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:

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 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, D. Phil)  

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

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

March 5, 2020
Tongfei Wang, University of California, San Francisco, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Laboratory of Lily Jan, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Simon Chamberland (Laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD)

May 14, 2020
Nikos Konstantinides, NYU (Laboratory of Claude Desplan, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Nicholas Kathman (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 18, 2020
Ali Mohebi, University of California, San Francisco, Sandler Neurosciences Center (Laboratory of Joshua Berke, PhD)
Postdoc Host: Ella Podvalny (Laboratory of Biyu He)

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)