Spring 2026

Date

Speaker

Title

Tuesday,
March 17th        

Giuseppe Giannotti, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience
Washington State University

Paraventricular Thalamus Ensembles and Circuit Mechanisms of Motivation: From Social Reward to Withdrawal-Driven Heroin Seeking

Tuesday,
April 7th 

Alex Savtchouk, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Marquette University

Examining the Role of the Cerebellum in selecting Adaptive vs Automatic Behaviors

Tuesday,
April 21st  
 

Elizabeth Doncheck, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Opioid-Induced Hypofrontality Serves as a Computational Landscape to Prioritize Relapse

Tuesday,
April 28th  

Benjamin Samuels, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University

Neural Circuits Mediating Chronic Stress Effects on Motivation and Reward Behaviors

Seminars will be in Schroeder Complex, Room 256 at 3:30 pm.