Nobel Prize winner Eric Betzig presents to a group at Janelia
Director's Series Seminars
Our Director's Seminar Series brings prominent researchers to Janelia, often with the opportunity for our researchers to meet with them personally. Held 4-6 times per year, these are talks by distinguished guests, and are hosted by the Executive Director. Recent lectures include:
- Christopher Miller (HHMI/Brandeis), “A weird ion channel for a weird ion: Fluoride resistance in microorganisms”
- Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research), “Neural dynamics in a simple visual cortex”
- Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute), “Collective sensing and decision-making in animal groups”
Internal Seminars
On most Thursday afternoons, Janelians gather in our Auditorium to listen to talks from their colleagues. Each lab and project team is scheduled to give an internal seminar once per year, giving everyone at Janelia a chance to hear about the work they are doing. Recent topics include:
- Loren Looger, “Towards dissection of brain signaling pathways.”
- Philipp Keller, “Fast, high-resolution light-sheet microscopy for imaging the nervous system (and beyond.)”
- GENIE Project Team with Hod Dana and Doug Kim, “Improved red and green calcium indicators for imaging neuronal activity.”
- Alla Karpova, “Decision-making under uncertainty: probing the neural basis of mental models.”
Science for Everybody
Janelia hosts 8-9 "Science for Everybody" seminars each year. These talks are given by Group Leaders and other senior scientists and bring all Janelians, including scientific and operations staff, together. Sample talks include:
- Karel Svoboda, “The ‘Physics’ in “Psychophysics’”
- Nelson Spruston, “Localization of Brian Function: A centuries-old quest to understand the biology of self”
- Josh Dudman, “The Neuron: an Owner’s Manual.”
- Roian Egnor “Road Rage and Romance: a Field Guide to the Social Brain.”
Other Events
Janelia hosts numerous other informal talks and seminars frequently throughout the year. These include, but are not limited to, job candidate talks, Janelia Professional Enrichment program talks, journal club and special interest group speakers, and visitor program and student program seminars, and our Dialogues of Discovery public lecture series.
Conferences at Janelia
Janelia conferences attract nearly a thousand top researchers from around the world each year; all participants are expected to contribute to the intellectual content of the meeting by presenting their work.