Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Tomorrow’s the big day! We can’t wait to see you all for the VBI’s annual Brain Blast at Sevier Park Community Center! 🧠🧬

🧠 ONE WEEK AWAY! 🧠 We can’t wait to see you all next Saturday, March 21, 10am-2pm, at Sevier Park Community Center for the VBI’s annual BRAIN BLAST!  Please share with your family and friends for this fun and educational event!

Excited to announce our next VBI Neuroscience Seminar Series with guest lecturer Dost Öngür, MD, PhD from the McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School! Seminar is next Wednesday, March 18 at 4:00pm. See you then!

Teaser for the MaDeLaNe summer school, June 1-3, 2026, at Vanderbilt: youtube.com/watch?v=vjxJ2W… Video credit: Alex Maier (on YT: @astonishinghypothesis) Join us to learn the latest analysis tools for complex, multi-channel neuronal data from experts Register at: madelane.bastoslabvu.com

Phds&postdocs: join us for a summer school June 1-3 at Vanderbilt Univ. on Multi-Area, high-Density, Laminar Neurophysiology (MaDeLaNe). Get hands-on training from experts on advanced methods for analyzing neural data! No registration cost! Apply here: madelane.bastoslabvu.com

Congratulations to Drs. Stephanie Cajigas Gabriel (@sacajigas), Joseph DeCorte (@DecorteJoseph) and Duby Okonkwo for successfully defending and completing their PhDs in January!

Very happy to announce that my student Zhengyang Wang successfully defended his PhD dissertation today. Congratulations Dr. Wang!

Join us next Wednesday, March 4, for our VBI Neuroscience Seminar Series with guest lecturer Dr. Elizabeth Norton!

We’re hiring! 🚨 My lab at Vanderbilt is looking for a Research Assistant to study how touch & pain circuits develop and function. 🧠✨ Please help me spread the word! 😀 ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Congrats to @VUBasicSciences pharmacology professor Shan Meltzer, who has been named a 2026 @SloanFoundation Research Fellow in neuroscience! The honor recognizes early-career scientists whose accomplishments mark them as the next generation of leaders. vu.edu/1ezp0

🎉 We are excited to announce that @shanmeltzer, Asst. Professor of Pharmacology, has been named a 2026 @SloanFoundation Research Fellow in neuroscience! One of 126 honorees recognized. Congratulations!🧠✨ @VanderbiltU @VanderbiltBrain medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…

Please join us next Wednesday, February 18, for the VBI Neuroscience Seminar Series with Dr. Marla Feller!

Join us on Wednesday 2/11 at 9:00am in LH 208 or Zoom for Kimmy Bress's Defense! She will present "Mapping the Facial Sensorimotor Network as a Target for Expressivity Differences in Autism" completed with Drs. Carissa Cascio and Julia Sheffield through @VanderbiltBrain!

Mark your calendars for the Vanderbilt Brain Institute’s annual BRAIN BLAST! Free fun for the whole family - meet neuroscientists, touch a real brain, and inspire future scientists young and old! 🧠🧬 Saturday, March 21 10am-2pm Sevier Park Community Center

Join us this Wednesday, February 4, for our VBI Neuroscience Seminar Series with guest speaker Dr. Lisa Scott from UF!

Vanderbilt will open Tuesday, Jan. 27, with emphasis on remote work. All in-person classes scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 27, are canceled. Please check your email for more information. Stay safe and warm!

Due to inclement weather, all in-person classes scheduled for Monday, Jan. 26, have been canceled. Chancellor Diermeier has declared an Administrative Day. Please check your email for additional information. Stay safe and warm out there!

Please join us next Wednesday, January 21, for the first VBI Neuroscience Seminar of the Spring 2026 semester! Lecture presented by Dr. Kathryn Humphreys from Vanderbilt’s Psychology Department. 🧠

Join us tomorrow Wednesday 1/7 at 1:30pm in PRB 206 for Stephanie Cajigas Gabriel's Dissertation Defense! She will present "The role of accumbal dopamine in shaping adaptive and maladaptive aversive learning strategies" completed in the @TheCalipariLab through @VanderbiltBrain!

NOTE: This Wednesday’s seminar has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date TBA!