2021-2022 INSPIRE speaker series
INSPIRE is a prestigious seminar series sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, devoted to advancing research excellence in the early stages of a scientist’s career.
| October 19, 2021 Shijia Liu Integrative control of breathing and pain by parabrachial opioidergic circuits Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego Graduate advisor: Sung Han, PhD, Salk Institute Hosted by: Martha Bagnall, PhD |
| November 30, 2021 Bruno Gegenhuber Epigenetic regulation of brain masculinization by estrogen receptor alpha School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Graduate advisor: Jessica Tollkuhn, PhD Hosted by: Harrison Gabel, PhD |
| December 14, 2021 Barbara Peysakhovich Abstract cognitive encoding in the primate superior colliculus Computational Neuroscience, The University of Chicago Graduate advisor: David Freedman, PhD Hosted by: Larry Snyder, MD, PhD |
| March 29, 2022 Zuzanna Balewski Fast decision representation in caudate nucleus during value-based choices Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley Graduate advisor: Joni Wallis, PhD Hosted by: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD |
| April 26, 2022 Christabel (Bel) Tan Autism-linked δ-catenin is required for astrocyte maturation and survival Cell Biology, Duke University Graduate advisor: Cagla Eroglu, PhD Hosted by: Jason Yi, PhD |
| May 31, 2022 Ling-Qi Zhang Sensory representation optimized for visual priors Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Graduate advisors: Alan Stocker, PhD, David Brainard, PhD Hosted by: Gaia Tavoni, PhD |
| June 21, 2022 Sheng Gong Cocaine shifts dopamine D2-receptor sensitivity to gate conditioned behaviors Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University Graduate advisor: Christopher P. Ford, PhD Hosted by: Thomas Papouin, PhD |
| November 29, 2022 Chunyang (Jason) Dong Monitoring neuromodulator activity and neuropharmacology with engineered genetically encoded biosensors University of California, Davis Graduate advisor: Lin Tian, PhD Hosted by: Yao Chen, PhD |