School of Neuroscience Innovators Seminar Series
Innovator Seminar Series
All seminars take place on Wednesday at 11:00AM.
Please direct any questions you have to Annika Schmierer (schmiera@vt.edu) or Michelle Olsen (molsen1@vt.edu).
*Click the hyperlinked names of the speakers for more details about the seminar as the date aproaches.*
Join the seminar Zoom here.
To see the lists of prior Innovator Seminar speakers, click here.
Spring 2024 Speaker List
Feb 14 | Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and Investigator, Inherited Movement Disorders Unit, Neurogenetics National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
Feb 28 |
Senior Group Leader Janelia Research Center Dr. Reiser’s research explores visual circuits and sensorimotor control in simple model organisms. |
Mar 13 |
Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina Department of Neuroscience The Otis Lab is interested in the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie reward-seeking behaviors. This includes behaviors that are adaptive such as foraging, and those that are maladaptive such as drug seeking. |
Mar 27
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Associate Professor, University of New Mexico Department of Neurosciences The McKenzie lab studies how memories are made, how patterns of neural activity form and propagate, and how to control the spread of seizures. |
Apr 10 |
Professor, School of Health Sciences, Fellow, U.S. Academy of Toxicological Sciences Purdue University Dr. Zheng’s research focuses on contributions of the brain barrier systems, especially the blood-CSF barrier in the choroid plexus, in metal-induced neurodegenerative disorders. |
Apr 24 |
Lead Investigator in the Drug Discovery Division of the Lieber Institute Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Novel therapeutics for psychiatric disease. |
May 8 |
University of Kentucky Lexington College of Pharmacy Dr. Turner’s translational research program focuses on substance use disorders, including, working to discover the cellular, molecular, neural, and behavioral basis of early abstinence effects that contribute to relapse, and 2) investigate the relationship of abstinence effects to relapse in clinical studies. |