Tulane Brain Institute – Spring 2020 - Seminar Series

The Spring 2020 Brain Institute Seminar Series will take place on Wednesdays at 4pm on the Uptown Campus unless otherwise noted (01/16/2020)

Date Title Speaker Room Host

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020 - 4pm NO SEMINAR – First week of class Carol Barnes, PhD

Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020 – 4pm Assessing Directed Neural Interactions in

Brain Networks with Granger Causality

Mingzhou Ding, PhD Distinguished Professor

J Crayton Pruitt Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering

University of Florida

LBC, Stibbs 203

Yu-Ping

Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 – 4pm Enter the Matrix: Novel Therapeutic

Targets for Ischemic Stroke

Greg Bix, MD, PhD, FAHA Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Center

Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical and Translational Research

Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurology

Vada Odom Reynolds Chair in Stroke Research

Tulane University School of Medicine

Center for Clinical Neurosciences

LBC, Stibbs 203

BI

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 – 4pm Menopause, Cognition and Brain Aging: The Role of Estrogen and Menopausal Symptoms

Pauline Maki, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Obstetrics & Gynecology

Director of Women’s Mental Health Research Program

University of Illinois at Chicago

JBJ 111A Downtown

Mauvais-Jarvis

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2020 – 4pm TBA

Tracy Fisher, PhD Associate Professor

Division of Comparative Pathology

Tulane National Primate Research Center

Hebert 201 BI

Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020 – 4pm Wed before Mardi Gras – Local speaker preferably

Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020 – 4pm NO SEMINAR - Mardi Gras Break – Feb. 24 & 25

Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020 – 4pm LBC,

Stibbs 203

Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020 – 4pm NO SEMINAR

31st Annual Health Science Research Days

Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020 – 4pm Hebert 201

Wednesday, Mar 25, 2020 – 4pm Hebert 201

Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020 – 4pm TBA Mark Baxter, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hebert 201 Daniel

Wednesday, Apr 8, 2020 – 4pm NO SEMINAR - Spring Break – Sunday, Apr. 5 -

Monday, Apr. 13. Classes resume Tuesday, Apr. 14

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2020 – 4pm TBA Jun Ding, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurology

Stanford University

Hebert 201 Huang

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020 – 4pm TBA

Randolph Ashton, PhD Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering &

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Associate Director, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Hebert 201 Moore