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Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

We are proud of the familial community fostered within our Department. Through regular events and active groups and associations, you will create lasting friendships and mentorships with your peers and faculty. We strongly encourage our students, postdocs, trainees, and faculty to take advantage of the activities happening in the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and throughout the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Diversity in Neuroscience

Supporting highly innovative and productive research by promoting an exciting, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment that empowers all members of our community.

Neuroscience Postdoc Association

Access professional development opportunities and funding resources.

Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery (MiNDS)

Making neuroscience education more engaging through community outreach.

The Friedman Brain Institute Events Related Clubs and Programs

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Attend an Event

The Department hosts several events throughout the year where you can network with peers, work in the community, and expand your learning.

Mount Sinai Neuroscience seminars (MSNseminars) is a seminar series and competitive program organized by our postdoctoral fellows. Leading postdocs from around the country are selected and invited to give an institutional seminar and meet with the neuroscience community at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. For more information, please contact: Vinaya Sahasrabuddhe vinaya.sahasrabuddhe@mssm.edu or Tamara Markovic tamara.markovic@mssm.edu.

2025 Speakers

January 24, 2025
Ipshita Zutshi, PhD - New York University School of Medicine
Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans.
February 21, 2025
Han Tan, PhD - Rockefeller University
The Hunger Games: Decoding Hunger Fighter Neurons and Networks.
March 21, 2025
Ramanujan Srinath, PhD - University of Chicago
Coordinated Response Modulations Enable Flexible Use of Visual Information.
April 25, 2025
Kevin Guttenplan, PhD - Vollum Institute
How do astrocytes regulate neuronal circuits?
May 23, 2025
David Marcus, PhD - University of Washington
Endocannabinoid tuning of behavioral engagement via thalamo-striatal projections.
June 27, 2025
Deepa Ramamurthy, PhD - UC Berkeley
Rewarding experiences guide attention and dynamically shape the sensory neural code.
July 25, 2025
Harris Kaplan, PhD - Harvard University
A coming-of-age story: development of instinctive behavior circuits.
August 22, 2025
Hannah Wirtshafter, PhD - Northwestern University
A universal hippocampal memory code across environments and animals.

The Friedman Brain Institute hosts a Neuroscience Retreat held in the spring of each year. Neuroscience is multidisciplinary by nature and, reflecting this, the scientists and physicians that contribute to the neurosciences at Mount Sinai hail from a variety of departments and campuses. The Retreat provides an opportunity for everyone in the Neuroscience community at Mount Sinai – faculty, fellows, students, researchers and clinicians – to meet and discuss their work in order to increase awareness of ongoing research and approaches, to foster new interactions, and to generate novel ideas.

Learn more about the Annual Neuroscience Retreat here.

For information about the retreat, please contact Vena Persaud or Veronica Szarejko.

The Friedman Brain Institute at Icahn Mount Sinai is deeply committed to promoting brain health by sharing our expertise with our partners and the local community. In celebration of Brain Awareness Week, Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery at Sinai (MiNDS) with support from the Friedman Brain Institute and the Center for Excellence in Youth Education, hosts an annual Brain Awareness Fair for local students, their parents, and community members. Learn more about our Brain Awareness Week activities here.

Student Voices

Taelor A. Matos, NIH-PREP Scholar, B.S. in Biology & Society, Cornell University, Class of 2023

A non-familial mentor sparked my passion for science, and my journey as a first-generation college student deepened my commitment to outreach. Working with MiNDS has been incredibly enriching and it is powerful to watch the students benefit as much as I did! Leading high school students through a sheep brain dissection showed me how important it is to pique students' curiosity about the inner workings of the brain at early stages