Hosted by NYU Langone’s Neuroscience Institute, the 2019–20 Seminars by Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series, or SPiNES, will feature 9 speakers chosen from 154 applications. All talks will be held at noon in the Science Building, 435 East 30th Street, room 103, in Manhattan.

We are proud to present the following speakers for the 2019–20 SPiNES Lecture Series:

• Estefania Azebedo, The Rockefeller University (Laboratory of Jeffrey Friedman, PhD)
• Luca Cheadle, Harvard University (Laboratory of Michael Greenberg, PhD)
• Maya Kaelberer, Duke University (Laboratory of Diego Bohorquez, PhD)
• Kohitij Kar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Laboratory of James DiCarlo, PhD)
• Nikos Konstantinides, NYU (Laboratory of Claude Desplan, PhD)
• Yalda Moayedi, Columbia University (Laboratory of Ellen Lumpkin, PhD)
• Ali Mohebi, University of California, San Francisco, Sandler Neurosciences Center (Laboratory of Joshua Berke, PhD)
• Yu Mu, Janelia Research Campus (Laboratory of Misha Ahrens, PhD)
• Tongfei Wang, University of California, San Francisco, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Laboratory of Lily Jan, PhD)

See a listing of our previous SPiNES lectures below.

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 2, 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)