Hosted by NYU Langone’s Neuroscience Institute, the 2020–21 Seminars by Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series, or SPiNES, will feature 8 speakers chosen from 161 applications. All talks will be held virtually until further notice. Seminars are conducted via Zoom and the link will be emailed to the neuroscience community. See our events calendar to learn more.

We are proud to present the following speakers for the 2020–21 SPiNES lecture series.

2020–21 SPiNES Lectures

October 29, 2020
Kara Marshall, The Scripps Research Institute (Laboratory of Ardem Patapoutian, PhD)

November 12, 2020
Jeffrey Stogsdill, Harvard University (Laboratory of Paola Arlotta, PhD)

December 10, 2021
Sergey Stavisky, Stanford University (Laboratory of Jaimie Henderson and Krishna Shenoy)

January 14, 2021
Kirstie Cummings, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Laboratory of Roger Clem)

February 25, 2021
Nancy Padilla-Coreano, The Salk Institute (Laboratory of Kay Tye)

March 18, 2021
Sebastian Werneburg, University of Massachusetts Medical School (Laboratory of Dorothy Schafer)

April 15, 2021
Josefina Del Marmol, The Rockefeller University (Laboratory of Vanessa Ruta)

May 13, 2021
Jakob Voigts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Laboratory of Mark Harnett)

Speakers are selected by the NYU SPiNES committee. The 2020–21 committee consists of the following postdoctoral fellows and faculty:

Franziska Auer, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David Schoppik, PhD
Christian Ebbesen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert C. Froemke, PhD
Sam Larsen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Richard Tsien, DPhil
Julieta Lischinsky, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dayu Lin, PhD
Jason Moore, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jayeeta Basu, PhD
Jessica Sadick, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Shane Liddelow, PhD
Ipshita Zutshi, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of György Buzsáki, MD, PhD
Michael Long, PhD, faculty advisor

Please direct any inquiries about the SPiNES application process to Rihan Hassad, MPH, senior project coordinator, Neuroscience Institute, at rihan.hassad@nyulangone.org.

2019–20 SPiNES Lectures

November 14, 2019
Kohitij Kar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Laboratory of James DiCarlo, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Christian Ebbesen (Laboratory of Robert C. Froemke, PhD)

November 21, 2019
Estefania Azevedo, The Rockefeller University (Laboratory of Jeffrey Friedman, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Julieta Lischinsky (Laboratory of Dayu Lin, PhD)

December 5, 2019
Lucas Cheadle, Harvard University (Laboratory of Michael Greenberg, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Samantha Larsen (Laboratory of Richard Tsien, DPhil)

February 20, 2020
Yu Mu, Janelia Research Campus (Laboratory of Misha Ahrens, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Philip Hasel (Laboratory of Shane A. Liddelow, PhD)

February 27, 2020
Yalda Moayedi, Columbia University (Laboratory of Ellen Lumpkin, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Marie Suver (Laboratory of Katherine Nagel, PhD)

June 4, 2020
Maya Kaelberer, Duke University (Laboratory of Diego Bohorquez, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Silvana Valtcheva (Laboratory of Robert C. Froemke, PhD)

June 25, 2020
Nikos Konstantinides, NYU (Laboratory of Claude Desplan, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Nicholas Kathman (Laboratory of Katherine Nagel, PhD)

August 27, 2020
Ali Mohebi, University of California, San Francisco (Laboratory of Joshua Berke, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Haixin Lin (Laboratory of Nicolas Tritsch, PhD)