Latest Past Events

BE Seminar: “A Task-Optimized Approach to Systems Neuroscience” (Aran Nayebi, MIT)

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Note that this seminar will be held in Wu & Chen Auditorium (Levine 101). Humans and animals exhibit a range of interesting behaviors in complex environments, and it is unclear how the brain reformats dense sensory information to enable these behaviors. To gain traction on this problem, new recording paradigms now facilitate the ability to […]

BE Seminar: “Toward a multi-task, multi-source foundation model to advance large-scale neural data analysis” (Eva Dyer, Georgia Tech)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia

Neuroscience datasets are expanding rapidly in both size and volume. However, integrating information across diverse datasets to form a unified understanding of brain function remains challenging. In this talk, I will discuss our initiatives to combine datasets from various tasks, brain regions, and species into a unified 'neurofoundation' model. This foundational model promises to enhance […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A robotic system for automated genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans” (John Zihao Li)

Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of John Zihao Li. Title: A robotic system for automated genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023 Time: 2:00pm Location: Greenberg Lounge, 114 Skirkanich Hall Zoom Option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5692069917?pwd=M2tmSnV5QnZxakx5QVhLd0VDR2YzQT09 Meeting ID: 569 206 9917 Passcode: […]