“The Clinical Impact of Genetics in Psychiatry: What Is Clinically Indicated? What Is Getting in the Way? Cases and Findings” Please join us for our next RARC Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on Tuesday, October 27, from 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET, featuring Takahiro Soda, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University […]
"How do you study a complex phenotype like schizophrenia? A rare variant perspective" Join us by Zoom for our next Socratic Scrub Grand Rounds, featuring Jennifer Mulle Ph.D., of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Socratic Scrub Grand Rounds is a series devoted to research judgment: the reasoning behind discovery rather than its finished results. […]
Speaker: Marie-Pascal Cote, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurobiology Department, Drexel University College of Medicine Date and Time: October 30, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM Location: Nelson Biology Laboratories, 604 Allison Rd, Rm D406, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
“Competitive interactions shape brain dynamics and computation across species” Speaker: Andrea Luppi, PhD Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK Division of Information, Engineering, University of Cambridge Date and Time: Friday, October 30th at 1:00 PM Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/my/lp756?pwd=Y3Q1NTNGTFJibHpYcUUwYUNaaFg5UT09 In-person: SRB seminar room Abstract: Adaptive cognition relies on cooperation across anatomically distributed brain circuits. However, specialised […]
“Deciphering Determinants of Condensate Liquid-to-Solid Transitions in Neurodegeneration” Speaker: Zheng Shi, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical, Biology, Rutgers-New Brunswick Date and Time: Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12-1 PM Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 Meeting code: 947 6980 4345 Passcode: 454288 Dr. Shi’s lab pursues two primary directions: 1) Quantitative understanding of the material properties of biomolecular […]
"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. […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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