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:

  • December 4, 2024:
    – Hamid Turker (Smith Lab) – “Medial prefrontal cortex differentiates match from non-match on a continuous match-to-sample task”
    – Yuhan Wang (Wang Lab) – “Spatial mapping of neuronal cell types that regulate metabolism”
  • February 5, 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”
  • March 12, 2025:
    – Wenbo Tang (Fernandez/Oliva Lab)
    – TBD
  • April 9, 2025:
    – Jennifer Sun (Sun Lab)
    – TBD

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)
  • September 4, 2024: Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani (Sarvestani Lab): “An embodied approach to visual perception” and 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” and 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”

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