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All talks will be held in the Herklotz Conference Room in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory/Qureshey Research Lab
at 4:00 PM unless otherwise noted. Grad students RSVP to the lunches here.

Current Seminar Series

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
TBA	Jenny Mohn, University of Oregon	Herklotz Center 4pm
TBA	Erika Hagen, Ohio State University	Herklotz Center 4pm
TBA	Justin Yao, Rutgers University	Herklotz Center 4pm
TBA	Will Salloom, University of Southern California	Herklotz Center 4pm
TBA	Melissa Papesh, OHSU, VA NCRAR	Herklotz Center 4pm
TBA	Eric Bielefeld, Ohio State University	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/1/2023	Bonnie Lau, University of Washington Otolaryngology	Herklotz Center 4pm

Prior Seminar Series

2022

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
11/30/2022	James McGregor, Emory University	Herklotz Center 4pm
11/16/2022	Brad Buran, Oregon Health and Science University	Herklotz Center 4pm
11/2/2022	Jessica Chen, University of Utah	Herklotz Center 4pm
10/19/2022	Lloyd Watts, Neocortix	Herklotz Center 4pm
9/28/2022	Hariprakash Haragopal, Northeast Ohio Medical University	Herklotz Center 4pm
9/21/2022	Emily Nairn, University of Michigan	Herklotz Center 4pm
9/14/2022	Satyabrata Parida, University of Pittsburgh	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/31/2022	Kyunghee Kim, UCSF	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/24/2022	Wei Dong, Loma Linda	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/17/2022	Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/10/2022	Jan Schnupp, Hong Kong Polytech University	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/10/2022	Dwight Wynne, Reza Ramezan, CSU Fullerton	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/3/2022	Carlos Vivaldo, University of Michigan	Herklotz Center 4pm
7/13/2022	Daniel Kleinman, Haskins Laboratories	Herklotz Center 4pm
7/6/2022	Patrick Dwyer, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain	Herklotz Center 4pm
6/29/2022	Monica Hudnall, Mills College	Herklotz Center 4pm
6/22/2022	Shannon Sheppard, Chapman University	Herklotz Center 4pm
6/15/2022	Matthias Milczynski, Advanced Bionics	Herklotz Center 4pm
5/25/2022	Alessandro Urciuoli, Autonomous University of Barcelona	Herklotz Center 4pm
5/11/2022	Maria Cristina Perez Flores, University of Nevada, Reno	Herklotz Center 4pm
5/4/2022	Baher Ibrahim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/27/2022	Seeon Kim, Arizona State University	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/20/2022	Drew McLaughlin, Washington University in St. Louis	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/13/2022	Muge Ozker, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/6/2022	Roozbeh Behroozmand, University of South Carolina	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/16/2022	Nicholas Lesica, University College London	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/9/2022	Shoutik Mukherjee, Yas Siriwardena, University of Maryland	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/2/2022	Andres Camarena, Grace Manchala, University of Southern California	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/26/2022	Dana Chan, Northwestern	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/19/2022	Christian Herrera Ortiz, VA Loma Linda	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/12/2022	Liesbeth Gijbels, University of Washington	Herklotz Center 4pm

2021

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	LOCATION
12/15/2021	Shade Avery Kirjava, UCI Dept. Population Health	"Parallels in the Medicalization of People Who Are Intersex and People Who Are Deaf"	Herklotz Center 4pm
12/8/2021	Sandeep Kothinti, Johns Hopkins University		Herklotz Center 4pm
12/1/2021	Kaye Wang, Ohio University		Herklotz Center 4pm
11/17/2021	Andrei Lukashkin, University of Brighton, UK		Herklotz Center 4pm
10/20/2021	Katrina Deane, Leibniz Institute for Neurobioloy		Herklotz Center 4pm
10/13/2021	Arkarup Banerjee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory		Herklotz Center 4pm
6/9/2021	Payton Lin, FDA		Herklotz Center 4pm
5/26/2021	Elouise Koops, Harvard		Herklotz Center 4pm
5/19/2021	Harinath Garudadri, UCSD		Herklotz Center 4pm
5/12/2021	Brendaly Rodríguez, PCORI Patient Advocacy		Herklotz Center 4pm
5/5/2021	Michelle Arnold, University of South Florida		Herklotz Center 4pm
5/3/2021	Yi Yuan, University of South Florida		Herklotz Center 4pm
1/27/2021	Tracey Dorr, Global Supply Chain Management	"My Journey: Finding the Light from Inside the Sound of Darkness"	Herklotz Center 4pm
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2020

DATE	SPEAKER	RESEARCH INTEREST	TITLE	LOCATION
11/18/2020	Adrian KC Lee, University of Washington		"Microaggressions & Structural Racism in Higher Education"	Herklotz Center 4pm
11/11/2020	Yi Yuang, University of Florida			Herklotz Center 4pm
10/28/2020	Bonnielin Swenor, Johns Hopkins		"Grant funding for researchers with disabilities"	Herklotz Center 4pm
10/21/2020	Manny Don, House Ear Inst		"History of Humam Electrophysiologu"	Herklotz Center 4pm
10/14/2020	Arnold Starr, Neurology		"History of Auditory Branstem Responses"	Herklotz Center 4pm
10/8/2020	Hiro Mino, Kanto Gakuin University			Herklotz Center 4pm
9/20/2020	Dwight Bergles, Johns Hopkins University			Herklotz Center 4pm
7/14/2020	Jason Luo, UCSD			Herklotz Center 4pm
6/29/2020	Ashley Shim, St Joseph's			Herklotz Center 4pm
6/21/2020	Grace Jones, UCLA			Herklotz Center 4pm
6/8/2020	Heejung Ko, Kaiser Permanente			Herklotz Center 4pm
5/20/2020	Matthew Suh, National Seoul University			Herklotz Center 4pm
4/7/2020	Geoff Abbott, UCI		TBA	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/3/2020	Laura Dilley, MSU	Role of pitch and timing cues in speech perception; factors affecting the development of speech and language	“Spoken language understanding as inference about prosodic units over noisy accumulated evidence”	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/11/2020	Katarzyna Tarnowska, San Jose State			Herklotz Center 4pm
2/4/2020	John Oghalai, USC	acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma) surgery, chronic ear disease, cochlear implantation, progressive hearing loss	“Optical Imaging of Cochlear Function and Dysfunction”	Herklotz Center 4pm

2019

DATE	SPEAKER	RESEARCH INTEREST	TITLE	LOCATION
11/19/2019	Maoli Duan, Karolinska University Hospital	sudden deafness, sensorineural hearing loss, vestibular disorders and earlier intervention, diagnosis of infants and children with hearing loss	“Prevention and Treatment of Inner Ear Disease”	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/15/2019	Adrián Rodríguez-Contreras, CCNY	brain development	“Coordinated development of vascular and perivascular cells during a critical period of synaptic refinement in the auditory system”	Herklotz Center 4pm
11/5/2019	Peter Narins, UCLA	novel sound pathways in amphibians, sound localization, middle ear mechanics, hair cell research, animal models	“High-end Audio: Neuroethology of Ultrasonic Communication in Amphibians”	Herklotz Center 4pm
8/23/2019	Yasmeen Hamza, Univ of Rochester			Herklotz Center 4pm
6/1/2019	Antje Ihlefeld, New Jersey Institute of Technology			Herklotz Center 4pm
5/7/2019	Sven Vanneste, UTD	advanced brain scanning, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulation	“Towards an Understanding of Tinnitus Heterogeneity”	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/2/2019	Assal Habibi, USC	child development, cognitive neuroscience, social development, music training	“The Brain’s Crescendo: How Music Training Impacts Child Development”	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/5/2019	Nace Golding, UT	sensory function and development, dendritic integration, auditory neural circuits	“Developmental regulation of temporal precision in the mammalian sound localization circuitry”	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/26/2019	Li Zhang, USC	systems neuroscience, imaging of neural circuits, auditory cortex	“Neural Circuits for Auditory Behaviors and Emotions”	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/5/2019	Raymond Goldsworthy, USC	signal processing, psychoacoustics, auditory rehabilitation	“Improving Cochlear Implant Signal Processing”	Medical Sciences Bldg E Conference Room 4pm
1/15/2019	Adrián Rodríguez-Contreras, CCNY			Herklotz Center 4pm

2018

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
06/19/2018	Anu Sharma, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	Herklotz Center 4pm
06/10/2018	Yu Tsai, Taiwan Academia Sinica	Herklotz Center 4pm
5/1/2018	Sarah Creel, UCSD	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/3/2018	Yuan Wang, Florida State University	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/6/2018	Josh Bernstein, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/15/2018	Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/6/2018	Ivan Milenkovic, University of Leipzig	Herklotz Center 4pm

2016

DATE	SPEAKER	RESEARCH INTEREST	TITLE	LOCATION
5/17/2016	Lee Miller, UC Davis	neural networks involving speech perception, multisensory integration, audiovisual spatial attention and integration	“Hearing Loss and Neurotechnology: New Approaches to Improve Speech Perception”	Herklotz Center 4pm
5/3/2016	Mike Wehr, University of Oregon	how local circuits in the auditory cortex encode and transform sensory information	“Temporal processing circuitry in auditory cortex”	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/19/2016	CANCELLED: Adrian KC Lee, University of Washington	auditory attention, spatial localization, multimodal imaging	“Mapping the cortical dynamics of auditory attention”	Herklotz Center 4pm
4/12/2016	Charlie Schroeder, Nathan Kline Institute and Colombia Univ.	neural mechanisms of sensory and cognitive processing, electrical field potentials	“Rhythm-based selection of cell-circuits at local and network scales”	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/8/2016	Laurel Carney, University of Rochester	neurophysiological and computational modeling, complex sounds, signal processing	“Representations of complex sounds in the midbrain”	Herklotz Center 4pm
3/1/2016	Frédéric Theunissen, University of California, Berkeley	auditory cortex, auditory processing, neural processing	“Voice and meaning in the avian brain”	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/16/2016	Mitch Sutter, University of California, Davis	attention and action regarding neural processing of sound	“Modulation of auditory cortical activity by task-engagement”	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/19/2016	Sarah London, University of Chicago	brain development, molecular and genomic correlates of behavior, experience-dependent neural plasticity, learning and memory	“Associating epigenetic modifications with sensory learning of complex natural behavior”	Herklotz Center 4pm

2015

DATE	SPEAKER	RESEARCH INTEREST	TITLE	LOCATION
12/1/2015	Khaleel Razak, UC Riverside	sensory processing development, auditory cortex, echolocation, passive sound localization, Fragile X	“Mechanisms of altered cortical spectrotemporal processing in a mouse model of presbycusis”	Herklotz Center 4pm
11/17/2015	Greg Hickok, UC Irvine	neuroanatomy of language, neural plasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience	“What is the planum temporale doing for hearing and speech?”	Herklotz Center 4pm
10/6/2015	John Middlebrooks, UC Irvine	neurophysiology, psychophysics, auditory prosthesis, computational neuroscience; auditory cortex	“Spatial Hearing at the Cocktail Party”	Herklotz Center 4pm
7/31/2015	Dr. Jim D’Amour, New York University	auditory cortex plasticity, oxytocin, pup calls	“Concurrent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity in the auditory cortex”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carolyn McClaskey
6/2/2015	Dr. Christophe Micheyl, Starkey Hearing Research Center	psychometrics, Bayesian statistics, audio signal processing	“Bayesian models in hearing science”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carolyn McClaskey
5/19/2015	Dr. Dan Polley, Harvard	modulation and plasticity of auditory processing	“Recovery of sensory function following peripheral nerve injury: the intersection of intrinsic compensatory plasticity and immersive sensory training”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Cait Askew
5/5/2015	Dr. Sarah Bottjer, USC	vocal learning and behavior, neurogenesis and cell death, activity-dependent refinement of neural connectivity, synaptic plasticity and neurophysiology	“Neural representations of current and goal behaviors during sensorimotor learning”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Sarah
4/21/2015	Dr. Donna Fekete, Purdue	molecular basis of inner ear development	“Patterning the radial axis of the developing cochlea”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Sarah
4/7/2015	Dr. Harrison Lin, UC Irvine	skull base surgery, otology, neurotology, hearing and balance	“Intraneural stimulation of cranial nerves”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host: Sarah
2/17/2015	Dr. Deda Gillespie, McMaster University	neural development, plasticity and sensory processing	“Glutamate/GABA/glycine co-transmission in the immature auditory brainstem: Sorting it all out”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Sarah
2/3/2015	Dr. Edward Chang, UC San Francisco	human speech, intractable epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia, and adult brain tumors	“Speech processing in the human superior temporal gyrus”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Luke
1/20/2015	Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Boston University	Auditory attention, spatial hearing, neuro-electric imaging, neural coding	“Individual differences in listeners with normal hearing thresholds”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Sarah

2014

DATE	SPEAKER	RESEARCH INTEREST	TITLE	LOCATION
12/2/2014	Dr. Frederick J. Gallun, Oregon Health and Science University	auditory; psychophysics; hearing loss; binaural; traumatic brain injury	“Diagnosing central auditory dysfunction in an adult population”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carolyn McClaskey
11/18/2014	Dr. Ron Frostig, UC Irvine	Sensory neocortex: structure, function and plasticity	“The spread: a novel unifying principle for sensory neocortex”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Luke
11/4/2014	Dr. Stephen David, Oregon Health and Science University	auditory system, cortex, computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, behavior	”Understanding the network for top-down control of auditory representation”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Luke Baltzell
10/21/2014	Dr. Yaser Ghavami, UC Irvine	otolaryngology, otology, microvascular surgery, hearing loss	“Vestibular Migraine and Meniere’s Disease”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Luke Baltzell
10/7/2014	Dr. Raju Metherate, UC Irvine	neurophysiology, synaptic physiology of auditory cortex	“Towards a first drug treatment for auditory processing disorders; actions of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain”	Natural Sciences I Rm 1114 4pm Host:Cait Askew
6/4/2014	Dr. Dan Sanes, NYU	auditory science, neural development, and learning	“Critical periods for neural and perceptual development”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carol
5/21/2014	Dr. Josh McDermott, MIT	psychophysics and computational audition, music perception	“Understanding Audition via Sound Analysis and Synthesis”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carolyn
5/7/2014	Dr. Carolina Abdala, USC	cochlear physiology and function, aging in peripheral auditory system	“Development of Human Cochlear Function”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carol
4/30/2014	Dr. Sunil P. Gandhi, UC Irvine	cortical plasticity, connectivity	“Reactivating cortical plasticity using inhibitory neuron transplantation”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carolyn
4/23/2014	Dr. Mike Yassa, UC Irvine	long term memory, neurodegenerative diseases, aging, imaging	“Memory discrimination and the aging brain”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Dr. Raju Metherate
4/16/2014	Dr. Yi Shen, UC Irvine	psychophysics	“Failures of acoustic communication from target-masker similarity”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Carol
4/2/2014	Dr. George Spirou, West Virginia University	neural mechanisms and development of neural circuits for sound localization	“Structural Transformations of Neurons and Glia During Neural Circuit Formation”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Minhan
3/19/2014	Dr. Jeffrey Wenstrup, Northeast Ohio Medical University	mechanisms of central auditory processing and limbic system	“Acoustic Communication and the Emotional Brain:Contextual Modulation of Auditory Responses in the Amygdala”	Herklotz Center 4pm Host:Sarah
3/5/2014	Dr. Sarah Bottjer, USC	auditory development and learning, neural circuits (cellular and systems level)	“Cortico-basal ganglia circuits for developmentally regulated learning”	CANCELLED
2/19/2014	Dr. Peter Bremen, UC Irvine	spatial sound localization, auditory scene analysis, neurophysiology, psychophysics	“Source Segregation by Spectra and Space”	Herklotz Center 4pm
2/5/2014	Dr. Allan Ryan, UC San Diego	inner/middle ear biology, hair cells, auditory dysfunction	“Molecular mechanisms of hair cell damage and fate regulation”	Herklotz Center 4pm
1/15/2014	Dr. Edwin Rubel, University of Washington	inner ear development, plasticity and pathology, hair cell death, auditory pathway	“Dendritic Patterning In Binaural Brainstem Auditory Neurons: What We’ve Learned About Dendritic Plasticity And What We May Learn About Communication Deficits Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders”	SBSG 1517 4pm