Columbia Neuroscience Seminars

Tuesdays@10 Seminars, Zuckerman Institute

Tuesdays@10 is a signature Zuckerman Institute initiative that aims to expose researchers at all levels to high-quality science and stimulate scientific discourse. The weekly lectures and associated events are designed to bring together the neuroscience community at Columbia and catalyze the conversations and collaborations that advance the discipline. This seminar series is open only to Columbia University. Columbia University researchers and members of affiliate departments are encouraged to attend and engage with the speakers.

The events occur every Tuesday (unless otherwise noted) during the academic year at 10:00 am in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the 9th floor. A breakfast social kicks off the event, and the lecture begins at 10:30 am. All invited speakers join meetings with faculty, graduate students and postdocs at Columbia to continue the conversation after their seminar. 

The speakers featured in this series represent various fields and techniques in neuroscience, and include invited guests of the Columbia Neuroscience Seminars, the Zuckerman Institute's Local Circuits Affiliates Program, and other special seminar series through a combined, collaborative effort of one or more of the following: Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Center for Precision Psychiatry, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. The selection process includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from across Columbia's campuses in partnership with the Tuesdays@10 programming team.

September 2024 - February 2025 SCHEDULE

Tarjinder (TJ) Singh, PhD
CUIMC - Psychiatry
Title: From genes to function: Leveraging genomic insights from the past decade toward understanding the etiology of severe psychiatric disorders
September 10, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Columbia University Department of Biology and Zuckerman Institute
Title: Skin-brain axis for tactile sensations
September 24, 2024
Special Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Christopher M. Bartley, MD, PhD
NIMH
Title: Deep antibody repertoire mapping in psychotic spectrum disorders
October 1, 2024
Special Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Thomas Clandinin, PhD
Stanford University
Title: How does the brain decide which way to turn?
October 15, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
UCSF
Title: The role of interneuron-generated synchrony in cognition and emotion
October 22, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Affiliate Symposium: Local Circuits: The Neuroscience of Social Connections
October 29, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Martin Kampmann, PhD
UCSF
Title: Uncovering mechanisms of neurodegeneration by CRISPR-based functional genomics
November 12, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Anna Penn, MD, PhD
CUIMC - Pediatrics
Title: 
Neuroplacentology: How the placenta shapes the developing brain
November 19, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Yueqing Peng, PhD
CUIMC - Pathology
Title: ​​​​​Regulation and function of NREM sleep
November 26, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, PhD
Yale University
Title: Electrical synapses act as a magnitude filter to modulate sensory information processing and behavioral choices in C. elegans
​​​​December 10, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Fan Wang, PhD
MIT
Title: Pain, emotion and body schema
December 17, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Ila Fiete, PhD
MIT
Title: Modeling the emergence of complex cortical structure from simple precursors in the brain: maps, hierarchies, and modules
January 14, 2025
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Andy Dillin, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Title: CNS control of peripheral mitochondrial form and function: Mitokines
January 28, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Celeste Karch, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Title: Defining molecular drivers of tauopathy using stem cell models
February 4, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Lauren DeNardo, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Title: Circuit mechanisms of remote memory
February 11, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD
UCSD
Title: The synaptic functions of Alpha Synuclein and Lrrk2
February 18, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Annegret L. Falkner, PhD
Princeton University
Title: Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat
February 25, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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January 2024 to June 2024 Seminars

January 23
Dorothy Schafer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School, University of Massachusetts
Title: Microglia-astrocyte crosstalk underlying cortical synapse remodeling
Hosts: Franck Polleux (Faculty) and Carlos Diaz (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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January 30
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota
Title: Predictions and fast decisions by aerial predatory insects
Hosts: Franck Polleux (Faculty) and Carlos Diaz (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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February 13
Daniel Colón-Ramos, PhD, McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology Director, WTI Center of Neurodevelopment and Plasticity
Title: Electrical synapses act as a magnitude filter to modulate sensory information processing and behavioral choices in C. elegans
Hosts: Carol Mason (Faculty) and Kapil Ramachandran (Faculty).
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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February 27
Evan Macosko, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Title: Spatial and single cell genomics for next generation Neuroscience
Hosts: Andres Bendesky (Faculty) 
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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March 5
Gwyneth Card, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Principal Investigator at Columbia University Zuckerman Institute, Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: Cracking circuits with connectomes: A reverse Neuroethology perspective
Hosts: Melinda Miller and Ivy Elkins
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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March 5
Marcelo Wood, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Title: Examining how the intersection of epigenetic, exercise, and metabolism affects memory formation in the adult and aging brain
Hosts: Shawn Liu (Faculty) and Xinyue Chen (Graduate Student)
Speaker Location: CUIMC, Neurological Institute First Floor Auditorium   
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March 26
Rebecca Saxe, PhD, John W Jarve (1978) Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Associate Dean of Science, MIT
Title: Getting started: Imaging the minds and brains of human infants
Hosts: Nim Tottenham (Faculty) and Anna Vannucci (Graduate Student)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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April 2
Lucina Uddin, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles
Title: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors
Hosts: Daphna Shohamy (Faculty) and Catherine (Katie) Insel (Postdoctoral Research Scientist).
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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April 9
Lauren Orefice, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Title: Understanding somatosensory and viscerosensory alterations in autism spectrum disorder
Hosts: Wes Gruber (Faculty) and Lynn Yap (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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April 16
Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Columbia University
Title: How to image brains
Hosts: Wes Gruber (Faculty) and Lynn Yap (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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April 23
Beatriz Rico, PhD, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Centre of Developmental Neurobiology, MCR Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London
Title: Assembly of cortical circuits
Hosts: Ed Au (Faculty) 
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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April 30
Christopher Baldassano, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Title: Using prior knowledge to build neural representations, make predictions, and encode memories
Hosts: Carol Mason (Faculty) 
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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May 14
Nihkil Sharma, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University
Title: Central roles for the peripheral nervous system
Hosts: Carol Mason (Faculty) 
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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May 21
Bassem Hassan, PhD, ​​​​Team Leader and Scientific Director, Paris Brain Institute
Title: Temporal emergence of wiring specificity 
Hosts: Wes Grueber (Faculty) and Nova Qi (Graduate Student)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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May 28
Noam Sobel, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Telesmell: From the perceptual laws of smell to digital transmission of odor
Hosts: Stuart Firestein (Faculty)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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June 4
Eiman Azim, PhD, Associate Professor, William Scandling Development Chair, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
​​Title: Sensorimotor circuits for dexterous movement
Hosts: March Churchland (Faculty) and Hector Cho (Graduate Student)
Speaker Location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
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Seminar Steering Committee Members

  • Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute; Codirector of Columbia's Kavli Institute for Brain Science

  • Carol Mason, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology); Chair of Interschool Planning at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

  • Serge Przedborski, Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience); Director, Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative

  • Steven Siegelbaum, Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Pharmacology; Chair, Department of Neuroscience

Seminar Selection Committee Members

  • Dritan Agalliu, Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology)
  • Xinyue Chen, Graduate Student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program
  • Katherine Delgado, Graduate Student in the Biology Program 
  • Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 
  • Siddhant Iyer, Graduate Student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program
  • Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
  • Caitlin Lloyd, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia Center for Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry
  • Isabel I. C. Low, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Zuckerman Institute
  • Julie Parato, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
  • Kapil V. Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, Neuroscience, and the Taub Institute)
  • Tristan T. Sands, Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Child Neurology
  • Maria Antonietta Tosches, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences 

Columbia Neuroscience Seminar Series: Speaker Archive