Seminar Series
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.
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)
Winter Seminar
December 13, 2024 – 12:30PM – 2:30PM
NIH NIDA Baltimore Campus
Mark Wagner, PhD – NINDS
“Cerebellar computations across motor and cognitive behaviors”
Tonya White, MD, PhD – NIMH
“Pediatric Population Neuroimaging: How studies at the intersection between epidemiology and developmental neuroscience have informed questions in neuroimaging and stochasticity.”
2022-2023 Schedule
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”
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 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”
CCB Annual Retreat
The CCB Annual Retreat is a day-long event for CCB members, faculty, fellows, and all other interested parties to come together and share research projects and ideas about compulsive behaviors. Throughout the course of the event, attendees are encouraged to network, ask questions, and engage in discussion with each other and the many distinguished guest speakers. There is no fee to attend, and pre-registration is requested for proper planning. More information will be announced via the listserv.
September 19, 2025 – 9:00AM – 5:00PM
Comparative Brain Physiology Consortium
The Comparative Brain Physiology Consortium hosts intramural and extramural speakers to present on topics related to non-human primate research.
Mini-Symposium
May 31, 2023 – 1:30PM – 5:30PM
NIH Main Campus
- James Bourne, PhD – NIMH
- Alberto Cruz-Martin, PhD – Boston University
- Matt Chafee, PhD – University of Minnesota
- Laura Benoit, PhD – Columbia University
