Tulane Brain Institute Seminar Info

Fall 2026 Seminar Series

Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026

SARS-CoV-2 and the Brain: From Neuroinflammation to Cerebrovascular Injury in Mouse Models
4:00 p.m., SOM 4150
Salifudeen Ismael, PhD
Assistant Professor - Translational Neuroscience
Tulane School of Medicine

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026

Illuminating Synapstic Function and Dysfunction with Super-Resolution Imaging
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Martin Hruska, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute - West Virginia University

Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2026

OPEN

Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2026

Organization and plasticity of brain circuits regulating the liver
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Andrea Zsombok, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
Tulane School of Medicine

Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2026

Investigating the Neurobehavioral Intersection of Pain, Fentanyl Misuse, and Fentanyl Adulterants
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Amanda Pahng, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & ADACE
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2026

Novel role for EphB2 receptor signaling in spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Angelo Lepore, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience
Thomas Jefferson University

Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2026

NO SEMINAR - FALL BREAK

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026

OPEN

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026

Youth vs Age: Divergent Brain Microenvironments shaping brain metastases
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Diana Cittelly, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026

Nutrition, Brain Health, and Cognitive Trajectories in Aging: Implications for Dementia Risk
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Puja Agrawal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Rush University Medical Center

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026

Imaging pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: Tau PET's Transformational Role in Clinical Trials
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Ziad Saad, PhD
Senior Director, Quantative Imaging & Clinical Biomarkers
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026

Discrete brainstem innervation of the ventral tegmental area (VTA)
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
James Peters, PhD
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026

Birdsong Learning: From Synapses to Behavior
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Richard Mooney, PhD
Geller Professor of Neurobiology
Duke University

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2026

From Idea to Impact in CNS Drug Development: PACAP-dependent meningeal vascular dynamics
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Ben Hall, PhD
Director and Innovation Lead
Lundbeck
Copenhagen, Denmark

Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2026

NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING BREAK

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2026

Lost in translation: stress signaling and neuronal development
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Jason Yi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Washington University St. Louis

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2026

TBD
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Michael Bruchas, PhD
Professor, Center for Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington

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