Hosted by NYU Langone’s Neuroscience Institute, the 2018–19 Seminars by Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series, or SPiNES, features 8 speakers chosen from 98 applications. All talks are held at noon in the Science Building, 435 East 30th Street, room 103, in Manhattan.

2018–19 SPiNES Lectures

November 15, 2018
Hiroko Nobuta, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Laboratory of Jean Hebert, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Jessica Sadick (Laboratory of Shane A. Liddelow, PhD)
 
December 13, 2018
Masashi Tabuchi, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Laboratory of Mark N. Wu)
Postdoc Host: David Fox (Laboratory of Katherine Nagel, PhD)
 
January 31, 2019
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Stanford University (Laboratory of Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Julieta Lischinsky (Laboratory of Dayu Lin, PhD)
 
February 21, 2019 
Arpiar Saunders, Harvard University (Laboratory of Steve McCarroll, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Sara Fernstermacher (Laboratory of Jeremy S. Dasen, PhD)
 
April 18, 2019
Ming-fai Fong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Laboratory of Mark Bear, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Simon Chamberland (Laboratory of Richard Tsien, DPhil)

May 5, 2019
Arif Hamid, Brown University (Laboratories of Michael Frank, PhD, and Christopher Moore, PhD)  
Postdoc Host: Arka Banerjee (Laboratory of Michael A. Long, PhD)

May 16, 2019
Yoav Livneh, Harvard University (Laboratories of Mark Andermann, PhD, and Brad Lowell, MD, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Silvana Valtcheva (Laboratory of Robert C. Froemke, PhD)
 
June 13, 2019
Elise Piazza, Princeton University (Laboratories of Uri Hasson, PhD, and Casey Lew-Williams, PhD)
Postdoc Hosts: Gregg Castellucci and Robert Egger (Laboratory of Michael A. Long, PhD)

SPiNES Nominations

The nomination process for the 2018–19 SPiNES is now closed. Nominations for next year will open in summer 2019. If you have any questions, please contact Rihan Hassad, project coordinator, at rihan.hassad@nyulangone.org.

Speakers are nominated and selected by the NYU SPiNES Committee. The 2018–19 committee consists of the following postdoctoral fellows and faculty:

Samuel McKenzie, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of György Buzsáki, MD, PhD

Sara Fenstermacher, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeremy S. Dasen, PhD

Robert Egger, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Michael A. Long, PhD

Julieta Lischinsky, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dayu Lin, PhD

Michael A. Long, PhD, faculty advisor