Events

Friday, October 7, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: A Cortical Circuit for Audio Visual Predictions

Speaker: Aleena Garner (Harvard Medical School) Title: "A Cortical Circuit for Audio Visual Predictions" Abstract: Learned associations between stimuli in different sensory...

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Bioscience Day

Bioscience Day is an annual event on the College Park campus that features research talks, inventor pitch competition, poster session, networking panels, a keynote lecture and...

Audience: Public  Campus  Clark School  All Students  Graduate  Undergraduate  Prospective Students  Faculty  Staff  Post-Docs  Alumni  Employers  Donors  Press 

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

DEVSCI Colloquium: Ethnic-Racial Identity: Promoting Purpose and Power

Title: "Ethnic-Racial Identity: Promoting Purpose and Power" Speaker: Lisa Kiang (Wake Forest University) Abstract: Establishing a sense of identity is a fundamental task. This...

Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

CHBE Seminar: Dr. Velencia Witherspoon, NIH

Title: Transport in Complex Media a Magnetic Resonance Perspective Abstract: Complex media plays a critical role in many technological applications i.e. separations, catalysis,...

Audience: Graduate  Faculty 

Friday, October 14, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Talk: Matt Roesch

Speaker: Matt Roesch (Director of NACS at the University of Maryland) Title: "This is your brain after drugs: Long-term influences on neural signals that underlie good...

Monday, October 17, 2022 6:30 p.m.

Science on Tap: How our smell changes through life and disease

Speaker: Ricardo Araneda (University of Maryland) Title: "Nose Knows Best: How our smell changes through life and disease" Abstract: In humans, decreased olfactory performance is an...

Friday, October 21, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: Enhanced Perception and Cognition in Deaf Sign Language Users?

Speaker: Lorna Quandt (Gallaudet University) Title: "Enhanced Perception and Cognition in Deaf Sign Language Users? EEG and Behavioral Evidence" Abstract: Dr. Quandt will share...

Friday, October 28, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: A theory of locomotor learning across timescales

Speaker: Nidhi Seethapathi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Title: "A theory of locomotor learning across timescales" Abstract: Humans can adapt their walking gait to novel...

Friday, November 18, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: An aquatic perspective on vertebrate sensorimotor processing

Speaker: Tod Thiele (University of Toronto) Title: "An aquatic perspective on vertebrate sensorimotor processing" Abstract: My lab is interested in understanding how neural circuits...

Friday, December 2, 2022 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: Memory and Predictive Processing Across the Lifespan

Speaker: Yee Lee Shing (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Title: Memory and Predictive Processing Across the Lifespan Abstract: Episodic memory (EM} refers to memory about events...

Friday, February 3, 2023 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat

Speaker: Annegret Falkner (Princeton University) Title: Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat Abstract: Social experiences can have lasting changes on behavior...

Friday, February 24, 2023 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: Capturing Socioemotional Trajectories IN the Social World

Speaker: Koraly Perez-Edgar (Pennsylvania State University) Title: "Temperament in Context: Capturing Socioemotional Trajectories IN the Social World" Abstract: Behavioral inhibition...

Friday, March 3, 2023 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: Prediction and Reward Learning in Music and Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease

Speaker: Psyche Loui (Northeastern University) Title: "Prediction and Reward Learning in Music, and Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease" Abstract: Prediction learning is...

Friday, March 31, 2023 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

NACS Seminar: A Cross-Species Approach to Understanding the Physiological Mechanisms underlying...

Speaker: Aravind Parthasarathy (University of Pittsburgh) Title: A Cross-Species Approach to Understanding the Physiological Mechanisms underlying Age-related Hearing Loss Abstract:...