Seminar Series

Sponsored by the Kim Family Research Seminar Series.

Seminars are held in the Low Learning Center every Thursday at 11 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Questions may be directed to Dr. David Martinelli, davidmartinelli@uchc.edu, or Shannon Mancini, shmancini@uchc.edu.

 

Spring 2025 Schedule

Date Guest Host
January 16 Georgia Zarkada, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Verma 
23 Keqiang Ye, PhD 
Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Yan
30 Sonu Singh, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Bae Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
 February 6 Zhao-Wen Wang, PhD  
Professor,  Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
13 Amitai Shenhav, PhD        VIRTUAL
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Castro
20 Maria Lehtinen, PhD 
Professor, Department of Pathology
Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research, Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Bae
27 Tiago Goncalves, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Tuncdemir
March 6 Manoshi Gayen, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
13 Ben Deverman, PhD
Institute Scientist, Senior Director, Vector Engineering
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Bae
20 NO SEMINAR
  27  Hui (Iris) Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Xiong
April 3 Joshua Plotkin, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Antic
10 Jessica Cardin, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Spellman
17 Mark E. Hester, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Imitola
24 Ma-Li Wong, MD/PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience & Physiology
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Ma
May  1 Michael J Frank, PhD
Professor, Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
Brown University, Providence, RI
Castro
8 Zeynep Altunay, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Martinelli Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
15 Xinran Du, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Wang Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
22 NO SEMINAR
29 Sanjeev Yadav, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Verma Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
June 5 Zaenab Dhari, MD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Crocker Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
12 David Martinelli, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT
19 NO SEMINAR
26 Muhammad Sajid, PhD 
Post Doctoral Fellow, Castro Lab, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT