The NACS Seminar Series brings NACS faculty and students together on a weekly basis. The speakers are world-class neuroscientists and cognitive scientists who are working at the cutting edge of their discipline. Seminars are held on Fridays from 10:15-11:30am in room 1103 in the Bioscience Research Building. Titles will be posted as they become available. For additional information, please contact Claire Morse at cmorse@umd.edu. NACS seminars are not recorded.

FALL 2026 SEMINARS

September 11: Dr. Thorsten Kahnt, NIH/NIDA (Faculty Host: Dr. Evan Hart)
Title: Orbitofrontal contributions to model-based behavior

September 18: Dr. Yael Niv (BBI-Kavli Distinguished Seminar Series), Princeton University (Faculty Host: Dr. Caroline Charpentier) 
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September 25: Dr. Michael Krashes, NIH/NIDDK (Faculty Host: Dr. Scott Juntti )
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October 2: Dr. Ilya Monosov, Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Host: Dr. Evan Hart)
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October 9: Dr. Anastasia Kiyonaga, University of California, San Diego (Faculty Host: Dr. Zane Xie)
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October 16: Dr. Kishore Kuchibhotla, Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Host: Dr. Melissa Caras)
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October 23: Dr. Jayeeta Basu, New York University (Faculty Host: Dr. Ricardo Araneda)
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October 30: Dr. Beverly Wright, Northwestern University (Faculty Host: Dr. Melissa Caras)
Title: Post-training phases of auditory perceptual learning

November 6: Dr. Lauren Hale, Stony Brook University (Hosts: Dr. Tracy Riggins and Isabel Wilder )
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November 20: Dr. Hedy Kober, University of California, Berkeley (Faculty Host: Dr. Alex Shackman )
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December 4: Dr. Catherine von Reyn, Drexel University (Faculty Host: Dr. Jens Herberholz)
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SPRING 2027 SEMINARS

January 29: Dr. Weizhe Hong, University of California, Los Angeles (Faculty Host: Dr. Elizabeth Redcay)
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February 5: Dr. Gabriela Rosenblau, George Washington University (Faculty Host: Dr. Caroline Charpentier)
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February 19: Dr. Lauren Atlas, NIH/NCCIH (Faculty Host: Dr. Jonathan Simon)
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February 26: Dr. Jason Triplett, Children's National Hospital (Faculty Host: Dr. Jonathan Simon)
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March 5: Dr. Yavin Shaham, NIH/NIDA (Hosts: Phoebe Cousens and Chloe Matheson)
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March 26: Dr. Zayd Khaliq, NIH/NINDS (Host: Sarah Perry)
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April 2: Dr. Mike Hoppa, Dartmouth University (Faculty Host: Dr. Ricardo Araneda)
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April 16: Dr. Earl Miller (BBI-Kavli Distinguished Seminar Series), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Faculty Host: Dr. Luiz Pessoa)
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April 23: Dr. Steve Luck, University of California, Davis (Faculty Host: Dr. Zane Xie)
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