Organized by our Neurobiology and Behaviour (NBB) research group, this seminar series includes talks by students and faculty on the neural basis of behavior as well as journal club style discussions of recent advances in neuroethology and systems neuroscience. We also host an annual spring symposium with talks by students and faculty from both the local and international neuroscience community.
Winter 2025
Winter 2025 NBB Seminars are held on Fridays at 1:30 pm in Stewart Biology S3/4.  Click here to join via
| Date/Time | Speaker(s) | TITLE | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 24, 2025 | Bruna de Souza | From formation to pruning: Investigating transient axonal swellings in the developing cerebellum | Watt Lab |
| January 31, 2025 | Nour Halaby | The effect of Geosmin on C.elegans | Hendricks Lab |
| February 7, 2025 | Jorge Luna Herrera | Developmental plasticity and foraging behaviour in C. elegans | Hendricks Lab |
| February 14, 2025Â Â | Yue Wang | Investigating the Role of Negative Feedback in Sustained Steering of C. elegans | Hendricks Lab |
| February 21, 2025 | Nic Tritsch | Making sense of dopamine (or trying to…) | Sakata/Woolley Labs |
| February 28, 2025 | Jared Dakin | Intracellular mechanisms of pain adaptation in Drosophila larvae | Ohyama Lab |
| February 28, 2025 | Jing Ning | Decoding behavioral states in olfactory navigation | Woolley Lab |
| March 14, 2025 | Madeleine Morris | The Role of RIM Protein in Dopamine Release | Britt Lab |
| March 14, 2025 | Sophia Zhao | Period-positive Median Segmental Interneurons in Drosophila Larvae Escape Behaviour | Ohyama Lab |
| March 21, 2025 | Élyse Zadigue-Dubé | Neurotrophins in Chaos? Decoding Neurodevelopmental Delays in a Deteriorating Cerebellum | Watt Lab |
| March 21, 2025 | Daria-Salina Storch | The role in noradrenaline signalling in social recognition in zebra finches | Sakata Lab |
| March 28, 2025 | Yarden Cohen | Phrase-locked neural activity in canary HVC indicates song syntax plasticity | Sakata/Woolley Labs |
| April 4, 2025 | Anna Lippold | Neural correlates of spatial behaviour in ring-billed gulls | Guigueno Lab |
| April 4, 2025 | Célia Sciandra | The role of endogenous hippocampal amyloid-beta in long-term object memories | Hardt Lab |
| April 11, 2025 | Heike Schuler | Neural representation of valenced behaviors | Bagot Lab |
| April 11, 2025 | Yujia Li | The role of Rhomboid-3 in Aging Cerebellum | Watt Lab |
| April 25, 2025 | Serena Wu | Investigating the effects of psilocybin on PFC activity during stress and reward learning | Bagot Lab |
| April 25, 2025 | Gabrielle Siemonsmeier | Accumbal correlates of emotional valence | Bagot Lab |
| May 2, 2025 | Niharika Dighe | The role of dorsomedial striatal circuitry in regulating flexible decision making | Britt Lab |
| May 2, 2025 | Amna Saleem | Connectivity at Purkinje cell-cerebellar nuclei synapse | Watt Lab |