Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Daniel Langleben is a professor of Psychiatry at the VA Medical Center and a member of the Center for Studies […]
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Lisa Monteggia Vanderbilt University
Tim Behrens Computational Neuroscience Group Oxford University Abstraction and inference in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry The cellular representations and computations that allow rodents to navigate in space have been described with beautiful precision. In this talk, I will show that some of these same computations can be found in humans doing tasks that […]
Elizabeth Kellogg Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Unexpected Diversity of Grass Abscission Zone Abscission is a process in which plants shed their parts, and is mediated by a particular set of cells, the abscission zone (AZ). In grasses (Poaceae), the position of the AZ differs among species, leading to the hypothesis that AZ formation […]
Leila Montaser Kouhsari, MD/PhD Fellow, Movement Disorders Columbia University Medical Center “How Parkinson’s Disease Affects Decision-Making”