The CCB hosts a seminar series over the course of the year with distinguished speakers from various NIH Institutes. Seminars are held in-person with an option to remotely participate. More information about the speakers and seminar topics will be announced via the listserv closer to the event date. Please sign up for the listserv or reach out to Sebastian Peña-Vargas to be added.
2026 Schedule
Spring Seminar
March 13, 2026 12:30 – 2:30pm
NIH Bethesda Campus
Building 40 Room 1201/1203
Featuring
Veronica Alvarez (NIMH)
Samantha White (NIMH)
Marta Andujar (NIMH)
Summer Seminar
June 5, 2026 12:30 – 2:30pm
NIH Bethesda Campus
Featuring
Presentations from CCB Graduating Postdoctoral Fellows
Winter Seminar
December 11, 026 12:30 – 2:30pm
NIDA Bayview Campus
2025 Schedule
Spring Seminar
March 14, 2025 – 12:30PM – 2:30PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
Building 35, Room 640
Luke Norman, PhD – NIMH
“Mega-analytic studies of functional network alterations in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism”
Renata Marchette, PharmD – NIDA; Pete Manza, PhD – NIAAA
“A neural circuit selective for fast drug reward”
CCB Seed Grant Final Progress Report Presentation
Summer Seminar
June 27, 2025 – 12:30PM – 2:30PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
Building 10, Lipsett Amphitheater
CCB Graduating Fellows
Featuring Fellows graduating from the CCB!
Winter Seminar
December 12, 2025 – 12:30PM – 2:30PM
NIH NIDA Baltimore Campus
Speakers – To be announced
2024 Schedule
Spring Seminar
March 15, 2024 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
Michelle Antoine, PhD – NIAAA
“Normalizing Cognitive Function Through Targeting Heat-Sensitive Potassium Channels”
Katharina Kircanski, PhD – NIMH
“Common vs. specific: A lens for investigating brain mechanisms of clinical phenotypes”
Summer Seminar
June 28, 2024 2:00 – PM – 4:00PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
CCB Graduating Fellows
Featuring Fellows graduating from the CCB!
- Nicholas Beacher, PhD (NIDA)
- Thien Nguyen, PhD (NICHD)
- Geoffrey Vargish, PhD (NICHD)
- Sudhuman Singh, PhD (NCCIH)
- Adam Caccavano, PhD (NICHD)
- Josephin Wagner, MD (NIAAA)
- Ayland Letsinger, PhD (NIEHS)
- Ying Duan, PhD (NIDA)
- Wen-Chieh Hsieh, PhD (NICHD)
- Lorenzo Sansalone, PhD (NINDS)
2023 Schedule
Spring Seminar
March 24, 2023 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
Studying Brain Mechanisms of Frustration Across Species:
Ellen Leibenluft, MD – NIMH
“The Clinical Perspective”
Zheng Li, PhD – NIMH
“The Rodent Perspective”
Summer Seminar
June 30, 2023 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
NIH Bethesda Main Campus
Yi Gu, PhD – NINDS
“A consistent map in the medial entorhinal cortex supports spatial memory”
Rosario Jaime-Lara, PhD, FNP-BC – NIAAA; Rodolfo Flores-Garcia, PhD – NIGMS
“Investigating the effects of alcohol/palatable rewards on approach-avoidance conflict resolution”
CCB Seed Grant Final Progress Report Presentation
Winter Seminar
December 9, 2022 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
NIH NIDA Baltimore Campus
Guohong Cui, MD, PhD – NIEHS
“Local Mechanisms of Therapeutic Deep Brain Stimulation”
Angela Langdon, PhD – NIMH
“Task-State Representations and the Control of Prediction”
2022 Schedule
Winter Seminar
December 15, 2023 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
NIH NIDA Baltimore Campus
Andrew Lutas, PhD – NIDDK
“Timescales of cAMP signaling that underlie motivation and learning”
Mary Kay Lobo, PhD – University of Maryland, Baltimore
“From molecular insights in addiction to unexpected models of repetitive disorders”
