O'Donnell Brain Institute Program in Memory Longevity Recruit Symposium 

Faculty candidates for the O'Donnell Brain Institute Program in Memory Longevity will give talks about their research and network with the OBI community during this one-day symposium.

Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Location: NM3.936 (Thompson Family Conference Center)

AGENDA 

8:00 – 8:05 a.m. WELCOME  

8:05- 8:45 a.m.  Boaz Mohar, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Janelia Research Campus  

“Molecularly Resolved Synaptic Plasticity in Learning and Memory”  

8:50 – 9:30 a.m. Adeline Yong, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco  

“Mapping the Active Synapse: Molecular Drivers of Synaptic Remodeling”  

9:35 – 10:10 a.m. Ian Cone, Ph.D., University of Oxford  

“Rapid Learning in Biological and Artificial Systems”  
 
10:10 – 10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK  

10:30 – 11:05 a.m.  Erin Duffy Lacy, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School  

“Neuronal Activity Triggers Widespread Changes in RNA Stability”  

11:05 – 11:45 a.m.  James Priestley, Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne  

“Learning Slow and Fast – Neural Codes for Structural and Episodic Memory”  

11:45 – 1:10 p.m. LUNCH  

1:15 – 1:55 p.m.  Yanliang Shi, Ph.D., Princeton Neuroscience Institute  

“A Multiscale Theoretical Framework for Neural Dynamics and Computation”  

2:00 – 2:40 p.m.  Ava Carter, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School 

“Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-specific Gene Regulation in the Brain” 

2:45-3:25 p.m.  Jason Moore, Ph.D., New York University Langone Health  

“Identifying Computational Learning Principles: From Dendrites to Degeneration”  

3:25 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS