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NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES:

Decoding the Hidden Conversations Between the Gut and Brain that Influence Eating Behavior
Guest Presenter
Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center;
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

DATE: Monday February 2, 2026
TIME: 11:00AM

LOCATION: 1225AB Jacobs School; 955 Main Street
Hosted by Derek Daniels, PhD

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All are welcome! UB structural biology collab with pharmacology!

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📣 This fall, the premier New York #BrainComputerInterface Symposium returns to NYC!

Join global leaders in #Neuroscience, #Neuroengineering, and #Neurotechnology for two days of transformative discussions on the future of #BCI. From startup innovation to patient advocacy, venture capital, and ethics, the program offers unparalleled insight into the next era of neurotech.

Highlights include:
🧠 The Cutting Edge: Advances and Challenges in BCI Insertion - Joshua Bederson, MD (Mount Sinai Health System); J Mocco, MD, MS (Mount Sinai Health System); Nicholas Au Yong, MD, PhD (Emory University); Iahn Cajigas, MD, PhD (University of Pennsylvania); Elad Levy, MD, MBA (University at Buffalo); Chris Kellner, MD (Mount Sinai Health System); Shahram Majidi, MD (Mount Sinai Health System)
🧠 Through Their Eyes: Patients and Caregivers on the BCI Journey - Ian Burkhart (BCI Pioneers Coalition)
🧠 BCI Trials Today and Tomorrow: Industry Perspectives - Tom Oxley, MD, PhD (Synchron); Ben Rapoport, MD, PhD (Precision Neuroscience)
🧠 Big Tech and BCI: Powering the Next Interface Revolution - Vivek Natarajan, MS (Google DeepMind); Anthony Costa, PhD (NVIDIA)
🧠 The Patient Need: Privacy, Autonomy & Independence- David Putrino, PhD (Mount Sinai Health System)
🧠 Designed with You: User-Centered BCI - Mariska Vansteensel, PhD (UMC Utrecht Brain Center)
🧠 BCI & Spinal Cord Injury: Restoring Connection - Chad Bouton, PhD (Northwell Health)
🧠 BCI & Stroke: Unlocking Recovery - Chris Kellner, MD (Mount Sinai Health System)
🧠 Startup Spotlight: Shaping the Next Wave of BCI - Ben Rapoport, MD, PhD (Precision Neuroscience); Max Hodak (Science); Tom Oxley, MD, PhD (Synchron); Florian Solzbacher, PhD (Blackrock Neurotech)
🧠 Neuropsychiatric BCI: Modulating Mood, Memory, & Executive Function - Helen Mayberg, MD; Brian Kopell, MD; Martijn Figee, MD, PhD (Mount Sinai Health System)
…and more!
Discover the insights, partnerships, and networking opportunities that will drive the next wave of #Neurotech innovation. Step into the future with #NYBCI25!

📅 October 3-4, 2025
📍 The New York Academy of Medicine
🔗 Agenda & speaker lineup: www.nybci.com

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Long list of seminars happening this week! Be sure to check them out!

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Seminars happening this week!

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Here are this weeks seminars! 👩‍🔬🧠

Reach out to each department for more information.

Did we miss one?? DM us if we missed a seminar in your dept and we'll be sure to post it!

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Check out all of the fun stuff happening this week!

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Grad School Board Game Night!!!

We will be holding a social event, a Board Game Night! Based on the results from our poll this week, we are planning on holding the event on this upcoming Monday, 11/14 from 6:30-8pm in JSMBS (room 1227).

What: Board Game Night

When: Monday, November 14th, 6:30-8pm

Where: JSMBS (room 1227)

Why: To socialize, eat snacks, and enjoy some games!

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Thanks for attending this month’s meeting! Here are some of the resources and opportunities for graduate students that were discussed in the meeting. Refer to your emails or click the link in our bio for the slides containing the hyperlinks!

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Congratulations to Megan Conrow-Graham, for winning the NIGMS-funded F30 grant!

This NRSA Predoctoral fellowship supports students working towards MD/PhD or other dual-degree programs, and promotes fundamental, interdisciplinary and innovative research training and career development.

Megan is an MD/PhD student doing research in Dr. Zhen Yan’s lab, studying genetic risk factors in autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability in mouse models. She is currently working towards her PhD degree in Neuroscience, in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

We wish you all the very best, Megan! 🎉

#womeninstem #womenempowerment #phd #mdphd #mdphdtobe #phdlife #phdstudent #phdjourney #nih #nihfunding #nihfunded #nihf30 #research #researchgrant #ub #ubbio #ubbiomedical

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Congratulations to Dr. Jamal Williams for successfully defending his PhD thesis work, titled -

“Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analysis Reveals Convergent Synaptic Deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease” on December 17th, 2021!

Dr. Williams completed his degree in Neuroscience, in Dr. Zhen Yan’s lab in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

Our best wishes to him in his future endeavors! 🎉

#science #phd #phdstudent #phdjourney #phdlife #phdthesis #phddone #celebrate #celebration #ub #ubuffalobiomed

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