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.

2018 Fall Schedule

Date		Guest	Host
September	4	NONE
	11	Marc Fuccillo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA	Dr. David Martinelli
	18	John Danias, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, Co-Director of the Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Vice Chair Research, and Director Glaucoma Service, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY	Dr. Ephraim Trakhtenberg
	25	Douglas Oliver, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Internal
October	2	Min Tang-Schomer,  Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at UConn Health, Joint appointment with JAX, Farmington, CT	Dr. Riqiang Yan
	9	Arindam Bhattacharjee, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY	Dr. Bojun Chen
	16	Jeffrey Huang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC	Dr. Stephen Crocker
	23	Ephraim Trakhtenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Internal
	30	Catherine Weisz, PhD, Tenure Track Investigator/Acting Chief, Section on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH/NIDCD, Bethesda, MD	Dr. Douglas Oliver
November	6	NO Neuroscience Seminar – Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Meeting in San Diego, CA, November 3-7	N/A
	13	Bojun Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Internal
	20	NO Neuroscience Seminar – Thanksgiving Break	N/A
	27	Rajini Rao, Professor of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD	Dr. Vishwanatha Rao
	4	Jorge E. Contreras, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neurocience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ	Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang
	11	Siu-Pok Yee, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Internal

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
	29	Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD, Professor, University of California San Francisco, Psychiatry & Weil Institute for Neurosciences, Deputy Director at UCSF Dyslexia Center, San Francisco, CA	Dr. Riqiang Yan
February	5	Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor, Genetics & Genome Sciences, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	Dr. Royce Mohan
	12
	19	Marcel van der Heijden, Neurosciences Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands	Dr. Leslie Bernstein
	26
March	5
	12	Dritan Agaliu, 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
April	2
	9
	16	Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Neuro-ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA	Dr. Richard Mains
	23	Scott Baraban, UCSF, CURE Seminar	Dr. Eric Levine
	30
May	7	Retreat week?