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Schedule of the NYU Series

Growing up in Science meetings at NYU are held in Meyer Hall (4 Washington Place), Room 636, from 5 to 6 pm, unless announced otherwise. Graduate students, postdocs, research assistants, undergraduates, faculty, and visitors are all welcome (visitors need to be added to a security check list).  Announcements are sent to the event mailing lists of the Center for Neural Science, the Department of Psychology, and the Neuroscience Institute. The NYU Growing up in Science series is managed and moderated by Wei Ji Ma. Please contact him if you have questions or comments (weijima@nyu.edu).

Schedule 2023-24

Oct 3, 2023 Kenway Louie (CNS) Meyer 102
March 01, 2023 Susan Carey (Psychology) Meyer 102
March 01, 2023 Joe LeDoux (CNS) Meyer 102

Schedule 2022-23

Oct 26, 2022 John Rinzel(CNS) Meyer 636
March 01, 2023 Grace Lindsay (Psychology and Data Science) Meyer 636
May 16, 2023 Niels Ringstad (Cell Biology) Science Building G19

Schedule 2021-22

Sep 15, 2021 Christine Constantinople (CNS) Meyer 636
Nov 10, 2021 Liina Pylkkänen (Psych) Meyer 636
Jan 31, 2022 Will Adler(CNS alumnus) Meyer 636
Apr 5, 2022 Tanya Sippy (Med) Meyer 636
May 31, 2022 Roozbeh Kiani(CNS) Meyer 636

Schedule 2019-20

Sep 20, 2019 Heather McKellar (Executive Director of the Neuroscience Institute, Med) Meyer 551
Oct 25, 2019 Pascal Wallisch (Psych) Meyer 551
Nov 8, 2019 David Schneider (CNS) Meyer 551
Dec 6, 2019 Adam Carter (CNS) Meyer 551
Jan 10, 2020 Gyorgy Buzsaki (Med) Meyer 636
Feb 21, 2020 Andrei Cimpian (Psych) Meyer 636
Mar 6, 2020 Kathryn Bonnen (postdoc in CNS) Meyer 636
The remaining sessions are postponed because of the COVID-19 crisis. However, we are doing Online Open Forums instead.
Affiliations: NYU unless mentioned otherwise.
CNS = Center for Neural Science;
Psych = Department of Psychology;
Med = Neuroscience Institute at the NYU Medical School

Schedule 2018-19

Oct 19, 2018 Dima Rinberg (Med) Meyer 551
Nov 16, 2018 Maureen Craig (Psych) Meyer 551
Dec 7, 2018 from 5 to 7 PM Minisymposium Diversity and inclusion in science. Speakers: Anne Urai (CSHL), Andrei Cimpian (Psych), Liz Coleman (NYU), Nina Gray (Med) Meyer 551
Jan 11, 2019 Cristina Savin (CNS) Meyer 551
Feb 22, 2019 Robert Froemke (Med) Meyer 551
Mar 15, 2019 Marisa Carrasco (Psych) Meyer 551
May 3, 2019 Karen Adolph (Psych) Meyer 551
May 17, 2019 Nicholas Tritsch (Med) Meyer 636
Jun 7, 2019 from 3:30 to 5 PM Stacie Grossman Bloom (Vice-Provost of Research at NYU) Meyer 551
Jul 19, 2019 Bianca Jones-Marlin (postdoc at Columbia) Meyer 551
Aug 30, 2019 Diversity and identity in science: personal narratives. Guests: Pablo Ripollés (Psych), Richard Tsien (Med), Simón(e) Sun (PhD student in Neuroscience), Naomi López Caraballo (PhD student in Neuroscience). Moderator: Megha Kori (PhD student in Neuroscience) Meyer 551

Schedule 2017-18

Sep 15, 2017 Michael Purugganan (Dean of Science) Meyer 815
Oct 20, 2017 Xavier Castellanos (Med) Meyer 815
Nov 17, 2017 Cate Hartley (Psych) Meyer 815
Dec 8, 2017 Emily Balcetis (Psych) Meyer 815
January 12, 2018 Eero Simoncelli (CNS) Meyer 122
February 2, 2018 Wendy Suzuki (CNS) Meyer 122
Mar 2, 2018 Eric Klann (CNS) Meyer 122
Apr 6, 2018 Michael Long (Med) Meyer 122
Apr 27, 2018 at 4:30 PM Jonathan Pillow (Princeton Neuroscience) Meyer 122
June 1, 2018 Biyu He (Med) Meyer 551
Jul 13, 2018 Sachin Ranade (editor at Nature Communications) Meyer 551
Aug 24, 2018 at 4 PM Diversity and identity in science: personal narratives. Guests: Jonathan Freeman (Psych), Catherine Hartley (Psych), Chiye Aoki (CNS). Moderator: Jennifer Laura Lee (PhD student in Neuroscience) Meyer 551

Schedule 2016-17

Sep 16, 2016 Xiao-Jing Wang (CNS)
Oct 14, 2016 Michael Landy (Psych)
Nov 18, 2016 Lynne Kiorpes (CNS)
Dec 16, 2016 Dayu Lin (Med)
March 3, 2017 Wei Ji Ma (CNS/Psych)
Mar 24, 2017 Richard Tsien (Med)
Apr 21, 2017 Dan Sanes (CNS)
May 5, 2017 Andrew Hamilton (President of NYU)
June 9, 2017 Margaret Rice (Med)
Jun 23, 2017 Liz Phelps (Psych)
Jul 21, 2017 Deepna Devkar and Friederike Schuur (data scientists)
Aug 18, 2017 Discussion about writing and publishing, led by Jonathan Winawer, Chiye Aoki, and Wei Ji Ma

Schedule 2015-16

Sep 18, 2015 Efrain Azmitia (Biology)
Oct 30, 2015
Paul Glimcher (CNS)
Nov 20, 2015 Jay van Bavel (Psych)
Dec 18, 2015 Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories)
Jan 15, 2016 Ari Handel (CNS graduate and screenwriter)
Feb 19, 2016 Nathaniel Daw (CNS/Psych, now at Princeton)
Apr 15, 2016 Michael Shadlen (Columbia Neuroscience)
Apr 29, 2016 Chiye Aoki (CNS)
May 20, 2016 Jayeeta Basu (Med)
Jun 17, 2016 Marjorie Rhodes (Psych)
Jul 8, 2016 Kathy Nagel and David Schoppik (Med)
Aug 12, 2016 The Seventh Problem: discussion about article in Vox. Discussants: Jonathan Winawer, Cate Hartley, Eero Simoncelli, Wei Ji Ma

Schedule 2014-15

Aug 1, 2014 Wei Ji Ma (CNS/Psych) and Cristina Alberini (CNS)
Sep 12, 2014 Tom Carew (CNS)
Oct 17, 2014 David McLaughlin (CNS)
Nov 21, 2014 Lila Davachi (Psych)
Dec 19, 2014 David Poeppel (Psych)
Jan 16, 2015 Tony Movshon (CNS)
Feb 13, 2015 Moses Chao (Med)
Mar 13, 2015 Helen Scharfman (Med)
Apr 24, 2015 Hannah Bayer (CNS)
May 22, 2015 Yadin Dudai (CNS)
Jun 12, 2015 Jonathan Winawer (Psych)
Jul 10, 2015 Mario Svirsky (Med)
Aug 14, 2015 Carol Reiss (CNS)