NTP 900: Neuroscience Seminar meets every Monday from 4-5 PM in HSLC 1345 unless otherwise indicated.
Email announcements with further details are sent out weekly. If you would like to be added to the email list, please reach out to ntp@mailplus.wisc.edu.
Students: You are required to take NTP 900 every semester, and you are permitted 3 absences each semester. If you know you are unable to attend, contact the NTP Office ahead of time. Please remember to sign in at the start of each seminar.
Faculty Trainers/PIs: You must attend at least one seminar per year. Please remember to sign in. This is a requirement to maintain trainer status and to continue being able to take NTP students.
| Date | Speaker | Mentor | Talk Title |
| 09/08/2025 | Lizzi Holland | Dr. Erik Dent | Determining the function of microtubule invasion of hippocampal dendritic spines |
| 09/15/2025 | Sudharsan Kannan | Dr. Gail Robertson | Mechanisms regulating assembly and stoichiometry of heteromeric hERG1 channels |
| 09/22/2025 | John Razidlo | Dr. Cody Wenthur | Behavioral and neuropharmacological assessment of rapid-acting antidepressants in preclinical models of stress. |
| 09/29/2025 | Brooke Weiler | Dr. Katie Drerup | Disc1-Dependent Mitochondrial Transport and Morphology in Neurons |
| 10/06/2025 | Collin Laaker | Dr. Zsuzsanna Fabry |
The Cribriform Plate: A Gateway for CNS Immune Surveillance during Brain Infection
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| 10/13/2025 | Zikang Zhu | Dr. Ari Rosenberg | Hierarchical Processing of Three-dimensional Vision along the Macaque Dorsal Pathway |
| 10/20/2025 | Ashton Barber | Dr. Ned Kalin | Assessing the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of rapid-acting antidepressants in a nonhuman primate model of pathological anxiety |
| 10/27/2025 | Cory Rossmeissl | Dr. Meyer Jackson | Dynamic gatekeeping at the trisynaptic loop: effects of plasticity on dentate granule cell output |
| 11/03/2025 | Danielle Carrol | Dr. Melissa Rosenkranz | Regional brain structural alterations in reward and salience networks in asthma. |
| 11/10/2025 | Chris Andolina | Dr. Robert Pearce |
Control of memory through α5−GABAA receptors on neurogliaform-family interneurons |
| 11/17/2025 | No Seminar (SFN Conference) | No Seminar (SFN Conference) | No Seminar (SFN Conference) |
| 11/24/2025 | Soraya Sandoval | Dr. Xinyu Zhao | Integrative Multi-Omic Analysis Reveals Metabolic Deficits in Human Fragile X Neurons |
| 12/01/2025 | Swapnali Patil | Dr. Ed Chapman | Exploring the functions of synaptotagmin 1, 7, and 9 |
| 12/08/2025 | Sam Reid | Dr. Luigi Puglielli | Overexpression of COASY in the mouse affects both the central and peripheral nervous system |
| Date | Speaker | Mentor | Talk Title |
| 01/27/2025 | Faculty Trainer: Anthony Auger | Early life adversity, hormone regulation, and brain development: predicting its impact on social development and overall health | |
| 02/03/2025 | Ted Imhoff-Smith | Dr. Vivek Prabhakaran | Molecular mechanisms of amygdala enlargement and their neuropsychiatric manifestations in the epilepsies |
| 02/10/2025 | Kao Lee Yang | Dr. Barbara Bendlin | A multimodal examination of synaptic density and Alzheimer’s disease pathology |
| 02/17/2025 | Serena Wisner | Dr. Katie Drerup & Dr. Mrinalini Hoon | Mitophagy Dynamics at the Synapse |
| 02/24/2025 | Lizzi Holland | Dr. Erik Dent | Determining the function of microtubule invasion of hippocampal dendritic spines |
| 03/03/2025 | Austin Pier | Dr. Tim Gomez | TSC2 Regulates RhoA Signaling in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Neurons Independent of mTOR |
| 03/10/2025 | Faculty Trainer: Wang Zheng | Mechanotransduction in the brain | |
| 03/17/2025 | West Roberts | Dr. Vivek Prabhakaran | Harmonized tract based spatial statistics (TBSS) with multiple diffusion models of the Alzheimer’s disease connectome project (ADCP) |
| 03/24/2025 | n/a – spring break | ||
| 03/31/2025 | Jack Shireman | Dr. Mahua Dey |
Transcriptomic and Proteomic Spatial Profiling of Pediatric and Adult Diffuse Midline Glioma H3 K27-Altered |
| 04/07/2025 | Spencer Cooke | Dr. Craig Berridge | Thalamocortical Actions of CRF in Executive Function |
| 04/14/2025 | Bikalpa Ghimire | Dr. Xin Huang | Mechanistic investigation of motion-based visual segmentation |
| 04/21/2025 | Sujung Janet Lee | Dr. Cody Wenthur | Evaluating of the set and setting theory within psychedelics |
| 04/28/2025 | Darby Peter | Dr. Barbara Bendlin | Microbial Alterations and Cerebrovascular Health in a Cognitively Unimpaired Cohort Enriched for Dementia Risk |
| Date | Speaker | Mentor | Talk Title |
| 09/09/2024 | Sudharsan Kannan | Dr. Gail Robertson | Assembly of heteromeric hERG channel |
| 09/16/2024 | Henry Stephenson | Dr. Barbara Bendlin | Staging neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease |
| 09/23/2024 | n/a – cancelled | ||
| 09/30/2024 | Guest Speaker: Lodya Méndez | Neurotoxic Effects of Particle Pollution | |
| 10/07/2024 | n/a – SfN | ||
| 10/14/2024 | Haylee Hamilton | Dr. Mariana Pehar | FABP7 and astrocyte-mediated neuroinflammation in aging and Alzheimer’s disease |
| 10/21/2024 | Megan Braun | Dr. Luigi Puglielli | Acetylation driven proteostasis in the ER and Golgi |
| 10/28/2024 | John Zhu | Dr. Ari Rosenberg | Distinct effects of electrical microstimulation in macaque areas MT and FST on 3D motion perception |
| 11/04/2024 | Tzu-Lin Cheng | Dr. Luigi Puglielli | Acetyl-CoA flux and post-translational Nε-lysine acetylation regulates dynamics of the secretory pathway: from systemic to cellular level |
| 11/11/2024 | Lauren English | Dr. Erik Dent | The F-BAR proteins CIP4 and FBP17 regulating neurite dynamics during cortical neuronal migration |
| 11/18/2024 | Soraya Sandoval | Dr. Xinyu Zhao | Multiomic Analyses of Fragile X Syndrome iPSC-Derived Neurons |
| 11/25/2024 | n/a – Thanksgiving | ||
| 12/02/2024 | Ashton Barber | Dr. Ned Kalin | Assessing the anxiolytic effects and opioid system involvement of subanesthetic ketamine in a non-human primate model of pathological anxiety |
| 12/09/2024 | n/a – cancelled |