Looking forward to sharing our work at the ASRC Lunch & Learn online seminar series on Thursday, June 4th from 12:00 - 1:30.
I will be discussing “Novel pathways of fear suppression learning”.
email el1417 at hunter dot cuny dot edu if you are interesting in attending.
In the fall, Rebecca will be heading off to Germany to work with Nadine Gogolla at the Max Plank Institute of Neurobiology to study the insular cortex. In the lab Rebecca has been working on the pathways linking the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and the basal forebrain in emotion regulation, which is a perfect segue for this next stage in her research career. Awesome job!
Lab keychains that Rebecca designed and 3D printed for the lab.
Great talks by Jenny, Rebecca, and Destinee at the Hunter Undergraduate Student Research Conference this week!
Special thanks to Michael Steiper for organizing the college-wide conference.
Virtual Symposium held by The Graduate Center Initiative for Theoretical Sciences.
Join here: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/3025052077
email el1417@hunter.cuny.edu for pw to attend.
Our lab PPE went out to medical staff in NYC, and we are 3D printing face shields that are going out to hospitals in NY, NJ, and PA. Special thanks to Rebecca for optimizing the design for our printer, to allow for scaling up our face shield production! We are printing a modified version of the original design by Carbon, which works with our Form2 Formlabs printer (Draft or Tough resin).
There are a variety of online communities focused on 3D printing PPE, including NYC Makes PPE, and FormLabs.
Our Biology Dept. colleague, Weigang Qiu, and his research group, are working on an interactive Genome tracker for COVID-19. It’s a work in progress that visualizes how the viral genome geographically evolves, and how it compares to other viruses.
Congratulations to Carolina on winning the Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences and to Becky on winning the NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program - OSNAP!
Fantastic to see students get recognition for their hard work!
Behavioral and neural mechanisms of secondary fear cues.
Mihaela Iordanova (Concordia University)
Friday, March 6, 10-11:30am
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue @34th Street, Room 6496
Development and evolution of the neural crest in vertebrates.
Maria Elena de Bellar (Califonia State University, Northridge)
Monday, March 2nd, 12-1pm
Rm. 926, Hunter North
Using the Force for Good and Evil: Force-induced Amyloids make Biofilms and Beer, and Redirect Innate Immunity.
Peter Lipke (Brooklyn College)
Monday, February 24, 12:00-1:00pm
Rm. 926 Hunter North
‘To go or not to go - Is that the question? The many faces of dopamine in learning and motivation.”
Peter Balsam (Barnard College - Columbia University)
Friday, February 21st, 10-11:30
The Graduate Center, Room 6496
Fifth Ave. and 34th Street
“Coping with Environmental Change: Integrating Behavior and Mechanism”
Dustin Rubenstein (Columbia University)
Friday 2/14, 10am, Room 6496
The Graduate Center @ Fifth Ave & 34th Street
“Value is in the eye of the beholder: visual attention and value signals in the primate orbitofrontal cortex.”
Vincent McGinty (Rutgers University - Newark)
Friday 2/7, 10-11:30am
The Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave (@ 34th St), Room C202
I’m looking forward to sharing our work on circuit communication during fear suppression at SUNY Albany, where I will tie together our older and newer work on this topic. We look at circuit communication in fear suppression during discrimination of a non-threatening cue, extinction of a threatening cue, and safety learning in order to have a thorough understanding of neural processing in emotion regulation.
Michael Beauchamp (Baylor College of Medicine)
Neural mechanisms for multisensory integration and visual perception in human subjects
10-11:30am, Rm. C198, The Graduate Center
Gap Junctions in the Nervous System: Composition and Plasticity of the Nexus
David Spray (Einstein School of Medicine)
Rm. 926 Hunter North, 12-1pm
Alfredo Fontanini (SUNY Stony Brook)
The role of gustatory insular cortex in taste, expectation, and decision making.
The Graduate Center, 34th St. & Fifth Ave., Room 9205, 10-11:30am
Psychology Seminar: Wed., 11/20, 12-1pm, HN612
Jeremy Barry (University of Vermont)
Where we are going and where we’ve been: The basic and translational science approach to understanding spatial memory
Place cells, grid cells, traveling waves, and memory: Probing memory and navigation with direct human brain recordings.
Joshua Jacobs (Columbia University)
CNC Neuroscience Seminar, Segal Theater, The Graduate Center (34th and Fifth Ave), 10-11:30 am
CNC Neuroscience Colloquium @ The Grad Center (34th & Fifth Ave, Room 6304.01), 10-11:30 am
Gamma oscillations in the basolateral amygdala: why, where, how, and what for.
Drew Headley, CMBN, Rutgers - Newark