Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

Seminars are held in the Low Learning Center at 4 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Questions may be directed to Dr. Rashmi Bansal, bansal@uchc.edu, or Jody Gridley, gridley@uchc.edu.

2019 Spring Schedule

Date		Guest	Host
January	15	Michael N. Nitabach, Professor, Departments of Cellular & Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT	Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang
	22	Lauren Sansing, MD, MS, FAHA, FANA, Associate Professor, Neurology: Stroke: Stroke Center, Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research, Human & Translational Immunology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT	Dr. Rajkumar Verma
	29	Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychological Sciences & Director of BIRC, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT	Dr. Riqiang Yan
February	5	Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor, Genetics & Genome Sciences, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Dr. Royce Mohan
	12	Bojun Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT (Due to the inclement weather – postponed to April 9th)	N/A
	19	Marcel van der Heijden, Neurosciences Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands	Dr. Leslie Bernstein
	26	Ming-Hu Han, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Director, Center for Neuropharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY	Dr. Xin-Ming Ma
March	5	James Fink, Henderson Award seminar
	12	Dritan Agalliu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Pharmacology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY	Dr. Stephen Crocker
	19	NO Neuroscience Seminar – Spring Break (March 17-23)
	26	Zhao-Wen Wang, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
April	2	Richard E. Mains, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
	9	Bojun Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT (Rescheduled from February 12)	N/A
	16	Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Neuro-ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA	Dr. Richard E. Mains
	23	Scott Baraban, PhD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Univ. of California, San Francisco	Dr. Eric S. Levine
	30	Dr. Rashmi Bansal, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	N/A
May	8	Neuroscience Retreat Keynote speaker – Dr. Mark Bear, Ph.D. Picower professor of Neuroscience, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA

 

 

2019 Fall Schedule

Date		Guest	Host
September	3
	10
	17
	24
October	1
	8
	15
	22
	29
November	5	Piali Sengupta, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA	Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang
	12	Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA	Dr. Eric S. Levine
	19
	26
December	3
	10
	17