Student Seminar Schedule

Monday at Noon in NE 401 Medical Dental Building
What happens at the Student Seminar?

2024-2025 Academic Year

The schedule is subject to change. View the Google Calendar for Student Seminars and the Neuro/IPN Seminar Series here.

• The Student Seminar speaker list is also available on the Google Sheet titled 2024-2025 Student Seminar Schedule.
• • August 26, 2024 Natalya Vladyko
  • September 9, 2024 Neke Nsor
  • September 10, 2024 Summer Rotation Talks
    [Chloe Casagrande, Elizabeth Chang, Michaela Fisher, Scott Litwiler, Bethany Rispoli]
  • September 16, 2024 Summer Rotation Talks
    [Celine Ertekin, Caroline Francescutti, Yeonwoo Kim, Sofia Montoya, Greta Sten]
  • September 23, 2024 Carolyn Gershman
  • September 30, 2024 Sara Dyslin
  • October 7, 2024 Flo Martinez Addiego
  • October 15, 2024 Christy Agbey: note Tuesday
  • October 21, 2024 Noah Steinberg
  • October 28, 2024 Melanie Becher
  • November 4, 2024 Zac Colon
  • November 11, 2024 Mia Coutinho
  • November 18, 2024 Mateo Nelson
  • November 25, 2024 Lara Stefansson
  • December 2, 2024 Spencer Waters
  • December 9, 2024 Naama Zur
  • December 16, 2024 David McFall
  • January 13, 2025 Fall Rotation Talks
  • January 21, 2025 Matthew Amontree: note Tuesday
  • January 27, 2025 Nicole Alvarez
  • February 3, 2025 Briana Bernstein
  • February 10, 2025 Anna Pearson
  • February 24, 2025 Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl
  • March 10, 2025 Helena de Carvalho Schuch
  • March 17, 2025 Peyton Thomas
  • March 24, 2025 Pauline Wonnenberg
  • March 31, 2025 Natalya Vladyko
  • April 7, 2025 Gina Choe
  • April 14, 2025 Philip Pikus
  • April 22, 2025 Alex Sukharev: note Tuesday
  • April 28, 2025 JuanMartin Abreu-Melon
  • May 5, 2025 Sean Baxley
  • May 12, 2025 Alec Gamboa Fuentes
  • May 19, 2025 Rahul Gurram
  • June 2, 2025 Anushka Oak
  • June 9, 2025 Eric Thorland

2022-2023 Academic Year

September 12, 2022
Speaker: George Melchor

September 19, 2022
Speaker: Karli Gilbert

September 26, 2022
Speaker: Plamen Nikolov

October 3, 2022
Speaker: Daniel Chapman

October 11, 2022
Speaker: Alison Schug

October 24, 2022
Speaker: Phil Gross

October 31, 2022
Speaker: Tahi Khan

November 7, 2022
Speaker: Ismary Blanco

November 21, 2022
Speaker: Tyler Ketchabaw

November 28, 2022
Rotation Students: Briana, Helena, Iria, Peyton, Natalya

December 5, 2022
Rotation Students: Nicole, Daisy, Korliss, Anna, Pauline, Arvin

December 12, 2022
Speaker: Lillian Chang

December 19, 2022
Speaker: Adam Kaminski

January 9, 2023
Speaker: Neke Nsor

January 23, 2023
Speaker: Devin Palmer

January 30, 2023
Speaker: Max Stevenson

February 6, 2023
Speaker: Andrew Wodrich

February 13, 2023
Speaker: Flo Martinez

February 27, 2023
Speaker: Madeline Marcelle

March 6, 2023
Speaker: David Saxon

March 13, 2023
Speaker: Christy Agbey

March 20, 2023
Speaker: Danna Cunningham

March 27, 2023
Speaker: Sara Dyslin

April 3, 2023
Speaker: Carolyn Gershman

April 10, 2023
Speaker: Richard Klein

April 17, 2023
Speaker: Michel Fallah

April 24, 2023
Speaker: Nancy Luo

May 1, 2023
Speaker: Noah Steinberg

May 8, 2023
Speaker: Mia Coutinho

May 15, 2023
Speaker: Mateo Nelson

May 22, 2023
Speaker: Candace Van der Steit

May 31, 2023
Speaker: Spencer Waters

June 5, 2023
Speaker: Naama Zur

June 12, 2023
Speaker: Melanie Belcher

June 20, 2023
Speaker: Zac Colon

June 26, 2023
Speaker: Lara Stefansson

July 10, 2023
Rotation students: Nicole, Arvin, Briana, Daisy, Korliss, Helena, Iria, Anna, Peyton, Natalya, Pauline, Gina, Philip, Alex

What happens at the Student Seminar?

The Student Seminar is a presentation of the work a student has done in their rotations or thesis research. A 10- to 15-minute talk is given to the IPN after every rotation and a 45-minute seminar is given once a year thereafter on the student’s thesis research. This series of talks provides students the opportunity to learn the elements of preparing and presenting a seminar.

Post-Rotation Student Seminars

Following each of the rotations, students present a short (10- to 15-minute) talk that summarizes the goal(s) of the research rotation and presents any data acquired. While these talks should be thoughtfully prepared, they are not meant to be the equivalent of regular seminars given by more advanced students.

Most, if not all, of the talk, can be focused around the goals of the rotation, the significance, rationale for these goals, and the experimental approaches used to begin to achieve these goals. There is no expectation that substantial new data will be generated during the rotation. If new data have been generated, the presentation of these data will be most welcome (but not required!). A rough guide for a 10- to 15-minute talk might be to present 3-9 slides (slides template).

Thesis Student Seminars

In their annual Student Seminar, students are expected to present their thesis research to the program. This talk should be roughly 45 minutes and give an outline of their project, including background, rationale, methods, data collected so far, conclusions, and future directions. We also ask students to highlight scientific rigor in all presentations.  This seminar series gives students the opportunity to learn the elements of preparing and presenting a seminar and the program the opportunity to keep up to date on research being performed in the IPN.

Recommended organization of talks.