Neuroscience Program Seminars

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• "Physiology under pressure: Sensory circuits of body-brain physiology," by Michael Schappe, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Affiliate Faculty, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• "Assessment and Remediation of Discourse Reading Difficulties from the Information-Processing Perspective," by Professor Shuo Lu, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Shenzhen University, China

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Room 104

  • Seminar/Symposium