Guillame Lajoie, PhD (U of Montreal) will visit the department on Tuesday, February 4th. His talk "Theory of artificially driven cortical circuits: connectivity, function and computations in neural dynamics stimulated by implants” will be in Pancoe Auditorium from 12:45-1:45pm.

Congratulations to Ravi Allada and @PhyllisZee on their appearances in PBS NOVA's "Mysteries of Sleep." Watch the episode here: pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vide…

Stephanie Palmer, PhD (UChicago) will visit the department today. Her talk "How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing" will take place in Pancoe Auditorium from 12:45-1:45pm.

Congratulations to Professors Genia Kozorovitskiy and Tiffany Schmidt on their promotions to Associate Professors with Tenure!

Congratulations to our Professors Justin Brown and Dave McLean, who were added to the Faculty Honor Roll 2019-2020 for excellence in teaching by NU's Associated Student Government! Kudos to them both for their well-deserved recognition.

The Neurobiology Seminar Series, in partnership with Science and Human Culture, is proud to host Dr. David J. Linden (Johns Hopkins Medicine) via Zoom this Tuesday, November 17th at 4pm. Dr. Linden will discuss his new book "Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality."

Please join us for the first Neurobiology Seminar of 2021! Gabrielle Gutierrez, PhD (University of Washington) will visit the department this Tuesday, January 19th at 4pm via Zoom.

Dr. Biafra Ahanonu (UC San Francisco) will visit the department this Tuesday, March 2nd. His talk "Neural ensemble coding of pain in behaving animals" will take place at 4pm CST.

Dr. Josh Siegle (Allen Institute for Brain Science) will visit the department today. His talk "The Allen Brain Observatory: a standardized platform for in vivo neurophysiology" will take place at 4pm CST via Zoom.

Dr. Gerald B. Downes (U Mass-Amherst) will visit the department today. His talk "From swimming to seizures: Investigating locomotion and epilepsy in developing zebrafish" will take place at 4pm CST via Zoom.

Congratulations Professor Catherine Woolley for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. American Academy of Arts & Sciences Neurobiology wcas.nu/3u0EuOE

Dr. Ketema Paul (UCLA) will visit the department tomorrow (April 27th). His talk "Interactions between sex chromosome dosage and sleep regulatory mechanisms" will take place at 4pm CST via Zoom.

Congratulations to Genia Kozorovitskiy on her groundbreaking research published in Nature Neuroscience today! Read Northwestern Now's press release here: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/0…

Neurobiology and the Neurobiology of Information Storage Training Program will present the Annual Routtenberg Lecture tomorrow at 4pm CST via Zoom. Dr. Mario Penzo (NIMH) will present his talk "Interrogating the role of the paraventricular thalamus in fear."

Dr. Sama Ahmed (Princeton) will visit the department today. His talk "Walking and singing: the neurobiology of multitasking in Drosophila" will take place at 4pm CST via Zoom.

The Department of Neurobiology will be will be hosting our first Fall Seminar via Zoom, today, Tuesday, October 12th at 4:00 pm. Dr. Thomas Bozza from our own Department of Neurobiology will discuss “ The genetic basis of mammalian olfactory function.”

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Tuesday, November 1st - Seminar speaker Dr. Melanie Samuel.

New path to Neuroscience PhD in NUIN! The VINE scholars program is geared to current/former NU Neuroscience majors or MS students doing research in WCAS labs who want to continue that work to earn a PhD. Shorter time to degree, individualized curriculum! bit.ly/vineNU