Affinity Groups

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

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

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

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

Challenges and Opportunities in the Discovery of Therapeutics for Demyelinating Disorders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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"

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Neuroendocrine Dialogue on Neuronal Control of Hunger and Feeding

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Phillipp Kellmeyer, Leigh Hochberg