Each Monday afternoon, the NYU neuroscience community gathers for a seminar series that features distinguished speakers from around the world. NYU’s Center for Neural Science and neuroscience groups within NYU Langone have jointly sponsored this venture for more than a decade (see a list of past speakers), and it has become the keystone for building collaborations across the university, as well as broadening our trainees’ view of the field.

Seminars alternate between NYU Langone (uptown) and NYU’s campus at Washington Square (downtown). All seminars will be conducted following a hybrid format and details will be emailed to the neuroscience community.  See our events calendar to learn more.

If you have questions about our seminars, email Rihan Hassad, MPH, senior project coordinator, Neuroscience Institute, at Rihan.Hassad@NYULangone.org.

2025–26 Colloquia 

September 8, 2025
Arash Afraz, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Unit on Neurons, Circuits and Behavior (UNCB)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIH)

September 22, 2025
Gwyneth Card, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Columbia University

October 6, 2025
Marina Picciotto, PhD
Charles B.G. Murphy Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Neurobiology 
Yale University School of Medicine

November 10, 2025
Jonathan Pillow, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Princeton University

December 1, 2025
Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

December 8, 2025
Ilya Monosov, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience 
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine

January 12, 2026
Dwight Bergles, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

February 2, 2026
Zachary Knight, PhD
Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco

February 9, 2026
Kimberly Stachenfeld, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Columbia University

March 9, 2026
Hillel Adesnik, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology 
University of California, Berkeley

March 23, 2026
Rich Mooney, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Duke University School of Medicine

March 30, 2026
Mehrdad Jazayeri, PhD
Professor
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 6, 2026
Fan Wang, PhD
Principal Investigator
McGovern Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 20, 2026
Theresa Desrochers, PhD
Rosenberg Family Associate Professor of Brain Science
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University

May 11, 2026
Eugenia Chaippe, PhD
Principal Investigator
Champalimaud Foundation
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

May 18, 2026
Tor Wager, PhD
Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience
Dartmouth College

June 1, 2026
Stephan Lammel, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
University of California, Berkeley

June 8, 2026
David Ginty, PhD
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

June 15, 2026
Alessandra Angelucci, MD, PhD
Mary H. Boesche Endowed Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
University of Utah Health
 
June 29, 2026 
Loren Frank, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco