Seminars
Thursday, January 8, 2026, 10:30 a.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: (Biology Faculty Search Seminar): Neuromodulatory control of cognitive circuits
Speaker: Ryan Cho, Princeton
Host: Thomas Begley
Friday, January 9, 2026, 10:30 a.m. LSRB 1143
Title: (Biology Faculty Chalk Talk): Future Talk: Neuromodulatory control of cognitive circuits
Speaker: Ryan Cho, Princeton
Host: Thomas Begley
Monday, January 12, 2026, 10:30 a.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: (Biology Faculty Search Seminar): Building the Olfactory Code: Connectivity, Physiology, and Temporal Dynamics
Speaker: Kristyn Lizbinski, Yale
Host: Max Turner
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 10:30 a.m. LSRB 1143
Title: (Biology Faculty Chalk Talk): Dynamic sensory computation and behavior
Speaker: Kristyn Lizbinski, Yale
Host: Max Turner
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 10:30 a.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: (Biology Faculty Search Seminar): Building the Cognitive Map: How the Brain Transforms Sensory Space into a Sense of Place
Speaker: Patrick LaChance, Boston University
Host: Annalisa Scimemi
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 9:15 a.m. LSRB 1143
Title: (Biology Faculty Chalk Talk): At a Crossroads: Mapping the Intersection of Spatial Cognition and Behavior in Neural Circuits
Speaker: Patrick LaChance, Boston University
Host: Annalisa Scimemi
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 10:30 a.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: (Biology Faculty Search Seminar) Predictive and Movement-Correlated Modulation in the Auditory Midbrain and My Future at Albany Talk
Speaker: Alexandria Lesicko, Geffen Laboratory of Auditory Coding at the University of Pennsylvania
Host: Christine Gervasi
Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:30 a.m. LSRB 1143
Title: (Biology Faculty Chalk Talk) Circuit and Physiological Mechanisms underlying Flexible Auditory Processing
Speaker: Alexandria Lesicko, Geffen Laboratory of Auditory Coding at the University of Pennsylvania
Host: Christine Gervasi
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 10:30 a.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: (Biology Faculty Search Seminar) Astrocyte and Brain State Regulation of Neuronal Networks
Speaker: Justin Lines, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Host: Paolo Forni
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 10:30 a.m. LSRB 1143
Title: (Biology Faculty Chalk Talk) Albany and Me: Researching and Teaching Quantitative Systems Neuroscience
Speaker: Justin Lines, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Host: Paolo Forni
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. LSRB
Mini-WISC (Workshop for Interaction and Scientific Communication)
Thursday, January 29, 2026
GPS (Graduate Pathway for Scholars) Fellows Presentation and Awards
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Small Things make Big Differences: How Regulating Neurotransmitter Diffusion Shapes Cognition and Disease" (Promotion Seminar)
Speaker: Annalisa Scimemi, University at Albany
Host: Ing-Nang Wang
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "The Neurobiology of Innate Feeding Behaviors"
Speaker: Tyler Sizemore, Yale University
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Into the Weeds: Understanding the NYS Cannabis Research License and Today's Research Landscape"
Speaker: Andrea Unser & Lauren Foster, NYS Office of Cannabis Management
Host: Thomas Begley and the RNA Institute
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Patient Driven Gene Discovery Defines New Pathways Regulating Development Metabolish, Hif1a,Wnt"
Speaker: Mustafa Khokha, Yale University
Host: Paolo Forni
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Making Sense of the Mess: Detection, Organization, and Integration of Social Chemosensory Information by the Mouse Accessory Olfactory System"
Speaker: Julian Meeks, University of Rochester Medical Center
Host: Paolo Forni
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Transitional Cell States: Drivers of Tissue Sculpting in Regeneration and Disease"
Speaker: Purushothama Rao Tata, Duke University
Host: Mindy Larsen
Thursday, March 26, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Title: "Timing is Everything: How Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Makes and Breaks a Quorum"
Speaker: Jon Paczkowski, NYDOH Wadsworth Center
Host: Cara Pager
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 3 p.m. D'Ambra Auditorium
Paul Lemon Ecology Fund Seminar
Title: TBD
Speaker: Blanca Barquera, RPI
Host: Ing-Nang Wang