Apr 11 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Mechanism and rescue of lysosomal defects in Adult-onset Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis "
Samantha McDonough, PhD candidate, Sharma lab, Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, BMRI, WCM
Apr 4 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Building the Blueprint of the Brain: Genetic and Molecular Strategies for Unraveling Sensory Circuit Development"
Yu-Chieh David Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, New York University
Apr 3 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-250 Estabrook Lecture Hall

Zhirong Bao, PhD, Member, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Talk titled: "Collective cell behaviors in the emergence of brain structure and function"
Mar 28 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Elucidating the role of GIGYF1 in autism spectrum disorder"
Pablo Lituma, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience, Colak lab, Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute; Leon Levy Scholar in Neuroscience, WCM
Mar 27 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-250 Estabrook Lecture Hall

May (Mai) Khanna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Assistant Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Florida College of Medicine
Talk titled: "Targeting TDP-43: Advancing Therapeutics Through Chemical and Structural Biology"
Mar 26 2025 - 8:30am to 11:00am
Location: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Grand Rounds / Keynote Address:
Lecture Title: Artifical Intelligence in Neurology: Current State & Future Directions
Benjamin R. Kummer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director of Clinical Informatics in Neurology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Followed by a Symposium on Neurotechnology by current WCM and MSKCC Faculty:
Sudhin Shah, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Radiology & Rehabilitation Medicine
Assistant Professor of Neurosciencem...
Mar 21 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Neuroscience in the NICU: Establishing the importance of Talk and Touch for brain and language development in preterm infants"
Katherine Travis, PhD, Director of Laboratory for Language Development and Recovery, Burke Neurological Institute; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Pediatrics, WCM
Mar 20 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-250 Estabrook Lecture Hall

Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD, Associate Attending Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Associate Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Talk titled: “Molecular dissection of inflammation in leptomeningeal metastasis”
Mar 14 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Status Epilepticus"
Baxter Allen, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Department of Neurology, WCM, Division Chief of Stroke and Neurocritical Care at NYP-Queens
Mar 13 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-250 Estabrook Lecture Hall

Chinfei Chen M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Talk titled: “Information processing and plasticity at a simple connection: the retinogeniculate synapse”