Cornell Neuro Club

Cornell Neuro Club

The Neuro Club is an informal social gathering with neuroscience research talks. All graduate students, research associates, and faculty members in the Cornell community are welcome. We are grateful to be sponsored by Cornell Neurotech (Mong Family Foundation).

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Schedule:

  • September 4, 2024:
    Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani (Sarvestani Lab): “An embodied approach to visual perception”
    Neil Savalia (Kwan Lab): “Psilocybin’s actions on the organization of dendritic calcium dynamics”
  • October 2, 2024:
    Weinan Sun (Sun Lab) – “Neural basis of learning and reasoning using cognitive maps”
    Eric Hebert (Xu Lab) – “Deep and fast imaging in mouse brains with adaptive excitation”
  • November 13, 2024:
    Xin Zhao (Tschida Lab) – “Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in female mice”
  • December 4, 2024:
    Hamid Turker (Smith Lab)
    Yuhan Wang (Wang Lab)
  • January 2025:
    Chase Holdener / Shaowen Jiang (De Vlaminck Lab)
    Han Kheng Teoh (Cohen Lab) – “The role of Drosophila’s indirect wing steering muscles in threshold-based reflex strategy selection during flight”

Location and time:

  • Weill Hall Room 226
  • 4:30 pm: Pizza, beer, and soda 🍕🍻🥤
  • 5:00 pm: Talk #1
  • 5:30 pm: Talk #2

Contact the organizers (Alex Kwan and Nilay Yapici) if you are interested in presenting!


Past schedule:

  • February 7, 2024: Chris Jernigan (Sheehan Lab) and Rick Zirkel (Schaffer/Nishimura Lab)
  • March 6, 2024: Lindsay Karaba (Fernandez/Oliva Lab) and Haein Kim (Yapici Lab)
  • April 10, 2024: Brendan Ito (Goldberg Lab) and Ehren Bentz (Ophir Lab)
  • May 8, 2024: Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou (Markenscoff-Papadimitriou Lab) and Tuancheng Feng (Hu Lab)

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