About us
Faculty, fellows, students, staff researchers, and clinicians across The Friedman Brain Institute come together weekly during the academic year to hear about advances in basic, translational, and clinical research. Most speakers are visiting from other schools and institutes worldwide to present their work and meet with members of Icahn Mount Sinai’s uniquely broad neuroscience community. For more information, please contact Celisse Trafton at celisse.trafton@mssm.edu.
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FBI seminar committee 2026 – 27
Georgia Panagiotakos, PhD
Neuroscience, Psychiatry,
Stem Cell Biology &
Regenerative Medicine (SCBRM)
Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD
Psychiatry, Ophthalmology,
Neuroscience
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Neurology, Neuroscience,
Pathology
Kenneth Wengler, PhD
Psychiatry
Roland Friedel, PhD
Neuroscience, Neurosurgery
Upcoming Speakers
Pasts Events
Academic Year 2025-2026
Kevin Beier, PhD
Vinny Costa, PhD
Sachin Patel, MD, PhD
Chongyuan Luo, PhD
Amy Arnsten, PhD
Yael Niv, PhD
David Schneider, PhD
Hui Zheng, PhD
Brad Grueter, PhD
Kim Stachenfeld
Anna Victoria Molofsky MD/PhD
Kate Reissner, PhD
Akira Sawa, PhD
Anne Eichmann, PhD
Richard Sando, PhD
Rachel June Smith, PhD
Chris Dulla, PhD
Genevera Allen, PhD
Jeremy J. Day, PhD
Cody Siciliano, PhD
Ben Deverman, PhD
Adam Kepecs, PhD
Alireza Soltani, PhD
Ege T. Kavalalı, PhD
Ryan Logan, PhD
Nanthia Suthana, PhD
Laura Ranum, PhD
Bess Frost, PhD
Nowakowski, Tomasz, PhD
Jason Shepherd, PhD
Mercedes Paredes, PhD
Jaimie Maquire, PhD
David Foster, PhD
Christopher A. Baldassano, PhD
Academic Year 2024-2025
Vincent Ferrera, PhD
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD
Linda Wilbrecht, PhD
Jose Concepcion
Sreeganga Chandra
Dritan Agalliu, PhD
Ana Clara Bobadilla, PhD
Alex L. Kolodkin, Ph.D.
Jordan Hamm, PhD
Shreya Saxena, PhD
Marc V Fuccillo, PhD
Kia Nobre, PhD
Julie Siegenthaler
Benjamin Deneen, PhD
Lucas Cheadle, PhD
Tatiana Engle
Brielle R. Ferguson, PhD
Jan Kubanek
Elizabeth A Heller, PhD
Ann Hermundstad, PhD
Jessica Walsh, PhD
Autum Ivy, PhD
Corey Harwell, PhD
Michael J Frank, PhD
Yishi Jin, PhD
Yim, Yeong Shin
Alexander Lin, PhD
Joseph Cheer, PhD
Saul Vellida
Thorsten Kahnt, PhD
Li-Huei Tsai, PhD
Yin Shen
Mark H. Tuszynski, MD, PhD
Academic Year 2023-2024
Miranda Orr, PhD
Gina Turrigiano, PhD
Michael Greenberg
Elisabeth Anne Wilde, PhD
Mazen Kierbek
Flora Tassone, PhD
Joachim Herz
Alicia Izquierdo
Long-Jun Wu, PhD
Jonathan Depierro
Lorenz Studer, PhD
Andre Nussenzweig
Mark Hoon
Lea Grinberg
Matthew Smith
Ann Kennedy
Roel Verhaak
David Redish, PhD
Atsushi Kamiya
Flora Vaccarino
Daniel Mucida
Baljit S. Khakh
Olaf Sporns
Hui Zheng
James Surmeier, PhD
Deanna Barch, PhD
Michelle Monje Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Hugo Tejeda
Ralph Nixon
Dimitri Davalos
Marta Pecina, MD, PhD
Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD
Yin Shen
Kate Wassum
Academic Year 2022-2023
Beth Stevens, PhD
Bita Moghaddam, PhD
Brian Edlow, MD
Catherine Hartley, PhD
Christopher Cowan, PhD
Conor Listin, MD, PhD
David Julius, PhD
Dora Angelaki, PhD
Erie Boorman,
Dphil Erik Musiek, MD, PhD
Fan Wang, PhD
Feng Zhang, PhD
Francisco J. Quintana, PhD
Gina Poe, PhD
Giorgia Quadrato, PhD
Greg Lemke, PhD
Jaime Grutzendler, MD
James Surmeier, PhD
Lesley Fellows, MC CM, Dphil
Marie Pigeyre, MD, PhD
Maryam Shanechi, PhD
Michael Greenberg, PhD
Michael Sofroniew, MD, PhD
Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD
Nancy Kanwisher, PhD
Robert T. Knight, MD
Sandeep Robert Datta, PhD
Shelley Berger, PhD
Staci Bilbo, PhD
Steve Chang, PhD
Talmo Pereira, PhD
Xiaoke Chen, PhD
Zoe McElligott, PhD
Academic Year 2021-2022
Brian Edlow, MD
Caitlin E. Hill, PhD
Carrie R. Ferrario, PhD
Catherine Dulac, PhD
Catherine Hartley, PhD
Catherine Winstanley, PhD
Clarissa Waites, PhD
Daniel B. Polley, PhD
Diana Bautista, PhD
Feng Zhang, PhD
Garret D. Stuber, PhD
Jared Young, PhD
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD
Jiang Wu, PhD
John Krakauer, MD
Katalin Gothard, MD,
PhD Kate Wassum,
PhD Lila Davachi, PhD
Magdalena Götz
Marisela Morales, PhD
Martin Kampmann, PhD
Mary Kay Lobo, PhD
Naoshige Uchida, PhD
Paola Arlotta, PhD
Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Sandeep Robert Datta,
PhD Sanjay Kumar, MD, PhD
Shelly L. berger, PhD
Susanne E. Ahmari, MD, PhD
Uri Hasson, PhD
X. William Yang, MD, PhD
Academic Year 2019-2020
Carol A. Mason, PhD
Elizabeth Murray, PhD
Flavio Frohlich, PhD
Jeremy Day, PhD
Kari Hoffman, PhD
Li Gan, PhD
Marina Picciotto, PhD
Marina Wolf, PhD
Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD
Peter Kalivas, PhD
Regina M. Sullivan, PhD
Robert C. Froemke, PhD
Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD
Sergiu Pasca, MD
Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
Vinod Menon, MD
Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Academic Year 2020-2021
Bart De Strooper, Dphil
Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD
Ellen Leibenluft, MD
Eve Marder, PhD
John P. O’Doherty, MD
Kay M. Tye, PhD
Lin Tian, PhD
Magdalena Götz, PhD
Massimo Scanziani, PhD
Ronald L. Davis, PhD
Sachin Patel, MD, PhD
Timothy Miller, MD, PhD
Virginia Man-Yee Lee, PhD
Academic Year 2018-2019
Alison L. Barth, PhD
Andre A. Fenton
Anthony Zador, MD, PhD
Bart Rypma, PhD
Christine Mac Donald, PhD
Cris Niell, PhD
David Bredt, MD, PhD
David M. Schneider, PhD
Dorit Ron
Eric R. Kandel, MD
Fred H. Gage
Gavril Pasternak, MD, PhD
Gina Poe, PhD
Heidi Hamm, PhD
Ines Ibañez-Tallon, PhD
Jason Shepherd, PhD
Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Mogil
Jessica Tollkuhn, PhD
Jonathan P. Godbout, PhD
Joseph LeDoux
Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD
Lawrence Steinman, MD
Nicola M. Grissom, PhD
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing, PhD
Seth Blackshaw, PhD
Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Tatiana Pasternak, PhD
Thomas Kash, PhD
Zachary Knight
Ziv Williams, MD