New Ev2026-2027 NEUROSCIENCE DISCOVERY SEMINAR SERIESent

Mon, September 28, 2026 - Mon, May 3, 2027
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
BRT 115

2026-2027 NEUROSCIENCE DISCOVERY SEMINAR SERIES

at The Ohio State University 

All Seminars held from 12-1pm

DateSpeaker andTitle

Host

 

 

September 28, 2026

 

Linda Rinaman, PhD

 

Distinguished Research Professor

R. Bruce Masterton Professor of Neuroscience

Co Editor-in-Chief, Brain Structure and Function

Florida State University

 

 

Lihua Ye

 

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

 

October 5, 2026

 

Erin Calipari, PhD

 

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Director of Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation

 

 

 

Cole Vonder Haar

 

Dorothy Heart and Lung Research Institute 170

 

October 26, 2026

 

Jessica Williams, PhD

 

Assistant Professor 

Molecular Medicine 

Cleveland Clinic Research

 

 

Kaitlin Kaiser

 

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

November 2, 2026

 

Hemali Phatnani, PhD

 

Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Bryce Collison

Hamilton Hall 270/280

January 25, 2027

 

Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

 

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

 

Teng Leng Ooi

 

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

February 8, 2027

 

Jae K Lee, PhD

 

Christine E. Lynn Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience

Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

 

 

Andrea Tedeschi

Biomedical Research Tower 115

March 1, 2027

 

Nicholas Silva, PhD

 

Assistant Professor

San Francisco State University

Danica Matovic

 Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

March 22, 2027

 

Aya Takeoka, PhD

 

Team Director

Laboratory for Motor Circuit Plasticity

RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Bin Gu 

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

 

March 29, 2027

 

Marco Gallio, PhD

 

Professor, Soretta and Henry Shapiro Research Professor in Molecular Biology 

Department of Neurobiology

Northwestern University

 

Martin Haesemeyer

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

April 5, 2027

 

Juan Song, PhD

 

Professor

Jeffrey Houpt Distinguished Investigator

Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Center

UNC School of Medicine

Bin Gu

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

April 20, 2027

 

Tsai Li-Huei, PhD

Picower Professor, Neuroscience

Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Co-Director, Alana Down Syndrome Center

Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute

MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

 

Co-hosted by MLS and NDSS

Ilaria Palmisano, Harry Fu

 

NB: 4:10-5:05 pm 

Dorothy Heart and Lung Research Institute 170

 

April 26, 2027

 

Hui Zheng, PhD

 

Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair in Aging

Professor, Departments of

Molecular and Human Genetics and Neuroscience

Baylor College of Medicine

 

 

Harry Fu

Biomedical Research Tower 115

 

May 3, 2027

 

Carlos Zarate, PhD

 

NIH Distinguished Investigator

Chief Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch &

Section Neurobiology and Treatment of Mood Disorders

Division of Intramural Research Program

National Institute of Mental Health

 

 

Mary Guest

Biomedical Research Tower 115