Journeys in Neuro

Journeys in Neuro is a summer series exploring career and training trajectories at different stages in academia. Each event features lightning talks from a research assistant, a graduate student, a postdoc, and a faculty member sharing how they got to their current position and what it looks like on a day-to-day basis.


Luis Boero
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Venki Murthy, Harvard University
One Postdoc, Multiple Journeys

Erin Hecht
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Evolutionary Neuroscience, From Primates to Canines

Jingting Liang
Grad Student, Lab of Yun Zhang, Harvard University
What Doesn’t Kill You Teaches You

Jack Thibodeau
Laboratory Technician, Lab of Nick Bellono, Harvard University
How I Became a Lab Technician


The series is open to all in the Harvard community but is geared towards undergraduate researchers, post-bac scholars and early-stage research assistants.

High school students are welcome to attend, but at present any attendees under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and their parent or guardian must complete the Harvard University Youth Protection Form.

(If you are a high school student under 18 who is part of a summer STEM education program and your parent/guardian is unable to attend, please send us an email at info@brain.harvard.edu and we will let you know if there are any updates to this policy. We are working to see if there are ways for us to include you in this or other similar events in the future.)

Event Types:  Seminars