The Dr. William Hodos 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.
 

SPRING 2025 SEMINARS

February 21: Dr. Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Sarah Perry)
Title: Subcortical Reward Representation and Evaluation

February 28: Dr. Mary Kay Lobo, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Host: Chloe Matheson)
Title: Impact of opioids and stress across the lifespan

March 7: Dr. Gaurav Patel, Columbia University (Faculty Host: Dr. Caroline Charpentier)
Title: Pathways of Social Inference

March 28: Dr. Dani S. Bassett, University of Pennsylvania (Faculty Host: Dr. Arianna Gard)
Title: Network Cognition in a Curious World

April 4: Dr. Emily BJ Coffey, Concordia University (Faculty Host: Dr. Jonathan Simon)
Title: Using the auditory system to manipulate cognitive processes in a closed-loop fashion

April 18: Dr. Amy Arguello, Michigan State University (Faculty Host: Dr. Anna Li)
Title: Adolescent cocaine use, relapse, and social interactions during abstinence periods

May 2: Dr. Nima Mesgarani, Columbia University (Hosts: Ramani Duraiswami and Shihab Shamma)
Title:  Brain-Controlled Hearing Technologies: From Concept to Reality

FALL 2024 SEMINARS

September 6: Dr. Amanda Lauer, Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Carr)
Title: The role of the brain-to-ear auditory efferent system in hearing across the lifespan

September 20: Dr. Dorit Kliemann, University of Iowa (Faculty Host: Dr. Caroline Charpentier)
Title: Behavioral and Neurobiological Basis of Social Information Processing: Insights from Autism and Lesion Studies

September 27: Dr. Kirsten Adam, Rice University (Hosts: Xinchi Yu & Dr. Zane Xie)
Title: Trial-by-trial dynamics of attention and working memory

October 11: Dr. Ross Williamson, University of Pittsburgh (Host: Rose Ying)
Title:  Brain-wide neural circuits for sensory-guided behavior

October 18: Dr. Megan Herting, University of Southern California (Faculty Host: Dr. Tracy Riggins)
Title: Air pollution and brain development: Emerging findings from the nationwide ABCD Study

October 25: Dr. Kate Humphreys, Vanderbilt University (Faculty Host: Dr. Rachel Romeo)
Title: Influences and Consequences of Brain Changes During Period of Rapid Development

November 1: Dr. Steffen Wolff, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Faculty Host: Dr. Matt Roesch)
Title:  Motor skill learning and execution in a distributed brain networ

November 8: Dr. Ralf Haefner, University of Rochester (Faculty Host: Dr. Dan Butts)
Title: Behavioral and neural signatures of approximate hierarchical inference

November 15: Dr. Donald Katz, Brandeis University (Faculty Host: Melissa Caras)
Title: A nose is not enough: rethinking the relationship between taste and smell

December 6: Dr. Chris Baker, NIH/NIMH (Faculty Host: Zane Xie)
Title: Embracing the complexity of visual understanding