Neuroscience Program's Upcoming Fall Seminar Series

Seminars will be held in - Beckman 1005, unless otherwise noted

Tuesday, September 1, 2026
NSP Faculty Mixer

Tuesday, September 8, 2026
"Topological Brain Maps and the Shape of Thought," by Marty Sereno, Emeritus Professor Psychology, San Diego State University Adjunct Professor Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

Tuesday, September 15, 2026
"Neural mechanisms of group living," by Aubrey M. Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program, Emory University

Tuesday, September 22, 2026
"Mechanisms of monogamy: Neural and genomic foundations of social memory and attachment in prairie voles," Kimberly Long, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, September 29, 2026
"Human 2D neurons and 3D brain organoid models for understanding brain development and neurological disorders," by Guo-li Ming Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
"Host-microbe interactions mediating adverse effects of maternal environmental exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental health," Shelly A. Buffington, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Samy Meroueh, Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Title pending)

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
"From Molecular Pathogenesis to 4 phenylbutyrate rescue in Genetic Epilepsies associated with Impaired GABA receptor and transporter,," by by Professor, Department of Neurology & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Michael Schappe, MIP, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, November 3, 2026
SfN Preview Poster Night

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
"Illuminating neurochemical signaling with non-genetically encoded sensors," by Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, November 14, 2026
NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

Tuesday, November 21, 2026
Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

Tuesday, December 1, 2026
"Brain-wide metabolomic imaging with cellular specificity," by Fan Lam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Full-time faculty at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Neuroscience Program's Winter Holiday Party