Affinity Groups

Featuring Nick Spencer (Flinders University)

Featuring talks by: Becky Andersen (Walsh Lab, BCH/HMS) and Yi-Chia Huang (Goodrich Lab, HMS)

Talk by Rachel Hostetler (Allen Institute).

Join us for a holiday cookie decorating social! We will have an arrangement of sugar cookies, including brain themed ones, and a cornucopia of decorating options, as well as other holiday treats.

Featuring talks by Natalia Machado (BIDMC) and Luis Costa (Machado Lab, BIDMC)

Talks by Atharva Sahasrabudhe (Anikeeva lab, MIT) and Gui Ramos (Breault lab, BCH)

Featuring talks by Sattar Khoshkhoo, MD (BWH) and Heer Joisher (Cepko lab, HMS)

Featuring talks by Rebecca Shansky (Northeastern) and Lindsay Vincelette (Shansky lab, Northeastern).

Talks by Cecília Gallottini de Magalhães (Gladyshev lab, BWH) and Elijah Lowenstein (Lowell lab, BIDMC)

Featuring talks by Kyla Nichols (Koppes Lab, Northeastern University) and Eunice To (He lab, Boston Children’s Hospital)

Featuring talks by Yangyang Zhu (CBDM Lab, Harvard) and Anoohya Muppirala (Rao Lab, Boston Children's Hospital)

Featuring Clifford Saper (HMS/BIDMC) and Oscar D. Ramirez Plascencia (BIDMC)

featuring members of the Fishell, Greenberg and Walsh labs

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!

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Challenges and Opportunities in the Discovery of Therapeutics for Demyelinating Disorders

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

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

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 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 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 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

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.

Kevin Eggan, Robin Kleiman, Laurence Daheron

"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.

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