – Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders
Virtual and also in Room: Medical Science 2-South Lecture Hall 3699
Hosted by: Donna Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
March 23, 2023
Title: “The Neurobiology for a Sense of Direction”
Jeffrey Taube, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Hosted by: Omar Ahmed, Ph.D.
March 16, 2023
Title: “Somatolonging and social modulation of sleep.”
Ada Eban-Rothschild, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Michigan Medicine
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Hosted by: Pierre Apostolides, Ph.D.
March 2, 2023
“New approaches to the auditory brainstem response for the clinic and lab, from pip to peaky”
Ross Maddox, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience
University of Rochester
Virtual and also in Room: Med Sci 2 – Room 2710 (Furstenberg)
Hosted by: Anahita Mehta, Ph.D.
February 23, 2023
“Sounds in silence: How supporting cells in the cochlea initiate maturation of the central auditory system”
Dwight Bergles, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Vice Chair of Research
Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
February 21, 2023 at 4 p.m.
“Molecular mechanism of sound amplification”
Navid Bavi, Ph.D
Chicago Fellow
University of Chicago
Perozo Lab; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Virtual and also in Taubman Health Science Library, Room 2901
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
February 9, 2023
“Sound coding in the auditory nerve: from animal models to humans”
Jerôme Bourien, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Montpellier
Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
February 2, 2023
Title: “Optogenetic sensors and tools for studying opioid signaling and neurodegenerative diseases”
Wenjing Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Michigan Medicine
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Hosted by: Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
January 26, 2023
Title: "Sensory hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish"
Tatjana Piotrowski, Ph.D.
Investigator, Faculty
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Virtual and also in Room: Buhl Classroom 5915
Hosted by: Joerg Waldhaus, Ph.D.
