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 

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

"Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: From Theory to Practice – Insights from Over 10,000 tDCS Sessions"

April 15, 2025

**POSTPONED**
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"