CCN Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2023
Time/day: Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm (unless specified)
Location: DIBS Cube, LSRC B035
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Sept 1 |
Ann Kennedy, PhD Northwestern University |
Neural population dynamics underlying the regulation of motivated behavior |
| Sept 8 |
Professional/Community Development (Trainee Focused) |
Topic: TBD This aspect of the Colloquium Series includes talks, workshops, and events to foster community building with CCN students or focus on professional development topics that identify and develop transferable skills to prepare them for careers. |
| Sept 15 |
Lynne Nygaard, PhD Emory University |
Sound symbolism and cross-modal correspondences in spoken language |
| Sept 22 |
Professional/Community Development (Trainee Focused) |
Topic: TBD This aspect of the Colloquium Series includes talks, workshops, and events to foster community building with CCN students or focus on professional development topics that identify and develop transferable skills to prepare them for careers. |
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Sept 29 |
Elizabeth Margulis, PhD Princeton University |
The Musical Imagination |
| Oct 6 |
TBD |
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Oct 20 |
Brandon Warren, PhD University of Florida |
Neuronal ensembles mediate cocaine-seeking behavior in rats |
| Oct 27 |
Shinobu Kitayama, PhD University of Michigan | TBD |
| Nov 3 |
Danai Fannin, PhD North Carolina Central University |
Culture and Language Differences: Implications for Autism Identification |
| Nov 17 |
Kelly Giovanello, PhD UNC Chapel Hill | TBD |
| Dec 1 |
Becket Ebitz, PhD Université de Montréal |
Why do we make mistakes? |
| Dec 8 |
CCN Student Presentations Duke University | TBD |
Spring 2024
Time/day: Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm (unless specified)
Location: DIBS Cube, LSRC B035
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Jan 12 |
Ian Dobbins, PhD Washington University in St. Louis |
TBD |
| Jan 19 |
Kristina Nielsen, PhD Johns Hopkins University | Learning to see motion - development of the ferret's motion pathway |
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Jan 26 |
Ruth Barrientos, PhD Ohio State University | The role of CD8+ T cells in unhealthy diet-induced memory deficits in aged rats |
| Feb 2 |
TBD |
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| Feb 9 |
Jessica Payne, PhD University of Notre Dame | TBD |
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Feb 16 |
TBD | TBD |
| Feb 23 |
Joy Geng, PhD University of California, Davis |
TBD |
| Mar 1 |
TBD | |
| Mar 22 |
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| Apr 5 |
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| Apr 19 | 3rd year CCN Student Presentations |
TBD |
| May 3 | 3rd year CCN Student Presentations | TBD |
Past Colloquia
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Sept 2 12-1:30 pm |
Faculty Panel (Duke) |
Professional Development: Publishing and Funding Insider Knowledge Q&A Panel (Trainee Focused) |
| Sept 9 |
Society for Neuroscience North Carolina Triangle | Annual Neuroscience Meeting 2022 (Embassy Suites Raleigh Durham RTP) |
| Sept 16 |
Tim Dunn (Duke) | 3D body movement profiling as a platform for understanding the nervous system |
| Sept 23 |
Bradley Goldstein (Duke) | Adult neurogenesis in human olfactory epithelium: implications for managing olfactory sensory losses |
| Sept 30 |
Nina Kraus (Northwestern University) |
Of Sound Mind (via Zoom: https://bit.ly/CCN-Kraus) |
| Oct 7 | No Talk | |
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Oct 14 12-1:30 pm |
Darla Deardorff & Jayne Ifekwunigwe (Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation) | Story Circle |
| Oct 21 |
David Lydon-Staley (University of Pennsylvania) | Enriching our understanding of health and well-being by intensively sampling daily life |
| Oct 28 |
Zachariah Reagh (Washington University) | Representing and remembering our structured world |
| Nov 4 | Second Year CCN Students | Student Presentations |
| Nov 11 | No Talk | |
| Nov 18 |
| Rescheduled to Spring 2023 |
| Dec 2 |
Taraz Lee (University of Michigan) | The multifaceted impact of reward and cognitive control on skilled action |
| Dec 9 | Second Year CCN Students | Student Presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Jan 13 |
Mengsen Zhang, PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Unmasking multistable dynamics in social interaction, brain activity, and stimulation |
| Jan 27 |
Megan Peters, PhD University of California, Irvine | The cognitive and computational neuroscience of metacognition and awareness |
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Feb 3 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
| Professional Development Seminar: Industry Careers (trainee focused) |
| Feb 17 |
Maureen Ritchey, PhD Boston College |
The diversity of episodic memory: Cognitive and brain processes influencing what we remember about the past |
| Feb 24 |
Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD Duke University | New insights to the role of dopaminergic-cholinergic signaling and their impact for learning and memory |
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Mar 3 |
Monica Rosenberg, PhD University of Chicago | Characterizing attention dynamics with functional brain dynamics |
| Mar 24 |
Danai Fannin, PhD North Carolina Central University |
*CANCELLED* Culture and Language Differences: Implications for Autism Identification |
| Apr 14 |
Kevin LaBar, PhD Duke University | Cognitive reappraisal of emotion in the lab, clinic, and real world |
| Apr 28 |
Tobias Egner, PhD Duke University |
Principles of Cognitive Control over Task Focus and Task Switching |
| May 5 |
André Fenton, PhD New York University | Cognition in the noise: remembering, remapping, and reframing cognition dynamics |
| May 12 | 3rd year CCN Student Presentations |
1. Discovering Neural Algorithms for Song Learning in the Zebra Finch by Miles Martinez 2. Cortical Dimensions Supporting Mnemonic Semantic Factors by Matthew Slayton 3. Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory by Shenyang Huang 4. TBD by Morgan Ferrans |