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Thursday, October 16

14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture

By Tufts Neuroscience

Please join us in person for the 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium and William Shucart Lecture on Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

Date and time

Location

Tufts University School of Medicine

Behrakis Auditorium, Jaharis Building 150 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02111

Speakers

Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast Refreshments

9:00 AM

Opening Remarks

Jamie Maguire, PhD, Neuroscience Symposium Director

SESSION 1: Synaptic mechanisms of emotional processing

9:05 AM - 9:25 AM

Pascal Schamber, Graduate Student, Bygrave Lab

"From engrams to synapses: Developing quantitative neuroanatomy tools for fluorescence microscopy"

9:25 AM - 10:00 AM

Max Joffe, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

"Oxycodone dependence induces negative affective behaviors and alters the endogenous opioid system in prefrontal cortex"

10:00 AM - 10:35 AM

Sheena Josselyn, PhD, University of Toronto; The Hospital for Sick Children

"Engrams and memory in mice"

10:35 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

SESSION 2: Cellular mechanisms of emotional processing

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Ashley Sheehan, Graduate Student, Maguire Lab

"Subsets of somatostatin interneurons are recruited to drive opposing valence states"

11:20 AM - 11:55 AM

Kirstie Cummings, PhD, UAB

"Infralimbic cortex somatostatin interneurons are critical for fear memory extinction"

11:55 AM - 12:30 PM

Heidi Meyer, PhD, Boston University

"Balancing fear and safety: Ventral hippocampal circuits for affective regulation in adolescence"

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

For registered attendees

SESSION 3: Circuit mechanisms of emotional processing

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Frank Zamudio, Graduate Student, Reijmers Lab

"BLA-ACC projection neurons shape the response to contextual threat"

1:50 PM - 2:25 PM

Mike McDannald, PhD, Boston College

"Prelimbic cortex: Threat prognosticator"

2:25 PM - 3:00 PM

Steve Ramirez, PhD, Boston University

"From moments to engrams -- how experience shapes the brain and behavior"

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Introduction to the Shucart Lecture

Introduction by Chris Dulla, PhD and Ron Riesenburger, MD

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

SHUCART LECTURE

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, McLean Hospital

"PTSD: A human example of dysregulated synaptic, cellular, and circuit mechanisms of emotion" Introduction by Mike Halassa, MD, PhD

5:00 PM

Reception

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Highlights

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About this event

Science & Tech • Science

The Tufts Neuroscience Symposium is a day-long event featuring diverse speakers from around the country, and consistently brings together many from Neuroscience disciplines in the Boston area for a day of educational talks and discussions. It is concluded by a lecture that honors Dr. William Shucart, former professor and chair of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. This year’s event will focus on “Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits.”

Registration is free but required. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.

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Tufts Neuroscience

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