2026 How It's Made: Neuroscience
Ever wonder how neuroscience research really works?
Join us for a virtual panel open to the public featuring UCI neuroscience experts in sleep, robots, and neural stem cells to see how neuroscience is made! This series features a special accompanying video for each panelist to take you behind the scenes and into the lab.
March 18th, 2026
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Zoom link will be sent to registrants
Meet Our Panelists
Sara Mednick, Ph.D.
Professor
Cognitive Science
School of Social Sciences
Recharging your life through deep
sleep and power naps
Jeff Krichmar, Ph.D.
Professor
Cognitive Science
School of Social Sciences
Understanding how we think through robots
Lisa Flanagan, Ph.D.
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine
Weaving Fate and Finding Potential
with Neural Stem Cells
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2025 How It's Made: Neuroscience Series
The 2025 series highlights UCI neuroscience experts whose research spans human participants, fruit fly, rodent, and big data models, showcasing the many ways neuroscience research comes to life.
This panel was held on January 18, 2025. Featured speakers included:
Elizabeth Chrastil, Ph.D.
Ever get lost? Studying your brain’s GPS system and how we remember
Katie Thompson-Peer Ph.D
Plastic fruit flies! Using drosophila to study brain cell regeneration after injury
Keiland Cooper
Smell that? Studying how rodents smell can help us understand how humans learn and remember
Nellie Yang
Big Data & Small Cells
View our 2025 How It’s Made series playlist below!