Mar 27 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

Patient Presentation: "Cervical Artery Dissection"
Babak Navi, MD, MS, RPNI, Vice Chair, Neurology Hospital Services, Chief, Division of Stroke and Hospital Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, BMRI, WCM
Mar 20 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Modeling Tissue-Resident Macrophage Development from Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Ann K. Baako, PhD candidate in Neuroscience (Vierbuchen/Perry labs), Developmental Biology and Immunology Programs, SKI and MSKCC
Mar 19 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 1300 York Ave

Tim Ryan, PhD
Tri-Institutional Professor Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medicine
Talk Title: “Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in Brain Function”
Mar 13 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Synaptic Subtype Identification: a high-content method for analyzing interneuron synapses in health and disease"
Edmund Au, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Cortical Interneuron Systems Neuroscience, Burke Neurological Institute
Mar 12 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 1300 York Avenue

Rajiv R. Ratan MD, PhD
Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine
CEO, Burke Neurological Institute
Title of Talk: Protective and Pathogenic: Forward Pharmacology Reveals the Janus Faces of Stress Signaling in Stroke and Cognitive Aging.
Mar 6 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"The Dopamine Pedal for Feasting and Friends"
Zhenggang Zhu, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, University of California San Diego
Mar 5 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 1300 York Avenue

Kamran Khodakhah, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology & Psychiatry
Florence and Irving Rubenstein Chair in Neuroscience
Albert Einstein Medical College
Talk Title: Reciprocal Cerebello-Basal Ganglia Interactions
Feb 27 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"β-Synuclein α-Synuclein Function to Maintain Synaptic Homeostasis"
Violetta Ivanova, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience (Burré lab), Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, BMRI, WCM
Feb 26 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 1300 York Ave

Ludvik Alkhoury, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate in Radiology
Department of Radiology
Talk Title: Leveraging meaning-induced neural dynamics to detect covert cognition via EEG during natural language listening
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Julia Kaiser, PhD
Instructor in Neuroscience
Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute
Title talk: Developmental molecular signatures define de novo cortico-brainstem circuit for skilled movement
Feb 20 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building

"Brain metabolism-excitation relations"
Juan M. Pascual, MD, PhD, Division Chief of Child Neurology, Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology and BMRI, WCM
