Sponsored by the Kim Family Research Seminar Fund

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

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

SPRING 2020 Schedule

Date		Guest	Host
January	23	Manu Sharma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, Appel Institute for Alzheimer’s Research, and Brain & Mind Research Institute, New York, NY	David Martinelli
	30	Srdjan D. Antic, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	—
February	6	Alexandros Poulopoulos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD	Sharoar Golam
	13	Young-Goo Han, PhD, Associate member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Neurobiology and Brain Tumor Program, Memphis, TN	Byoung-Il Bae
	20	Rosa Guzzo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	—
	27	Andrew Taylor, Ph.D., FARVO, Professor of Ophthalmology, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA	Ephraim Trakhtenberg
March	5	Joseph Schlesinger, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN	Leslie Bernstein
	12	***CANCELLED***Orly Lazarov, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL	Byoung-Il Bae
	19	NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK
	26	JOINT SEMINAR – Neuro-Inflammation ***CANCELLED***Peter A. Calabresi, MD, Director, Division of Neuroimmunology, Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD	Stephen Crocker
April	2	Leonard Kaczmarek, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT	Bojun Chen
	9	David Martinelli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT	—
	16	OPEN
	23	***CANCELLED***Jianmin Cui, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Disorders, Cardia Bioelectricity, Washington University, St. Louis, MO	Zhao-Wen Wang
	30	Royce Mohan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT
May	7	***CANCELLED***Sylvain Lesne, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN	Stephen Crocker