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.

2024 - 2025 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: Talbot College Rm 141

** For virtual events only (noted below, if applicable) : Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty and students will automatically be registered for these events. Anyone outside of the program wishing to register may do so by visiting our Seminar Registration page.

Date	Name	Seminar Title
October 1, 2024	Brad Wyble, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology Penn State University	"Building compositional memories from latent spaces in a generative model"
October 29, 2024	Leah Mayo, PhD Parker Psychedelics Research Chair Lead, Novel Therapeutics Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education Hotchkiss Brain Institute Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary	"The highs and lows of exploring the endocannabinoid system as a novel therapeutic target for PTSD"
November 12, 2024	Amanda Melin, PhD Canada Research Chair in Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archeology University of Calgary	"The Sensory Ecology of Food Selection by Wild Capuchin Monkeys"
December 3, 2024	Nicholas Turk-Browne, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology Director, Wu Tsai Institute Yale University	"Learning and memory in the infant brain"
February 4, 2025 Treva Glazebrook Lecturer	Morgan Barense, PhD Professor and Canada Research Chair Max and Gianna Glassman Endowed Chair in Neuropsychology University of Toronto	"Enhancing real-world event memory"
March 25, 2025	Giuseppina Pilloni, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology New York University	"TBA"
April 15, 2025	Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Columbia University	"TBA"
May 13, 2025	Dr. Eyal Kimchi Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Northwestern University	"Disentangling the Pathophysiology of Delirium"