Yi Zuo, PhD
Professor of MCD Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz

Experience-dependent synapse reorganization in the living brain

Sierra Stringfield, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Sade Spencer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, University of Minnesota 

Zoom information for these talks can be found in the email announcements or you can reach out to Andreea Bostan at acb42@pitt.edu.

The CNBC is hosting an inaugural Early Career Research (ECR) Seminar Series. This series features traditionally underrepresented and minority neuroscientists at early career stages (senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage faculty), who are actively conducting exciting work in fields relevant to the CNBC community. A main goal of the seminar series is to create a platform for outstanding young scientists from diverse backgrounds to share their research and network with the CNBC community.

Because of COVID-19, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Sessions will be virtual. Each session will feature a 30-minute talk from a trainee and a 30-minute talk from an early-career faculty speaker.

Organizing Committee:

• Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Pitt Psychiatry
• Andreea Bostan, PhD – Research Assistant Professor, Pitt Neurobiology
• Kate Hong, PhD – Assistant Professor, CMU Biological Sciences & CMNI
• Millie Rincon-Cortes, PhD – Research Assistant Professor, Pitt Neuroscience
• Afonso Silva, PhD – Professor, Pitt Neurobiology
• Sierra Stringfield, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, Pitt Psychiatry
• Gelsy Torres-Ovideo, PhD – Associate Professor, Pitt Bioengineering
• Sossena Wood, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, CMU Biomedical Engineering
• Timothy Verstynen, PhD – Associate Professor, CMU Psychology & CMNI

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Dr Joshua Sanes from Harvard University will be giving a talk

on March 8th 12-1pm. All invited. See email sent Jan 5 or contact christi@cmu.edu for Zoom information.

Marlene Behrmann and Jeff Gross

On behalf of the Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh Vision Community

Neuroscience Institute Speaker Series 

March 11 

Lena Ting

Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology;
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy;
Co-Director, Georgia Tech Neural Engineering Center;
Training Faculty, Emory Neuroscience Graduate Program, GT Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Applied Physiology PhD programs

Neuroscience Institute Speaker Series 

April 8 

Carlos Brody 

Professor, Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University