The Klein Lecture: The (Mis)Measurement of Cognition in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Older Adults
April 6, 2022
Dr. Luis D. Medina
Panel Discussion on: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Neuroscience
December 7, 2021
Elizabeth Zuniga-Sanchez, PhD
Ann M. Etgen, PhD
Eyiyemsi Damisah, MD
Angeline Dukes, PhD candidate
Understanding Copper Regulation in Pediatric Neurodegeneration
December 2, 2021
Kaela Singleton, Ph.D.
Emory University
Neuronal population effects of natural and pharmacological manipulations of visual perception
November 22, 2021
Amy Ni, Ph.D.
The University of Pittsburgh
Applying Cortical interneuron development is disrupted in an NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Model of Schizophrenia
November 10, 2021
Oluwarotimi Folorunso, Ph.D.
The McLean Hospital
Circuit Mechanism for Associative Learning in the Cerebellum
October 5, 2021
Dominique Pritchett, Ph.D.
Howard University
Applying to Graduate School in the Time of COVID
November 4, 2020
Robert Harper-Mangels, Ph.D.
Yale University
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotional and Social ProcessingSeptember 30, 2020
Kay Tye, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Consequences of early-life adversity: risk or resilience?
September 16, 2020
Erica R. Glasper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, University of Maryland
A Colorful Research Journey
March 10, 2020
Rosa Lafer-Sousa ‘09, Ph.D.
Unit on Neurons, Circuits, and Behavior at NIMH
How Neuroscience and Wellesley Shaped My Career in Emergency Medicine
February 18, 2020
Dana Im ‘10, M.D., MPP, MPhil
Brigham and Women's Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital
Neural ensemble mechanisms for memory-guided behavior
December 3, 2019
Shantanu Jadhav, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Brandeis University
The role of the intestinal microbiota in Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Disease
October 2, 2019
Laurie Cox, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Understanding, facilitating and predicting aphasia recovery and after rehabilitation
October 2, 2019
Swathi Kiran, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Boston University
Director, Aphasia Research Laboratory
Neuroscience After Wellesley: A Neurologists' Perspective on treating Mutiple SclerosisApril 29, 2019
Kiren Kresa-Reahl, M.D. (Wellesley '87)
Providence Multiple Sclerosis Center
Portland, OR.
Phosphorylation of estrogen receptor alpha is required for mammary gland development and breast tumor response to estradiol and tamoxifenApril 10, 2019
Brian Rowan, Ph.D.
Gerald & Flora Jo Mansfield Piltz Endowed Professor of Cancer Research
Department of Structural and Cellular Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA.
It's brain surgery, not rocket science! Steps to becoming a neurosurgeonApril 8, 2019
Rosalind Lai, M.D. (Wellesley '11)
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Video of Rosalind Lai’s talk
Human Connectomics:New Frontiers In Mapping and Modeling Brain NetworksApril 4, 2019
Olaf Sporns, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Video of Olaf Sporn's talk
Astrocytes and Aquaporins: Relevance to Neurologic DiseaseNovember 29, 2018
Claudia Lucchinettii, M.D.
Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Professor of Neurosciences
Dept. of Neurology, Chair
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Video of Claudia Lucchinettii’s talk
Cancer associated with distinct microbial community and metabolic profilesOctober 26, 2018
Nicholas Chia, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Consultant
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Sleeping on the FlyOctober 23, 2018
Christopher Vecsey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Activity-dependent plasticity of electrical synapsesOctober 2, 2018
Julie Haas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Emotion Regulation in Adulthood and Old Age: Hedonic and Utilitarian Considerations
April 26, 2018
Eric Allard, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Arousal and Attention in Drosophila
March 15, 2018
Tim Lebestky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Regulation of CNS Inflammation in MS
February 6, 2018
Francisco J. Quintana, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Mechanisms for variability and plasticity in vocalmotor performance in songbirds
December 7, 2017
Mimi Kao, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Running hot and cold: Mechanisms of thermosensation and thermal acclimation in C. elegans
Piali Sengupta, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator, Professor of Neurobiology
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Neuroscience After Wellesley: A Neurologists' Perspective on Parkinson's Disease
Kiren Kresa-Reahl, M.D. (Wellesley '87)
Providence Multiple Sclerosis Center
Portland, OR.
Wouldn't hurt a fly: novel pain drug targets from Drosophila
October 5, 2017
Geoff Ganter
Department of Biology
University of New England, Biddeford, ME.
Modeling the neuro-developmental origins of Huntington's Disease with induced pluripotent stem cells
Virginia Mattis, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cedar Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
Patterson Symposium: Human-machine systems to aid in decision-making
Dr. Tepring Piquado
Associate Physical Scientist
Rand Corporation.
Gin and Tonic - What role does tonic inhibition play in the consequences of binge drinking?
Laverne Melon, Ph.D
Tufts University School of Medicine, Medford, MA.
Self-tuning neurons and brain stability
Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D
Principal Investigator, Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
TRPV4 channelopathy in hereditary neuromuscular disease
Jeremy Sullivan
Department of Neurology,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Experience-dependent equilibration of AMPAR-mediated synaptic transmission during the critical period
Weifeng Xu
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Ethology and Emotion
Brian Duistermars, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA.
Neuroscience After Wellesley: A Neurologists' Perspective on Treating Multiple Sclerosis
Kiren Kresa-Reahl, M.D. (Wellesley '87)
Providence Multiple Sclerosis Center
Portland, OR.
Neocortical circuits for transforming information and plasticity
Alison Barth, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA.
Keeping Color in Mind
Dr. Bevil Conway
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
Investigator and chief of the Unit on Sensation, Cognition and Action Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, Bethesda, MD.
Video of Bevil Conway's Lecture
Origins of the Mind and Development of the Brain
Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D.
Professor of Cognitive Science,
Department of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Instutitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Quantitative Adventures in Behavior
Dr. Robert Huber, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Sex Differences in Depression
Marianne Seney
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Losing Your Inhibition: GABAergic Plasticity in Emotional Learning
Elizabeth K. Lucas, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Manhattan, NY.
Multi-modal sensory integration underlying decision-making
Sara Wasserman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience,
Department of Neuroscience,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Lessons from the Lamprey on Nervous System Regeneration
Jennifer Morgan, Ph.D.
Director of the Eugene Bell Center,
Associate Scientist,
Marine Biological Laboratory.
Principal Investigator,
Morgan Lab, Woods Hole, MA.
A career at the interface of science, public health, and international development
Kayla Laserson, Sc.D.
Director,
Centers for Disease Control India, New Delhi Area, India.
How does the brain generate behavioral sequences?
Mike Long
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,
Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology,
NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems
Ed Boyden, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Professor of Biological Engineering & Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
MIT Media Lab and MIT McGovern Institute,
Massachusetts Instutitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Mechanisms of General Anesthesia
Patrick Purdon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA.
Unfolding the Orthogonal Brain
Dr. Van Wedeen
Associate Professor in Radiology,
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.
Director of Connectomics,
Martinos Center, Charlestown, MA.
Neuro Nite with Barbara Beltz
Dr. Barbara Beltz
Wellesley College
Allene Lummis Russell Professor of Neuroscience
Engineering Stem Cell Differentiation
Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D.
Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Instutitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Black and blue or gold and white? Analysis of social media's color controversy
Dr. Bevil Conway
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
Investigator and chief of the Unit on Sensation, Cognition and Action Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, Bethesda, MD.
Regulation and Function of Neurogenesis in the Adult Hippocampus
Dr. Fred Gage
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA.
Regulation of protein synthesis in long-term memory formation and disease
Shari Wiseman
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
What's new and cool in Neuroscience
Dr. Geoffrey Ling
Defense Advances Research Projects Agency
Functional Specificity in the Human Brain: A Window into the Functional Architecture of the Mind
Nancy Kanwisher
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Cambridge, MA.
Crustacean Immunity and Hematopoiesis
Dr. Irene Soderhall
Uppsala University, Sweden.
Patterson Symposium
Sex Differences in the Brain: Separating Fact from Fiction
Margaret M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore City, MD.
This is your brain on steroids: What songbirds teach us about the neural mechanisms of behavior
Luke Remage-Healey
Assistant Professor, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
How to be (and not to be) a Scientist: Some thoughts on scholarship, science conduct and misconduct
Jeffrey D. Blaustein
Professor, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies
Director, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Masachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Sleep in Drosophila Melanogaster
Dr. Leslie Griffith, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Volen National center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Stressed parents: maternal and paternal epigenetic reprogramming of the developing brain
Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Neuroscience Center
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Video of Tracy Bale's Lecture
Neurogenesis
Carolyn Pytte
Associate Professor of Psychology,
Queens College, Flushing, NY.
Video of Carolyn Pytte's Lecture
Hippocampal Memory of Time and Space
Matt Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Neural Circuits for Odor Recognition in Piriform Cortex
Ian Davison, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA.
The Brain on Trial: How Neuroscience will Navigate Social Policy
David Eagleman, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Basal Ganglia, Reward and Disease
Jesse Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D.
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Applying to Graduate School: How to Prepare a Quality Application
Robert Harper-Mangels, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
April 17, 2008; April 5, 2007
Can You Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks?
Jeff Blaustein, Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
December 2, 2011; November 13, 2009; April 27, 2007
Beyond point-and-shoot morality
Josh Greene, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
The genetics of motor control in drosophila melanogaster
Justin Slawson
Graduate Student, Department of Life Sciences, Brandeis University, Boston, MA.
Genetic dissection of memory storage
Leon Reijmers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Brain and Visual Perception
David Hubel, M.D.
Previous Talks: Essays on Thinking; Critical Periods and Cortical Development; Brain and Visual Perception; Organization of the Visual cortex
October 27, 2011; March 10, 2011; November 1, 2010; March 3 and 9, April 10, October 9, November 13, 2009; November 4, 2008; October 4 and 11, 2007
Neural mechanisms underlying motor learning in the song bird
Timithy Otchy
Graduate Student, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.
Drosophila in-flight olfactory orientation
Sara Wasserman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Neuroscience Patterson Symposium: Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and the Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute. Director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project.
Applying to Graduate School: How to Prepare a Quality Application
Robert Harper-Mangels, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
April 17, 2008; April 5, 2007
Understanding the puzzle of motor control: A systems level approach
Anne Blood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.; Research Scientist, Psychiatry and the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Martinos faculty, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA.
From neurons to perception: MEG imaging and neural modeling of somatosensory attention and the effects of meditation
Stephanie Jones, Ph.D.
Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Assistant in Neuroscience, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Martinos faculty, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA.
Neurophysiology of Bad Taste
Don Katz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
GABA Receptor Subtypes and Emotional Behavior
Kiersten Smith, Ph.D.
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Assistant Neuroscientist, McLean Hospital, Boston, MA.
Genetic Manipulations in the fruit flight club: Sex and war in a single gene and other stories
Ed Kravitz, Ph.D.
George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Music and the Brain
Jamshed Bharucha, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts, University, Medford, MA.
Mechanisms of Hearing and Deafness
David Corey, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology and Investigator, HHMI, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Our habitual lives: How the brain makes and breaks habits
Ann Graybiel, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
The Self-Tuning Neuron: Synaptic Scaling of Excitatory Synapses
Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D.
Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Brain Mechanisms of Decision Making
Marlene Cohen, Ph.D.
Post Doc, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Technologies to Read the Mind: Detecting Lies and Beyond
John Swain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Neural Mechanisms of Courtship and Memory in Drosophila
Kathy Siwicki, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Biology Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.
Fixing my Gaze: Gaining stereovision in adult life
Sue Barry, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
Sensations of Space Flight
Dan Barry, M.D., Ph.D.
NASA Astronaut (former); President and Founder, Denbar Robotics, South Hadley, MA.
Bat Beams: Sonar beam direction and flight control in an echolocating bat
Kaushik Ghose, Ph.D.
Post Doc, Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Variability, Homeostasis, and Neuromodulation in Neuronal Networks
Eve Marder, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis
Eileen Lafer, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, TX.; Director, UTHSCSA Center for Surface Plasmon Resonance; Co-Director, UTHSCSA Center for Macromolecular Interactions
Stress-Induced Anovulation: Mind over Matter?
Sarah L. Berga, M.D.
James Robert McCord Professor and Chair, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
April 24, 2008; April 12, 2007
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
Margaret S. Livingstone, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Oncofertility: Preservation of Fertility for Women and Girls with Cancer
Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D.
Director of Institute for Women's Health Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Deciphering the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease predicts novel therapies
Dennis Selkoe, M.D.
Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Co-Director, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
All in Your Head: The Neurology of Psychosomatic Illness
Alice Flaherty, M.D, Ph.D.
Director, Brain Stimulator Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Pathways in Psychology: Clinical Neuropsychology
Bonnie Wong '96, Ph.D.
Behavioral Neurology Unit, Beth Israel Medical Center
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Major Depressive Disorder: A Chronic and Recurrent Serious Mental Illness with Gaps in Knowledge and Practice
Andrew Nierenberg, M.D.
Associate Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Medical Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.