Past Events

Featuring Gary Yellen (Harvard Medical School)

Featuring talks by Angela Kim (Lowell Lab, BIDMC) and John Manion (Dong Lab, BCH)

Learn about research in neural development across Harvard at an NDC data blitz!

Featuring Clifford Woolf (HMS/BCH)

Join us for a networking event for old members to meet new people and to kick off our programming for the year!

Featuring talks by Shriya Srinivasan and Lillian Rose

This series features clinicians and patients discussing the lived experience of people with neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Featuring Nadine Gaab (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Featuring Zach McKenzie (Orefice lab, MGH) and Alex Banks (BIDMC).

Featuring Erin Hecht (Harvard)

Featuring a keynote lecture by Zhigang He, trainee talks and Q+A, lunch, and a happy hour.

Featuring: Rachel Essner (Andermann Lab) and Yu-Ting Cheng (Woolf Lab)

Join us for a free arts + science night! ! We are partnering with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) to explore our senses.

Featuring: Daniel Schacter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Harvard

This event will have corn hole, ladder ball, spike ball, hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, and plenty of other summer foods!

featuring Valentina Lagomarsino (Rao Lab) and Chen Ran (Liberles Lab)

Featuring talks by Michael Miller (Assistant Professor, BWH), Soha Ashrafi (Director of Research, Neurobiology, HMS), Anna Rios (Grad student, PiN/RSI), and Marcelo Armendariz (Postdoc, BCH)

Featuring talks by Adam Cohen (Professor, Harvard), Zuri Sullivan (Postdoc, Harvard), Ya’el Courtney (Grad student, BCH), and Asem Wardak (Postdoc, HMS)

Featuring talks by Saranna Fanning (Assistant Professor, BWH), Connie Cepko (Professor, HMS), Dustin Tillman (Grad student, Harvard), and Luis Hernandez Nunez (Postdoc, Harvard).

Featuring talks by Michela Fagiolini (Associate Professor, BCH), Huixin Xu (Postdoc, BCH), Parth Bhatia (RA, BWH), AJ Schick (Grad student, MGH)

Featuring Sabina Berretta (McLean)

Featuring Roberta Cristelli, PhD (Lab of Howard Weiner, BWH) and Alen Juginonić, MD (Lab of Dragana Rogulja, HMS)

In this workshop, we aim to develop conversations between developmental concepts and neurotheory, as well as highlight work that has accelerated our understanding of brain maturation through computational methods.

Featuring Chenghua Gu (HMS/HHMI) and Maria Lehtinen (HMS/BCH)

Featuring Rebecka Sepela, PhD (Lab of Nick Bellono, Harvard) and Hailong Zhang, PhD (Lab of Matthew Waldor, Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Featuring Amanda Whipple (Harvard)

Featuring Veselina Petrova (Postdoc, Woolf Lab, Boston Children’s Hospital) and Priya Veeraraghavan (Graduate Student, Macklis Lab, Harvard Stem Cell Institute)

Featuring Michael Murphy (McLean/HMS/Broad Institute) and Alen Juginović (HMS)

Featuring Rachel Wolfson (Ginty lab, HMS) and Subhash Kulkarni (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) 

featuring Thomas P. Mathers (Allievex) and William R. Renthal (BWH/HMS)

featuring: Till Roenneberg (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)

Featuring: Afroditi Petsakou (Perrimon lab) and Javiera Oyarzun (Phelps Lab)

Join us for an interactive evening in the Mugar Omni Theater with MGH researcher Ted Zwang as he guides you through virtual reality and digitized brains that are being used to better understand dementia,

Keynote by Maude Baldwin (Max Planck Institute).

Featuring Mariela Zirlinger (Editor-in-Chief, Neuron)

Featuring Francis X. Shen (MGH/HMS/Harvard Law) and Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz (MGH/HMS)

Featuring Joseph Burns (Decibel Therapeutics) and Gwenaelle Geleoc (Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital)

Featuring Christiane D. Wrann (MGH/HMS)

Featuring Kelly Buchanan (Mass. General Hospital) and Rhian Stavely (Mass. General Hospital)

Featuring C. Alex Goddard (Takeda Pharmaceuticals).

Featuring Jonathan Garst Orozco (Cerevel Therapeutics).

Challenges and Opportunities in the Discovery of Therapeutics for Demyelinating Disorders

Featuring Nicholas Bellono (Harvard)

Featuring: Morgan Sheng (Broad/MIT), Susan Dymecki (HMS), Maria Lehtinen (BCH), Daniel Hochbaum (HMS), and Leah Somerville (Harvard)

Featuring Dragana Rogulja.

Featuring Vikram Khurana.

Featuring Graduate Student Olivia Rose and Professor Jeff Holt

Featuring Dustin Tillman (Lab of Jeff Macklis, Harvard) and Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya (Lab of Susan Dymecki, Harvard Medical School)

Featuring: Daping Yang (Lab of Isaac Chiu, Harvard Medical School) and Marito Hayashi (Lab of Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School).

Featuring Connie Cepko and David Liu.

Featuring Dragana Rogulja.

Featuring Sydney Cash (HMS/MGH)

Join fellow researchers from the Harvard Neuro Community for an evening of socializing and pottery making!

Featuring Mark Richardson (MGH/HMS/MIT)

Featuring Isaac Chiu (HMS). Co-sponsored with the Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative.

Featuring Ishmail Abdus-Saboor (Columbia) and Ajay Yekkirala (Blue Therapeutics)

Featuring Sravya Kurapati (Bogunovic Lab, Univ. of Mass Medical School) and Patric Valli, PhD (Bellono Lab, Harvard University).

Featuring Evan Macosko (HMS/Broad Institute)

Featuring: Hayan Yoon, Senior Associate, Fenwick & West

Featuring Grace Lindsay (University College London)

Featuring warm apple cider and fall-themed snacks, this is a chance to meet and talk about all of the wonderful talks we've seen so far, techniques you're trying to develop and how cool and complex neuroregulation of GI tract is. All are welcome!

Featuring Paola Arlotta (Harvard University/Broad Institute).

Featuring Magdalene Moran (President and Chief Scientific Officer, Caraway Therapeutics)

Featuring Stephanie Courchesne (Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health)

Featuring: Herriet Hsieh (Lab of Lauren Orefice, MGH) and Amy Shepherd (Lab of Meenakshi Rao, BCH)

Featuring: Stacie Weninger (F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative)

A virtual book talk focused on psychiatry & science by Karl Deisseroth

Featuring: Liza Shoenfeld (Glia Consulting)

Featuring Rocky Barilla (Kuchroo Lab, BWH) and Junwei Li, PhD (Traverso Lab, MIT).

Robert Stickgold will discuss his new book. Free and open to the public.

Featuring Christopher A. Walsh (Boston Children's Hospital)

Featuring Abigail N. Koppes (Northeastern) and Richard A. Guyer (MGH)

Featuring Kerry Ressler (McLean Hospital)

Hosted by Jennifer J. Thomas (MGH/HMS) and Kendra Becker (MGH/HMS).

Featuring Pearl Huang (Cygnal Therapeutics) and Michelle Monje (Stanford).

Led by Kamryn T. Eddy (MGH/HMS) and Lauren Breithaupt (MGH).

A book talk by Ashley Juavinett. So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? is a contemporary and engaging guide for aspiring neuroscientists of diverse backgrounds and interests. Co-Sponsored with BIPOC Neuro.

Chronobiology of Movement Disorders - Aleksandar Videnovic, MD (MGH/HMS)

Featuring talks by Ken Tao (BIDMC/HMS) and Alexandra Vaccaro (HMS)

Dr. Burstein’s talk will provide a brief overview of our current understanding of migraine pathophysiology, and a more detailed description of the neural substrate of photophobia, & how this understanding has led to marketing a cure in <4 yrs.

Featuring Mike Do (BCH/HMS): Neural Coding for Circadian Photoregulation in Mice and Macaques

Data talk by: Jon Andersen (Lab of Pascal Kaeser, HMS): A new phase in synaptic biology: phase separation as a mechanism of presynaptic assembly and function

A broad overview for clinician-scientists & basic researchers. Featuring Drs. Hisashi Umemori (BCH/HMS) and Beth Stevens (BCH/HMS)

Featuring: Bob Datta (HMS), Chris Mason (Biotia/Weill Cornell Medicine), and Niamh O'Hara (Biotia). Moderated by David Brann (Datta Lab, HMS)

An overview and discussion session for basic scientists. Featuring Dr. Emery N. Brown (MGH/HMS/MIT)

A clinical overview and discussion session for basic scientists. Featuring Drs. Sabine Wilhelm (MGH/HMS) and Darin Dougherty (MGH/HMS)

A clinical overview and Q&A session for basic scientists. Hosted by Dr. Reisa Sperling MD (HMS/BWH)

A Clinical Overview and Q&A Session for Basic Scientists. Hosted by Dr. Joshua L. Roffman, MD, MMSc (MGH)

From the womb in which we developed to the food we just ate, Linden’s book explores the myriad factors that make us each unlike any other.

A Clinical Overview and Q&A Session for Basic Scientists. Hosted by James Berry, MD, MPH (HMS/MGH)

Featuring: Sally John (Biogen) and Kasper Lage (MGH/HMS). Moderated by Aurora Zhang (lab of Paola Arlotta, Harvard). Registration required.

Featuring Dost Ongur (McLean)

Ryann Fame will lead a data talk on: Developmental control of cerebral fluid distribution and CSF [K+] by choroid plexus NKCC1

This month's mixer is hosted by Tom Schwarz's lab.

Dawn Goldworm will discuss how neurobiological research on olfaction relates to our everyday experiences with Venkatesh Murthy and moderator Catherine Dulac.

Busola Olukoya will discuss her PQE aims: Radial Bundle Formation in the Developing Mouse Cochlea

This month's mixer is hosted by Gordon Fishell's lab.

Featuring talks by Ethan Glantz (lab of Mike Crickmore) and Ryu Amo (lab of Nao Uchida)

Featuring Michael Prerau, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

This month's mixer is hosted by Wade Regehr's lab.

Featuring talks by Hao Wu (lab of Venkatesh Murthy) and Soohong Min (lab of Stephen Liberles)

Featuring Till Roenneberg (Ludwig-Maximilian University) and Richa Saxena (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

Featuring talks by: Ni Ji (Lab of Steven Flavell, MIT) and Johannes Bill (Labs of Jan Drugowitsch and Sam Gershman, HMS and Harvard)

David Mazumder will lead a journal club on Muessig et al.'s 2019 paper Coordinated Emergence of Hippocampal Replay and Theta Sequences during Postnatal Development

This month's mixer is hosted by Wei-Chung Allen Lee's lab.

Featuring: Taihong Wu (Zhang Lab) and Stephen Zhang (Andermann Lab).

Registration Required. Featuring Alice Flaherty (MGH), Paola Arlotta (FAS), Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida (FAS), Mark Andermann (BIDMC/HMS).

Featuring Constance Cepko, Ricardo Dolmetsch, Chris Henderson, Magdalene Moran, Li-Huei Tsai, Alexander Lin, Shai Gozani, and Jennifer Vojtech

Featuring talks by Haleh Fotowat (lab of Florian Engert) and Bryan Song (Lab of Dragana Rogulja)

This month's mixer is hosted by Clifford Woolf's lab.

Come learn more about the Neural Development Club and meet with other folks interested in neurodevelopment.

Featuring Shadab Rahman, PhD, MPH (Lab of Elizabeth Klerman, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital) | Electric lighting: friend or foe to human sleep?

We will meet in Northwest 243 for ice cream and then head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a short visit. This event is open to all postdocs/students/lab staff conducting neuroscience research at Harvard and affiliated hospitals.

We will meet in Goldenson 229 for ice cream and then head to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for a short visit. This event is open to all postdocs/students/lab staff conducting neuroscience research at Harvard and affiliated hospitals.

Featuring: Lisa Nickerson, PhD, Sam Marsh, PhD, Rebecca Senft, and Seul Ah Kim

Featuring: Sam Gershman, PhD, Juliana Rhee, Davide Valeriani, PhD, Sarah Hersman, PhD

Featuring: Yakeel Quiroz, PhD, Jasmine Reggiani, Nikita Sturrock, Rachel Essner, and Taralyn Tan

Featuring: Bertha Madras, PhD, Tanvi Ranjan, Stephanie DeCross, and Kelly McGuire

Featuring Nick Jourjine (lab of Hopi Hoekstra) and Hannah Twarkowski (lab of Amar Sahay)

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month’s mixer is hosted by the Ginty lab.

Featuring Vlad Susoy (lab of Aravi Samuel) and Sarah Hersman (lab of Todd Anthony)

Featuring Tim Hammond, PhD (Lab of Beth Stevens, BCH)

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month’s mixer is hosted by the Corey lab.

Keynote speaker: Elizabeth Phelps, PhD

Featuring Olivia Ho-Shing (Lab of Catherine Dulac) and Rockwell Anyoha (Lab of Bob Datta).

Chris Reid will lead a journal club on Kelly et al. and Huang, 2018: "Radial Glial Lineage Progression and Differential Intermediate Progenitor Amplification Underlie Striatal Compartments and Circuit Organization"

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month’s mixer is hosted by the Schwartz lab.

Featuring Staci Bilbo (HMS; Lurie Center for Autism) and Rita Balice-Gordon (Sanofi)

Featuring Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku (Dulac Lab); clinical discussion led by Joseph Majzoub, MD (Boston Children's Hospital)

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month’s mixer is hosted by the Bean lab.

Featuring talks by: HyungGoo Kim (Uchida Lab) and Stephen Thornquist (Crickmore Lab).

Busola Olukoya will present a journal club on Shimada et al., 2017

Please note that this event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule when possible.

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month’s mixer is hosted by the Regehr lab.

Featuring talks by Liz Shtrahman (lab of Venkatesh Murthy) and Nao Horio (lab of Stephen Liberles)

Featuring Beth Stevens (BCH/HHMI) and Richard Ransohoff (Third Rock Ventures)

The Future of Neurophysiology? Large-scale measures of neuronal activity, featuring Adam Cohen and John Sherwood

Richard Smith, PhD (Lab of Christopher Walsh, Boston Children's Hospital); Role for sodium channels in the developing brain

Join us for the next Neuro Mixer, co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro, and the Kirby Center! This month's mixer is hosted by Wei-Chung Allen Lee's lab.

Featuring talks by Myung-Kyu Choi (Lab of Yun Zhang, Harvard University) and Andrew Lutas (Lab of Mark Andermann, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

Do peripheral cytokines drive Neuropsychiatric Lupus? Mike Carroll, Boston Children's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Lupus: Presentation and Treatment Vasileios C. Kyttaris, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Featuring talks by Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard), Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington), Samuel Gershman (Harvard), Talia Konkle (Harvard), Eve Marder (Brandeis), Mackenzie Mathis (Rowland Institute) and Cengiz Pehlevan (Flatiron Institute)

The discussion of psychedelic medicine makes a historic return to Harvard: a panel and audience Q&A featuring Michael Pollan, Rick Doblin, Robin Carhart-Harris, Matt Johnson, Franklin King, Anja Loizaga-Velder, and Julie Holland

Featuring talks by: Armin Bahl (Lab of Florian Engert; Cambridge campus) and Iris Titos Vivancos (Lab of Dragan Rogulja; Longwood campus).

Heather Richardson (UMass Amherst) "Impact of adolescent drinking on the developing brain of male and female rats" Fair Vassoler (Tufts University) "Preconception opioid exposure has bidirectional effects on morphine and cocaine reward in offspring"

Rebecca Senft (Lab of Susan Dymecki; Harvard Medical School) Regional variation in neurochemical composition of axonal bouton within a subtype of serotonin neurons

Special seminar by Jaideep Bains, University of Calgary

Open to all high school & undergraduate students doing summer work at Harvard.

Anne Takesian, PhD (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) Inhibitory Circuit Gating of Auditory Cortical Plasticity. 

Open to all high school & undergraduate students doing summer work at Harvard.

This ongoing dual-campus dinner program unites researchers working in different systems to explore general principles of behavioral regulation. Each meeting includes two presentations, one from Cambridge, one from Longwood.

This dynamic forum gathers academic and industry scientists together to discuss best practices, protocols and challenges with new technologies to generate improved predictive models of neurological disease.

Co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro and the Kirby Center, these monthly social gatherings are a new hybrid. Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community

Featuring Talks by: Andrew Nierenberg, MD Olga Alekseyenko, PhD Justin Baker, MD, PhD Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD

Please join us in Warren Alpert 236 for the next Chronobiology and the Brain Affinity Group Meeting sponsored by the Harvard Brain Science Initiative.

Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

Please join us in Warren Alpert 236 for the next Chronobiology and the Brain Affinity Group Meeting sponsored by the Harvard Brain Science Initiative.

Each seminar addresses a specific subject through two talks, one from the bench and one from the clinic. We have explored a wide range of topics, including feeding behaviors and metabolism, reproductive functions and social behaviors, sleep & stress.

Kevin Eggan, Robin Kleiman, Laurence Daheron

Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community

Co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro and the Kirby Center, these monthly social gatherings are a new hybrid. Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

Neuroendocrine Dialogue on Neuronal Control of Hunger and Feeding

"To keep or not to keep: Mechanisms and molecules of activity-dependent synaptic refinement"

Co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro and the Kirby Center, these monthly social gatherings are a new hybrid. Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

An HBI Symposium Celebrating Cross-Campus Collaborations

Co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro and the Kirby Center, these monthly social gatherings are a new hybrid. Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

This program is one of a series of discussions presented by the Cellular Modeling of Neurological Disease Discussion Group of HBI. The event is free and open to the public.

What happens when composers and musicians hear in colors, shapes, or personalities? How might these extraordinary experiences affect a composer’s writing, or a musician’s interpretation of a piece?

This ongoing dual-campus dinner program unites researchers working in different systems to explore general principles of behavioral regulation.

This group was formed in Spring 2017 to cultivate a community of scientists working on questions related to the development of the nervous system.

Neuroendocrine Dialogs: Each seminar addresses a specific subject through two talks, one from the bench and one from the clinic.

Co-sponsored by HBI, HMS Neuro and the Kirby Center, these monthly social gatherings are a new hybrid. Once per month we will combine traditional Neuro Friday Beer Hours in a larger event to include our broader community.

Open to all high school & undergraduate students doing summer work at Harvard Sponsored by the Harvard Brain Science Initiative

New mechanistic insight into the regulation of transcription by Ras/MAPK signaling in development and disease.

Members of the Boston area academic and research community interested in cellular modeling of neurological disease join in this series of discussions.

Boston area academic and research community interested in cellular modeling of neurological disease join in an ongoing series of discussions.

Fifth annual celebration of undergraduate research in neuroscience and psychology.

Cox will talk about the ARIADNE project--a multi-university effort to study a living animal brain like never before to figure out how it learns.

Todd Anthony (HMS, BCH) and William Todd (Saper Lab, BIDMC)

Featuring Talks by Drs. James Berry, Clifford Woolf, Bruce Bean, Junying Yuan and Robin Reed

Co-Chairs/Moderators: Bruce Bean, Kevin Eggan, Clifford Woolf

A Special Symposium Highlighting Collaborative Neurobiology Research Generously supported by Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III

Featuring talks by: Dost Ongur, MD, PhD Beth Stevens, PhD Charles J. Weitz, MD, PhD Alex Schier, PhD Margaret Livingstone, PhD

Phillipp Kellmeyer, Leigh Hochberg

Natural light controls our circadian clocks, synchronizing our activities with the day-night cycle.

Winston Chiong, Lee Schwamm, Shamai Grossman

Julian Savulescu, Anna Wexler, Aaron Kesselheim

Reception follows

Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone and photographer Sharon Harper will explore the science and art behind seeing, perceiving, and creating images.

Joe Giacino, Joe Fins, Jim Bernat

Adam Cohen and Dimitar Sasselov will discuss the role of light in expanding our ability to “see” and describe new advances in light-based technologies.

Paul Ford, Darin Dougherty, Elizabeth Hohmann