Tulane Brain Institute Seminar Info

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025

Translational Neuroimmunology
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Alexandre Prat, MD, PhD
Chairman of Neuroscience
University of Montreal

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 - CANCELED - Rescheduled for Feb. 19, 2025

Testing the Limits of Neuronal Energy Metabolism in Fruit Fly Motor Neurons
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Gregory Macleod, PhD
Department of Physiology
Tulane University School of Medicine

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025

Forgot to Exercise? The Muscle-to-brain Axis in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Constanza Cortes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

Network Dysregulation in Late-Life Depression
4:00 p.m., Paul Hall 100
Damek Homiack, MD, PhD
Psychiatry Resident
University of Illinois Chicago

FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 - SPECIAL SEMINAR CO-Sponsored with Pharmacology

Estrogenic Regulation of neural circuits that control metabolism in mice
NOON, SOM 1st floor Auditorium
Stephanie Correa, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
UCLA, Brain Research Institute

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

Adolescent Stress and Postpartum Mental Health: Exploring the HPA axis, Neurocircuitry, and Behavioral Impacts
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Minae Niwa, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

Testing the Limits of Neuronal Energy Metabolism in Fruit Fly Motor Neurons
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Gregory Macleod, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
Tulane University School of Medicine

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025

Extracellular vesicle, mediated regulation of neural activity an immune crosstalk
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Norman Haughey, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
Tulane University School of Medicine

Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2025

NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2025

Functional Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Lindsey Rizzardi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2025

Dietary Modulation of the Gut-Brain Axis
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Rebecca Solch-Ottaiano, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Tulane University School of Medicine

FRIDAY, Mar. 21, 2025

Coordination of inhibitory synapse formation via endocannabinoids and PKA signaling
NOON, SOM 1st floor Auditorium
C.J. (Corette) Wierenga, PhD
Professor of Neurophysiology
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, & Behavior
Radboud University

Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025

Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Neuroplasticity and Gender Development
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Lise Eliot, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University

Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025

Deconstructing mechanisms of learned distractor suppression
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Brian A. Anderson, PhD
Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Director, Texas A&M Human Imaging Facility

Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2025

Contexts control value encoding in the mesolimbic dopamine system
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Kurt Fraser, PhD
Researcher, Department of Psychology 
University of Minnesota

Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2025

Bridging the Gap with Patient-Derived Neural Models to Unravel CNS Challenges in CDG
4:00 p.m., TBD
Tamás Kozics, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2025

Translational approaches and strategies to untangle neurodegeneration of the aging brain
4:00 p.m., SOM 6065
Ramon Velazquez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University

Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2025

Translating single-cell genomic discoveries into gene-targeted therapies in neurodegeneration
4:00 p.m., Jones 102
Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Chief, Division of Translational Brain Sciences
Duke-UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Center for Genomic and Computational Biology
Arizona State University

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