Events

Vision Seminar: Sara Thomasy

April 21, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

This seminar will also stream via Zoom. For the link, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu   Sara Thomasy Professor of Comparative Ophthalmology UC Davis   The Monkeys Have It: Novel Nonhuman Primate Models of Ocular Disease   Nonhuman primates (NHPs) share similar ocular development, anatomy and physiology to humans due to their close phylogenetic relationship. They exhibit high visual […]

Danilo Bzodok Department of Biomedical Engineering McGill University   On hammer-nail matching in the neuroscience application domain   The nature of mental illness remains a conundrum. Traditional disease categories are increasingly suspected to misrepresent the causes underlying mental disturbance. Yet psychiatrists and investigators now have an unprecedented opportunity to benefit from complex patterns in brain, […]

Penn Neuroscience graduate students are hosting a free public lecture entitled “The Neural Script: New Tools on Genes in Brain Function and Disease” which will feature 15-minute TED-style talks from three Penn Neuroscience faculty members:   Dr. Zaolan Zhou Dr. Erica Korb Dr. Corey McMillian   Register here!