Events
O'Donnell Brain Institute Symposia
Annual Research Day
OBI's Annual Research Day highlights OBI research programs and grants, and fosters scientific and social connections among faculty, trainees, postdocs, and students. Trainees will give short talks on their OBI-supported research. We will also have a poster session.
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Time: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Location: T. Boone Pickens Biomedical Building Auditorium (NG3.112)
RSVP (Deadline to receive a lunch: April 20, 2026)
CALL FOR POSTERS (Deadline to submit a poster: April 20, 2026)
O'Donnell Brain Institute Seminar Series

Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell University; Chief Executive Officer, Burke Neurological Institute
Title:"Resilience and Ruin: The Janus-Faced Roles of Stress Signaling in Stroke, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cognitive Aging"
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: NM3.936 (Thompson Conference Center)

Director, Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics; Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, AI & Human Health, Neurotherapeutics, Mount Sinai
Title:"What is Well? Putting Biomarkers to Practice to Optimize DBS for Depression"Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: NM3.936 (Thompson Conference Center)

Professor of Neurobiology, UC San Diego
Title: "Neural Computations in Support of Working Memory"Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: NM3.936 (Thompson Conference Center)