Upcoming Events
Due to the COVID-19 situation, all events at Duke are either canceled or moving to a virtual platform. This notice supersedes any announcements below.
Duke Neurobiology welcomes Reza Shadmehr, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Please email d.shipman@duke.edu for connection details. Abstract: How does one organize activities of neurons into populations? In the cerebral cortex, the current... read more about Population coding in the cerebellum »
Our Grand Rounds are now being held virtually via Zoom. View them at: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9406012755 Check out our schedule for speakers and links at our intranet site. https://wiki.duke.edu/display/DON/Neurology+Department+Clinical+Grand+Ro... read more about Neurology Grand Rounds - Virtual only »
Sponsored by Karen Wells Distinguished Lecture. David S. Bickham, Ph.D. is a research scientist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. His work explores the intersection between adolescent's media use and... read more about Karen Wells Distinguished Lecture: From Instagram to Internet Addiction: Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age »
The Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience group welcomes Grace Lindsay, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit/Sainsbury Wellcome Center, in the labs of Maneesh Sahani and Tom Mrsic-Flogel/Sonja Hofer, University College London. Email d.shipman@duke.edu... read more about Putting the neural circuits for normalization in context »
Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from "me and you" to "us and them." She focuses primarily on how group membership, competition, and prejudice disrupt the processes that allow people to see others as human and to empathize with others... read more about Dr. Mina Cikara - "Context dependence in social cognition and categorization" »
Xiaoyin Chen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), currently a post-doctoral fellow in Anthoby Zador's lab, will present "Sequencing the logic of cortical projections" on Zoom. Please email d.shipman@duke.edu for the link. read more about Sequencing the logic of cortical projections »
Our Grand Rounds are now being held virtually via Zoom. View them at: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9406012755 Check out our schedule for speakers and links at our intranet site. https://wiki.duke.edu/display/DON/Neurology+Department+Clinical+Grand+Ro... read more about Neurology Grand Rounds - Virtual only »
Fenna Krienen, currently a postdoctoral fellow in Steve McCarroll's lab at Harvard Medical School, will present "Molecular innovations in primate brain cell types" on Zoom. Please email d.shipman@duke.edu for the link. read more about Molecular innovations in primate brain cell types »
Dr. Ruby is an Associate Professor of Biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She received a BA in Psychology from Miami University of Ohio, a PhD in Physiology from Kent State University with advisor Dr. J. David Glass, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship studying the Neurobiology of... read more about Time Out: Alcohol's Effects on Circadian Rhythms and Sleep »
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American film exploring the impact of social media on mental health and privacy. Join the Filmmaker and Experts for a debate on how to design social media for wellbeing. read more about The Social Dilemma »