Upcoming and recent events at the VBI
VBI events
The VBI hosts invited speakers in a regular series of Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society that occur on Wednesdays at 4 pm in 1220 Medical Research Building III (MRB3). See the announcements for upcoming seminars, and view the flyers for recent seminars.
The VBI also hosts the Neuroscience Graduate Program Research Forum NanoSymposiums, where graduate students in the program present updates on their research. The NGP Research Forum is held on Fridays at 12:00 pm the Fall & Spring Semester in 1220 Medical Research Building III (MRB3).
The VBI and its associated departments also host multiple dissertation defenses.
All VBI events are open to the entire Vanderbilt community.
| Date | Seminar Type | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/7/2022 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Samer Hatter, PhD, NIH/NIMH, Chief and Senior Investigator, Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms (SLCR), National Institute of Mental Health, John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, MD | "Retinal and brain circuits underlying the effects of light on behaviors" | VBI |
| 9/21/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Jason Yeatman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Standford, CA | "The dynamic interplay between white matter plasticity and learning" | VKC/VBI |
| 9/29/22 | Vanderbilt Brain Institute Annual Neuroscience Retreat | Andre' A. Fenton, PhD, Professor, Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory, Center for Neural Science and Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY | "Memory, learning to learn, and control of cognitive representations" | NSO/VBI |
| 10/5/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society (Virtual) | Cagla Eroglu, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC | "How do Astrocytes Sculpt Synaptic Circuits?" | VBI |
| 10/19/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Xiao Jing Wang, PhD, Global Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Physics, Director, Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY (POSTPONED) | "Theory of the multiregional cortex: cognition in space and time" | VBI (Cancelled) |
| 11/2/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Emma K. Adam, PhD, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research & Associate Vice President for Research, Office for Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, | "Adolescent Stress: Sources, Biological and Health Impacts, and Interventions" | VKC/VBI |
| 11/16/22 | SfN Week | NO SEMINAR SfN Annual Meeting | Chicago, IL | SfN |
| 11/30/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Pablo E. Castillo, MD, PhD, Harold and Muriel Block Chair Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | "Long-term Presynaptic Plasticity: Novel Functions and Mechanisms” | VBI (Cancelled) |
| 12/1/22 | Special Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | John Huguenard, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA | "Maternal Immune Activation causes life long deficits in prefrontal cortical circuits: Implications for ASD and Epilepsy" | VBI |
| 12/7/22 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Cynthia Moss, PhD, Chair & Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, with joint appointments in Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Baltimore, MD | “3D Auditory Scene Analysis by Echolocation in Bats” | VBI |
| 1/11/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Helen S. Mayberg, MD, Director, Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY | "Tracking Brain and Behavioral Dynamics to Optimize Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression" | VBI |
| 1/25/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Jeremy Day, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, Michael J. Fiedlander, PhD Heersink Endowed Professorship, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) | “Ghosts in the machine: Leveraging drugs of abuse to study experience-dependent transcriptional mechanisms” | VBI |
| 2/8/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society (Virtual) | Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD, Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | “Immune mechanisms of brain development and plasticity" | VBI |
| 2/22/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Yishi Jin, PhD,Distinguished Professor, Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Faculty Chair, Department of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, Co-Director, Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA | “Mechanisms of Neuronal Injury and Stress Response” | VBI |
| 3/8/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Juan S. Bonifacino, PhD, NIH Distinguished Investigator, Division of Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD | "Mechanisms Of Axonal Dysfunction In Neurons With Defective Lysosome Transport" | VBI |
| 3/22/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Elisabeth A. (Betsy) Murray, PhD, Chief, Section on the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH, Bethesda, MD | “Prefrontal-amygdala interactions in social cognition and decision making” | VBI |
| 4/5/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Axel T Brunger, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurology, Photon Science and Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA | "Molecular mechanisms of calcium-triggered exocytosis" | VBI |
| 4/19/23 | Vivien Casagrande Lecture Series | Ann Graybiel, PhD, Institute Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, McGovern Institute, Cambridge, MA | "The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act" | Psych/VBI |
| 5/3/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Julio Martinez Trujillo, MD, PhD, Professor, Western Research Chair in Autism, Departments of Physiology, Pharmacology & Psychiatry, Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, Ontario, Canada | “Reverse engineering memory systems in the primate brain: A tale of two areas” | Psych/VBI |
| 5/17/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Kimberlei Richardson, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC | TBA | VBI (Cancelled) |
| 5/24/23 | Seminars in Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society | Tony George, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada | 12:00 Noon, VBI @Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, Luton Conference Room, 1st Floor | VBI/VPH |
Other events
VBI-affiliated departments also host their own seminars. As a service to the VBI community, all announcements to upcoming talks on campus will be posted in More Neuroscience Talks On Campus.
Seminars in Neuroscience | NGP Research Forum NanoSymposium | Dissertation Defenses | More talks on campus