Speaker: Anil Kumar Vijjamarri in Megerditch Kiledjian Lab Date and Time: November 6, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM Location: Nelson Biology Laboratories, 604 Allison Rd, Rm D406, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Events
Events
“Track Control: How Neurons Sculpt and Tune their Microtubule Cytoskeletons” Date and Time: November 9, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM Location: Life Sciences Building Auditorium (LSB) 151 (In person only) Speaker: Dr. Antonina Roll-Mecak is the Senior Investigator and Chief of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A. […]
“Connecting Brain and Behavior to Understand Addiction Outcomes” Speaker: Sarah W. Yip, PhD, MSc Director of Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Child Study at Yale School of Medicine. Date and Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. In-Person Location: Deans Conference Room, Research Tower, 675 Hoes Lane West, […]

“On the Causes of Obesity and Its Treatment, The End of the Beginning” Date & Time: November 12, 2026, 4:00 PM Location: Location to be announced; reception to follow Speaker: Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University Dr. Friedman has won numerous awards for his groundbreaking discovery of leptin, paving […]

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“From Data to Mechanism: Integrative Bioinformatics for Biomedical Discovery” Speaker: Junguk Hur, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Director, Computational Data Analysis Core, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota Date and Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 AM (EST) In-Person Location: Staged Research Building Conference Room 661 Hoes Lane West, […]

“Computational models of neurodegeneration provide insights into disease mechanisms” Plenary Speaker: Alain Dagher, MD Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Health Centre Date and Time: Thursday, November 19, 2026, 12:00 PM In-Person Location: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Aidekman Building, Room 103, Rutgers University-Newark Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/s/93519832456 Meeting ID: 935 […]

Speaker: Kaitlin Castell in Santiago Cuesta Lab Date and Time: November 20, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM Location: Nelson Biology Laboratories, 604 Allison Rd, Rm D406, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
The 12th Annual Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) Symposium will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2026, at the College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ. The full‑day event will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux from NYU, cutting‑edge research presentations from BHI faculty, a special panel focused on the Rutgers Women’s […]

Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/6397147065
Speaker: Ethan Lippmann, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University Date and Time: December 4, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM Location: Nelson Biology Laboratories, 604 Allison Rd, Rm D406, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Plenary Seminar: Lin Tian, PhD Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute Dr. Tian’s lab focuses on technological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration to uncover the connection between brain function and behavior in healthy and diseased states, such as neurological and psychiatric disorders. Learn more Hosted by Miriam Bocarsly, PhD (Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience/NJMS) Learn more about […]