Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Tuesdays@10 is a signature Zuckerman Institute initiative that aims to expose researchers at all levels to high-quality science and stimulate scientific discourse. The weekly lectures and associated events are designed to bring together the neuroscience community at Columbia and catalyze the conversations and collaborations that advance the discipline. This seminar series is open only to Columbia University. Columbia University researchers and members of affiliate departments are encouraged to attend and engage with the speakers.
The events occur every Tuesday (unless otherwise noted) during the academic year at 10:00 am in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the 9th floor. A breakfast social kicks off the event, and the lecture begins at 10:30 am. All invited speakers join meetings with faculty, graduate students and postdocs at Columbia to continue the conversation after their seminar.
The speakers featured in this series represent various fields and techniques in neuroscience, and include invited guests of the Columbia Neuroscience Seminars, the Zuckerman Institute's Local Circuits Affiliates Program, and other special seminar series through a combined, collaborative effort of one or more of the following: Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Center for Precision Psychiatry, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. The selection process includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from across Columbia's campuses in partnership with the Tuesdays@10 programming team.
Tuesday@10 Schedule
September 2025 - December 2025
September 23 - Special Seminar
Shuba Tole, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai
Title: Control of Cell Fate and Morphology in the Developing Cerebral Cortex
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September 30 - Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Iain Couzin, FRS
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Chair of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz
Title: The Geometry of Decision-Making
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October 14 - Precision Psychiatry
Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD
Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience, Yale University
Title: Origins of the Prefrontal Cortex and Cognitive Networks: Foundations of Human Uniqueness
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October 21 - Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Peter Rudebeck, DPhil
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Ichann School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Title: Prefrontal and Limbic Mechanisms of Reward-Guided Decision-Making
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October 28 - Local Circuits
Dennis Vitkup, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Title: Toward a Unified Neurobiological Model of Mental Disorders (UNIMED)
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November 11 - Local Circuits
Ya Cheng Liao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University
Title: Messages on the Move: How mRNA Travel, Translate, and Transform the Neuron
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December 2 - Theory Center
Anne Churchland, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Title: The Intersection of Vision and Movements in the Mammalian Brain
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December 9 - Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stanford University
Title: Neuron-Glial Interactions in Health and Disease: from Cognition to Cancer
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Past seminars: September 2024 - June 2025
Tarjinder (TJ) Singh, PhD
CUIMC - Psychiatry
Title: From genes to function: Leveraging genomic insights from the past decade toward understanding the etiology of severe psychiatric disorders
September 10, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Columbia University Department of Biology and Zuckerman Institute
Title: Skin-brain axis for tactile sensations
September 24, 2024
Special Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Christopher M. Bartley, MD, PhD
NIMH
Title: Deep antibody repertoire mapping in psychotic spectrum disorders
October 1, 2024
Special Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Thomas Clandinin, PhD
Stanford University
Title: How does the brain decide which way to turn?
October 15, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
UCSF
Title: The role of interneuron-generated synchrony in cognition and emotion
October 22, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Affiliate Symposium: Local Circuits: The Neuroscience of Social Connections
October 29, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Martin Kampmann, PhD
UCSF
Title: Uncovering mechanisms of neurodegeneration by CRISPR-based functional genomics
November 12, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Anna Penn, MD, PhD
CUIMC - Pediatrics
Title:
Neuroplacentology: How the placenta shapes the developing brain
November 19, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Yueqing Peng, PhD
CUIMC - Pathology
Title: Regulation and function of NREM sleep
November 26, 2024
Local Circuits
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, PhD
Yale University
Title: Electrical synapses act as a magnitude filter to modulate sensory information processing and behavioral choices in C. elegans
December 10, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Fan Wang, PhD
MIT
Title: Pain, emotion and body schema
December 17, 2024
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Ila Fiete, PhD
MIT
Title: Modeling the emergence of complex cortical structure from simple precursors in the brain: maps, hierarchies, and modules
January 14, 2025
Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Andy Dillin, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Title: CNS control of peripheral mitochondrial form and function: Mitokines
January 28, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Celeste Karch, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Title: Defining molecular drivers of tauopathy using stem cell models
February 4, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Laura DeNardo, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Title: Circuit mechanisms of remote memory
February 11, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD
UCSD
Title: The synaptic functions of Alpha Synuclein and Lrrk2
February 18, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Annegret L. Falkner, PhD
Princeton University
Title: Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat
February 25, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: From doubt to discovery: Unveiling human neurogenesis in vivo
March 4, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Laura B. Duvall, PhD
Columbia University - Biological Sciences
Title: Neuropeptide regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes
March 18, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Nuo Li, PhD
Duke University
Topic: Neural mechanisms of volitional movement
March 25, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Junhao (Hao) Wen, PhD
John Hopkins University
Title: MULTI: investigating brain aging and diseases at scale via AI/ML, imaging, genetics, and beyond the brain
April 1, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Kristina Nielsen, PhD
John Hopkins University
Title: Development of motion vision
April 8, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Andrew MacAskill, PhD
Principal Research Fellow, Department of Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology; University College London
Title: Ventral hippocampal circuits and hidden state inference
April 15, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Claude Desplan, PhD
NYU
Topic: Deterministic and stochastic neural fate determination in the Drosophila visual system, and its evolution
April 22, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall
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Michael Frank, PhD
Brown University
Topic: Augmenting effective working memory capacity in biological and artificial neural networks
April 29, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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Kelly Monk, PhD
Oregon Health and Science University
Topic: Molecular and genetic analysis of glial cell development
May 6, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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Li Ye, PhD
Scripps Institute
Topic: Decipher spatial and cellular targets of drug actions in the CNS
May 13, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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POSTPONED:
Iain Couzin, PhD
Max Planck and University of Konstanz
Topic: TBD
May 20, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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Guang Yang, PhD
CUIMC - Anesthesiology
Topic: Circuit Mechanisms of neuropathic pain development
June 3, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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POSTPONED:
Marisa Spann, PhD
CUIMC - Psychiatry
Topic: TBD
June 10, 2025
Speaker location: Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Kavli Auditorium
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Columbia Neuroscience Seminar Series: Speaker Archive