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.
 

FALL 2025 SEMINARS

September 12: Dr. Judy Fan, Stanford University (Faculty Host: Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos)
Title: Cognitive tools for uncovering useful abstractions

September 19: Dr. Avram Holmes, Rutgers University (Faculty Host: Dr. Alex Shackman)
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September 26: Dr. Hugo Tejeda, NIH/NIMH (Faculty Host: Dr. Ricardo Araneda)
Title: Prefrontal cortical neuropeptidergic control of threat appraisal and circuit dynamics

October 3: Dr. Thorsten Kahnt, NIH/NIDA (Faculty Host: Dr. Evan Hart)
Title: Orbitofrontal contributions to model-based behavior

October 10: Dr. Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Northeastern University (Host: Ellen Roche)
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October 17: Dr. Farran Briggs, NIH/NEI (Faculty Host: Dr. Dan Butts)
Title: The functional role of corticogeniculate feedback in visual perception

October 31: Dr. Lucina Uddin, University of California, Los Angeles (Host: Sarah Perry)
Title:  Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

November 7: Dr. Janice Chen, Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Host: Dr. Zane Xie)
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November 21: Dr. Jonas Obleser, University of Lübeck, Germany, (Faculty Host: Dr. Jonathan Simon)
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December 5: Dr. Elise Piazza, University of Rochester (Host: Mine Muezzinoglu)
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SPRING 2026 SEMINARS

February 6: Dr. Tomomi Karigo, Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Host: Dr. Scott Juntti)
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February 20: Dr. Vanessa Brown, Emory University (Faculty Host: Dr. Caroline Charpentier)
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February 27: Dr. Amy Finn, University of Toronto (Faculty Hosts: Dr. Tracy Riggins & Dr. Rachel Romeo)
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March 27: Dr. Bill Thompson, University of California, Berkeley (Hosts: Yukta Thyagaraj & Dr. Caroline Charpentier)
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April 3: Dr. Beverly Wright, Northwestern University (Faculty Host: Dr. Melissa Caras)
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April 17: Dr. Michele Insanally, University of Pittsburgh (Faculty Host: Nikolas Francis)
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May 1: Dr. Sam Gershman, Harvard University (Faculty Host: Dr. Phillip Resnik)
Title:  Using video games to reverse engineer human intelligence