CoNDA Events

January 20^th, 2023: Thalamic Regulation of Prefrontal Dynamics for Cognitive Control presented by Michael Halassa, MD, PhD (Associate Professor and Director of Translational Research, Neuroscience Department, Tufts University School of Medicine)  - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

February 17^th, 2023: Role of APOE in Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration: Effects on Microglial Lipid Metabolism and the Immune Response presented by David Holtzman, MD (Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine)  - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series and 3rd Annual CoNDA Colloquium Keynote.

March 31^st, 2023: Harnessing the power of neuroscience data by applying structured data standards presented by David Ellis (Research Data Analyst, UNMC).

April 21^st, 2023: Hippocampal Subfield Aging: New Research Frontiers with in vivo Imaging Methods presented by Ana Daugherty, PhD (Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit).

September 15^th, 2023: A cerebellar contribution to nonmotor behaviors relevant to neurodevelopmental conditions presented by Peter Tsai, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center).

October 20^th, 2023: How does the blood-brain barrier regulate brain function and behavior? presented by Richard Daneman, PhD (Professor, Departments of Pharmacology & Neurosciences, University of California San Diego School of Medicine).

March 18^th, 2022: Dissecting Neurobiological Mechanisms of Autism Spectrum Disorders: from Genes ot Circuits presented by Guoping Feng, PhD (Poitras Professor of Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

June 17^th, 2022: Psychadelics Reopen the Social Reward Learning Critical Period: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities presented by Gul Dolen, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, Wendy Klag Center, Johns Hopkins University) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

July 15^th, 2022: Data Management, Storage, and Sharing: Working with NIH Grant Requirements presented by Howard Fox, MD, PhD (Senior Associate Dean of REsearch & Development, College of Medicine; Professor, dEpartment of Neurological Sciences; Director, Center for Integrative & Translational Neuroscience, UNMC) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

August 19^th, 2022: Plasticity of Working Memory in Adolescence and through Deep Brain Stimulation presented by Christos Constantinidis, PhD (Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

August 26^th, 2022: Targetting Inflammation in Neurologic Disease presented by Raymond Dingledine, PhD (Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

September 16^th, 2022: Subtyping Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Typical, Atypical, and Resilient presented by Elizabeth Mormino, PhD (Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

October 21^st, 2022: Stem Cell Approaches to Understand Acquired and Genetic Epilepsies presented by Jenny Hsieh, PhD (Professor, Director, and Department Chair of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology Department, University of Texas, San Antonio) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

January 29^th, 2021: Introducing the Translational Imaging and Behavioral Assessment (TIBA) Core: Intravital Multiphoton Imaging & Small Animal MRI presented by Heather Jensen Smith, PhD (Intravital Imaging Core Director, UNMC) and Yutong Liu, PhD (Small Animal MRI Core Director, UNMC) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

February 12^th, 2021: The UNMC Animal behavior Core: Supporting Standard and Novel Studies in Rodent Ethology and Comparative Cognition presented by Mystera Samuelson, PhD (Animal Behavior Core Director, UNMC) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

April 2^nd, 2021: All About Budgets presented by Johna Belling (Research Grants Administrator, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

April 16^th, 2021: The Influence of Exercise and Physical Activity on Cognitive & Brain Health presented by Arthur (Art) Kramer, PhD (Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive & Brain Health, Northeastern University in Boston) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

April 30^th, 2021:  All About K Awards presented by Jeffrey French, PhD (Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Nebraska Omaha) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

May 14^th, 2021: Imaging the Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease presented by William Jagust, MD (Professor, Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

June 25^th, 2021: Navigating Your IACUC Protocol presented by Traci Clemons, VIT, CPIA, RLATG (Protocol Assessment Liason, Office of Animal Care and Use, UNMC) - CoNDA Center Career Development Series.

August 20^th, 2021: Molecular, Cellular and Systems Mechanisms of Memory Linking: Implications for Age Related Cognitive Decline presented by Alcino J. Silva, PhD (Distinguished Professor and Director, Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, Departments of Neurobiology, Psychology, and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

October 15^th, 2021: Targeting Mitochondrial Associated TDP-43 for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases presented by Xinglong Wang, PhD (Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, UNMC) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.

November 19^th, 2021: New Tools for Monitoring & Manipulating Cellular Activity presented by Loren Looger, PhD (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego) - CoNDA Center Research Seminar Series.