Events
Upcoming Events
Kavli Mini Symposium: New Neural Signals from Natural Behaviors
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Carson Family Auditorium
Selmaan Chettih
Columbia University
Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird
Episodic memory is an extraordinary component of cognition which binds together a constellation of features co-occuring in a single experience. This memory can later be recalled and used flexibly to guide behavior. I study this ability using chickadees – birds which cache food at scattered locations and use hippocampal-dependent memory to find their caches later in time. My work identifies a code in hippocampal activity which appears transiently during memory formation, uniquely encodes the identity of individual memorable events, and is reactivated during memory recall. This neural ‘barcode’ may serve as a unique identifier for each memorable event to assist rapid formation of many non-interfering memories.
Nachum Ulanovsky
Weizmann Institute of Science
Neuroscience going wild: Neural codes for space in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
We study the neural basis of natural behaviors, in particular navigation and social behaviors – taking a “Natural Neuroscience” approach. In my talk I will discuss three recent studies: (1) A coding-transformation that we discovered in the hippocampus of bats flying in a very long 200-meter tunnel – from sparse coding in hippocampal area CA3 to dense coding in area CA1. (2) Our recent discovery that in social groups, hippocampal neurons encode rich social signals – including the identities, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation of other individuals. (3) Neuroscience in the wild: recordings of place cells and head-direction cells in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island near Zanzibar. These three studies demonstrate different levels of experimental control vs. ecological validity in our efforts to understand the neural basis of behavior.
This will be an in-person only event. Members of the Rockefeller community are invited to join the speakers for lunch before the symposium (1:30 PM – 2:30 PM outside of the Carson Family Auditorium) and for a happy hour at Faculty Club that evening (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM).
Ongoing Events
Kavli Internal Symposia
Featuring talks from heads of laboratory, students, and postdocs plus a visiting scientist from another Kavli Neuroscience Institute
All events take place in Carson Family Auditorium, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch will be served in the Greenberg Building, level B starting at 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology
Graduate Fellow, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Associate, Skoler Horbach Family Laboratory of Neural Dynamics and Cognition
Kavli NDI Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Full schedule:
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Symposium in Carson Auditorium (CRC B Level) |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch outside Carson Auditorium (CRC B Level) |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Happy Hour in Faculty and Students Club co-hosted by the Kavli NSI and the Price Family Center for the Social Brain |
Please also mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025 symposia:
Thursday, July 17th, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 20th, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
About the Kavli Internal Symposia:
Following two successful years of the Kavli Internal Seminar Series, the Kavli NSI Fellows are rebranding it as Kavli Internal Symposia for 2025. This new format will include talks from Kavli NSI heads of labs, students, and postdocs. Additionally, we are extending our invitation to external fellows from other Kavli Neuroscience Institutes. The goals of the symposium series are threefold: 1) to provide opportunities for students and postdocs to present their work and get feedback from the community, 2) to foster communication and collaboration across labs, and 3) to facilitate cross-institute communication and collaboration.
Workshops
Fourth Workshop on iDISCO Tissue Clearing
Dates: April 14 – 19, 2025
Venue: The Rockefeller University
Capacity: 25 – 30 attendees selected from applications
Instructors: Nicolas Renier, Zhuhao Wu, Pablo Ariel, Cristopher Kirst
Organizers: Marc Schneeberger-Pane and Han Tan
Goals:
Learn the iDISCO/AdipoClear Clearing Methods and analysis possibilities using CLEARMAP, VESSELMAP and IMARIS
Understand the new user friendly open source interface
Troubleshoot specific problems experienced by users in the past
Privileged access to latest updates on the protocol
Fee: This course is sponsored by the Kavli NSI and is provided at no cost to selected participants
Application: Please answer the following questions and send the application (One page, single spaced, 12-point font) to kavlifellows@mail.rockefeller.edu
Name:
Institution:
Model organism:
Research summary indicating the needs of tissue clearing for your work in progress:
Deadline: Applications for the 2025 workshop are no longer being accepted
Contact: kavlifellows@rockefeller.edu
