We appreciate the request to shift the time of the talks, and we will shift the time to 1pm Eastern Time for the spring semester. Please stay tuned for the schedule. Meanwhile, the recordings of the seminars will be made available on crowdcast under the same link ( https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ears ) subject to the speaker's consent.If you can, please join us on tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29 at 4:00 pm EDT (-4UTC) for the first seminar. We kick off the series with talks by Dr. Michele Insanally and Dr. Nikolas Francis.Dr. Francis' talk is titled "Decision-making modulates neuronal responsiveness and functional connectivity in primary auditory cortex." Dr. Insanally's talk is titled "Neuronal dynamics of non-classically responsive cortical neurons."
With kind wishes,-Maria________________________________Maria Neimark Geffen, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology: HNS (primary)Department of NeuroscienceDepartment of NeurologyPerelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania5 RavdinTel.: 215.898.0782Fax: 215.898.9994Twitter: @neimarkgeffenOn Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:07 AM Borys Kowalewski <borys.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Dear Maria,Thank you for the great initiative. Sounds like an exciting series of talks coming up!Would you consider scheduling the future seminars at an earlier time?4 pm EDT is 10 pm here in Europe, making it difficult for many of us to join (and essentially impossible for anyone in Asia, I suppose).Kind regards,Borys KowalewskiOn Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 06:38, Maria Neimark Geffen <mariageffen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Dear fellow auditory researchers,We would like to invite you to join us and reconnect as a community during these challenging times at E.A.R.S. (Electronic Auditory Research Seminar), a new monthly auditory seminar series with the focus on central auditory processing and circuits. We kick off the series with talks by Dr. Michele Insanally (University of Pittsburgh, https://www.insanallylab.com/ ) and Nikolas Francis (University of Maryland, https://kanoldlab.com/people/ ) on 9/29 at 4 pm EDT (-4UTC). Please pre-register (for free) and tune in via crowdcast (enter your email to receive the link for the talk):The next sessions will be on 10/13, 11/17 and 12/11, and will feature Dr. Anne Takesian (Harvard University), Dr. Santiago Jaramillo (University of Oregon), Dr. Melissa Caras (University of Maryland) and Dr. Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University), among others.With kind wishes,Maria GeffenYale CohenSteve EliadesStephen DavidAlexandria LesickoNathan Vogler