DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

The 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series will be a Virtual / In-person Hybrid.
For hybrid talks, it will be in 124 Petit Science Center & shown at the link below.
Click on each speaker to view info on the speaker’s research, selected papers & title.
Department Contact for Lecture Series: Liz Weaver
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2023-2024 Line-up
Title: Why Should You Care About the Vagus?: Implications for Emotion, Cognition, and Health
Location: In person in 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Erin Tone, B&B Psychology Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Stress and health. A review of psychobiological processes
2. Stress and aging. A neurovisceral integration perspective
3. How heart rate variability affects emotion regulation brain networks
Title: Differential Equations and Causal Mechanisms in Physiology
Location: In-person in 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Andrey Shilnikov, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. R-on-T and the initiation of reentry revisited: Integrating old and new concepts.
2. Branching patterns emerge in a mathematical model of the dynamics of lung development.
3. Bifurcation and chaos in a model of cardiac early afterdepolarizations.
4. Pattern formation by vascular mesenchymal cells.
5. Preventing ventricular fibrillation by flattening cardiac restitution.
Title: Homeobox genes encode neuronal cell type diversity
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Anne Murphy, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Homeobox genes and the specification of neuronal identity
2. Unique homeobox codes delineate all the neuron classes of C. elegans
3. Widespread employment of conserved C. elegans homeobox genes in neuronal identity specification
Title: Neural circuit mechanisms shaping social encounters
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Kim Huhman, Ph.D.
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Host: Neil Van Leeuwen, Ph.D. & Noelle Stroud, Ph.D. B&B Philosophy Faculty
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Host: Neuroscience Graduate Student Association & Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
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