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			11am PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Melissa Chee PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Melissa Chee Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Torrey Life Sciences Building On Wednesday, 4/2/25, Dr. Melissa Chee will be here at UConn for our seminar series from Carleton University. Her talk will be titled, “Escape from the zona incerta.” Contact Information: Heather Hekkala Educational Program Administrator University of Connecticut Physiology & Neurobiology heather.hekkala@uconn.edu Phone: 860-486-3290 More
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			11am PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Nicholas Audette PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Nicholas Audette Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Torrey Life Sciences Building On Wednesday, 4/16/25, Dr. Nicholas Audette will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Psychological Sciences. His talk will be titled, “Movement, prediction, and error in mouse auditory cortex.” Contact Information: Dr. René N Rovozzo, PhD Educational Program Assistant 2 University of Connecticut Physiology & Neurobiology rene.rovozzo@uconn.edu Phone: 860-486-3304 More
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			11am PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Rebecca Seal PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Rebecca Seal Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Torrey Life Sciences Building On Wednesday, 4/23/25, Dr. Rebecca Seal will be here at UConn for our seminar series from University of Pittsburgh. Her talk will be titled, “Unlocking the Mammalian Spinal Dorsal Horn: Insights into Key Circuits and Novel Cross-Species Research Tools.” Contact Information: Heather Hekkala Educational Program Administrator University of Connecticut Physiology & Neurobiology heather.hekkala@uconn.edu Phone: 860-486-3290 More
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			11am PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Timothy Spellman PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Timothy Spellman Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Torrey Life Sciences Building On Wednesday, 4/30/25, Dr. Timothy Spellman will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Health. His talk title will be announced shortly. Contact Information: Heather Hekkala Educational Program Administrator University of Connecticut Physiology & Neurobiology heather.hekkala@uconn.edu Phone: 860-486-3290 More

4/2 PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Melissa Chee

PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Melissa Chee
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Torrey Life Sciences Building

On Wednesday, 4/2/25, Dr. Melissa Chee will be here at UConn for our seminar series from Carleton University. Her talk will be titled, “Escape from the zona incerta.”

Contact Information:
Heather Hekkala
Educational Program Administrator
University of Connecticut
Physiology & Neurobiology
heather.hekkala@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-3290
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4/16 PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Nicholas Audette

PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Nicholas Audette
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Torrey Life Sciences Building

On Wednesday, 4/16/25, Dr. Nicholas Audette will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Psychological Sciences. His talk will be titled, “Movement, prediction, and error in mouse auditory cortex.”

Contact Information:
Dr. René N Rovozzo, PhD
Educational Program Assistant 2
University of Connecticut
Physiology & Neurobiology
rene.rovozzo@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-3304
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4/23 PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Rebecca Seal

PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Rebecca Seal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Torrey Life Sciences Building

On Wednesday, 4/23/25, Dr. Rebecca Seal will be here at UConn for our seminar series from University of Pittsburgh. Her talk will be titled, “Unlocking the Mammalian Spinal Dorsal Horn: Insights into Key Circuits and Novel Cross-Species Research Tools.”

Contact Information:
Heather Hekkala
Educational Program Administrator
University of Connecticut
Physiology & Neurobiology
heather.hekkala@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-3290
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4/30 PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Timothy Spellman

PNB Seminar Series: Dr. Timothy Spellman
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Torrey Life Sciences Building

On Wednesday, 4/30/25, Dr. Timothy Spellman will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Health. His talk title will be announced shortly.

Contact Information:
Heather Hekkala
Educational Program Administrator
University of Connecticut
Physiology & Neurobiology
heather.hekkala@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-3290
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September 3	11 AM	TLS 111	No Speaker Scheduled – OPEN	TBA
September 10	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Shinjae Chung Chung Lab	TBA	Alexander Jackson
September 17	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Andy Shih Shih Lab	TBA	Georgia Zarkada
September 24	11 AM	TLS 111	No Speaker Scheduled – OPEN	TBA
October 1	11 AM	TLS 111	No Speaker Scheduled – OPEN	TBA
October 8	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Susumu Tomita	TBA	Anastasios Tzingounis
October 15	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Jing Yang Yang Lab	TBA	Jianjun Sun
October 22	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. James Li Li Lab	TBA	Georgia Zarkada
October 29	11 AM	TLS 111	No Speaker Scheduled – OPEN	TBA
November 5			No Speaker Scheduled – Recruitment!
November 12	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Andrew Hardaway Hardaway Lab	TBA	Natale Sciolino
November 19			No Speaker Scheduled – SFN!
November 26			No Speaker Scheduled – Thanksgiving!
December 3	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Elena Gracheva Gracheva Lab	TBA	Alexander Jackson

January 29	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Sally Seraphin Seraphin Lab Seraphin CV	“Deciphering Developmental Timing: Patterns of Gene Expression in a New Experimental Model System (Agalychnis callidryas) May Illuminate Stress-Mediated Early Maturation in Humans”	Linnaea Ostroff
February 5			No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
February 12			No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
February 19	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Andres Grosmark Memory and Cognition Lab Grosmark CV	*“Hippocampal consolidation mechanisms actively sculpt multi-day memories”*	Natale Sciolino
February 26	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Marco Gallio Gallio Lab Gallio CV	“Temperature sensing in Drosophila: from molecular receptors and neural circuits to the evolution of behavior”	Karen Menuz
March 5			No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
March 12	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Mitchell Roitman Roitman Lab Roitman CV	“The mesolimbic dopamine system in the homeostasis-to-action arc”	Natale Sciolino
March 19			No Speaker Scheduled – Spring Break!
March 26	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. David Wassarman Wassarman CV	“A Drosophila model identifies factors influencing traumatic brain injury outcomes”	Geoffrey Tanner
April 2	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Melissa Chee Chee Lab Chee CV	“Escape from the zona incerta”	Alexander Jackson
April 9			No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
April 16	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Nicholas Audette Audette Lab Audette CV	“Movement, prediction, and error in mouse auditory cortex”	Linnaea Ostroff
April 23	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Rebecca Seal Seal Lab Seal CV	“Unlocking the Mammalian Spinal Dorsal Horn: Insights into Key Circuits and Novel Cross-Species Research Tools”	Alexander Jackson
April 30	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Timothy Spellman Spellman Lab	TBA	Natale Sciolino

September 4				No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
September 11	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Sika Zheng Zheng Lab Zheng CV	“RNA controls of axonogenesis and neuronal longevity”	Jianzhong Yu
September 18	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Rene Barro-Soria Barro-Soria CV	“The KCNQ2 Channel Opens with a Minimum of One Voltage Sensor Activation”	Anastasios Tzingounis
September 20	4 PM	TLS 154	Dr. Jakob Biran Biran Lab Biran Biosketch	“From applicative aspects of appetite regulation to central and behavioral adaptations to parental care in Nile tilapia larvae”	Rahul Kanadia
September 25				No Speaker Scheduled – CLOSED
October 2	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Cunming Duan Duan Lab Duan CV	“Regulation of master regulators: Physiological mechanisms specifying insulin-IGF actions”	Jianjun Sun
October 9				No Speaker Scheduled – SFN
October 16	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Carmen Canavier Canavier CV	*“Synchronization Mechanisms for Theta-Nested Gamma Oscillations”*	Scott Rich
October 23	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Thomas Blanpied Blanpied Lab Blanpied CV	“Conserved architectural control of neurotransmission”	Linnaea Ostroff
October 30	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Danny Winder Winder CV	“Mechanisms underlying control of wake-promoting dopamine neurons by norepinephrine and alcohol”	Natale Sciolino
November 6				No Speaker Scheduled – Graduate Recruitment
November 13	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Chih-Ying Su Su Lab Su CV	“Beyond Combinatorial Code: Olfactory Coding and Neuromodulation in Drosophila”	Karen Menuz
November 20	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Alice Burghard Burghard CV	“Changes in the Auditory System after Noise Exposure”	Natale Sciolino
November 27				No Speaker Scheduled – Thanksgiving!
December 4	11 AM	TLS 111	Dr. Rosaria Guzzo Guzzo CV	“Role of Dot1L histone methyltransferase in development, regeneration and disease”	Rahul Kanadia

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